Show home safety week proclaimed by gov governor maw has proclaimed the week of april 8 to 14 as home safety week in utah it la is a fitting recognition of a problem which sadly needs greater public attention and interest each year scores ot of plains die needlessly as the result of accidents in the home hundreds are seriously in juried perhaps disabled for life thousands suffer minor injuries which require some medical attention or hospital treatment and the pitiful thing about it is that almost all of these accidents with their heartbreak their suffering their lost time their heavy cost could be avoided the great majority of accidents in the home are the result of sheer carelessness slipping on floors on stairs or in bathtubs stumbling over toys or other things left carelessly on dark stairways electrocutions or fires caused by the use of faulty appliances cords fixtures or wiring taking poison by mistake due to carelessness in properly marking or disposing of such potions falls from rickety ladders or stools explosions resulting from the careless use of gasoline or the improper care of stoves these are some of the things usually involving neglect or carelessness which cause accidents in the home at any time homo home accidents are a national tragedy and loss but they are arc doubly so in m this critical war period when every man and woman Is needed to help win the war and when every day lost from useful work is a lost day not just to the individual but to the nation the effort under the direction of the utah safety council to call the attention of all utahna during this week of april 8 to 14 to the needless tragic toll oil of home accidents Is commendable it can easily bring about a very considerably decrease in the home accident toll in utah tor for 1945 it will do just that if utahna generally will heed the warning of the safety coun cil 11 II and play it safe in the their r homes this year ear |