Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts
Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts
Free DownloadA supplementary reader, published under the auspices of the National Safety Council, with the intention of bringing home to the school children the Safety First idea. Bob and Betty have thrilling adventures in escaping and preventing dangers and in observing precautions already adopted in factories, etc.
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--perhaps we can make a beginning. Come to me again tomorrow night, at midnight, and we shall see.'
"The next night I went to the throne room and found the King studying a big map. He had a red pencil and a blue one in his hand, and he pointed to a lot of red rings he had drawn on the map.
"'Those,' he told me, 'are America's great mills. In them and the other factories, thousands upon thousands of workmen are killed by accident every year--by accident, Colonel, not in battle.
"'And that is not all,' the King went on. 'These blue lines mark the trails of the great iron horses--the railroads. Last year these iron horses trampled out thousands of lives in America alone. And all because the Americans haven't learned to think Safety!'
"That was too much for me. I pleaded with him to let me come straight to America and help end that awful suffering. But the King shook his head.
"'The more haste, the less speed, Colonel. Before you can help America, you must help yourself
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