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42 Metals Industry owe it to him. Each oi us has a little per sonal debt to pay oft. so here is a dam good place to do it Remember, we started oft like this a good many years ago ourselves. Someone came along and took us by the hand and gave us the benefit of their valu able experience. Remember? Did you ever stop to think that you and 1 are pretty special people. I mean special in the sense that we enjoy a privilege accorded only to a few. We have been selected as leaders of people. Selected because we stood out from all the rest. Selected because someone had confidence enough in us to lelievc that we would step up to responsibility. When this selection was made we were given more than just the responsibility for getting a job done. We were entrusted with the most sacred thing in the world, the lives of hu man brings. These same people are looking to us for guidance and leadership and help Tliey need the advantage oi our years oi experience and so long as we enjoy the privilege of bring tlirir leaders, it is our sacred duty to give it to them. A couple of months ago one of your fel low supervisors was telling me about hi* being in the hospital for a minor operation. While there he struck up an acquaintance with a nineteen year-old hoy who had lost his hand in a punch press accident in an industrial plant. He told me what a pitiful sight it was to see that young man lying there with his right lland gone and most of his hopes and dreams gone with it. During the course oi their conversation one day, the supervisor said to him. "Son. didn't they tell you not to reach between the dies when they put you to work on that punch press?" The boy's choked reply was. "Mister they didn't tell me nothin." On May 20, 1953. my boy ticcame a man. I shook his hand and gave him a good pat on die back. Yes sir! Twenty-one years old and I want to tell you that it was a Itard struggle. Never thought I'd make it. Twenty-one long years oi heartbreak and worry trying to make a man out oi that little bundle that was dropped off at our house on May 20, 1932. What with scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, poison ivy. fights with the kiddown the block, trouble at school, breaking out the neighbor's windows, it has been a pretty rough go. You will probably jc: the idea by now that he has been a pretty rough character. Oh. 1 don't know-- I guess he wasn't much different than ar.y other growing boy. Anyway, it was worth t:. You see it hasn't been without its recom pense. because that guy is the best dara fishing and hunting partner I ever had ar.: you can bet ! was pretty proud when :.r grounded a six point buck the first time o::: And if you want to know something abc-u* automobile engines and hot rods, he's yc.-.:: man. Yes sir.' There's a man in my housand a real guy at that. You got a man in your house? 01: know* that he may be grown up and our < r. ltis own or maybe he is just a little guy. Doesn't make much differoice though, hv still the man in your house and you lovr him don't you? Wouldn't trade him :<>: anything in all the world. Yes, I've got a man in my house an! you've got a man in your house, but di: you ever stop to think that there's a mar. in every house all over the world? A mar. that's just as important and dear to someone, somewhere as that man of ours is to usr And who are these men in all tlte houseall over the world? Well 1*11 tell you. they are the fellow next door, and the one dour: the street. You will find them in New ^ ork and Chicago, in Albuquerque and Ann Ar bor. In fact, you will find them wherever you go. But more especially you will fin * them coining in to work for von everyday. Men just like you and me. who are trying to make a living, be good citizens and enjoy their inherent rights as right living Amer icans. What we are really driving at when we ask. "Why is safety' so important?" is sim ply that human life is sacred and it is our business as industrial leaders to handle it accordingly.