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or urban. individuals. organizations or Departâ€" ments of Government can afford not to be con- cerned about safety. All of these owe it to them- selves, to their families, their communities and their country to investigate every channel of risk from the smallest corner of their homes to the largest highway, railway crossing or what have you." Safety Calls for Co-operafion Mrs. L. G. Lymburner. President of the Fedâ€" erated Women's Institutes of Ontario, stressed the need of cooperation in preventing accidents â€"the co-operation of the law and the public. in traffic safety, the co-operation of farm organiza- tions in community safety and the co-operation of the whole family, father, mother and children. in safety in the home and on the farm. Reporting what a “tough programme” of law enforcement had done to improve traffic condi- tions in several cities, Mrs. Lymburner said. “The real reason for the improvement was that the Law decided something must be done to stop the senseless waste of life. the days and weeks of recuperation for those who did recover and the years of useless lives for those who were maimed or crippled. There was a matter of economics for the welfare of the community involved in this and for that reason Government Departments took a firm hand to see that improvement did come about.” Stressing the point that every accident in the home is a reflection on each of us and that every accident is an economic disaster for all of 115. Mrs. Lymburner quoted the paragraph from John Donne which gave Ernest Hemingway the title for his novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls": "No man is an island entire in itself; every man is a piece of the continent. a part of the main; if a clod be washed into the sea. Europe is the less for it. Any man‘s death diminishes me. because I am involved in mankind and therefore. send not to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for three." Mrs. Lymburner suggested that every one at- tending the conference had accepted John Donne's philosophy or they would not have taken on the responsibility of spreading the gospel of safety. She said: “You have accepted the fact that whatever hap- pens to others in your community has a bearing upon your welHJeing, just as industry has irn- pressed upon its workers that they must perform as a unit in every shop to keep themselves acciâ€" dent free and as a result happier, healthier and wealthier citizens. There is no patrolman in the shop. other than the awareness on the part of every worker that he has a duty to his fellow- worker; if he fails the reputation of the whole shop fails. We want homes to work as a unit with father and mother equally sharing the reâ€" sponsibility for making the home safe and in- structing every member of his or her responsibila ity each to the other. “The Safety Council agrees that operations in the home and on the farm are the hardest to keep safe because there are no laws for control; therefore. we must be our owu lawmakers and then see to it that the law is observed.” Mrs. 13 Lymburner qualified this statement with the ception that when a house is built the tm re quires certain safety measures with lnspeclim it; see that they are carried out before the lllllHQ may be ocaupled. Then she said: “And Mt. do we do? We promptly do all sorts of mi. foul up this nice clean record of our house." Among the antiâ€"safety things too often Mrs. Lymburner listed using unsafe apltl women doing makeshift repairs with it knife and a bobby-pin instead of waiting the man of the house to make the adjummem m" wobbly step-ladders; leaving things on 5|» .nfi in hallways; not teaching safety habits my. dren with the result that they drop skates. CX» its. [0 long. ‘L'Cs, ' lllgâ€" sticks. school boxes and books in the !v n}. someone to trip over; stepping on a t- to reach something while wearing a tight ti m trying to step off; carrying a lazy-man's {if things piled too high to see over and in 7 a fall over anything that may be in the In hurrying to answer a telephone call or i. m to something boiling over on the stove mg even for a few seconds a work basi- if needles. thimble. scissors Where a toddlr Mild can reach it: changing the arrangement i m. ture in a room without talking it over 'v he family. so that someone going into the l Him 'finds himself draped over the dFESSngrl in. stead of safely on the bed as he expected.‘ “Men and women together must wonl he home and in the garden. in the farm \ .nd the fields so that we make for ourselve~ “er environment safety wise.” said Mrs. L» “if. “Unless parents together accept their film ml- ity as adults in the home, how can the eel children to avoid accidents?” Safety in the Kitchen Mrs. E. V. Thompson. F.W.I.O. (3 rice and Holiday Secretary. reminded the or are that statistics show the kitchen to be inst hazardOus room in the house," and sin med out precautions to avert some of the m mon kitchen accidents. Falls are the most common of klICli .cl» dents and many falls occur when worm t- a makeshift arrangement to enable them .ich the highest shelves in cupboardsfla firr we- step kitchen stool would prevent man “11:1 accidents. Carelessness in spilling water A I“? on a kitchen floor and not cleaning it 311$ caused many people to slip and fallfi "JV rack of paper towels would encourage v- UP the floor immediately. Sharp knives, a necessity in the kin» gun be dangerous if kept in a drawer n: ‘ner kitchen tools, Mrs. Thompson said. and Hm- mended that they be kept in a knife mt ‘ of reach of children. We should also make i‘ “‘ilC' tice always to use the guard on a carving h To guard against children reaching tht 'LHES of kettles on the stove and upsetting h “it” over themselves, the handles should Iii wed in over the stove out of reach. POI‘l‘lOlClL'l inuld be kept handy to the stove and worker would make it a practice to use them. Matchtw L a fire hazard in the hands of children be kept in a metal container high on 1 ~ W3" HOME AND CKIUNTRY