The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-09-30
Recklessness as
Popular as Autos

ooSeoL, cSpl. Go.-SdTS mas become
out of fashion as. much as a bicycle,
while recklessness is as popular as
an automobile, Ida M. Tarbell of New
York told the delegates to the Ma
tional safety Council here tonight.
"I am not here to talk about the
new area of work which women A
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 women entirely outside of indus
try itself but responsive to appeals
for public service, and many of them
organized in such way as to focus
power and influence quickly on tasks
which apepal to their imaginations
and to their hearts.
"The psychological effect of the
present Indifference to safety in our
streets and on our highways can-
not be ignored by industry. The
wanton recklessness of the road dulls
the attention. and interest of the in
5dustri8i sWof l1af,; elsA a pressfnnf on
taking a chance'--cse y becomes as
out of fashion as bicycle-reck-
lessness 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 its work is constantly weakened
by wanton Indifference to the for
mer.
"The woman power of the country
must be enlisted. / do. not know a
finer job than to go after the wo-
men, particularly organized women.
ri understand the feelings Of GER
tain women that a women in industry
section is what you may call 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 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
connected with women wherever you
meet them.
at 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; OF
whether it is the big and definite
problem that / am suggesting en-
listing the women of the country, or
ganized and unorganized, in public
safety. campaign.
at is something of job, and if il
had not been for our experience with
women's organizations in the war
should not feel so hopeful about it
That experience convinced me that
the woman power of the country car
be mobilized for permanent safety
work, if this section will lead the
way.
Suppose that this section was
able to rally in each state to work ot
industrial and public safety all of thu
great women's organized associations
to persuade them to take up this worl
as a permanent interest, what pow
er we would have behind the Nationa
Safety Council! Properly put t.
them, they would rise to it like ,
fish to fly. It is their kind of hting
eff this Council is going into publi
safety work. as most certainly be
lieve it is it's duty to do, passing oil
to the public it's splendid experience
and achievement, it going to nee,
the women And t ought to be tn
business of this section to help cap
turel them for this enterprise"