Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-15
GUARD AGAINST
 ACCIDENTS IN
 ALL WAR PLANES
Safety Congress Opens at St. Louis Monday to Dis
 cuss This Feature.
By The Associated Press.


 St. Louis, Mo-, Sept 14.-Conserva- tion of man power by greater pecau-
 tions against accidents in Americas S
 big war industrial plants will be one
 of the outstanding objects of the
 Seventh annual Safety Congress of
 National Safety Council, which opens
 here tomorrow.
 Officers of railroads, superintend- ents of large steel mills, factories and
 mines and representatives of employ es' associations from various parts of the country began arriving tonight for the five day session at which nearly two hundred speakers will outline plins for concentrated drive against accidents during the next year. President Wilson will deliver a brief address by telephone while the delegates are assembled for the an- nual dinner Wednesday night. The Presidents message will emphasize the pressing need for the conservation of man power and will commend the work being done by the Council. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, at the Monday session will speak on Safety as an Asset in Win
 ming the War" and will be followed by Charles M.. Schwab of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, who vii ltake as his subject, Characterization of In- dustry.'
 The annual address of David Van Schaack, president of the National Safety Council, will deal largely with the progress made in the last fiscal year. Reports of officers then will be submitted and directors elected. A series of sectional and general round table meetings will open on Tuesday and continue until final ad- tournament. At these meetings new ideas for lessening the risks of em- ploycs in various lines of work will be submitted to committees for consid- eratlon and recommendations. Special attention will be given to the report on Wednesday of Julian H. Harvey director of the six months ex- perimental public safety campaign at Rochester, N. Y., A careful analysis of of the experiment, the first of it's kind ever made, will be submitted and the Congress will take action on rec concentrations for similar campaigns the country.
 A symposium of a co-ordinated plan for national employment will form a part of Thursdays program and on Friday there will be round table for governmen employees, with Lewis T. Bryant, commissioner of Labor of New Jersey, one of the principal speakers.
 "One of the most interesting re- ports to be presented will be that of the committee having in charge the promotion of safety education in tech nical schools and colleges" said w. H. Cameron, general manager of the Council. Important conferences with leading educators in the east and mid dle west indicate the early establish ment as a permanent part of the cur rlculum in number of colleges, against accidents in the large cities of series of lectures and the necessary laboratory work to train young en- glneers as specialists in the newest of the professions"
 Special meetings will be held in parks and at public play grounds dur ing the convention for the purpose of teaching children proper precautions against accidents. Films depicting ac- cidents and showing how they can be prevented ann Safety" addresses on photograph records will form part of the campagin.
 MT. Cameron's annual membership report sets forth these figures:
 Gain in membership for the
 fiscal year ending
 July 31, 1918 ......... 3O6l Present membership .... ................ 3,6O|
 Including 16,00O representatives and 6,000,00O employees.
 Income $117,O00; surplus, $25,OOO; no debts.