The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-18
Wine Bosses and Operators
 F0in in "FiYsf-Aid" Etfo1ts
Over One Thousand Men Attend Lectures at East Lake Enjoy Barbecue-Dr Shields, Dr. Cunningham State Mine Inspector Flynn and MT. Coxe
 Among Principal Speakers.

looked on the book, and there was on the ZIst two pounds of butter, 60 cents; the 3th, ditto, 60 cents; the 18th, ditto. 60 cents. He said: Mary Ann, what Is ditto? Did you cook them? am sure I no eat en-, and she said, T don't know what ditto Is, We'll he says, T am going to see that bloody storekeeper who put ditto on my book So he went to the store and said: John. what in the hell Is ditto you put on my books? Mary Ann says she did not cook 'em, and swear to goodness I didn't eat 'em.' John said: Why, David. two pounds of butter on the 2lst, 60 cents, and on the 18th, in- stead of writing butter I put ditto, which means just the same He was satisfied and closed up the book and felt a little cheap, and went home and threw the DOCK In the cupboard and sat down and never made any explanation to Marv Ann. and finally she said David, did you go to the storeP Yes Then what did he say was ditto? I am a damn fool and you are ditto QIaughter).
 Now, just foreword to my brother physicians. In this first-aid movement and the training of men for taking care or injured men in the mines, you know the miner is on the firing line; he Is right at the front of the battle; he is right there when the man gets injured Now these nrst-a1d to the injured men are to act as trained nurses would to the phv-
 
 surgeon cleaner wound to treat if they are at all competent they will give the doctor stronger patient and doe tors all like to make quick recoyeries They don't like to have long recovering cases unless the patient Is a millionaire They like to have lots of cases, but they like to make quick recoveries Don't ln- uerstand me to mean that we are going to give these men just a smatterine of knowledge. because those men who have a smattering of anything are worse than II they were entirely ignorant As I will state in my paper further on, there is no use in starting this movement unless you are going to keep it up and make com petent men.
 What Is meant by the Ffrst-Aid Movement% It is an effort to train per- sons to intelligently assist those who have been injured in order that, if possible. the injury may be prevented from pro- 1 ducing fatal results. or from producing 1 permanent deformity due to improper i handling prior to the time when a sur l geon or physician can take charge of | the case
 Although the movement Is one that should be generally taken ID in indus trial works and even in the public schools, 1t Is particularly applicable to the con- ditions about the mines where the sur rounding ore of necessity dirty. the clothes and hands of the miners and other workmen are necessarily soiled. Moreover. owing to the remoteness of the working place from the surface, a considerable longer period must elapse between the time of an accident and the arrival of a physician than in the case in an industrial establishment slt- uated in town or city Again, difficult ties in transporting a person under ground are much greater than they are on the surface; hence no matter how careful his fellow-workmen may be. unless they na jury may be greatly aggravated through unskillful handling
 History of Movement.
 "The idea of flrst-aid-to-the-injured had it's inception in Europe, about 1880, by the organization in England of the St. Johns Ambulance association the Ss- marlter-Verein in Germany and E1rst-Aid Corps In France, Belgium and Austria as an outgrowth of the International Red Cross society. The St. Johns Ambulance association of England Is an organization that extends throughout the United King dom, having branches or minor associa- tions in every industry. including mining. railroads, iron works, foundries and amongst all the civil government em- ployes. It was these men, taken green from the workshop. mine and railway and sent to South Africa in 1900 during the Boer war, who won honor and renown in the hospital corps and had special mem tion in the surgeon-generals report.
 The Samarter-Verein of Germany re. ceived worldwide praise for their heroic aid in the great mine disaster at Cour- rieres, France, in 1906 and the corps was photographed and labeled by a leading periodical at the time as Peaceful In- vason of France by Germany
 "First-aid in military operations in the last decade has become as much a neces- sty as the commisriat winning its first victory in the Franco Prussian war in 1S70 and adding to its laurels by the mar yelous results attained in the Turko-Rus- sian war in 1S7S China-Japanese in 1895, Spanish-American in 1898, Boer- British In 1900, and the most brilliant of all the Russo-Jap of 1905. where not four out of 1000 wounded Japanese had blood poison after being injured. due to the most per feet irst-aid ambulance corps that the world has ever seen.
 'First-aid in America did not reach us until 1897, when some of the railroads put few first-aid supplies on their trains and gave certain of their employees books of instructions. First-aid- to- the e-injured societies were also started in several of our larger cities about this time. Canada organized branches of the St. Johns Ann bulance association. With the assistance - ----~~~----->------------