Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1924 — Page 6

14- [hre prevention ?' CZ) I * -■ ■ ;LJE<?-WV ' i ■-1 —• CLEAN UP YOUR CELLARS. YARDS AND ■ « T Y M TkY [ ■ TyT 1 J ATTICS AND KEEP THEM IN ORDER. ■ Y<JU UrYIN rIILL/i ■ To Save Life and Property From I Needless Fire Destruction || ’N America Has Never Been “Licked"— ■ America. Foremost in Business, he* a I H Except By the I-lames. K $379,900,000 REWARD! Z It Is As Essential To Save As To Produce! 1 / ’ S By ARRESTing the CRIMINAL, Carelessness—the cause of most fires | | BAN ’ SH T r H oV-n°o D " SH,NGLE -the American public would REWARD itself to the extent of $379,900,- U. Tj 1 I 000, because the burden of fire waste is borne by all. I’lUbl lIICo Hit | Every man, to paraphrase one of Theodore Roose w rn« 4 V w-s I At least 75% of the present annual loss of $506.540,000-or FUFIUT IHI T I This debt most of the country's fire insurance . ■’ V F!■ | t_3 j> I i 1 I fl -is preventable and therefore cwt be avoided. 1 llLl T Lil 11 iWLiLI I ing it in the coin of fire prevention effort —one form 1 I of currency which never depreciates in value. —— — 1 their payment of this moral obligation, ready oppor- I Among The Chief Causes Os Fire Are: || Every household, every business, every building, I I tunity to do so awaits them in the inauguration of a JJJ I local campaign for the abolishment of wooden t j u„» maw ta prf I I Misuse ot malches and smoking materials-Improperly built chimneys —“ “ *"• BOW | against the rigors of winter is in the rninds of house- e , rai VENT fires is what the insurance man talks about support of^h-tuaVi'y'every i, fire rl ch'ief^inVhe and flucs^Ovcrheated stoves, furnaces and their pipes—Carelessness eJen'with a* capable and well equipped department, With gaSOlillC, kcrOSCUC, etC. Sparks OH WOOddl shillgle TOOfS. their control of a city’s fire-safety never can be I absolute so long as the burning brand hazard is rife. . the nation’s SSOO 000 000 annual fire loss. Clean ■ Get Your Share Os The Reward By tive fire department, differs but slightly from the dean. city that makes no effort to check the spread of a . — transmissible disease, on the absurd theory that curative medicine amply safeguards the public 8 » Jfl (T I zlrPllll .• . i ,h. n tn thinl I health, and accomplishes it with an outlay of fewer JLJdIIH X/Cll VIUI After the house burns it is too late then to th dollars. Moreover, the analogy becomes the closer KJ when it is remembered that the wooden shingle roof . the attic or the rub- I causes, besides vast property destruction, the death about remov.ng that paper m the attic or or injury or more than a few whom it is designed — .- 1 to shelter. aisuiinii aseesa bish in the yard, where the fire started- Remember Already one hundred and eighteen communities . . * that a stray spark cannot db harm when it lights on have barred by ordinance the wooden shingle roof. S .2 C £R?, A Friend When Respected; ‘‘CAREIJSSS SMOKERS CAUSE . But this should be viewed rather in the licjht of a HOMES AT THE RATE Ob ’> ; »9 FIRE: MANY F^IRES - B]’ CAREFUL pror -sing start than of a consummation. “Finis EVERY 24 HOI RS—A FRESH A roe when Abused. WITH YOUR LIGHIfeF MATCH a clean surface, nearly so easily as when it drops I will not be appended to this chapter in the history Oi rBREAK EVER\ 4 MINI TES. Fire Prevention Week AND CIGXRFTTF’’ 1 of fire prevention endeavor until the wooden shingle. AT LEAST 3 OUT OF 4 NEED Octob-r 5-11 - ' ! as roofing material, accompanies the firecracker, NOT START. FOR THEY ARE v in a pile of rags, papers or dead weeds. I the household candle, the flammable motion picture DUE TO PUBLIC CARELESS- I film, the make-shift fuse-plug and similar fire breed- NESS AND IGNORANCE —BOTH ers into some museum, yet to be founded, which CORRECTIBLE.” ,-n I shall recall to incredulous generations the days | t - JUST THINK OF IT. The yearly annual fire to ■ when America actually believed that it could afford to be heedless of fire waste. “MORE THAN 15.000 LIVES ARE h.didinos I LOST EACH YEAR BY FIRE. Fire Takes 15.000 Lives a Year. is so great that it would supply a row of The evidence against the wooden shingle is over- FlßE—Servant or Master: WOMEN AND LITTLE CHIL- CARELESSNESS. • . u « , ctreet from whelming: not only is it found in the testimony of Which Shall It Be to You? DREN SAFEGUARD YOUR L’earn CAREFULNESS placed side by side, on both sides or a • civic officials and indisputable “ecords, but a gov- Think It Over During I’AMILY AND YOUR HOME BY Fire Prevention Week Fir ’ O "o*b!‘A n n W " k “ E,NG “ RETOI -- O«.b„ 5-n ewe,., .o N.W V«K Reduce Your Fire Risk By Cleaning Up. We Can Help Prevent Fires As I Well As Insure You Against Them. • SEE US NOW - AFTR THE FIRE IT’S TOO LATE - -5 I Decatur Insurance Agency Americam Security Co. E. W. Johnson, Mgr. f — Fred E. Kolter, Mgr. I I Schafer Bldg. Phone 385 1 /x ■« i Monroe St. Phone 1«l Graham & Walters 1t General Insurance f - — "a | 11 a vv Madison St. Phone 239 i mi 1 Lenhart & Heller Suttles - Edwards Co. All Forms of Insurance A. Suttles. Gen. Mgr. 157 South 2nd St. Phone 2 Morrison Bldg. phone 358 <

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY OLIOBER 4, 1921.