Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-08-26

OPTED the golden rule, all man-mads
laws will require honest and adequate
administration.
SecOnd-Safety Education Of OuI
Employees
"There is an old saying which
think is applicable here, "A stitch N
time saves nine" The time for TIC
claim department to save money is b.
fore the accident occurs; it will SURF
lly cost you something after the ac-
Gdent occurs. 1t doesn't just happen
so that some men get by without ha'-
ing accidents, while others are CO. :
tinuousy having one kind of an ac-
cident or another. There is rs.,~3.
or cause for this, and the reason
cause can most often be found i'll the
way the men do their work. No good
faithful employe purpOsely wants to
have an accident. 1t is claimed by
safety experts that 80 per cent OF all
accidents are avoidable, and that "
per cent of accidents ar dEc to man
failure. l say that more than 81 pc
cent of all accidents are due co cais-
lessness and ignorance.
You can make a perfect machine,
but the human mind will never De
perfect. Therefore, much depends
on the education and training that the
human mind receives.
/ MANY road crossing incidents can
he prevented by the engineer using
more care in approaching the cross
and sounding his alarm whistle as his
engine approaches the crossing; by
nrevailing on the officials to- make
changes that will give a better view
as the crossing is approached Wnen
YOU get interested there are many III,
expensive things that can and should
be done to lessen grade crossing accl-
dents. This all comes along with
safety education. / attended one OF
our safety meetings soon after
went with the Chattanooga Railway
and Light company. At this meet
ino the question of motormen sound
mo Oonps for cross streets came up.
II developed that some of our cars
had no gong pins, others had crack-
cd gongs and some that had gongs
and pins couldn't be sounded. Cohiu
you beat it! s,,h;act
for several meetings, with the resuit
we got the gongs on all cars ~ koou
shane and taught the men 70 rsng
hem. We tell them they can Iing
them too little, but never TOO nuea1'
Lone IL tie things dlfllied sa.'se = II. {. :
men is to ring the gong; smut OH ~
cross streets and keep head up eyes
omen and to the front.
"Safety education is new tnougnt'
or I might more correctly say, an o,a
tbonoht newly developed. No doubt
some of YOU by this time are saylns
~ ourselves "WeH what has CLAIM
aoent got to do with safety educa-
tion?" Listen, gentlemen. A rev
vaars apo-nine years, to be exact
NJ Ralph Richard, general Claims
counsel for the C. & N. w. railroad.
IN his official capacity had learned Oh
so many accidents, deaths, anu h,'
much unnecessary sunerhg VI fnt,
manity. all due to lack ol san nf
education, he conceived the luea ~
starting an organization having IL aol
~ object or purpose safety. eduGao
+;on & and accident prevention ne
succeeded in getting thirty-sN ON, ON,
ers tn ioin him and the thlrty-sevel,
80, started what has developed llCo
% .tha rational safety council. At tne
onnual meeting last year IN Cleve-
Iand O., thew reported a mem6ership
l"1, ns ,,ore than 4.O0O, and not nave
y, so,,an,hersbip of 1900, and Mr.. Kicn-
ards was again honored by belng
aiactod president of the Nationai oaI-
etw cou,'cu. This great work was OF
ipinated and started by claim ma az t;cs
Again, | say, listen to me-sIaVio mSsIa ion,r ners
for 1919 show $4,000 people GA Ga
k;lled in industrial accidents GU o
hv side. thirty miles OF graves or Svop
Ny nnoment nom to think this over over,
H;natv ner cent or $4,000 OF tnese
i;uas could and should be saved
HYon don't have to be claim agenv
- Ia safety first man, but every
claim agent should be a sa1e'y hi''
worker. a,,oo+;on of the
public. huoador field in
...L;ah to work than that OF educatllS
the employe, and, as ! see II, tne s;t;as MHts
- '' still in it's infancy. Some CUES ;s.
70 low teaching safety work IN tnelt
are aasonls % St. Louis being the hrsI
citv to make it part OF the stnUt. taVt.
curriculum. @ There is now teH. ~
hook M on safety work, approved by Sa Inc
Natl National Safety council, which is pc pc
mo used in the schools some c'ti1o the
rms n,,t % on safety campaigns with tne '
idaa p% Of educating the public IN safety sfets,
iJe thnnoht While the National oale;S
on,,ueiI onuue w. was in session last year IN !,
Ciaveland. O., the citizens ana cry
oaicials designated that week a. o,sotsd sahe
tv week, and the newspapers uea0,i .orL
Column after column to the ston- Woln,
0me thing that attracted my at.en, s
t;on was their bulletin board, locaUeu ,o,.
ON So the most prominent street corner co ne
and / didn't miss a day-the nre ,'Or ue-
nartment made run to TINS cIr,ei 9'
in the city. At IL o'clock each ay,,,d uay,d
bringing young lady who wou,H aa
climb the ladder (did you get tnat ~ -
TO the bulletin board and post Sne @
number of deaths by accident ior
the preceding twenty-four hours
Comparative Record
This board also carried a compara-
tive statement of the corresponding
week of the previous year, when