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usually find that there'are one or two, maybe small, but never theless plants of some manufac turing nature that by themselves. Just to look at them, indicate thot they have not come up to the 1943 standard in thinking. By thot I mean they probably pay very close attention to what people are do ing when they ore on the job, but they let the whistle blow and for get about those people when they go out in(p the community. I will bet they have trouble within their plants---unrest and not a very harmonious feeling be tween their employees while they are on the job. Consequently, I think that industry's part in this community safety program is to provide the leadership in these communities to make them a bet ter place in which to live. Over a period of years, industrieshave done that. Proof of it is written in the history of the National Safety Council. They financed it, they operated it, and so on through the years they have car ried the major burden of accident prevention. Unfortunately/--and this is en tirely personol--because some of my directors may not agree: I hope they do--unfortunately, there has been a tendency in the minds of people that industry ought to pay the bill and conse quently they have beeii called upon time and time again to dig down in their pockets aad finance the community safety programs. I hove' never found o businessman, an industrialist, that isn't ready and willing to admit that they have a large port in the safety 6 program of a community and that they have a specific responsibility and they admit that it casts money and more money than has ever been given to any agency for that work and as time goes en it seems as though it will need more and more. At the same time they do not believe they should carry the whole burden. And per sonally, I do not believe they should either. The Community Safety problem is what? You can apply every principle that, is found in an In dustrial program. It deals with children through the schools, ploygrounds, etc. It deals with the home, which we all know is the most hazardous place on the face of the earth. It deals with traffic, fire prevention, etc., and you and I as individuals ought to carry the major, portion of the community program. We should be able, as leaders, to impress our employees with their full sense of responsi bility towards the community safety program. If you do that on your job--with your employees while they are on the job-- you are going to find benefits directly accrued through the development of better safety consciousness on the part of every individual em ployee. That does not cost money. That is effort and that is what I mean by leadership. Let's look at the other side. For sometime, my officers and directors in the Western Pennsyl vania Safety Council believed that our greater task as an organiza tion is to indoctrinate the mem bers of the communities in which we operate with o fuller sense of