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Show HARDING SETS MONDAY, OCT. 9, r NATIONAL FIRE PREVENTION I f President Declares Fire Waste Year After! for in United States Reaches Appalling Figures; Week of October 2 to 9 ig to Be Observed E WASHINGTON, Sept 21'. President Presi-dent Harding todav Issued a proclamation procla-mation designating Monday. October 9, as National Fire Prevention iliy The fire WttStC In the United Slates year after year the prestderd declared, reached appnlling figures which are not approa hed In nny other country. There ought to be espet inl effort, he added to minimise such losses EUSCAIiLfi HICAGO I IRK. The toxt of the proclamation follows fol-lows it has become a nation-wide custom cus-tom to observe October y. anniversary of the great Chicago fire of 1871. as National plre Prevention day: and lii (recognition of this excellent precedent II am herewith directing the attention of all citizens esnee i:i 1 1 v those In au thority In the st.iti-s and cities, to the desirability ol continuing the observance observ-ance this year and making H as Impressive Im-pressive as possible. it has long been a reproach to our country that by reason of poor eonst ruction, Inadequate fnciliiifs for fire prevention and an all too general gen-eral carclessrcss about possild, causes of conflagration our fire wnstc reaches figures year after yeSH0C are not approached in any othmtf try In the world. .Mindful of 1' waste which Is expressed In fig) ihuge as to he appalling it W0 that in times liommunlties need to conSH sources In hand and to promol duction in every possible way! Ollght tO be espe(';il effort tOWf Ize such losses. ) To this end, therefore. I, j G Harding, president, of thelfij States appeal to the public jtles of the country for such nff an to i hem may seem most and to cltlx.i n generally, (o taS for the obsei". a nee i,r MondaJ- ' her 'c nre Prevention dfc3 HUCCrcat Ihe il esir.o Ml 1 1 v rt lwP upon the leathers and puplS schools nd all workers In HP ii'lMhmciits the ImportancJB cautionary measure- frr avold''1 flr s By sueh measures. earneS lertn '.. n and lgorousl . nfo Jl shall contribute to a vast resotCS t. the product .if human effoiiKl as to a savlnn of many hunS1 human lives now p.., ! lesslyT Iced. J. in witness wher-of, l havT unto set my hand and the seBj I nlte, states to be affixed. "Done in the ,-n, 0( WassJ this sixteenth d ij ol Si :i inhe4( v e;,r of our Iyi I oni i housj hundred a inl t w nt -1 .vo an4 in-1. -periden- of tlie United flj h indre,j mi fort -sevenH (Signed) ' W1ABKFN '(J UAR OREAT LOSSl .s ( ITEI The chntnhii- of eummeros Fnlted St.at.-s at the same fl nounce, that local commercll throughout the I'nited Stab fake i hi cad'' In ohserva nee I Prevention week from ictobe 9 Th chamber, it was add place, i,i Inn iliSl H - - asSO MiKgf -t. d programs :',,r the we a statement said: 'Property valued at $7,8fj I was destroyed by fire m th SI ites during the 411 years endll 1921 The loss during the lasl I his period a . 1 1 lmat tlm.s ,, 1 .. .1 of to year in 1921 more than 19,00 ;wen lo--. and property alued billion dollars was destro tire '1 hi- was a simple total :eral different fire losses and j the result of any great onfi I mi 11 n v : lv l';rv :e n mo the current ea property VI $230,000.00(1 was added to t ,tlon s ash heap." |
