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Show You'll Pay Today You, the reader of this, wUl help pay for a fire today! At first glance that seems an impossible exaggeration. The chance of your home or place of business going up in smoke at a specified time is negligible. But - -md here's the rub.. .so long as fire, l-ss continues, you'll pay every day of your life, if you never so much as burn a talbecloth. The cost of fire goes into every budget. Insurance premiums are based on fire losses therefore, every ev-ery fire tends to increase, or to hold up, rates. A community's tax rate depends upon the number cf properties and enterprises it has to tax therefore, when a home or a business is destroyed, the taxes it would pay must be added to others. A percentage of fires throw men out of work and cause local industries to stop producing and then we pay for fire in poorer poor-er business opportunities and commercial com-mercial stagnation. There are other ways in which you pay for fire, but these will serve. You might think them over next time you put -off having electrical elec-trical equipment inspected, or your furnace fixed, or delay until tomorrow cleaning that rubbish from the garage or basement. Fire prevention is an individual matter and can be achieved only by individual indi-vidual action. Remember you're going to pay for fire today I |