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Kutal Sanetu loplci 



By C. M. SEAGRAVES 



C^N^ID YOU EVER SEE A LEAP- 

 ^~-/ I ing squirrel miss a limb and 

 3 y fall to the ground . . . did you 

 ever notice a kingfisher hang motionless 

 in the air, then plunge downward like 

 a blue bolt into the water . . to rise with- 

 out the fish did you ever sigh 



audibly with the rest of the grandstand 

 when your favorite pitcher, trying his 

 best to split the plate, released a wild 

 throw and the game was over . . the 

 wrong way? 



GENERALLY SPEAKING, Co- 

 ordination between eye, nerve, mind and 

 muscle is highly developed in the case 

 of birds and animals where existence 

 depends on harmonious functioning of 

 faculties. We have all marveled at the 

 skill of the professional athlete. Yet 

 beast or man, they all fail in judgment 

 from time to time, occasionally with 

 serious consequences. Such failure may 

 be due to inattention, tired and therefore 

 slow muscles, ignorance of all the fac- 

 tors involved, deliberate disregard of 

 such factors, or simply an error in judg- 

 ment. . • 



NOW IT MAY SEEM TO BE A 

 far cry from coordination to corn pickers, 

 but let's take a look at last year's record. 

 Right here at home, in Illinois, corn 

 picker accidents claimed a total of 6 

 lives, 55 severed hands, and arms. Why? 

 Largely because the operator, in attempt- 

 ing some potentially dangerous act failed 

 to coordinate all of his movements: he 

 stepped too closely to the power take-off 

 and his overall leg was caught. He at- 

 tempted to grasp a husk or stalk from 

 the rolls but he was not quick enough. 

 He sought to oil a gear or chain and 

 again the warning message from his eye 

 to his brain to his muscle was less rapid 

 than the merciless whirl of steel teeth. 



THE KINGFISHER MAY MISS HIS 

 meal ; the pitcher may lose the ball game, 

 but the unthinking operator of a corn 

 picker plays for stakes a trained athlete 

 would shun because the latter knows that 

 sometime, under some conditions, and 

 at certain intervals, he is bound to 

 "miss." It's this realization that causes 

 thinking persons to give themselves a 

 margin of safety in their work, especially 

 when that work is handling com pickers. 



an error the result is not discernible yet 

 the same mistake, with the equipment 

 running, would mean a lost hand. The 

 difference in the methods we use in our 

 work determines the difference in the 

 margin of safety. In one case there is 

 no hazard; in the other case, doing the 

 same task, there is a high degree of 

 danger. 



WITH MEN, AND THIS IS ESPE- 

 cially true of young men, over-estimating 

 their physical prowess, we need to 

 thoughtfully weight the risk of each job 

 we attempt and determine beforehand 

 whether the benefits that would accrue 

 from doing that task the unsafe way are 

 worth the risk of spending the balance 

 of our days a cripple. Corn pickers will 

 mutilate some hands this fall ; but they 

 won't mutilate any hands not deliberately 

 placed where they can be maimed. 



About Handling Children 



(Continued from page 23) 



had about 75 quilts. Some were made 

 by her and some by Mr. Fell's mother. 

 One coverlet which they especially cher- 

 ish was one in which the capitol at 

 Washington as it was in 1846 was woven 

 into the design. 



As an example of their boy's building 

 before the airplane attack' Mr. and Mrs. 

 Fell pointed out the tree house, built, 

 rebuilt, remodeled, again and again, so 

 that even now, though he is six feet, 

 he can still stand erect. From this spot 

 now, the airplanes may be tried out, and 

 sailed over the garden. An interesting 

 feature is the walk arranged specially for 

 the dog, up and back and around the 

 house. 



"That one little building project has 

 meant a lot to the boy," said Mrs. Fell. 

 "Daddy didn't mind buying the nails. 

 He used all old lumber. Let them fol- 

 low their own line. That's what I 

 would say I have learned about handling 

 children. And, I don't intend to inter- 

 fere even with my little granddaughter." 



THESE CAREFUL FOLKS REMOVE 

 the clogged stalks just as readily but only 

 after stopping the rolls. If they make 



NEIGHBORS PLOW FOR INIURED FRIEND 



When L. Koehm of Greene county was injurecl a short time ago, hia neighbors drove 

 in with 10 troctors and plowed 60 acres of wheat ground ior him. "Oi these 10 tractors." 

 reports C. W. Ballard, manager Greene County Service Co.. "six are constant users oi 

 our products, two are occasional users and two are patrons elsewhere, but they are all 

 using Aladdin gasoline, T 40 and Radiant kerosene to dote." 



The farmers who cooperated in this neighborly act are C. Cochran. R. Strang. F. 

 Doyle, A. Scharienberg, G. Sponsler, L. Bowman, L Shackeliord. R. Owens. L. Greene 

 and L. Koehm on whose iarm the plowing was done. 



SEPTEMBER. 1938 



