unfortunately there is no such magic one by one accident and with the passage of just one average year we record an economic loss of at least nine billion one hundred million dollars nine million five hundred people anyway what were they l luck to you and your wife alone it's about your boy something should be done what do you suggest i don't know mr fortunately we don't have to start from scratch there's a good deal of experience we can draw back in the early part of the century  and the various youth groups concerned with farm safety service clubs of many educators and many many other recognition of a service to the american people mr and see what they've got to say i'm sure the school go along with what we wrote the national safety council and they came back at us with a lot of good ideas and what other youth groups are doing about safety and all these ideas we came up with a really good  talkers tackled the local publishers there were only too glad to cooperate in a big way a lot of the work was done by p t a members on the phone and with house to house door to door canvassing selling our idea of saving lives through driver education  these things began to add up especially when we put on a parade for that has been rightly said that accidents don't just happen nor does safety just happen safety must be planned for and worked for i guess we planned and worked for safety didn't start with high school there was plenty of action from all the townspeople ask anybody around here today yes that's true we did get action in a lot of ways and these youngsters showed us the way i'm superintendent of a large machine shop here in town in an industry like ours you've got a lot of reminders about the everyday importance of safety one of the things which stands out in my mind was the case of adams  was a fine fellow and he was a top notch worker one of our most valuable he was going places not shop until one day but he left the hospital but he was blind completely cyclists a man whose livelihood depended on his eyes of course he had workman's compensation that was something the but to a man like it there's no on are you doing hi charlie i just came to see you to see well that happened just about the time the high school teachers started their safety campaign they asked me to come over and talk to them about industrial safety and in selling them on the idea an idea came to me i said i grandly one of our best m the accident rate has been steadily going down taking off and locking in a switch on a machine to make sure that no one started up you're making are just getting our women workers not only to wear safety caps but to wear them correctly my son was on the committee when these youngsters organized this business is talking about safety every night got me to thinking about it reminded me of jack walsh a fellow i went to school with there was no better farmer in the whole county than jack he knew more about erosion control contour plowing and rotation on the secretary of agriculture he was a farmer's farmer except for one thing actually kind of family was the very best of the turnout than even this property there was nothing else jack he couldn't find anybody to run his farm and didn't have a son old enough to take it over as i said these youngsters work got me to think so long was some of my neighbors i organized the farm safety committee but don't get me wrong but they started as men did with us for instance yes i must say their enthusiasm reached out to the mothers and wives of our god we often hear about the lives lost in accidents and these are terrible to me but just as tragic as the heartbreak suffering families and friends  and swim and ride they had a very nice home just outside of town and two lovely children