The Penn's Grove record., 1913-10-24
SCHOOL COURSE
ON ACCIDENTS
Legislature Passed Two Acts
on Subject of Prevention
LAST ONE WILL CONTROL
Makes 1t Duty of Teachers in Public
and Private Schools to Devote
Thirty Minutes to instruction
Against Accidents.

Especial Trenton Correspondence.)
Trenton.-It is too late to protest
against making instruction in pre-
venting accidents a part of the school
course. The last Legislature passed
two acts on the subject. AS they
conflict and differ in terms, the last
one approved, being the latest express
sion of the legislative will, will con-
troll. 1t makes it the duty of each
teacher in public, private, or paroch-
ial schools of the State to devote not
less than thirty minutes in each two
weeks during which the school is in
session to in%structing their pupils "as
to the ways and means of preventing
accidents"
Presumably it was the intention of
the Legislature that the instruction
should be for the protection of the
children themselves, but the law is so
general and so loosely drawn that
its purpose may be evaded. Any de-
feet may be cured by the Commits
sioner Of Education and the members
of the Employers Liability Commits
sion, who, with the Director of the
American Museum of Safety, are to
have prepared and published "a hand
book or manual on accident proven
ton, conveniently arranged in lessons
or chapters adapted to the under
standing of the various class grades.
Provides for Lecture.
The act first passed applied to the
public schools and put upon the
Commissioner of Labor the duty of
preparing the handbook, and the in
~struction was limited to thirty min
utes in each month. Apparently
some one found a chance to "get in"
for in the later act there is a pro-
vision that "at least once during each
school term arrangements shall be
made by the principals of all schools
for the delivery by a duly authorized
representative of the American Mu-
| scum of Safety of a lecture on acct
dent prevention and industrial, home
and school hygiene, the cost Of which
is to be paid by the State"
Should Revise Law.
There are in New Jersey about
2,160 public school buildings. AS
suming that there is a principal to
each building, there are, if the we
ming, parochial and private schools
be included, probably $500 lectures
to be delivered by the duly author
lied representatives of the American
Museum of Safety and to be paid
for by the State. Since no appropria-
ton was made for the purpose, it is
not likely that anything further will
be done this year than to prepare
the handbook and begin the work of
instruction by the teachers.
The new law ought to be revised
by the next Legislature and a limit
placed on the amount to be spent.
Ten or twenty thousand dollars a year
would be well invested if its expendi-
ture would insure the children of the
State against death or injury by acct
dent. But it will not, and there was
no intent on the part of the Legisla-
ture that such a sum should be spent.
Short Deer Season.
The deer season will open in New
Jersey on November l and close No
vember 5, inclusive, thus giving the
hunters FIVE days of consecutive hunt
ing instead of the old way of n day
a week. The five days in succession
assures the hunters that a day Of
rain will not interfere with their
sport. The penalty for killing or
shooting at a deer a day out of sea-
son is $500, and it is unlawful for
any person to attempt to take a deer
except one having horns that show
above the hair of the head. 1t IS
also unlawful to use a rife or other
gun or frearm of a smaller calibre
than twelve guage, or to load such
irearm with a bullet OF other mis-
sile larger than a buckshOt under a
penalty of $500. Shooting after dark
is prohibited, and the use of dogs IN
he hunt is also illegal. 1t is a
known fact among the deer hunters
that the counties of the southern part
of New Jersey are the best for their
sport, as there is excellent cover and
food, and the many small streams as
sure the deer of a plentiful supply OF
water.
Wood Block Paving Done.
The wood block road to Jersey City
was opened to the public by William
P. Dugan, superintendent of roads and
bridges at Newark. The new road,
which replaces the old Plank road.
is paved with wood block on the north
side and granite on the south side of
the car tracks. The former is for
pleasure and other light vehicles and