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Show -COMMENTS' USE YOUR HEAD! Probably the most destructive weapon in the world is the match. Over a period of years, loss of life and property traceable to this minute stock of wood dwarfs the ghastliest) work of bombers. Fire prevention authoriticss state that matches and smoking constitute together the largest single fire cause. They have urged upon people the pithy maxim: "Matches have heads, but no brains. When you use their heads, use your brains." Never before has this advice been so applicable. The nation na-tion is at war. Every home, every factory and every farm are part of the struggle. When fire strikes now it strikes with deadliness. In its ashes lie a portion of the war effort, irretrievably ir-retrievably lost. Of course, property swept by fire will one day be restored. But in the meantime, the nation is weakened weaken-ed the same as a person with a cut finger. |