Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-12
sAFerY FlRsT-FoR rHe orHEe MAN


 Ida Tarben, writing in the American Magazine a facnatng story of "The Golden Rule in Business dis cusses to some length the difficulties many corporations have met in interesting their employees in devices ,n tended for their protection She says of one business
 "ln numberess ways men repeatedeiy expressed their contempt for caution One of the most frequent signs of their dsproyal batterng the illuminated or col. ored safety notices and directions which were scattered through the plants have several times seen those signs printed in four or five languages badly mutlated-the work of defiant and contemptuous laborers
 "It is at this point that wellintentioned employers have often dropped their efforts to make life safer and more toierabie in their factories. Why provide shields for Duzzsaws f the workman is going to take them off soon the foreman's back is tuued2"
 Miss Tarben then goes on to tel of the campaigns of education that have often been necessary in order to make safety first effective And she adds what seems to the writer the most significant words in the whole article:
 "onen when man cannot be interested in safety as game cannot be frightened or wheedod into precau- ion he win yield to the appeal Loo, out for the other nan you might hurt him. If you have DO wife OF child to protactanother man may have'
 This means that there is a new spirit .reenuq int, our social orsanizations the spirit of cooperation of a trusm.
 There have been plenty Of tsolataI souls wao have given their lives to artr,se euI-ayor ia the history Of the world they have been few in comparison with the humanity The cardinal principle upon which society has been organized is that competition of y airy, Men have fought one another sometimes with uslness sometimes with But always they have fought
 Now there seems to be entering layeu of real eo. operation. Men really want to help each other. The libraries register constantly increasing number of books drawn on sociological and religious subjects The rei eious books read are of type which seem to indicate that men are seeking means of human betterment-n simply se.rbetement but community help. The same is true of the books on sociology and economies
 This war has made us realize, even while nation fights nation that the world is in reality one nation and the only way to prevent another dsgracefu spec tacle to make all nations conscious of their essenta. unity in humaneness.
 And begins to show most plainly in such instances as that of the quoted by Miss Tar5en who can be induced take precautions seriously only the sake of the other
 A New York newspaper has this winter been con. ductins as "saye-a-Home" campaign Funds have been collected for people evicted for nonpaymen of rent and many have been set their feet again after long employment Most of the money has come from people who never saw a dspossess notice But not alI-not all. One earning eight dollars week came in and laid the table. I without job an last summer" he said and know how it feels This may help somebody who needs it more than I'
 All this expresses the coming of new spiritual force which some day cannot but hope win control the world.