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State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN H. TRUMBULL
GOVERNOR
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HE loss by fire of lives and property in the United
__ States was last year the largest ever recorded. The
sº) property loss per capita was nearly five times that
experienced in comparable European countries. In view of
the fact that the great majority of fires are preventable by
proper care, such a record can only be characterized as one
of shameful waste. An insurance policy may relieve to
some extent the individual property owner, but no insur-
ance protects the nation from the direct loss of its citizens
and its wealth. The price of every commodity includes
the price you pay for someone’s carelessness.
Sober thought, sound education and intelligent action
are essential to the correction of this, as of any other, drain
on our national resources. To give a specific opportunity
for the consideration of this problem, and by special direc-
tion of the General Assembly, I designate Friday, October
ninth next, as
3fire fireuentium ſlag
and I earnestly recommend that all citizens, and particularly
all school authorities, give attention on that day to the
study and teaching of fire prevention. I suggest also that
if this sort of education is to be effective, the ordinary
virtues of care and common sense be emphasized in this
connection, not merely as objects of annual veneration, but
as every-day economic necessities.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this twenty-fifth day of
September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five and of the
independence of the United States the one hundred and fiftieth.
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By His Excellency’s Command:
Secretary.



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