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Show Utah, Utah Federated Women's Clubs and other service groups, pledge themselves to an intensified program of cooperative effort and education in home accident prevention. preven-tion. Even though our national records rec-ords show a 6 per cent decrease from 1943 in home fatalities, the toll is still far too high to be tolerated when proved methods of reducing these needless casualties are available. The important thing is that our fellow human beings were so recklessly sacrificed. Accidents wreck savings and bank accounts and divert salaries and wages from normal channels of trade and business. Accidents fill hospital beds, deplete hosnital treasuries and increase in-crease charity demands. Accidents cause poverty, hardship hard-ship and discomfort and they leave permanent scars on the family fam-ily of the victim and rll too often on the future of our children. And. finally, aciclents affect our war production efforts, particularly particular-ly when the breadwinner is the victim. Accidents to workers alone in 1944 caused widespread absenteeism absen-teeism the equivalent of a million men out of work for a whole year! And highly significant is the fact workers occurred off the job on our streets and in our homes. Mrs. George P. Parker. Director of the Home Division is chairman of the committee planning "Home Safety Week." assisted by the following fol-lowing renresentatives: MISS ELLEN M. ANDERSON. Grontsville MRS. GEORGE BAGLIN, Salt Lake MRS. ABE GUS, Salt Lake MRS. DONALD E. ROSE. Salt Lake MRS. ANN BORG, Salt Lake MRS. J. S. TINGEY, Snlt Lake MRS. HARRISON L. BEAN. Salt Lake MRS. E. G. STEIX. Salt Lake MRS. S. A. COTTERELL. Salt Lake MRS. WILLIAM H. FOLLAND, Salt Lak MR. SfERMAN T. HUNTER, Sllt Lake Home Safety Week April 8 to 14 Home pivision 1 Utah Safety Council Home accident fatalities and injuries in-juries cause enormous waste of life and limb, a staggering economic loss, and sorrow and suffering that never can be measured. In this country last year 1944 30,500 persons were killed in home accidents; 4.600,000 others were injured; and the cost reached 8550,000,000.00. It is estimated that more than half of all fires occur in homes. About 7,000 are killed and about twice that number are injured every ev-ery year. Many of the victims are exphyxiated or trapped by smoke, fire, gasses, and flames. The majority of home fires are attributed to accumulation of rubbish, rub-bish, defective chimneys, sparks on flammable roofs, defective heating equipment, electrical defects, careless care-less smoking and use of matches and flammable liquids. Children should never be left unattended even for a few minutes. Death by fire is most tragic to say nothing of property loss. Have you made a room by room check for safety of your home recently? re-cently? A few minutes of your time may mean the saving of your home, or a loved one from a horrible hor-rible death. That is the national picture. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, the State of Utah had part in this drab story of human tragedy. 130 of our citizens were killed in the homes in the state by accident and 3,2.10 suffered disabling dis-abling injuries with an estimated economic loss of $500,000 during the year 1944. During the week April 8 to 14, the Home Division of the Utah Safety Council assisted by the American Am-erican lted Cross, Relief Society and M.I.A. of the L.D.S. Church, Catholic Diocesan of Utah, Jewish Welfare Association. Utah Minis-lerial Minis-lerial Association. Public Welfare Department. V'uhlic Health Nurses ncia'i'i'i, rrcnt-Tcachers Association, Asso-ciation, Women's Safe. Council of |