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in(|iiire«l what had become of my former 

 friend the reply was. " He was (Iroi)ped 

 because he was color-blind." 



"Color-blind?" said I. "What do you 

 mean b}' color-blind? " 



1 could readily understand why an eii}^- 

 neer should be dismissed on account of be- 

 iiiy color-blind; but I could not see bow it 

 applied to a conductor. 



" Why, his color-blindness was like this. 

 He iiot so he could not discover anj^ differ- 

 ence between the color of his own money 

 and the money beloncine' to the company." 



Now, while we shall have to admit, ]ier- 

 ha]">s, that a e'ood many of ourOhio people 

 were color-blind a year ago in regard to 

 " home rule," for instance. I doubt if thrre 

 were many in the great throngs on tlie 

 irrounds of the Ohio State Fair this year 

 who failed to see a difference in the color 

 of the literature passed out by the Ohio 

 Temperance Ciiiou and the literature used 

 freelv in the building and all over the 

 fairgi-ound by the W. C. T. U. By the 

 way, let me I'eraark that in times i)ast the 

 W. C. T. U. has been laughed at and rid- 

 iculed; but just now, thank the Lord, they 

 are " coming into their own " here in Ohio. 

 Their presence and their good work were 

 manifest all over the fairground, inside the 

 buildings and out, in the way of resting- 

 places for women, an immense dining-hall 

 entirely under the management of the W. 

 C. T. U.. etc.; and very likely the good 

 women of Ohio inaugurated the scheme of 

 gathering up the rubbish as mentioned in 

 the foi'e part of this article. 



I am not going to tell you all I saw 

 nor even a part of what T saw in that great 

 accumulation of the best things that Ohio 

 can produce. 1 am going to confiue ray 

 remarks chiefly, at least just now, to what 

 is called the "Education Building" of the 

 State of Ohio. Near the entrance to this 

 great edifice we see " Safety First " given 

 a prominent place. In fact, "Safety First" 

 seemed to be the most prominent feature 

 in the education of our boys and girls as 

 well as men and women. Now-, what do you 

 suppose the .^tato of Ohio recognizes as of 

 the greatest importance in this matter of 

 safety fiist to conserve human life and 

 limb? Tn my Home talk in our last issue I 

 gave a list of the things that the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad Co. is doing and has been 

 doinir for years ])ast to make safety first 

 the great slogan of tlieir thousands of miles 

 of railway. Well, T thaid<ed God again and 

 again that the factories of Ohio are recog- 

 nizing' that safety first demands the entire 

 abolition and prohibition of intoxicants. 

 One of the first things that caught my eye 



was a very jiretty motto in large plain 

 letters: " ]f you would not marry a girl 

 who drinks, why should you expect a girl 

 to marry a man who drinks'?" 



]\lay be, frieiuls. you do not see what a 

 tremendous bearing safety first cuts in the 

 above. Look at that picture in the last 

 Glk.anings of the girl amid the flowers, and 

 read what is written under it. Well, there 

 is one whole department devoted to infant 

 mortality. Another motto over this reads, 

 " Nine babies die from overfeeding where 

 one dies from lack of nourishment." Over 

 another department we read, " Eighty thou- 

 sand accidents in Ohio during 1914 cost the 

 employers of factories over three millions 

 of dollars. Why not help to reduce this 

 appalling record at least a half?" On 

 another very pretty card we read: "Work- 

 men who are not careful from 5 p. m. to 7 

 e. M. will not likely be careful from 7 a. m. 

 to 5 p. M." The inference is that the man 

 who thinks he can visit saloons after work- 

 ing hours, and that it is nobody's business, 

 is just now finding out he is mistaken. 



The United States Steel Corporation had 

 a magnificent display. There was no end 

 of photographs explaining how accidents 

 hajapen that proved injurious or fatal. As 

 an illustration : 



Where workmen are working steel with 

 a cold chisel, cliiiDs of steel often get into 

 the eye. This has happened frequently in 

 our own machine-shop. Well, the manage- 

 ment now furnishes stout glass goggles with 

 placards requesting employees to use them 

 whenever the eyes are in danger, and the 

 broken spectacles are placed in plain sight, 

 sliowing where the chipping fractured the 

 glass instead of putting out an eye. I 

 remarked to the bright man in charge that 

 our institution was employing workmen, 

 and asked him how they managed to keep 

 intoxicants away from their help. His re- 

 ply was, as nearly as I can recollect, as 

 follows : 



" Mr. Root, we are just now getting 

 matei'ial to put up a stout barbed-wire 

 fence clear around our premises. Workmen 

 are to be admitted through a gate; and 

 after they are all in, the gate is locked. A 

 man cannot get out without giving a reason 

 for it until the gate is opened when the 

 v,liistle blows. ]f saloons are planted in the 

 immediate vicinity of our premises we will 

 establi.'^h a watch; and when any one of our 

 woikmen goes into one of these saloons he 

 is pi-omptly dismissed." 



You see a saloon would l)e unlikelj' to 

 locate in such a jilace if they knew of the 

 regulations beforehand; and if they did 

 have the audacitv to locate thus the mana- 



