Evening journal., 1919-03-26
SAFETY FIRST
Council Formed
Delaware Manufacturers
Would Reduce Number OF
Acc. dents in Industry
AFFILIATED WITH
NATIONAL BODY

At a meeting held Monday night 10
the directors room OF the dupont Com
pany. representatives from the larger
local Industries which are already mem
Ders Of the National safety Council or
ganized a Delaware Safety Council to
promote general interest in safety and
in the reduction Of accidents in the in
dustres Of the state. The concerns
which have already interested them
selves in the local movement include
the American Car and Foundry Com
pany. Bethlehem steel Company, LIB
ertv Mutual Insurance Company, Atlas
Powder Company, Hercules Powder
Company, r. /. dupont deNemours and
Company, Pusey and Jones Company,
Bell Telephone Company, Jos. Bancroft
and sons Company, Penn Seaboard Steel
Corporation, The Pyrites Company,
Tanners Products Company. American
Glycerine Company. Chas. Warner Com
pany. National Anillne and Chemical
Company and General Chemical Com
pany. When the plans OF the organi-
zation have been perfected 70 is expect
ed that all the more progressive en-
ployers In the state Will afiiliate them
selves with the new body.
The following executive officers were
elected. President, l.. A. DeBlois, safety
engineer Of the dupont Company; vice
president. NJ. B, Dalton, safety engineer
Of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Com
pany: secretary and treasurer. r. r.
Read, OF the dupont Company: chair
man Of program committee. D. 6. Hos
field, Of the Bell Telephone Company
chairman Of membership committee. s
II Kershaw. Of the Hercules Powder
Company.
These officers, who are to serve
until the annual meeting in June, were
selected largely on account OF their
long experience in accident prevention
work and their knowledge Of the or
ganlzation Of similar bodies which have
been under successful operation in IS
other communities in the country. Mr..
DeBlois is also a member Of the exc
cutive committee Of the National Safety
Council Under the auspices OF which
the Delaware Safety Council is organ
ized NJ. B. Dalton Is a safety engineer
OF mature experience. whose connec-
ton with the Liberty Mutual Insurance
Company has brought him into contact
With almost every line Of industry.
while r. T. Read was until recently the
safety engineer OF the dupont plant
built for the Government at Nashville,
Tenn, and was instrumental In intro
ducing into Nashville itself a Public
Safety Campaign which put safety on
The map in the latter city. Under the
guidance Of these men the Delaware
Safety Council expects TO adopt a pro-
gram CT activities which win aid in
making the state among the safest in
The country as regards freedom from
accidents. II this can be
~ ,compllshed, not only will much need
"css pain and suffering be prevented
.Jut a material conservation Of man.
power will result and the financial
burden Of the community will be light
ened.
The National Safety Council, with
which the Delaware Safety Council is
allliaied, has its headquarters in Chi
cago and is a cooperative. non-com-
mercial, non-political organization Of
those interested in the prevention Of
needless accidents and in the conserva-
ton Of Individual, industrial and COM
munity life. Its present membership
Is over 1000. representing over $50
varieties Of industry and the employers
Of 100000 people. It's annual income
OF about si500o0 is derived solely from
membership dues, $3.50 per cent. being
returned to them in the form Of ser
The high ideals Of the National Safety
council is best Illustrated by the fol-
owing quotation from its constitution: