Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-10-18
PLAN TO CUT DOWN
APPALLING LOSS
OF HUMAN LIFE
League Of Public Safety Rec
onmendS Committees on
Safety Fraternal Insurance
Bill to Mean Billions,

tspecinl CORRESPONDENCE TO Morning JournalI l
Chicago, oct. 16.-"Committee on
Safety" with members selected from
among the workmen, foremen and
! superintendent of factories, rail-
ways and mines, are recommended by
: the League Of Public safety as effec-
tive means for reducing the appalling
/ loss of life and injury which has been
increasing in the United states at Il
/ rate greater than the increase Of
products and traffic. This plan has
been tried with marked success in at
| least one big industrial plant. one
| after another men felt the RESPONSE
| bility upon them 10 make conditions
safer and 10 devise safer methods.
| Carelessness and recklesSness became
| moderated among the men them
| selves. The problem of checking the
annual increase Of needless deaths
and injuries has compelled more at
tentions then has been given to it.
Accident insurance companies, claim
agents of railways, and others are
realizing a financial as well as hui
| manitarian need. An Insurance com
pany of New York has prepared a
book on ''rhe Prevention of Indus
trial Accidents" Of which 10000
copies have been distributed as
handbook Of safety. In this the state
ment is made. IT should be borne
in mind that ne precautions for pre-
venting industrial accidents are far
and away more complete in Germany
than in the United states. Under the
administration of the Workmen's
Compensation laws. the invention and
use of satety devices has consequently
become very general The United
states not having pr crossed SO far,
il is piobable that more than 57.95
per cent Of the accidents that occur
are preventable." Frederick L. lIoff-
men. writing on industrial Acct
dents" in the bulletin of the United
states bureau Of labor Of 1908, says;
las stated the outset, upon a CON
aervative estimate the total m01tal-
ityy from accidents in the Unied
states among adult male wage-earn-
els IS between 10000 and $1,000, of
which it should ne be impossible to
save at least one-third and perhaps
ene-half by intelligent ana rational
methods Of factory inspection, iegis-
iation and control
Importance 6Sprlssca iiy tiillioas
Of dollars s. attached TO the f0tcInal
Insurance bill, which win come M
"a state legislatures eGat and west
This wintel by Chairmpn Reau t.
Folk Of Tennessee Of the fIaternal
committee G.. the National Insurance
Commissioners convention, according
t. statement made by him The
support Of the bill by the National
fraternal congress end Associated
fraternties which viii be planned ia
Chicago, October -. promises enact
ment Of the bill "WhCn this bill is
read into the statutes of The various
states, ac | feel sure II viii be-. it Will
be the elimination of years Cf effort
toward placing the fratcrnal insur-
ance system of America upon sound
basis, which win be 2 guarantee Of its
perpetuity," said Commissioner Folk
We have on the statute books of this
state of Tennessee one OF the best
codes Of fraternal Insurance laws O.
any stote Il represented ut the time
it was adopted six years ago, n dis
tinct advance step. But The time h2
come for another adYgnce sten, ana
such step is embodied in the bill
just adopted by the insurance COM
misioners convention, and recon-
mended fer enactment to- the various
legislatures. Its chief merit oyci the
old Tennessee law lies in the fact that
IL recognizes the sound principle of /
valuation and provides for it,"
What happened to Agar" is TO be ]
the skeleton at the fcasts of the |
American Meat Fackers association |
in Chioago next week for James S. |
Agar. formerly was president OF thc !
association and the Agar Packing /
was one cf the small CON
Germs which, du ing the year sud
denly have gone out of business.
Agars business went into receiver
ship. wgs sold end rumor has said
Armour got it," Benevolent assim
iation? GI displeasure cf the pow
ers2 The small packers, those which
are as independent" as any in the
association aie said to feel shy about
sitting down az the association fcs-
uvities. much as the lamb felt at the
picnic when the tiger Wes host. How
ever, il is said zoo will be present.
the meeting is to be a demonstration
ofthc innocence of indicted Officials
OF the big packers. Economies end
the public have gained the ear of
those captains q industry The pro-
gram SHOVE thai ne~ thoughts are
10 be expected from the speak, rs cs-
pecially on the increased cost of liv-
ing. new methods Of Refrigeration.
packing house construction ANA The
senergl improvement a. TIE packing
business. The hanquets which rou-
-iude these annual conNcnt ns have
become picturesque events al which
he rcast pig is borne in rium-
5hantly by lackcys as in the days Of
shivalry. Last year j. ogden Ar
mour officiated AS nominal host. and
interest eenters this year cn who
1ss the turn os dispenser OF good .
'ood and cheor Co.. the small packers
IF the Arar class.
The contrast o. the beauties ef the
Chicago Worlds falr which clo1cd in .
october. seventeen years ago. with ]