Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — Celebration of Fire Prevention Day in the Schools. [ARTICLE]

Celebration of Fire Prevention Day in the Schools.

. Betails of the arrangements com--pleted for celebration of Fire Prevention Day in schools are as follows: The distribution of thousands of fire prevention pamphlets, containing statistics on the fire waste, and instructions for preventing fires; and questionaries, enough to supply every school child in the state, intended to receive the report of the child as to the presence of hazardous conditions about the home. Fire Prevention Day programs have also been mailed to superintendents and teachers and contain the following suggestions for schoolroom exercises : Patriotic music; statement of cause of the gathering by principal or teacher ; essays on causes of conflagrations and fires in general; address by chief of fire department, insurance man or member of the school board; essays on hazards of matches, gasoline, etc., to life and property; recitation. “The Fireman,” essay on fire waste and its effect on the national wealth; reading of the pledge, “Fire Warden in the Home”; music; dismissal with fire drill. The Fire Marshal suggests to principals and teachers that in arranging programs for schools, an effort should be made to stimulate interest on the part of the children in the subject by calling attention to recent fires in the community, with which they are familiar, and point out the causes and how they could be prevented.