Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — Persuasive Power. [ARTICLE]

Persuasive Power.

Arthur Williams, president of th* American museum of safety, said to a New York reporter: “Yes, we kill in our industries annually 35,000 people, and we injure 1,500,000. If we were compelled by law t® adopt safeguards, practically all this destruction would be avoided, "But to get us a safeguard law! The man who gets us this law will have to be as persuasive as the Nola Chucky housewife. “An agent, you know, called on this housewife to sell her a cucumber cream for sunburn, and before the fek a low got away the woman sold him a' jar of cucumber cream of her own make.”