Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 90, Hammond, Lake County, 4 October 1922 — Page 3

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Annual Fire Losses of 25 Years Invested at 6 Per Cent Would Retire National Debt

The national debt of the ITnlted This enormous waste could have lb realized and this unnecessary

States Is now expressed In eleven figures The amount of money represented by Its huge total of $23,000.00.000 is ibeyond the ''sounds of human comprehension. If, however, we had started forty years ago to Invest each year at six per cent compound Interest a sum of money equivalent to Its respective Are loss, we would now have a fund sufficient to wipe out our whole national debt. The araount placed to the credit of this fund has Increas-ed each year at a rate altogether out of proportion to the increase In the number of citizens. In 1921 the fire loss was six times as great as In 1SS1, although the population was only twice as a great &s that of the earlier year. If one-fifth of our exports to all of Europe during 1021 had been destroyed at sea 'by enemy submarines, our nation would now be engaged In war, and every Industry in the country actively interested in stopping the loss. Xo such calamity occurred, but our nation sustained.

been prevented, however, by Just a little personal care on the part of

each American citizen. To realize fully the extent of this national fire waste It should be con. sldered from an individual and community standpoint. In 1921 the per capita fire loea -was $4.47. At this rate, the average loss to a community would be over $110,00 for each 25.000 Inhabitants. Such a sum of money would assist materially in improving streets, 'building school houses or otherwise 'bettering municipal conditions. When on the other hand, prcperty valued at that amount is destroyed by fire, the nation is a permanent loser, for fire waste is an economic loss. Property valued at more than

economic loss will continue. The present wek. which has been ret aside by the President of the Cnited States and many state governors to ibe observed as Fire Prevention Week, presents an excellent oportunlty fo reach citizen to thoughtfully consider this subject and to combine his efforts with

of. a motherly looking woman who essaye dthe role of comforter, and a brotherly looking cha.p who succeeded her had no better luck. Even a travel irtT man failed. And then it was that the flapper came Into her own. From her seat in the rea of the coach she came, a brown-haired, short-skirted, bobbedhaired girl. Slipping up the aisle hhe put hr arm around the crying child, and Its wails were hushed. All wa peaceful again as she slipped a nickel into soiled fingers.

A puzzling feature about colorblindness Is that many persons s effected are experts , at matching colors.

A bill admitting women to the bar has been adopted In the Bel-

those of other good Americans to j gian s mate. make the reduction of fire waste a . . . ."

reality.

Girl Comforts Boy Abandoned Temporarily on Train by Guardian.

flNTERNATlONAL NEWS SERVICE ATLANTA, Ga. At last the use

0,000,000 has 'been added to the for the "flapper" has been disoov-

ratlon's ash heap during the first eight months ef the current year. This sum alone would have provided homes for 50.0u0 American workmen and their families . The business man accustomed to dea'ilnir with figures will readily

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I own individual carefulness, the ; rntr,inr!tlon of flre waste can never

ered. When the .Birmingham Special, the Southern's crack Washington-Birmingham Limited, rolled Into Brookwood Station forty-five minutes late members of the train crew failed to remember that a seven-year-olel lad had 'been entrusted to their care for deli-very to his aunt in Atlanta. Pive mini'tes late'- when Atlanta was becoming a memory as tin? heavy train puffed its way through the suburbs outward 'bound, passengers in the day eeach awakened to the fact by the wailing of the neglected passenger.

Efforts to pacify him were un-I fmn pv- ?- 'rugeist and use it

availintr. He spurned the atention like a cold cream.

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