The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-11-09

The day of saving things has surely
come. Today, every scrap of iron,
steel, copper, wood, clothing, food
stufs and even waste paper are as
carefully saved and conserved and
again turned into channels Of useful
ness. as though the production Of
these things were expected to soon
stop altogether. Things that we're
formerly piled in the back yard and
burned are today treated as things OF
value. They are OF value and the
more thoroughly our people recognize
and practice this saving Of things The
more prosperous we shall be.
Waste, in any line OF anything, is
to be condemned. No waste can be
greater than where a thing of value
is burned. If it is burned it is gone
forever. Nothing al replace it.
Insurance payments cannot make up
for it. Even insurance money has to
come from someone's pocket, and
what in this way is one mans loss is
Indirectly another's loss as we'll. If
your house burns and the Insurance
Company pays your loss 1t must not
be forgotten that the Company col
lects that money from hundreds of
otner men and hence they must there
fore share your loss. Fire prevention
by every possible means is today a
most important problem. Just think
what the fire loss was in this country
last year. The grand total figured
out nearly $3.50 per capita for every
man, woman, and child in the United
States, while in some of the foreign
countries it was as low as l5c per
capita for the same period. The les
son from this is very plain. We as a
people, + very careless regarding
the safety of our property. We are
not only careless ourselves. but we do
not safeguard it against the careless
ness of others. Probably most of the
fires in this country are caused by
care]essness, either of the owners or
others on the premises. Even in the
cities and villages where fire equip
ment is good and a group Of public
spirited citizens volunteer their SER
vices as fremen there is daily need of
the greatest care. How often a COM
munity rests in fancied security be-
cause there has not been u fire in town
for u long time and because they have
a good fire department always ready
to save your property--if they can.
Yet some day ttat community wakes
up to find that due to some ones care
Iessncss and little Or no protection on
the private premises where it started
there is a big fire raging and many
thousands of dollars going up in
smoke. In about every town in the
country there are many houses on the
far edge Of town that cannot be reached
with the fire hose on hand. And be.
sides in winter when the snow is deeu
or in the spring when the streets are
soft and muddy it is slow work to gel
the heavy apparatus through the town
and into operation. In the center O.
town the stores and public buildings
are provided with some sort of hanC
fire fighting appliances and frequent
fire inspections are made. 1t is con.
sidered that this extra protection il
necessary. But the buildings anc
homes on the outer edge of town neet
. it even more. For u small sum ever,
town in the land could do the sam
thing and in every town some day. a!
simple a thing as a hand fire extin
guisher would save your house ant
perhaps others from consequent DIES
truction. If this were generally don,
millions of dollars would be savet
every year, to say nothing of the aw
full experience of being burned out
Fire officials of all our states are nov
as never before urging the most rigit
care as to external conditions ant
likewise the internal installation O
chemical hand extinguishers and 9th
err convenient appliances for quickl.
putting out fire.
Such protection is even of create
Importance to the farmers who ca,
not call m a fire department, nor usu
ally on any a neighbors to help il
time of fire. Isolated as they are if
fire once gets started it usually mean
a total loss of at least n building
perhaps more. In many of our coun
ties the farmers have their own Mu
tual Fire Insurance Companies, an,
thus they insure themselves, but whel
n one member has a fire, all the res
have to help pay it. ANY way 20,