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city enacts a regulation against the use of wood 

 roofs in congested districts, while simultaneously 

 the fire chief of another states that if wood roofs 

 were the only fire hazard with which he had to deal, 

 he would recommend that the fire department be 

 disbanded forthwith. Dallas, Texas, rebuilt after 

 its conflagration, enacted a law against wood 

 shingles only to repeal it a few years later. The 

 great fire of Chicago was stopped in a wooden 

 house. A poorly constructed roof of too thin and 

 improperly fastened shingles, which easily cup and 

 warp to form a catch-all for sparks, is, of course, a 

 disgrace to any community. This applies equally, 

 however, to a house with a slate roof and a defec- 

 tively built chimney. Properly laid wood shingles 

 treated with a creosote stain will not readily cup, 

 and a roof thus constructed is not in itself a serious 

 menace. 



The use of wood for furnishings within the home 

 is of equal interest. The chair you sit in is a forest 

 product, the table beside you, perhaps the bed in 

 which you sleep. There is a story in every piece. 

 Was that desk perhaps a family heirloom testifying 

 to the sturdy construction and finer art of bygone 

 generations? Look at it carefully. Perhaps it is 

 rather a specimen of the cunning machine-made 

 substitution now so frequently practiced with the 



