Imperial Valley press., 1921-09-28
IDA TARbELL
ADDRESSES
\ A I | D n A [
SAFETY MEET
Says That Care Is as Much
Out of Fashion as a BIZ
cycle and Recklessness Is
Popular.
(By Associated Pressl

BOSTON, Sept. 2S-Care has be-
come out of fashion as much as a BIZ
cycle, while recklessness is as popular
as an automobile, Ida M. Tarbell of
New York told the delegates to the
National Safety Cyuncil here tonight
81 am not here to talk about the
new area of work which women in
the war added to that already held"
Miss Tarbell said ",bue rather that
1T consider the possibility of rallying
to the work of the Council great
body of women entirely outside of
industry itself but responsive to ap-
peals for public service, and many of
them organized in such way as to
focus power and influence quickly on
tasks which appeal to their magma
tiors and to their hearts.
"The psychological effect of the pre-
sent indifference to safety in our
streets and on our highways cannot
be ignored by industry. The wanton
recklessness of the road dulls the at
tention and interest of the industrial
worker, puts premium on taking
a chance'-care becomes as out of
fashion as bicycle and recklessness
as popular as an automobile. That is,
public safety is the direct concern of
Industrial Safety. The latter cannot
accomplish its ends as long as The
mental attitude it needs for it's work
is constantly weakened by wanton
indifference to the former.
THE woman power of the country
must be enlisted. | do not know a
finer job than to go after the women,
particularly organized women.
81 understand the feeling of certain
women that woman in industry zee.
ton is what you may call a throw
back, that women should be taken in
to the safety council not as women at
all, but as industrial workers, regard
less of sex. We have a long way to
go socially, and industrially in this
world before women will cease to be
differentiated from men in all acti-
vities. Mothee Nature will have to
undo her work entirely before there
will be no special problems connected
with women wherever you meet them.
ut is the business of this section
to handle whatever there is special in
the problem, whether it is the best
method of getting the obstinate girl
at dangerous machine to wear her
cap, or having persuaded her to wear
1T, to keep her bangs tucked in: or
whether it is the big and definite pro
blem that | am suggesting, enlisting
the women of the country, organized
and unorganized, in public safety
campaign.
1T is something of job. and if it
had not been for our experience wit,
,women's organizations in the war |
should not feel hopeful about it. That
experience convinced me that the wo-
man power of the country can be mo-
bllized for permanent safety work, if
this section will lead the way.
Suppose that this sectios was able
to rally in each state to work of in
dustrial and public safety all of the
IIereat women's organized associations
to persuade them to take up this work
as permanent interest. what power
1--WE would have behind the National
eSafety Council! Properly put to them
they would rise to it like fish to q
fly. 1t is their kind of thing.
|, "lf this Council is going into pub.
llic safety work, as most certainly be-
lleve it is its duty to do. passing {.
to the nublic its splendid experience
And achievement. it is going to neeo
the women. And it ought to be the
business of this section to helm tc
capture them for this enterprise"