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Show been effected. This direct saving in lives is not the only benefit of safety instruction. It prepares a new genera-' tion to take its place in life with a sound knowledge and intuitive grasp of the accident problem. Twenty thousand children are killed by accidents each year. If all schools introduced safety into their classes, this number could quickly be reduced. reduc-ed. It is a proven fact that most ac-i ac-i cidents are unnecessary, and the result re-sult of ignorance or carelessness. Every Ev-ery American child should be ' given the information that may prove the means of saving him from accident. SAFETY IN THE SCHOOL. In recent years our outstanding industries in-dustries have proceeded on the theory that safety in an integral part of good business that the safe plant is the efficient, prosperous and economical econ-omical one. Following this trend, many of the schools of the nation have come to accept safety as a necessary part of their curricula. It has been advocated and adopted by a multitude of educational edu-cational leaders and the result has been a tremendous success. In schools where safety instruction is well organized at least a 50 per cent reduction in child mortality has |