Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1917 — Reducing Fire Hazard. [ARTICLE]

Reducing Fire Hazard.

- It is of the utmost consequence that every individual In the United States consider himself a committee of one to co-operate In the removal of all unnecessary fire hazards that may come within his knowledge. The urgency of this cannot by any possibility be exaggerated, says the Scientific American. The difference between adequate attention to this warning by every resident of our country, and its complete neglect by all concerned, might very well be the difference between winning the war and losing It. And while of course this figure is an overdrawn one in the sense that certainly everybody will not ignore the warning any more than everybody will heed it, this fact does not in any degree diminish the measure of Individual responsibility. Everyone of us can contribute something to the lessening of the fire loss for the year to come.