Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-09-22
MARYLAND To STOP !
HEAVY FIRE Loss
State Campaign To Reduce Eco
nomic Waste Win Start Oct.
! And Last Ten Days. /.


lied on 10 take part in the
ryland 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 is
approximately S5O0,OOOOOO, or
more than a million dollars day.
This huge sum IS not paid BY the
TIRE insurance companies. Ii. is
paid by the citizens of Maryland
and the other states. The FIRE in.
sutauce companies simply collect
from their policyholders and dis
burse this money to those who
suffer FIRE losses.
Firc insurance companies do
not make money by underwriting
against loss. Their income is
derived from profitable invest
ment OF the money paid in by
policyholdcrs and invested
against the time it will have To
DC paid out to those policyhold-
ers who suffer a fire loss. The
citizens of Maryland helped pay
the losses sustained by the citi-
zens OF san Francisco when that
city suffered its great conflagra-
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-
ploymynt 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
viduaIs whose manufacturing plants
or business establishments are wiped
OUT. These are the ones who suffer
the real loss and il is TO reduce this
loss. tins economic waste, that Gov
ernor Ritchie and Mayor Broening.
with th" cooperation OF the mayors
ut other Maryland cities, sent on,
the call for war against fire.
j. ). Mace, former president OF
the National Railway Fire Proven
tion Association is chairman of the
state committee. The vice chair
men in various parts Of the state
arc:
Bernard J. Wicgand, Annapolis.
Maryland
Charlcs II. Reed, Bel Air, Md.
VIM. l.. Holloway, Berlin, Nd.
+. Shafcr, Brunswick, Md.
John w Mathews, Cambridge,
Maryland
Richard ] Earle, Centreville. Md.
Henry 6. lIager, Chesapeake
City, Nd.
James ! Beck, Chcstcrtown, Nd
VIM. II. Buck, CockcysviIle. Md
f. T.. Gardner, Crisfeld, Nd.
Charles G.. lIolzshu. Cumberland
Maryland.
Ernest G. Cooper, Denton, Md.
". II. Hopkins, Easton, Nd.
Fred II. Letter. Elkton, Nd.
Edw. " GillctL Ellicott City.
Maryland.
J. Albeit Safer. Emmittsburg.
Maryland
J. K. Charles, fredericksburg, Md.
ID. Guy Thomas. Frederick, Nd.
G. Dud Hooking, Frostburg, Md.
{. Harry Keller, Hagerstown,
Maryland.
John T. Mason, Hancock, Md.
Wm. n. Coale, Havre de Grace,
Maryland
Charles II. Stanley, Jr., Laurel
Maryland.
w. B. Bradley, Lonaconing, Md.
Turner l.. Funkhouser, Mt.
Rainier, Nd
II. A. Pitzer, Mt Savage, Md.
w. K. Onutt, Oakland, Md.
Jeremiah Valiant, Oxford, Md.
i'hsCiiI - " didp&s j ONOiIhOkCt
Maryland.
Robert {. Hopkins, Port Deposit,
Maryland
Hampton =. Dashiell, Princess
Anne, Nd.
+. w. Cisscl, Rockville. Nd.
James T. Morris, ST. Michaels,
Maryland
VIM. NJ. Cooper, Salisbury, Md.
J. Clifton Mock, Snow Hill, Md.
WA. Wallace, Takoma Park,
Nd.
Frank 7 Wheeler, Towson, Nd.
John Barnard, Westernport, Md.
Herbert Y. Anders Westminster,
Maryland
VIM. II. Miller, Williamsport,
Maryland.
These are assiGed in each locality
by the mayor OF each town, a rep
rescntative Of the schools Of that
community, a state fire warden, a
member OF the Maryland AssQsia-
ficn OF Insurance Agents and a