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work of this association. The question is, how to 
interest them; many of them are not here. Are we 
not up against a veritable mountain with sides per- 
pendicular? And yet, we have agreed to do it. I 
know of no way to do it alone, or to do it quickly; 
but I believe with patience and combined effort we 
may increase our membership far beyond our ex- 
pectation. 
Let us have the personal help of every member of 
the association within a reasonable distance from the 
place of the next Convention. Then, by whatever 
plan that may appeal to you, have ten or fifteen, or 
as many as you choose, of your best thinkers and 
writers each to write a personal letter as to a 
friend, giving a graphic account of the proceedings 
of the Convention. Have these letters all printed 
on one sheet and mail one of these sheets to each 
person whom you hope to interest. Then shortly 
before the next Convention repeat the operation with 
similar letters, foretelling the good things expected, 
and containing an earnest solicitation to attend the 
meeting. Follow this up for a few years and 
watch results. 
The topics considered by Mr. Schell were 
afterward discussed at length. 
Volney Rogers, who was present as a 
trustee of Tod Cemetery and also as Com- 
missioner of Mill Creek Park, gave an in- 
teresting account of how Mill Creek Park 
was secured for Youngstown and how it 
was preserved. His address is printed in 
full on another page in this issue. 
A question box brought out many prob- 
lems that vex cemetery superintendents in 
regard to mowing machines, the eradication 
of weeds, the sale of lots in new ceme- 
teries, and the problems of landscape ef- 
fects, sewers, drainage, etc. 
The committees named by the president 
were as follows; Auditing, George Whit- 
aker, of Youngstown, W. M. Brown, of 
Columbus, and E. C. Logan, of Xenia ; 
resolutions, J. A. Reed, Charles Kovus 
and Karl Kern : location, Charles Crane, 
Luther Kliue and Judson Brenner. 
The next morning the visitors were tak- 
en on an automobile tour of the Mahoning 
Valley and given a comprehensive idea of 
its industries. The automobile trip was 
about 60 miles long, and the itinerary in- 
cluded all the cemeteries in this section, a 
number of parks, and the most important 
points between Girard and Struthers. 
At noon a complimentary dinner was 
served to the delegates at the Youngstown 
Country Club by the Youngstown ceme- 
teries. Business before the convention in 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
the afternoon included reports of commit- 
tees and election and installation of offi- 
cers. Three addresses are on the after- 
noon's program, the first by E. D. Siddell, 
of Wooster, on the topic, “My Experience 
as a Cemetery Superintendent” ; the sec- 
ond by W. M. Ohlweiler, of St. Louis, 
Mo., general manager of the Shaw Botan- 
ical Gardens, on “Floral Display Without 
Rain” ; and the third, by F. J. Warnock, 
of Youngstown, claim agent for the street 
railway system, on “Safety First,” illus- 
trated by motion picture slides. He said in 
part : 
The Modern Safety Movement. 
By F. I. Warnock. 
It has been conservatively estimated that at least 
75% of all accidents are preventable. What does 
this mean? It means that 75 out of every 100 of 
the thousands that are being killed annually in the 
various forms of accidents in our land should be 
living and well and contributing their share to the 
burden to be carriedi and that they would be if it 
were not for carelessness; it means that 75 out 
of every 100 of the thousands of widows, annually 
made so by accidents should have their husbands 
continuing with them through life as their protec- 
tion and support and would have them if it were 
not for carelessness; that 7o out of every 100 of the 
thousands of orphan families, anually made des- 
titute by accidents, many of them thrown upon the 
charity of their friends or the State, ought to 
have their parents to provide, protect and care for 
them, and would have them if it were not for care- 
lessness; it means that 75 out of every ICO of that 
vast army of cripples in our land, many of w^hom 
you have seen, some of whom we see daily, stumping 
through life on wooden legs, and swinging along 
with empty sleeves, hampered in their efforts to 
gain a livelihood and hindered in the pursuit of 
happiness, ought to have all the members which 
God has given them for use in helping themselves 
and others, and would have them if it ■were not 
for carelessness. These statements are as startling 
as they are true and lead to the conclusion that 
carelessness is a crime that should be eliminated 
from among us. 
Investigation to determine why the installation 
of labor-saving devices and work among employees 
by railroads and industrial plants had not very 
materially reduced the sum total of accidents, 
showed that a vast number of them occur to a 
class of people belonging to the general public and 
not reached by any private campaign for safety. 
