THE WAR 



CIDENTS 



'W/'HILE the leading powers of the world are 

 busily engaged in a bloody struggle for su- 

 premacy, the United States is also conducting a 

 war a humanitarian war aiming at the reduction 

 of the number of casualties yearly resulting in the 

 pursuit of industrial activities. Our enemy is Careless- 

 ness, who causes as many deaths and cripples in the 

 course of a year's wort? as the machine guns and 

 shrapnel of an army in a big battle. How to reduce 

 the danger in all lines of industry is a problem that in- 

 terests the workmen and capitalists ali^e. 





"~|\ TORE than ten thousand workers 

 IVJ. of the United States will be dead 

 in one year from to-day, merely because 

 they did not heed these simple sugges- 

 tions." This is the sort of a prophecy 

 based upon accident statistics that jars 

 the most sluggish mind; and that is the 

 intention, for it accompanies a set of 

 instructions on how to prevent accidents 

 among laborers men who are so ac- 

 customed to "taking a chance" in the 

 course of the day's work that a habit of 

 recklessness is formed. 



It was an inspiration to word the sum- 

 mary of accident reports in the future 

 tense. When the average man hears 

 that his old shop-mates, Bill and Tom 

 and Harry, were killed as a result of 

 somebody's carelessness, he will sigh, 

 "tough luck," and go right on being care- 

 less in his daily work; but when it is 

 put up to him that these good pals and 



ten thousand like them will be killed 

 within a year, he is more than likely to 

 think twice about it, and, if he .is oc- 

 casionally prodded, may even mend his 

 ways. 



One of the huge tire and rubber com- 

 panies of the world is engaging in a 

 systematic war on accidents, and among 

 its principal activities is the education of 

 the working force in habits of caution. 

 To this all-important measure is added 

 the inspection of the plant and the an- 

 alysis of current accidents, as well as 

 the installation of mechanical devices to 

 guard against trouble. In the company's 

 plant at Akron, Ohio, the idea of enlist- 

 ing the employees themselves as vol- 

 unteers in the "safety first" army is se- 

 curing the results desired. In addition 

 to the Central Safety Committee, which 

 includes a number of department heads, 

 there are nine sub-committees, each of 



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