Show GUILTY AS CHARGED fire the great destroyer is having a fine time this year yea r during the first three thre e months of the year it turned worth of PlO property Perty into ash and debris it thus exceeded its record for abr the same period of I 1 1939 when pro perty valued at went up in ill smoke and flame no data is available on the number of lives taken by fire in the first quarter but going by past precedents it took more than 2000 that many people met one ol of the most horrible of deaths its only human when we read figures like this to shrug shake our heads say too bad and promptly forget them and that human weakness is the main reason why fire is such a glowing success fire waxes fat on human lethargy and laziness even as it prospers on human forgetfulness and ignorance few men ever start a destructive fire deliberately but its a rare man who carelessly taken a chance or overlooked a hazard that made fire more probable and so it is up to you whether fire continues its inexcusable ravages dont try to console yourself with the thought that fires are in evi than two in ten fall into that category and dont argue that fire prevention antion is the other fellows business its irs your lan bonal business and everybody alses business too mie fact that fire destroys dest around worth of property and lives each year in this country is a severe indictment of the hie american people the only possible plea is guilty as charged will wo we permit fires ravages to continue |