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Show Facts About Fire During 1931 fire destroyed approximately ap-proximately 10,000 lives. Nearly one-third of these were children under ten years of age Two-thirds of the total were burned to death In homes. The total economic loss was $464,63 ,265. In order to visualize these facts, compare them with the following- The annual fire bill is about equal to 75 per cent of the interest inter-est on our national debt. The new excise and miscellaneous miscellan-eous taxes recently imposed on us will produce, in a year, very little more than the annual fire bill. Over 80 per cent of all fires are f easily preventable. Fire Is the great destroyer not only of lives and property, but of employment, business opportuni- ! ties, community and industrial jj progress. Of every hundred indus- trial establishments burned in the jj last five years, 43 were not re j built. The waste was complete and I absolute. j The conquest of fire is simply the conquest of public ignorance, laxness and indifference. Each oi us owes the community a duty ! to eliminate the hazards on our j property. We cannot afford the I "luxury" of fire. ! ' I |