Show flu I 1 things I 1 never knew til now that uncle sam lost sellers sailors and marines in 1944 not by jap or nazi nari bullets but by accidents in the V U S that when soldiers and sailors actually take heed of their superiors accident warnings tte the accident rate in camps drops 60 th this is column Is dedicated to saving the life ol of some soldier sailor marine or worker in the war effort and the statistics prove that it probably will every life lost to this country Is one less fighter against hitler your country needs y your ur me life to protect its own Ms this is the breakdown of your chances ol of living this year that americans have been injured in home front accidents acci since the war started work accidents last year caused the loss of man years of labor and more workers were lulled killed OFF the job than on the job to that drinking on the part of either the driver or the pedestrian is involved in one out of every five fatal traffic accidents and that even in m wartime one or both drivers in m fatal accidents violate a law in two out of every three cases that about persons were drowned in the united states last year smokers cause nearly a fifth of au all fires in the U S A accidents kill one out of three school age children who die three out of five fatal traffic accidents occur at night nearly 2000 persons were killed in grade crossing accidents last year so look listen and live that thousands of hunters will be maimed this year and nearly 1000 will be lulled killed in hunting accidents unless the hunter bunter is extra exira careful people in farm families were killed by accidents last year and only mining construction transportation por tation and public utilities are more dangerous industries than agriculture ri about hospital beds are occupied today by persons who have suffered accede accidents ants this is roughly 10 of all beds and the pity of it is that accident cases usually require the immediate attention of several doctors and nurses as well as the use of anesthesia apparatus operating rooms and hospital beds and this at a time when talking about drafting nurs nurses esl that benjamin franklin was one of the first safety advocates in america remember He member he said haste makes waste and carelessness does more harm than want of knowledge that the chicago fire of 1871 the johnstown flood of 1889 the galveston tidal wave of 1900 the san francisco earthquake of 1906 the sinking of the titanic in 1912 the boston night club fire in 1912 and all the other major disasters since 1865 have killed less than americans and yet day by day accidents killed in 1944 alone that accident figures prove the safest people in the U S are little girls between the ages of 5 and 14 there is an accidental death in the U S every 5 minutes and an injury every 3 seconds accidents are the fifth cause of deaths in th the e U S and cost per year per family in america that the seaford nylon plant of E I 1 dupont de nemours company has the best no injury record in american industry if having avig gone nearly man hours without a single lost time injury to one of its employees and at the last report the record was still running that even if more than women drivers were involved in traffic accidents in 1941 there is no conclusive evidence that women are more reckless than men when it comes to driving automobiles A speed violation is a fa factor actor in about of ct au all fatal traffic accidents approximately 4 of drivers involved in fatal accidents are hit and run dri drivers the rats that communications is the safest industry and mining the he most dangerous one person in 14 will have an accident in in the united states in 1945 if the 1944 pattern prevails nearly pedestrians 7 are tailed killed in traffic accidents yearly and walking Is so easy that peanuts coins medals marbles and such simple things can be and are killers more than children under five years of age are killed every year because small objects me like these are so easily easil y sucked into the lungs falls were the greatest single cause of abc acc accidental deaths in 1943 the last year lor for figures figu are available the number killed by falls in 1943 was and 92 ot of all persons killed by falls are 25 years of age or over two out of three persons killed by faus falls are 65 years or older |