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Our town and civic duty

Chapter 123: FIRE-PREVENTION DAY
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About This Book

A school reader for elementary pupils offers short stories, adapted tales, and practical lessons that introduce civic virtues such as courage, self-control, thrift, perseverance, kindness to animals, and patriotism. It then profiles public servants—police, mail carriers, firemen, street cleaners, and sanitation workers—to illustrate dependence, interdependence, and community cooperation. Subsequent sections address personal and public safety, sanitation, and insect control, and conclude with guidance on Junior Red Cross activities and patriotic service. Teacher notes recommend dramatization, discussion, and hands-on projects to connect classroom learning with daily civic habits and to encourage respect for public institutions and duties.

FIRE-PREVENTION DAY

Fire-Prevention Day and the Fire Drill mean Safety First.

October 9th has been set aside as Fire-Prevention Day.

Fire-Prevention Day is really a safety-first day. Can you tell why?

Fire-Prevention Day means a cleaner city. How will that mean safety first to all the children?

The fire drills in school are safety-first drills.

One of the greatest dangers from fire is that people will crowd together in the doors in trying to escape from a burning building, and will be injured or killed.

Many little children have lost their lives in this way.

Children who have been accustomed to fire drills are not frightened when the bell rings to form in line for the drill; and they move onward in an orderly way until all are out of the building.

If the building were on fire, there would be no better way of helping all the children to safety.

In helping anyone whose clothing has caught on fire, smother the flames with rugs and heavy wraps.

Remember this

SAFETY-FIRST RULE

If your clothing should catch on fire, do not run; lie down and

Roll! Roll! Roll!

Smother the flames!



Courtesy of the Farm Journal
Stop Thief!—The Rat is a thief and an assassin who breaks
into your home at night

QUESTIONS

Do you know that in some states a certain day in the year is set aside as Rat-Prevention Day?

What can people do to keep rats away?

Why is Rat-Prevention Day really a fire prevention?

How does Rat-Prevention Day mean safety first?

How do Fire-Prevention Day and Rat-Prevention Day help give us a clean city?

Cleanup Day keeps rats and mice away. How?

Why are they dangerous to health?

Do you keep a cat or dog policeman?