Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-29
that automaticity results, we have
really efficient process"
Care Out of Fashion
and Recklessness
Popular to Extreme

Boston, Sept. 2S-Care has become
out of fashion as much as a bicycle,
while recklessness is as popular as
an automobile, Ida NJ. Tarbell of New
York, told the delegates of the Ma
tional Safety Council here tonight.
Il 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 rallying to
the work of the Council a great body
of women entirely outside of indus
try itself but responsive to appeals
for public service, and many 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.
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 at
tention and interest of the industrial
worker, puts a premium on taking a
chance'-care becomes as out of
fashion as a observation-disclosures as
popular as an automobile. 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 country
must be enlisted. | do not know a
finer job than to go after the women,
particularly organized women.
Il understand the feeling of certain
women that Il woman in industry
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, re-
gardless 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
activities. Mother Nature will have
to undo her work entirely before
there Will be no special problems con-
nected with women wherever YOU
meet them
1t 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 a dangerous machine to wear her
cap or having persuaded her to wear
it, to keep her bangs tucked in; or
Whet Their it is the big and definite
problem that | am suggesting, enlist
ing the women of the country, organ
lied and unOrganiZed, in public
safety campaign.
1T is something of a job, and if it
had not been for our experience with
womon's organizations in the war
should not feel so hopeful about it.
That experience convinced me that
the woman power of the country can
be modified for permanent safety
work, if this section will lead the
way.
Suppose that this section was able
to rally in each state to work of in
dustrial and public safety all of the
great women's organized associa-
tons, to persuade them 10 take up
this work as a permanent interest,
what a power we would have behind
the National Safety Council. Prop
orly put to them, they would rise to
it like fish to a fly 1t is their kind
of thing.
If this Council is going into public
safety work. as l most certainly be-
Eeve it is its duty to do, passing on
to the public its splendid experience
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 enterprise"