The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-09-16
Friday, September 10, 1921
MARYLAND TO STOP
HEAVY FIRE LOSS
State Campaign To Reduce Eco
nornic Waste Will Start Oct.
/ And Last Ten Days.

All citizens of Maryland are
called on to take part in the
Maryland Fire Prevention Cam
paign, which starts October l
and the purpose of which is to
reduce the heavy economic waste
caused by fires which, in most
cases, could have been prevented.
The annual property damage in
the United States through fires 10
approximately $5OO,WO,WO, or
more than million dollars a day.
This huge sum is not paid by the
fire insurance companies 1t is
paid by the citizens of Maryland
and the other states. The Are in
surance companies simply collect
from their policyholders and dis
burse this money to those who
suffer fire losses.
Fire insurance companies do
not make money by underwriting
against loss. Their income is
derived from profitable invest
ment Of the money paid in by
policyholders and invested
against the time it will have to
be paid out to those policyhold-
srs who suffer a fire loss. The
citizens of Maryland helped pay
the losses sustained by the cit1-
zens of San Francisco when That
city suffered its great connagra-
ton.
But the greatest loss, the great
est economic waste, comes not
solely through property destroyed,
but through loss of income suffered
by the workers thrown out of en-
ployment by fires; through loss of
business sustained by retailers de-
pendent on the purchasing power
of those employees; through loss of
trade sustained by firms and indi-
viduals whose manufacturing plants
or business establishments are wiped
out. These are the ones who suffer
the real loss and it is to reduce this
loss, this economic waste, that Gov
ernor Ritchie and Mayor Broening,
with the cooperation of the mayors
of other Maryland cities, sent out
the call for war against fire.
B. S. Mace, former president of
the National Railway Fire Preyen-
ton Association, is chairman of the
state committee. The vice-chair-
men in various parts of the state
are:
Bernard J. Wiegand, Annapolis,
Maryland.
Charles H. Reed, Bel Air, Md.
VIM. L. Holloway, Berlin, Md.
E. Shafer, Brunswick, Nd.
John w. Mathews, Cambridge,
Maryland.
Richard J. Earle, Centreville, Md.
Henry G. Hager, Chesapeake
City, Md.
James J. Beck, Chestertown, Md.
VIM. H. Buck, Cockeysville, Md.
F. E. Gardner, Crisfeld, Md.
Charles C. Holzshu, Cumberland,
Maryland.
Ernest G. Cooper, Denton, Md.
w. H. Hopkins, Easton, Md.
Fred H. Letter, Elkton, Nd.
Edw NJ. Gillett, E1licott City,
Maryland
J. Albert Safer, Emmittsburg,
Maryland.
J. R. Charles, fredericksburg, Nd.
D. Guy Thomas, Frederick, Nd.
G. Dud Hooking, Frostburg, Md.
c. Harry Keller, Hagerstown,
Maryland.
John T. Mason, Hancock, Md.
VIM. N. Coale, Havre de Grace,
Maryland.
Charles H. Stanley, Jr., Laurel
Maryland
w. B. Bradley, Lonaconing, Md.
Turner L. Funkhouser, Mt.
Rainier, Md.
H. A. Pitzer, Mt Savage, Nd.
w. R. Ofutt, Oakland, Nd.
Jeremiah Valiant, Oxford, Nd.
Eugene S. Maddox, Pocomoke,
Maryland.
Robert c. Hopkins, Port Deposit,
Maryland.
Hampden P. Dashiell, Princess
Anne, Nd.
E. w. Cissel, Rockville, Nd.
James T. Morris, St. Michaels,
Maryland.
Vim. NJ. Cooper, Salisbury, Md
J. Clifton Mock, Snow Hill, Md.
w. A. Wallace, Takoma Park,
Nd.
Frank I. Wheeler, Towson, Md.
John Barnard, Westernport, Md.
Herbert V. Anders Westminster.
Maryland.
VIM. H. Miller, Williamsport,
Maryland.
These are assisted in each locality
by the mayor of each town, rep
resentative of the schools Of that
community, a state fire warden,
member of the Maryland Associa-
ton of Insurance Agents and
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