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Show Safety Reaches Its Majority The organized safety movement in America is coming of age. It was born in 1912 to combat the appalling death and accident rates then prevailing in many industries. in-dustries. It has since immensely expanded its usefulness so that it works not only to protect life in the factory, but in the home, on the highways, in the school-wherever school-wherever the risk of accident exists. ex-ists. Its achievements are its monument. monu-ment. Despite vastly increased industrial in-dustrial production, fatalities have been cut more than thirty per cent. Factories which were once known as "human slaughter houses" hous-es" are now safer for the workman than is his home. Accidental deaths to children have been cut through the introduction of safety education into school curriculums. The number of children injured or killed by automobiles has dropped -materially but the adult toll of automobiles has jumped at a dizzying diz-zying rate. In this last field the safety movement has met its greatest obstacle. ob-stacle. The highways are thronged with irresponsible, incompetent and reckless drivers that last year claimed 34,000 lives and were responsible re-sponsible for hundreds of thou sands of accidents. Safety on the highway can come only when automobile auto-mobile operators 1 ike factory workers and executives realize their responsibility and become "safety conscious." Then organized safety movement will have conquered con-quered its greatest enemy. |