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We had enlarged our interests to include not only safety from fire but safety from all forms of industrial accidents. That was being embodied in the factory legislation, and the responsibility for maintaining safe conditions in factories was being made a responsibility of the Department of Labor. We decided that there was no sense in keeping this organization alive.

We had participated in the forming of the National Safety Council. I wasn't a charter member, but I was one of the people who participated in the formation of the organization. Arthur Williams, president of the Edison Company, became head of it and was the prime mover. He was on the Committee on Safety. It was a very dynamic period, and lots was going on.

We were letting the Committee on Safety he alive so as to speak its piece and to keep up this civic movement for passing this legislation, enforcing this legislation and setting up a right administration. We wanted to keep it alive and keep it going. At the same time we weren't going to go out and collect a lot of money and do a lot of phony work for the sake of having an organization. That was what I had wanted and thought was good. I was letting it slide and fold up gradually as far as I was concerned. I was going to slip out of it and be more and more of a domestic