| Show III HOME FOR SAFETY i the federa federal states state s and aad municipal government may leggate for or accident prevention the police may seek unremittingly to enforce 5 it schools may teach safety and associations ciati ons may advocate it but real ly effective result can never be obtained until the american home to Is enlisted wholeheartedly whole heartedly in tl the e cause u tho home is the keystone of the nations nation a safety arch it Is the fart ano at of offense against an enemy which annually kills injures 3 or more and produce an economic loea loss running into the millions nearly one thira third of the accident fatalities of the last decade derade actually happened in the homes bomes says pr dr herbert J black stack safety super vialor of the national bure ot of and underwriters der writers that in itself sh should awaken every household to the necessity of better housekeeping betler better care of young children and better safeguards there la is an a inescapable duty resting upon the heads beads of the nations families in the last analysts analysis they have the responsibility ot of teaching tea chine safety habits and attitudes to 0 o the children anat the child absorbs in the home colors ite its after life and if lessons there lax the chud child will be found deficient nt heo hen P I 1 comes to safety problems of our modern civilization accidents are a serious menace to our national life and f far a r reaching in their effects sure surely ly something Is wrong when in a single 10 20 years the hies of more than half a R million persons one fifth of whom are children can be snuffed nit out As bad aa as wars are if we add together all the deaths of american soldiers on the battlefields during the com combies bits of the last two hundred years of our history the total will not be that of the loss through accidents during the period named |
