Show obedience a vital point in the first half of the current year the figures of a hartford boiler inspect tion service covering the united states show that there were thirty one per sons killed injured and property to the value of something like destroyed in boiler explosions says the philadelphia press of these more than one halt were due to a failure to obey orders many of them made mistakes in writing or reading orders or f 01 got them altogether A full tenth was due to men who simply fell asleep in sheer neglect of their work in all this made two thirds of these accidents due to the personal failure of some man to do what he was told this runs through all work the great mass of accidents and of dasas fully two thirds and often more are due to the fact that some man or some woman has tailed to obey or remember an order it is success for life to have the habit of being attentive to an order the capacity for kemem beang it and the instant will to obey nothing is rarer our common school education does not teach children to obey implicitly pupils are coaxed into obedience they are marked for failures they ire disciplined for flat refusals but scarcely anything in the routine of the school leads to the habit of in stant unfailing immediate ungues obedience to an order because it is an order without stopping else that can be done beside doing as one is told every business man and every em knows that teaching this la the first task to which he addresses him self when a boy or girl comes from school and begins their first work for wages generally if they come from an american family neither in the school nor in the family have they ever learned what it is to obey an order it is a fault in our national life which writes itself in accidents every day in the year and to which in large measure Is owing the enor proportion of fatal accidents in this country as compared to all the rest of the world |