Show THE WORLDS MOST CARELESS PEOPLE we americans are the worlds most careless people when it comes to fire nowhere else in world is the crime of fire so prevalent A simple set of statistics readily proves this fire loss in this country runs in the neighborhood of per year for every man woman and child of the population by comparison loss in sweden is 89 cents per capita pita loss in great britain is 82 cents loss in italy is 78 cents jos loss in france is 61 cents and loss in germany is 11 cents in other words we de s 4 roy oy more than twice as much property with fire ns as is destroyed in tile the next highest country and kjose to 20 times as much as in the lowest on the list heres a case where alibis arc no good for the greater percentage of all fires great and small are arc the product of human carelessness somebody is thoughtless less somebody fc gigets somebody takes a chance and a home or a rac factory tory goes up in smoke human gailure is the groat great fire breeder the record is the more shame ul fit in that we americans have the best of all chances to fight and lick fire organized fire prevention ven tion supported by insurance ompa companies om panics nies fire marshals civic and others has i cached a high peak of excellence n this country experts scour ta the lo 10 auntry searching out hazards ther ither experts fight arson 21 hours a day others examine machinery building materials electric appliances and similar commod aties and draw up firo fire resistant standards a 0 cons construction truc c tion aith arthers s keep check on fire departments water facilities and alarm facil ties A wealth of invaluable in or mation is ours for the asking we cant pass the buck fire is our fault and fire can be prevented only by the concerted think ng efforts ofus of us all a |