Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-14
SAFETY WEEK WILL
Be NOTABLE TIME
Arrangements Have Been Made to
Call Attention to the Neces-
sity of Care

Details of the manner in which Har-
rtsburg will show it's interest in
safety First" are being worked out
by the committee in charge of the
local end of the big observance which
is to take place coincident with the
meeting of the Industrial Welfare and
Efficiency conference at the Capitol
and next week people will wear
Safety First" badges and the troll
ley cars will do the hesitation with big
warning signs on their tenders. The
principles of Better safe than sorry"
and Look before you cross the street.
as we'll as of "See that the safeguards
are in place" will be instilled into
the minds of the people, while most
of the moving picture theater owners
of the city have arranged to give free
displays of educational films for school
children during the afternoon. The
names of these theaters will be an
nounced Monday.
Commissioner of Labor and Indus
try John Price Jackson has been ap-
pointed by the National Safety Coun-
ell as member of the National Com
mittee on Educational Safety. This
is in recognition of the fact that he is
practical engineer, and can view the
safety movement from this standpoint
as well as from that of the educator.
In cooperation with the Harris
burg Safety Council, the Chamber of
Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Po-
lice Department, the Public School
Board and the Harrisburg Railways
Company, the commissioner has ar
ranged for the first step in such
campaign, which is to include series
of free exhibitions for the school chill
dren. The National Safety Council
is sending on from Chicago H. l..
Brownell of the Chicago Railways
Company, with a series of films that
he has been using in a two years
campaign before the school children
of that city. These films will be pre-
sented in the Harrisburg campaign
by Mr.. Brownell in person., who will
explain by means of these films the
methods pursued in Chicago in edu-
eating the school children in street
safety.
The Harrisburg Safety Council is
also endeavoring to secure the serV-
ices of Mrs. Jessica Mccall who has
had charge of the educational safety
work among the school children of
Brooklyn and New York. 1t is to be
hoped that she will be able to present
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit films that
are among the films selected for exhi-
bition before the Harrisburg school
children.
Among the other films to be shown
Will be those used by Mrs. Joseph r.
Wilson in her Carnival of Safety re-
Gently held in Philadelphia. 1t is to
be hoped that Mrs. Wilson can also
be persuaded to cooperate at the
time.
A recent circular issued by the
Harrisburg Safety Council announces
that their regular November meeting
will be held the first evening of the
Pennsylvania Welfare and Efficiency
| Conference, at the State Capitol, Tues
day, November II, at 8 p. m. At this
time Robert w. Campbell, chairman
of the Central Safety Committee of
the Illinois Steel Company, and presi-
dent of the National Safety Council,
will be present and preside over this
meeting, at which also will be repre-
resentatlves of the local safety coun-
ellis of Pennsylvania. This meeting
should be of paramount interest to
all those interested in safety.
It is further contemplated at some
later date to engage William p. Emo,
the traffic expert, and a man of in
ternational reputation. to present a
paper on standardized safety traffic
regulations before the local safety
council. Mr.. Emo has devoted many
years to the study of traffic conditions
in all of the large cities of this coun-
try, and has been the originator of
most of the up-to-date traffic regula-
tions adopted by those cities. Some
years ago he was called upon to