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Show Public Accidents Lead Death Toll . . transferring itself to the field of public pub-lic accidents, in other words to our streets, our highways, our transportation transpor-tation systems and our public buildings. build-ings. It is following t lie advance of power, but whether, as we develop public protective measures and thereby there-by diminish public accidents. It will transfer Itself to our homes, remains to be seen for today It Is sufficient to realize that the foeus of the disorder dis-order has moved Into the public life of the community. The only new thing about the safety safe-ty movement in our day Ls that It Is a movement nnd not an institution or an Instinct and that is wholly because of the abnormally rapid development of modern life. If life wouH slow down as it did In prehistoric times safety would be a family matter; it would be part of the family discipline, like not eating with one's knife or not lying in bed in the morning, both undoubtedly un-doubtedly prehistoric vices. Hazard Transferred from Industries JLo Streets. By C. B. AUEL, President, National Safety Council. New York. The world has become mechanical man power and horse power (except as a unit of measurement) measure-ment) are falling into desuetude. "Harnessing Niagara" was an achievement, achieve-ment, conveying its force to great distances was an accomplishment, but to make Niagara freeze itself into little lit-tle cubes in the millionaire's kitchen, bro,vn the buckwheat cakes on the foroman's breakfast table and drive the sewing machine in the third floor back, transceuds any of Aladdin's mythical efforts. Not content with harnessing mere coal deposits and rivers, riv-ers, man harnessed the oil fields, and with what result? the development of cheap and light mechanical motive power enabling him to flivver the sea, flivver the air, and flivver the surface of the land. See also what the gas engine is doing for the farms the last stronghold of horse power. First into out industrial life, next into our public pub-lic life and finally into our home life hae crept the manifold applications of power to daily needs. Power Takes To!j. But, because power is the application applica-tion of the mechanical forces which the human body cannot withstand, power has taken and continues to take its toll of life and limb. The path "f its application to man's needs Is tracked with blood first in the industries indus-tries some of which a decade ago were called "slaughter houses," today upon the streets where every man's life is in jeopardy perhaps tomorrow within with-in our home, its latest field of conquest. con-quest. Nature's own efforts to protect tfre . individual of the species from the dangers dan-gers of his environment are marvelous marvel-ous but they are inexorably :,low. Human efforts at protection will always al-ways lag far behind the inception and even the conception of the hazard. It setms thpt an Incredible number of human beings must be killed or ln-juted ln-juted before the public conscience is aroused. It is true that the majority of those industrial establishment which were termed "slaughter houses" have at last become safe places !n which to work, but yet the automobile has been allowed to take the toll of KXi.OOO lives In this country alone. Notwithstanding our recognition of what Is going on. the annual increase In automobile deaths has not been arretted. ar-retted. It is our human falling not 'o foresee these evils and our human weakness to close our eyes to their appalling growth until we awake to find, in their elmination, a huge national na-tional problem. Streets Now Danger Point. The center of gravity of accidental deaths in the United States was probably prob-ably at one time si'uated in the industries, indus-tries, but since the inception of the stife.y movement it has been slowly |