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AMID TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS SMALL BAND FOUND IT NECESSARY TD PLAN FDR SAFETY E PILGRIMS HAD SAFETY PROGRAM TOO problem, and it was often the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. Now in this 20th Century when we are supposed to have all the modern conven iences, as well as the necessary laws to protect us, it has really become the SURVIVAL OF THE SAFEST. There is no doubt but that we of the 20th Century have inherited a good bit of our fore fathers’ attitude about safety. The safety record at the Cellophane as well as at the Paper Division, proves that every individual is deeply interested in the practice of self-preservation ... that our interest in the prevention of personal injuries is sincere . . . that we realize that the person who gets hurt is always the greatest loser . . . and that no person or persons can do more toward the elimination of suffering and loss of wages, than we as individuals can do through the following of safe practices. It is this interest and desire on the part of every person on the payroll of the two Divisions, that will eventually eliminate a great majority of the injuries now being experienced, and thereby eliminate the suffering and loss of earning power that goes hand in hand with acci dents the world over. There is no doubt but that safety training should begin in the home, and for this reasoning, let’s see what one speaker said at the National Safety Congress in Chicago just last month. "I want the day to come—and come soon— when the average housewife wiU try as hard to make her home safe, as she does to play a good game of bridge or bake a good batch of biscuits ... I want her to be as proud of a no-accident record to her family around the house, as she is of her new permanent ... I want the day to come when the average mother will think it is just as important for her son or daughter to have driver training in high school, as to take history or math ematics or domestic science . . . when a son or daughter reflects family training just as much be hind the wheel of a car as at the dinner table . . . when it will be regarded as smart instead of slightly sissy, to drive a car sensibly and courteous ly ... . when the parents’ own behavior in traffic and abound the house is the greatest possible safe ty lesson for their children”. Thanksgiving time has always been meeting time . . . A time for getting together. That’s what Thanksgiving means as much as anything else. A time for getting together and sharing good mem ories and good eats and good wishes. Some peo ple spend so much time enjoying their worries and not enjoying their work, that they never al low themselves the chance to be glad and thank ful for the many good things that have come their way. Any time you find yourself enjoying Thanks giving with others, let it remind you that life is much better in the glad hours than when you are down in the "dumps”, so to speak. Let it remind you that life is worth trying hard to keep safe . . . and worth sharing its safety with others And incidentally, the "phooey on life’* habit of thought, makes any person a perfect set-up for an accident—which surely is something that none of us will ever be thankful for. Let us never forget the fact that SAFETY, like FREEDOM, IS and ALWAYS WILL BE EV ERYBODY’S BUSINESS. 13
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