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.PAGE 4 THE MASTHEAD, sATURDAY, sEPT. 15, 1945 War Expansion for glamour at any cost. With a
Waves Wear Caps forward puff and a rear chig-
__ C_IV_I L_IA_N_P_E R_S_O_N_N_E_L _ _, (SEA).-To maintain its ex- To Suit Personality non, there is little room for a· cap.
She pins it on and it comes wing-
I,_· pansion program, the Navy in-
ducted an average of 14,200 men Life's darkest moment to any ing through with a prayer. You
that innocent piece of steel landed jus,t can't be "le dernier cri" and
. ACCIDENTS ARE on his foot. "Nonsense," yoµ a week for the past five years. woman, in peace times, occurs GI at the same time. On the other
' . Procureme~t highpoint was the
might say, "He was just careless." when she has spent ):ler life's side of the fence we have the
25,000 weekly rate set in the
CASUALTIES TOO That may be true; he was care- savings on an exclusive hat, only Wave who joined the Navy to re-
fiscal year of 1943-1944. Since
less- but it is far from nonsense Navy civilian employees increased to find that the woman next to place a man. She'd wear bell
A Word from the T. I. to him. Not only does he suffer to 752,886 from 124,498, most of her has on exactly th~ same hat. bottom trousers if they issued
a broken leg while he is laid up, whom are employed in Navy But that was long ago. The serv- them. Her cap is a direct steal
Safety Off ice but he also feels it in his pocket- yards. ice woman of today is used to from an old salty chief's. It is
book when payday comes around. seeing the same hat worn by squared fore and aft, and worn
:We all experienced the great thousands of other women. Did with a portside list. Becoming?
feeling of relief when the word That is paying a high price for
being careless- if the fault is his heard someone say, "Oh, it's only we say the "same" hat ? The :N"ever, but, sister, it is s-a-1-t-y!
· was flashed around the world that, a small cut." This idea is the be- Navy designed the same hat, but
Next, the Wave who just
and many times it is not: This ac-
· at long last, World War II had cident did not begin when the steel glnning of a much bigger idea: it is worn in an infinite variety of doesn't care. She takes her cap
ended victoriously. In our hos- the conception that unless an arm! ways. The feminine flair for being and wears it, just as the book
. pitals lie our sick, our wounded, fell off the bench but when it was or a leg has been cut off, the
put on the bench. It didn't just different at all costs rides high says. Men mean nothing to her,
our maimed, and our disabled happen- it was "made" to hap- worker has not really had an ac- with the "overseas" cap. The so why try ?-"Analog."
.'servicemen. The long lists impress pen. cident . Waves like the "overseas" cap.
themselves upon you. They are all This sort of reasoning looks to They screamed for it when the
Must Report Accident
part of the price we have paid. Not many civilian workers on the severity of the particular in- Wacs modeled this jaunty head
But, in our hospitals, you can the Island have a full understand- jury and from that determines, piece. Just sheer feminine per- DISCHARGE DATA
find another kind of casualty. He, ing of what takes place when they whether an accident has occurred. versity causes them to vary it SEA- Personnel detached from
too, occupies a bed and requires are involved in an accident. Their What it fails to realize is that the once it is placed on their own duty overseas will be routed to
· expert medical and surgical at- first concern- and rightly so-'.-is severity of any particular acci- crowning glory. their home separation center via
tention. He, too, leaves the hos- to get to the dispensary and have dent is only one part of the acci- The hair-do determines the cap staging areas now located at
pital minus fingers, or arms, or the doctor take care of it. When dent and that it is very easy for style. If you are "chi-chi" and Pearl Harbor, Guam, Saipan,
toes, or legs-and sometimes he their supervisor gives them a slip a slight accident to become severe. wear your hair in a chignon Leyte, Hollandia, Manila and
never leaves it alive. The news- of paper (technically known as a ( bun to the men) the cap is neces- Manus.
papers and radio rarely tell about A small cut, if improperly
Navexos 107) they are admitted treated or not treated at all, can sarily tilted forward completely The 327,000 to be released im-
hi~, but he, too, is a victim of a
to the dispensary. They are logged be the basis of a very large infec- covering· one eye. Of course this mediately from the Navy include
"war"- the war against accidents.
in and out by a clerk from the tion. And if that small cut has limits the vision but some of the approximately 261,000 enlisted
He is the accident casual'ty.
Safety Office. not been registered with the Waves do their best work with men; 5,200 enlisted Waves; 40,-
Accidents Don't "Just Happen" The injured worker may think Safety Office clerk, it may very one eye closed. Then there is the 000 male officers; 500 Wave offi-
Too long, have we understood that all this is a waste of time, well lead to the same difficulties Wave who-is nervous in the serv- cers, 20,000 combat award hold-
the word "accident" to mean that the important thing is to get in collecting compensation as an ice. The new cap does nothing to ers.
something whicl_l was unavoidable. to the doctor and let him take care unreported major accident. Al- lift her morale. She puts it on,
Many of us believe that when we of the injury. But what happens ways remember: Work safely, but squares it off, and slogs on. She
say something was an "accident" in those few minutes which the if you are injured, report all in- would probably feel the same way Wave: We're going to give the
that there was nothing which any- worker spends in placing his name juries to Safety Office immedi- about hats in civilian life, too. bride a shower.
Chief: Count me in, I'll bring
one could have done which would and badge number on the records ately. It means money to you! Take the coy Wave, who strives the soap.
have prevented it from happening.
of the Safety Office may be the
"It couldn't be helped," or "It just determining factor as to whether
happened" is the way in which he will o-r will not receive com-
most accidents -are described.
pensation from the Government
But, when we sit down and an- for the time he is away from his
alyze the circumstances under job because of his injury.
which the accident occurred, when The Safety Office has the duty
we talk to the individuals in- of reporting all occupa.tional ac-
. volved, a different picture comes cidents to Washington and unless
into being. The great majority of the worker registers his accident
accidents do not "just happen." with the Safety Office, no report
They are "made" to happen. i.s filed. This makes it extremely
A worker places a piece of steel difficult for the wo-rker to collect
on a bench. This is not unusual the monetary compensation which
and is done frequently. "What is is his due. His "forgetfulness" is
wrong about that?" you might many times exceedingly costly.
ask .. There is nothing wrong about Small Mishaps Count, Too
it- except if that piece of steel is There is another attitude ex-
so pla,ced that it can fall. More pressed by many workers in rela-
than one man has been sent to the tion to accidents which is wide-
hospital with a fracture because spread. How many times have you
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