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Show Home Demonstration Agent's Column FARM AND HOME SAFETY STRESSED "Be Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow," Tomor-row," is the slogan of National Farm and Home Safety week, proclaimed pro-claimed from July 21 to 27 by President Pres-ident Truman. An intensive campaign cam-paign is under way to make farms and homes of the nation safer places in which to live. Did you know that homes of America are the most dangerous places for us Yankees to keep ourselves? our-selves? From the time of Pearl Harbor to V-J day, only 73,392 more persons were lost by both the army and navy than were lost on home front. Farming, as you may know is considered one of America's major industries. Still, right on our own farm grounds, more persons lose their lives than in any other major industry. Utah homes and farms are no safer than those in any other state. One hundred forty-five people lost their lives in Utah homes in 1945, not to mention the number who will be permanently handicapped, handi-capped, or the great cost of fire damage and 'lost working time. Now is the time to 'Vace the facts" and check our farm and home for hazards. Following is a check-list which may be used to check your farm and home: Do you keep farm machinery and equipment in good running order at all times? Do you and your family use caution cau-tion in moving about farm machinery, machin-ery, belts and pulleys? Are your buildings and farmyards farm-yards free from garden tools, forks, and rubbish? Are ladders and. stairways in good condition with handrails and good lighting provided? Do you protect your children from water tanks, cisterns, wells or pools? Have you eliminated weeds, brush, old lumber, oil saturated or paint rags, and other similar fire hazards from around buildings? Is your gasoline stored out of doors, underground, or in an iso-I iso-I lated.Jjuilding? Do'you have an emergency water supply available? Do you use care in handling farm animals? Is your farm electrical system adequate and in good order? In your home do you have a place for everything and do you keep it there? Do you urge members of your family to work safely, play safely, drive safely, and try to prevent accidents ac-cidents by correcting conditions which cause them? U. S. D. A. bulletin No. 481, "Watch Your Step," closes with the following advice: "Prevention and preparedness are the dual controls. Prevent the accident if you can. Know how to cope with it if you must." . A little Extension Service folder fold-er entitled "Organize to Fight Farm and Home Accidents," will soon be off the press. This contains con-tains the 4-H club check list. Ask your county agent for a copy. Check your own place and tell your friends to try it on theirs. Thus you may, by being Alert Today, To-day, find yourselves Alive Tomorrow. |