The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-04
WILL INSPECT FOOD
AND SUPPLY HOUSES
ORGANIZATION is PERFECTED BY
INSURANCE MEN IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
STATE DEPARTMENTS HELP
All Buildings Where Food and Sup
plies Are Stored Will Be Guarded
Against Destruction BY Fire or
Waste.

Organization of one of the most eff
fective patriotic bodies in the stats
has recently been perfected by spe'i
cial agents, inspectors and field men
of virtually all fire insurance com
panies doing business in North Caro-
lima. 1t is the purpose of the organl'
cation to make inspection Of all build.
ings where food supplies or clothing
supplies may be concentrated to guard
against possible loss by fire of any
goods which are needed in the prose.
cution of the war.
The organization was perfected re-
Gently at conference of insurance
men in the office of State Insurance
Commissioner James r. Young in
Raleigh. Present at the meeting were
Governor Beckett, Commissioner
Young, S. Y. Upper, of Atlanta,
Southern manager of the Queen Insur-
ance Company, Milton Dargan Of At
lanta, Southern manager of the Royal
Insurance Company and A. M. Schoen
engineer for the National Board of
Fire Underwriters. The conference
was also attended by J. M. Broughton,
Jr., and A. T. Bowler, president and
secretary respectively of the Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce and Prof. w.
A. Withers, president Of the Raleigh
Rotary Club.
Cooperation of all the machinery of
the State Executive and administra-
tive departments was pledged by Gov
ernor Beckett and COMMISSIONS
Young. A committee of~insurance
men was appointed to arrange the de-
tails of the campaign and the plan
to be carried out contemplates the dis.
tricting of the entire state, each dis.
trict to be under the supervision of
one of the insurance men who will
make frequent inspections of all whole
sale houses or food depots, grocery
stores or-ether places where food.
stuffs are concentrated. Other in
spectors will look after cotton gins
and cotton warehouses and all kinds
of depots.
The work thus done is under the
oupOA NA01OA VI OApOA WIZ WILL give
without cost their trained experience
to aid in the National campaign
against unnecessary fire waste in the
stringent war period. While these
men are representatives Of insurance
companies. the work thus undertaken
is under the direction of the National
Government and the direct supervision
of the Council of National Defense.
Recommendations will be made and
instructions in fire prevention given to
citizens and property owners and
where it is necessary property owners
may be compelled to follow these in.
structions given by these inspectors
as war measures.
The campaign is part of the nation.
| wide plan adopted by the National
Board of Fire Underwriters. Similar
organizations have been made or are
being made in every state. Represen
tatives of the National Board at the
meeting held in Raleigh stated that
the work was better understood by
the insurance men in North Caroline
and the campaign gives better promise
of accomplishment here than in any
state they had visited. Commits
sioner Young has been urging work
of this sort-that is the adoption o.
! measures to prevent fires and thu
subsequent unnecessary waste o
food and supplies since the wa
started and through a continuou
series of appeals to the citizens of tn,
state, city and county officials,
considerable amount of success ha
been accomplished and it is the belle
Of the commissioner that the peopl
are familiar enough with the situation
to carry the plan on to great sue
cess and in this manner to add to tn
campaign North Carolina's ''bit" in
valuable work.
PREPAREDNESS,