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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1920)
A TOE SUNDAY OHEGONIAX. PORTLAND, JUNE 27, 1920 o . F)URTH OF JULY is coming. Each year on this day the carelessness of adults and children results in many deaths, hundreds of injuries arid hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property destroyed. How long must this sort of thing continue? How much longer must America keep on celebrating Inde pendence day with this orgy of fatalities and destruction? Will you do your part by urging that your family, your neighbors, your community observe a sane Fourth? . TUFTEEN THOUSAND men, women and children lose tlieir lives by; fire j every year in the United States! Thousands of others are blinded, crippled and maimed for life. The monetary loss is equally staggering ----approximately $300,000,000 worth of property annually goes up in smoke! If con2 verted into silver dollars and placed end to end this huge sum would maKe a line almost eight thousand miles long. AMERICA IS tlie most careless country hi tlie world. No otlier nation lias such a fire Toss and, strange to say, eacH year it grows larger! STOP for a moment and consider tliese facts. Most fires are preventable--must they continue? WILL YOU DO YOUR PART? . WILL' YOU HELP to save these precious lives arid prevent these wanton destructions? You can help! It is a civic duty of every American for his country's sake, his neighbor's, and his own. . FIRES COST every American an indirect tax of about three dollars each year. Thousands of Americans pay many times more-cither because of their own carelessness or that of so THE THOUGHTLESSLY-THROWN blazing match, the, discarded cigar or cigarette, the neglected electric iron or other device, the accumulated rubbish, the defective chimney or flue, the imperfect insulation, the carelessly-handled gasoline, the unextinguished camp-fire all of these, and many more, cause destructive fires that a little thoughtfulness and care would prevent. HERE ARE A FEW. ways whereby you can help to lower America's fire loss and per haps save untold lives: 1 Don't throw lighted matches away. 2 Don't leave matches around for children to play with. 3 Don't throw lighted cigars or cigarettes away. 1 Don't let rubbish accumulate especially oily rags or waste. 5 Don't take chances with kerosene, gasoline or other inflammable substance. 6 Don't forget to switch off electric appliances when through using. A 7 Don't hunt gas leaks with a lighted match. 8 Don't use rubber hose gas connections. 9 Don't forget to keep oil mops in the tin cans they come in. 10 Don't overload electric connections. 11 Don't forget to put out camp fires. 12 Don't permit litter to accumulate in basement or closets. 13 Don't let your extinguisher or other fire-protection devices become useless or defective through neglect. 14 Don't employ a watchman who is not thor oughly familiar with your fire-fighting facili ties, or who is not thoroughly alive to fire danger. J 5 Don't take chances with fire play safe! F. J.Martin Preaideni Home Ofiice.Cenlral BTd'g.Seaffle. U.S.A. Fire Prevention for Mutual Protection and Your Own Profit F. I. FINLEY, Manager for Oregon , Board of Trade Building, Portland. 19,