Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-20

getting 1t pounded into you with A | lot of reasons on the side. like we get in these meetings, that makes it stick. And when you know that the bosses want it and are going to in. sist upon it-thats big help, too. Fact is. the way things are ROW its sure shct that fellow will get the can if he takes chances. And there is a big point in that, not because of los ing job. which don't bother none of us very much. for it's all in a life time. but to get the can for taking a chance that We oughtnt to. is an. | other matter. That means that we have been just plumb darn fools. and | it's hitched to us, besides that we are dangerous to work with and will take chance on putting some other fel- low, or half a dozen or more of them on the blink for the balance of life with a bum leg. or arm, or crippled body, if they don't get killed. And that isn't saying anything about the worst feature of it. which Is the mother or the wife and half a dog. en children who are made to suffer and keep on suffering. No man wants discharge of that kind. We've all got enough troubles without packing around a sore conscience about putt ing Bill and Bills family on the blink. Ain't that so?"
 The points brought to bear by Captain Hodgson and Supervisor of Safety First McKeehan along ihe above and still broader lines in the meetings were extensive. Summed up, they made it plain that the en. deavor was for self protection for everybody and cooperation uc that end by everybody. men ana compsn- ies alike. and that cooperation was necessary to get the results. They made it plain that the hospitals could be knocked out of most of their work | if everybody would get together un- der Safety First to put them out of business. They also made 1t plain that the spirit of cooperation in self protection had already accomplished la great deal and that the hospitals and the undertakers were the cnly losers. Also it was made plain that there was no encouragement that was net going to be given to help this spirit keep on increasing. ana every thing going to be done to keep it from | lessening.
 There were a great many things brought out clearly as to how to pre- vent accidents. The men mostly | knew these, but they had never had them brought to their attention in a mass gathering nor inp,--aed as strongly as they were in the meet ! ings of Friday and Saturday night with illustrations in pictures and through the relation of personal ex. | periences. Their faults in chance taking and their results were put be- | fore them in the kind of way that sticks and brings about turning over Of new leaves. They saw that while they meant no harm in taking a chance, awful results, which they had no right to risk, might fellow any single chance taking. They was also brought out in the pictures the cer' tainty that the Safety First depart
 ment is leaving no stone unturned and is getting all the financial aid 1t asks for to make the mechanical end safe and to provide equipment for aid under any and all emergen
 cies, whether they be brought by l tl. fak a chance, or through unavoidable cir cumstances.
 Notable features in connection with
 the meetings as commented upon
 about the streets were the addresses
 Of Drs. Shine and Bridge, parucularly
 in their first aid respects. The doc
 tors bore in upon their hearers the
 need of carefulness in the handling
 Of injured persons and why every
 man should give thought and time tc
 first aid study, for assistance of him
 self, his family and his fellows. They
 explained that many man had re
 mained in the hospital or cu duty
 months where lt should have been s
 matter of days or weeks simply be
 cause some man in helping take care
 of the injured one before the arriva of medical attention or while taking him to the latter, had permitted him self to touch an open wound witt dirty hands, bringing about poison ous infection. The lesson of cieaninl the hands and using clean cloths wal forcibly born in. Even a more com mon danger and from which theri was more frequent injury done, | was pointed out, was in the carrying or handling of injured persons. Fo instance. 1t had come under the oh seryaticn of the doctors on many oc casions that men with a simple frae ture of bone as the result of tn real accident. had come ont of th mine workings with compound fra6 lures. lt was illustrated how easy
 was, through just the slightest care lessness in handling man before h
 came under medical treatment. [
 make a compound fracture of siU