It was found that 72% of the fatalities charged 
against railroads in one year were neither pas 
•sengers nor employees but outsiders, persons belong- 
ing to the public; that thousands of accidents were 
and are caused by the automobile that has sprung 
into general use during the last decade: that there 
were swimming accidents, boating accidents, cases 
of asphyxiating by gas, and many other forms of 
accidents, to i>ersons who can only !)e reached by 
a campaign of public safety to enlighten those whoj 
are ignorant of danger and to impress upon those* 
iwho are indifferent, the necessity of constant watch-* 
fulness and care. ■ 
Thus it is, ttiat all over oui’ country safety cam- 
paigns have been begun and are being waged, by 
public as well as private persons, by lectures, 
by moving pictures and lantern slides, showing how 
accidents occur, by glaring posters, by signs along 
the highways, by pamphlets, by the daily poress and 
by every other means, in the hope that the great 
public may be aroused to realize and avoid danger. . 
The question then arises as to what is being ac- 
complished by it, and the answer is, “A great 
amount of good.” The safety movement is only in 
its early infancy, having been in progress not more 
than a half dozen years, but it has already been 
fruitful of great results. If continued and supported i 
by all good people, there is no limit to its far- ^ 
reaching possibilities. 
Before the matter of safety became popularized, 
one would see in the mills all sorts of dangerous ||li 
machinery unguarded. Now you can traverse them J 
from one end to the other and see no cog wheels * 
nor chains nor fly wheels that are not guarded so ^ 
that it is hardly possible to be caught in revolv- 
ing machinery now. Employees in such places and 
upon the railroads are taking it up and are 
making safety first a rule of conduct and life. 
Then along with safety has come better conditions , 
along other linds. In the industries where formerly 
little or no attention was paid to sanitary condi- 
tions, great things have been done in the interest of 
cleanliness and to prevent the spread of infection. 
Welfare work is being done and physicians are on 
duty in many places to examine and care for em- 
ployees, as well as inspectors to see that machinery 
Is kept in good condition. In short, the safety 
movement has brought us to a point where some 
attention is paid to the most wonderful machine 
in existence — the human body — as well as those 
that are made of wood and iron. 
The first evening the women delegates 
were taken to the Poland Country Club and 
were entertained with vocal selections by 
Mrs. Austin Gillen and Miss Albertha 
Brenner. Miss Hylda Nullmeyer gave 
several readings which were much enjoyed. 
Luncheon was served under the direction 
of Chef Archie Thomas. In the evening 
a theater party was formed and the visi- 
tors witnessed the production of “Hia- 
watha” at Mill Creek Park. 
The men were taken through the Re- ■ 
public Iron & Steel Co.’s works, and the 
trip was a revelation to most of them, 4 
many of whom had never seen a steel plant ¥ 
in operation before. :* 
All of the vistors expressed praise of J 
the liberal entertainment features provided 1 
and voted Youngstown cemetery people 
most royal hosts. jS 
GLIMPSES OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS 
i 
The Rocky Mountain National Park is 
in Colorado, about seventy miles by road 
or rail northwest of Denver. Find Longs 
Peak on a good map and you will have the 
center of the 360 square miles of snow- 
topped mountains which constitute the 
park. 
These mountains are part of the Conti- 
nental Divide, which is the name given to 
the irregular line of highest land running 
north and south through North America 
which divides the waters flowing east- 
ward into the Atlantic ocean from those 
flowing westward into the Pacific. For 
III. — The Rocky Mountain National Park. 
this reason the people of Colorado call 
their mountains the top of the world. They 
are scarcely that, for the Himalaya moun- 
tains in Asia and the Andes in South 
America are, among others, much higher ; 
but. for the LTnited States this picturesque 
figure of speech is sufficiently near the 
truth. 
This national park is certainly very high 
up in the air. The summer visitors who 
live at the base of the great mountains, 
principally at the beautiful eastern gate- 
way, a little valley town of many hotels, 
which is called Estes Park, are 8.000 feet, 
or more than a mile and a half, above the 
level of the sea ; while the mountains rise 
precipitously nearly a mile, and sometimes 
more than a mile, higher still. Longs 
Peak, the biggest of them all, rises 14,255 
feet above sea level, and most of the 
other mountains in the snowy range, as it t; 
is sometimes called, are more than 12,000 
feet high ; several are nearly as high as . 
Longs Peak. ' A 
The valleys on both sides of this range B 
and those which penetrate into its recesses - 
are dotted with lovely park-like glades ’ 
clothed in a profusion of glowing wild 
