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Show Enlists the Home for Safety The Federal, State and municipal munici-pal governments may legislate for accident prevention. the police may seek unremittingly to enforce it. schools may teach safety, and associations may advocate it, but really effective results can never be obtained until the American home Is eniisted whole-heartedly in the cause The home is the keystone of the Nation's safety arch. It is the first line of offense against an enemy which annually kills 100,000 persons, injures 3,000,000 or more and produces an economic econ-omic loss running into the millions "Nearly one-third of the 560,000 accident fatalities of the last decade de-cade actually happened in the homes," says Dr. Herbert J. Stack, Safety Supervisor of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters! . 'That in itself should awaken every household to the necessity of better housekeeping, housekeep-ing, better care of young children and better safeguards. '.'There is an inescapable duty resting upon the heads of the nation's na-tion's families. In the last analysis anal-ysis - they have the responsibility of teaching safety habits and altitudes al-titudes to the children. What the child absrbs in the home colors its after-life and if lessons there are lax, the child will be found deficient when it comes to safety problems of our modern civilization. civiliza-tion. -'Accidents are a serious menace to our national life and far reaching reach-ing in their effects. Surely, something some-thing is wrong when in a single ten-years, the lives of more than half -a- million persons, one-fifth ofi whom are children, can be snuffed -out. As bad as wars are, if we- -add together all the deaths of - American soldiers on the battlefields during the combats of the last two hundred years of our history, the total will not be that of the loss through accidents during dur-ing the period named." i, - |