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Show Red Cross Warns Home Is More Dangerous Than Highway, Urges Check for Hazards K . American Red Cross supplies householders and farmers with a check list of accident hazards in fight against large annual death toll. Hazards shown: top, left, mowers, harrows and other farm machinery, left in gear when making repairs, may result in grave injury to farmer. Top right: pointed shears in the hands of children are as dangerous as matches. Below right: most home accidents are due to falls, and scatter rugs on polished floors should be anchored by use of non-skid lining as shown. LfOMU mishaps kill or injure many more persons than motor vehicles, yet the average householder house-holder faces traffic with misgiving and relaxes at home. Kacb year hazards injure more than 100.000 persons engaged in fa nil work, yet the farmer fails to lake safety precautions which the fai iory worker adopts aa a matter of course. Tuiieihcr home and farm work ac-ciil'-nis last year killed 35,400 adults and children and injured the stag- - si 1 1 number of 4,750.000 persons. To combat liii.s annual accident : s. : '.:: -c the American P.cd Cross lainv li-d a milion-wlde procram in f.:5 to acquaint hotiM.'holdr'rs and f :i : :n workers wlMi ihe hazards coin-( coin-( cm wiib ihi'ir work and home 1:!'. Tirs year i:i'u.. than lfOO Red ( ;o- rentiers are .t-':'.iin-.riring this -,a : in "h" m:n ii,n ti ;- ;n y cc-rve. t - ii Uii !'., r 23 ih ani;al R"'l 1 j C. . . u::: ; , jii w iii j. ;n 1 1; I ouh- j t " i , j' ' A .- f .JV . - , - h 1 VWrfpl -- ( U - i out the nation to assist householders household-ers to discover and eliminate hazards haz-ards liable to cause accidents in the home. Mpinbers of the American Junior Red Cross and their sc hoolmates hool-mates will distribute check Msis to parents and assist in examining their own homes and in removing hazards. This Red Cross warning reaches more than A. 000, 000 homes and farms each yea r. The Red Cross stresses the need of removing hazards which may cause falls, as this type of accident resulted in more than half of last year's home acrid en t fa ' al i t ies. Among chief ranges are poorly lighted stairs, loose railincs. small rugs improperly anr-hored and children's chil-dren's toys left about. Rums and explo.Mons ranged the ru-xt he.-ivjct loss of life, y.non bejn:r hilled in Krs by tli is type of ac'-id'-nt . and the R'd Cross s;f-rhwk list points to the drmi-'T of scalding liquids in pots and pans left n ar the ede of c Kr " "W.W,W.;., '; - i ! ? '-- i t " i i - , - A the stove, matches p-fi within reach of children, and fireplaeeH unguarded unguard-ed by proper screening. OHht main causes of aecjflcntal death me me ! el in nical suffoca I ion. poiron gasen and firearms, Red Cross oflicialn i said. AfeifP nt iirev jiMon Ik a part ol ! the continuing l;d Cross pro;-i;un dircct d again? t illner. de;ifh and di'-a' te;-. Al Ii' d for-s f j v;r.p at" j supporter hy the I er,p. who jo:n ' at the time of the annual Roil Cali. I this year fioin Novemher 1 1 |