Show nati national I 1 onal farm safety week making effort to reduce heavy loss burden deaths can be eliminated in agricultural areas farmers and their wives and children as a rule are too busy pro producing uc ng food for wartime annerl ra a to have any time to go hunting for or danger and death nevertheless government safety officials declare back home on them the farm arm Is far from being the safest place in the world to live trouble Is safety engineers point out dut that accidents dont wait for people to go looking for them they lust just happen and they happen most ly to people like farmers who are re too busy doing an important Import int lob J ob io 10 think about how to avoid sect acal lents bents calling attention to americas continuing I 1 need for the and lab labor 0 r st of her farmers president truman laid 1 I urge farm people 0 everywhere very where m 0 o observe national farm safety iveel by making a safety check in heir homes and on their farms farm 8 1 request all persons and lons ions concerned with agriculture ind nd farm life to do everything in heir pow power 0 r t to 0 0 educate ducate f farm arm p people e ople n the proper precautions by which hey may eliminate farm hazards president truman has proclaimed ally 22 to 28 as national farm safety week burns usually rank second d in importance on tho the form farm home accident cst dst causes include careless smoking the use of kerosene in start flig aig kitchen fires placing pans of wiling liquid too close to the edge it if a kitchen stove as well as many ather ther instances of haste or carelessness liess ness or both records show that if parents nake sure sura at all times that firearms 1 farm front casualties the following figures are based on statistics from pearl harbor J to january 1 1945 1943 during the same period total war casualties of U 9 forces both army and i j navy amounted to these figures are toe for farm residents i only I 1 killed 0 o II 11 injured t I 1 killed on job killed in traffic killed in homes injured Injure dat nt work injured Injure din in traffic injured in homes nd and poisons are out of reach 0 of their children accidents to children in n the farm home will be considerably reduced among leading causes of work wor klac accidents on th the e farm arm to Is the improper e r use ase of form farm machinery mahl nery knives belts pulleys gears and the like are necessarily a part of farm ma thi chinery nery the greatest caution should always be exercised exorcised to op rato irate them without accident to the person improper handling of 0 animals causes many farra work accidents while bulls are the cause of many ferrous injuries the greatest number of accidents due to careless handling of animals Is caused by horses records show I 1 pledge ot of cooperation F falls alls are also high on the list of farm arm work accidents better housekeeping methods in the farmyard the barn and other farm buildings can materially reduce the number of accidents attributable to falls among farm leaders who have pledged their cooperation in the work of national farm safety week ure ore edward S oneal president of the american n farm bureau federa tion james Jame sG G patton president of the national farmers union and A S goss master of the national grange president Tr suggestion that farm P people ople moke make a safety check in thel their r homes and on their farina if follo followed wed will be the greatest single step that can be taken toward reducing accidents on the tarro farm ma maynard nard 11 coe director i division of the national safety council said lie he pointed out that the councils farm accident records taken from states that tha t keep a file of statistics 01 on farm mish mishaps a ps clearly indicate the types of accidents which should be attacked first in any personal checkup check up common the records show tor for example that falls hocur ur in the farm homo home I 1 than tiny any other type of accident such things as cluttered stair stairways ways unsound ladders badly lighted hallways all of which can be corrected by good housekeeping are major hazards away from the farm traffic accidents are the most serious menace forearm tor for farm larm people it is expected that h a serious problem will arise on the highway when traffic again hits the peak of prewar years and 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 36 M f Os I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 1 1 11 1 KA v 11 1 I 1 N 1 1 V 1 s 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ik az I 1 1 I 1 1 1 I I 1 p 1 I 1 4 T I 1 11 I 1 k I 1 1 I 1 r 1 I I 1 1 1111 f I 1 1 11 aa 1 I 1 aha 0 11 I 1 0 41 1 kl 1 11 I 1 r 0 o P 1 I 1 I W P Z 1 1 I km 1 I pi i il I 1 1 l I 1 I 1 IA k I 1 I 1 I 1 k ik t I 1 I 1 it 1 1 q n NJ bisp I 1 I 1 upper photo shows risk of inga saw without agaard a guard second photo shows one cause of at a annual farni farm fire loss smoking oking in farm buildings third photo shows ti that I 1 at r rickety I 1 and cluttered stairways add to the annual skilled and injured list lower photo loaded or unloaded neither are safe reach of a child alan many y 1 are killed by unloaded guns annually i greater driving skill find and care than ever before will be needed there are many other types of accidents which contribute to the a annual toll on the farm arcoe mr coe said but the examples given point the way for both individuals and organizations izat ions to make best use of a farm safety checkup check up during the week mr coe concluded his remarks M 4 VV 1 z I 1 1 z r M 7 k t Z 3 rp 3 ivl 1 iv pv ik 4 k 11 T 1 ar 1110 I 1 f V 4 k g I 1 all A t I 1 I 1 Z IN t k 11 1 I 11 I 1 V 1 1 1 l S 1 11 k R 1 1 k il i 1 x 1 k 1 54 I 1 k xa ayi i i J acx k 1 11 I 1 1 k 14 1111 I 1 1 1 I I 1 N au 1 1 k k 1 I 1 I 1 ki i Is A t 1 AI al i q H k tam A k 11 k mn I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 this farmer should know that his place Is 3 ta in the he drivers seat scat in dho risks ft a lifetime of chappin happiness ess to save a 3 few seconds by disobeying f p cardinal safety rule of 0 ada adjusting asting usting michl machinery nory only when at ft full stop slop and ther then from the ground I 1 |