The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-02
OCTOBER 9 PROCLAIMED
 FIRE PREVENTION DAY
Anniversary of Great Chicago Fire Set Aside by Governor Hays to be Observed
 by the Public.


 cago fire, has been designated by Gov. Hays in the following pro- clamation, as Fire Prevention Day Tn the Arkansas schools, and public generally:
 Whereas, While happily our state and nation are at peace with all the World, we have still among us a foe who wages a constant ware-fare against the lives and property of our people. This foe is fire, and it is persis- tent, implacable, and knows no truce.
 "In our state this great enemy exacted a total of a very large sum in the property of our citi- zens and many lives besides. This great waste of life and pro- perty calls for constant effort on the part of all our people looking to its elimination, or, at least, it's very great reduction. That this can be accomplished is proved by the fact that much more than fifty per cent of all fires are the result of carelessness and are easily preventible. But if this desirable result is obtained, it will only come by individual eff fort on the part of our citizen ship.
 Our firemen may put out fires after they are started, provided we are happily situated in com munities where fire-fighting for 'ces are maintained, but we have within ourselves, in most instan- ces the power to prevent the fires from starting.
 AS one means of arousing Iour citizenship to the magnitude of our fire waste, the possibility of it's prevention and their indi- vidual responsibility with regard thereto, it has been the custom in this state and many others, to set apart a day to be devoted to taking precautions against fire.
 "Now therefore, l, George w. Hays, Governor of the State of Arkansas, do hereby recommend that Friday, October, 9, 1914, be set apart by our people and known as Fire Prevention Day, said day being the 43rd anniver- sary of the great fire in Chicago ; that all public and private agen- cies having to do with fire pre- vention make an especial effort to arouse public interest in it's observance, that the various commercial and civic bodies throughout the state call meet ing at which instruction may be given in the subject of fire dan gers and the measures to be talk en to overcome them; that our citizens generally cause an in- spection to be made of both their dwellings and places of business i; that they instruct their children in the dangers of fire and the evil results of carelessness in re- gard thereto, and especially in our schools, public, private and parochial, let there be special in- struction given as to the gravity of our fire waste and the means of it's prevention"
 Miss Mary Honora McCabe, of Little Rock, chairman of the Committee on Education and Safety of the Arkansas Fire Pre- vention Association, has prepar- ed the following program to be observed in the schools of the state on Fire Prevention Day:
 1-Reading, Governors Pro- clamation.
 2-Paper, Third Grade Pupil. Danger of Children Playing with Matches"
 3-Paper, Fourth Grade Pupil. Danger of Burning Rubbish" !"
 4-Paper, Fifth Grade Pupil, Necessity of Fire Prevention in Towns and in the Country
 5-Paper, Sixth Grade Pupil, How to Prevent Forest Fires"
 6-Paper, Seventh Grade Pu- pil, "Why We Need Fire Exit Drills in Our Schools
 7-Paper, Eighth Grade Pu- pils, "How to Prevent Fires in