The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-05

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Women Are Called Upon to Correct Methods Now
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BOSTON, Oct. 5.-Care has be- bicycle, while recklessness is as popular as an automobile, Ida M Tarbell of New York told the dele gates to the National Safety Coun- cil here recently.
 "I am not here to talk about the new area of work which women in the war added to that already held, Miss Tarbell said, but rather that it consider the possibility of rally ing to the work of the Council a great body of women entirely out side of industry itself but responsiv ve to appeals for public service, and man of them organized in such a way as to focus power and influence quickly on tasks which appeal to their imaginations and to their hearts.
 Present Indifferences.
 The psychological effect of the present indifference to safety in our streets and on our highways cannot be ignored by industry. The wanton recklessness of the road dulls the attention and interest of the indus trial worker, puts a premium on taking chance'-care becomes as out of fashion as a bicycle-reck- lessness as popular as an automo- bile. That is, public safety is the direct concern of Industrial Safety The latter cannot accomplish it's 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 coun- try must be enlisted l do not know finer job than to go after the women, particularly organized women.
 Women a Throw Back. Il understand the feeling of cer- tain women that women in indus try section is what you may call a throw back, that women should be taken into the safety council not as women at all, but as industrial workers, regardless of sex. We have long way to go socially, and in dustrially in this world before women will cease to be differen- tiated from men in all activities. Mother Nature will have to undo her work entirely before there will be no special problems connected with women wherever you meet them
 Tt 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 cap, or having persuaded her to wear it, to keep her bangs tucked in; or whether it is the big and definite problem that 1 am suggest ing enlisting the women of the country, organized and unorganized, in public safety campaign.
 Mobilize Women Power.
 It IS something of job, and if tt had not been for our experience with women's organization in the war l should not feel soc hopeful about it. That experience convinced me that the woman power of the country can be mobilized for per manent safety work, if this section will lead the way
 Suppose that this section was able to rally in each state to work of industrial and public safety all of the great women's organized as- sociatons, to persuade them to take up this work as a permanent in terest what a power we would have behind the National Safety Council. Properly put to them, they would rise to it like a fish to a fly. It is their kind of thing. .i
 If this Council is going into public safety work as most certainly believe it is its duty to do, passing on to the public is splendid exper- fence and achievement, it is going to need the women. And it ought to be the business of this section to help to capture them for this enter prise"