NOVEMBER 4. 1943.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
Bv DON ROBINSON
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HOME dangerous
There is no place like home for an
accident.
1 don't know where the expression
safe a! home" came from, but the
figures compiled each year on causes
of accidental deaths indicate that a
home is about as safe a place to be
as the middle of a railroad track.
In 1942, for instance, of 93,000 people
who were killed accidentally. 30,00(i
died from home accidents-?accidents
such as falls, burns, explosions.
fires, and shooting guns which
weren't supposed to be loaded
There are a number of other surprising
facts which are disclosed in
the statistics on accidents. If most of
us were asked to name the most dangerous
occupation, we would be apt
to pick such things as heavy industries
or railroading?but few would
ever think of what is actually the
greatest occupational cause of death
?namely, farming. The figures show
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4.400 occurred on farms, while manufacturing.
which employs, almost
twice as many people, accounted for
only 3.100 accidental deaths.
This figures indicate however, that
if you are a farmer, you are safer
at work in the home or in your car
or truck. Next to home accidents, the
major cause of accidental death is
motor vehicle accidents?which accounted
for 23.200 deaths in 1942.
Evon with the terrific battles now
going on in Europe, it is unlikely
that as many Americans will die on
the battlefrynt in 1943 as will succumb
hi accidents in the U. S. A.
TRAVEL automobiles
Recent, train wrecks and airplane
crashes have made a lot of people
jittery about using either of these
means of transportation, hut even
with the wartime limitations on automobile
traffic you are a lot safer
en a train or in a plane than you arc
driving your own automobile.
The National Safety Council analyzed
transportation deaths in 1942
by (he number of miles covered by
each vehicle arid found for every
100 million miles of automobile travel
10.5 people were killed' and for
every 100 million miles traveled by
railroad only 0.18 people were killed.
ll is evident from these figures
that railroads continue to b by far
the safest means of travel. And when
non-fatal accidents are taken into
consideration, the ratio of safety for
railroads and airplanes is greatly increased
and the danger of the automobile
is multiplied many times.
No exact figures are available on
airplane >ravel but. according So the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
the non-fatal injuries for railroad
accidents totaled 47,7(12 (which included
many grade crossing accidents)
while the number hurt, hut
not killed by automobiles was well
ever a million.
Automobile accidents. because
each involves only a few people, seldom
make big newspaper headlines,
hut when all the minor accidents are
gathered together the total damage
is tremendous.
CAUSES * *. - . speed
There isn't much anyone can do
about the accidents which occurred
in 1942. The post.-morten figures
are of little use unless they can be
used to prevent a repetition of this
tragic story of sudden death, of injury
and of huge financial loss.
Although over a period of years
effective steps have been taken to
cut down accidents in industrial
plants, in construction work and even
on farms?the toll from automobiles
continues to be difficult to curb
because it requires the cooperation of
so many millions of individuals.
But a review of the major causes
of automobile accidents should be of
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For IS42 the figures show, despit
thy wartime 85-miie speed limit,
speed violation was a contriuuiin
factor in throe ot every ton lata
accidents: I? per cent of accident
wore caused by improper puss in;
and driving on the wrong side oi th
road; one of each nine drivers invol
ved in fatal accidents had been slrin
king: 11 per cent of all fatal acci
dents involved either a driver or
pedestrian who had a bodily defc:
(bad eyesight, hearing etc.): a det
ectiye vehicle was involved in S pe
cent of fatal accidents; in about 2
per cent of the accidents the driver'
vision was obscured; over half of th
pedestrians killed were hit aitc
dark: 25 per cent of alt accidents oe
correct in bad weather.
If every driver ar.d pedestriai
would give serious thought to thes
accident causes many would enjo;
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a medium-sized baking powder bis
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is visiting her mother and brothers! v *
of Bristol, Tern., and also her bvo- j ^
(her. Lee Greene, who is in the ar-| Dig shiputf
my and is in for a few days furlough.! ? .
Mr. Oclell Cooke who is working j ^Oats SI1C
in Suffolk, Va., spent the last week ! Pants iVler
with his parents, Mr and Mrs. 1. G.j
Cooke of Vilas cinditioned
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hollar received
their first letter from their son. Mr. V' f? Kavt
Clay Hollar of Vilas. N. C.. who has , ..
been overseas for three months. . good Cjuail
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daughter Betty of Baltimore, Md.. vJTllGl en S
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rents. Mrs. I. G. Cooke and Mrs j i w
Cocke of Vilas Short Spor
Mr. AH Davis from Poi-tsmouth. i
Va, spent the past week with hist 1" rices a
family at Sluills Mills, N. C. j
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families who hear the hrunt of war.
J your help.
gencies on the home front have, among fflf?4*' U S O
. tasks, those of keeping up moraie and
!own divorce, desertion, broken homes i_-3w 1 [
neglect. Overtaxed hospital facilities
sinforcod by community home nursing '
The stabilizing influence of essential
al services is more important than ever.
jr task is clear. We must make freedom gt \g
t a living thing...here in America. And
: that will challenge your generosity as J, '.'nT^iwKfV
ire. Your local united campaign, in co- J
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-front; maintaining the morale of our Sirnr? .i"""-**1
ces wherever they may be; helping the
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