The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-07
Grady County Chapter to Take
Active Part in Nation Wide
Campaign to Lessen
Accidents.
START CLASSES IN
CITY ABOUT SEPT. |
Committee Asks That Big Glass
Be Organized and Ready to
Start Work; Program Fea-
lures Outlined.

With The aim Of lessening the mum
! ber of preventablc accidents and di
minishing suffering tAerefrom by ad
yancing proficiency in First aid, the
nation wide campaign on First Aid
treatment being launched by the
American Red Cross received added
impetus here when it became known
today that he appointment of a first
aid committee from the personnel of
the Red Cross chapter has been made
The First Aid campaign Is one of
the important peace time activities
OF the Red Cross. The new Red
Cross idea is to diminish and pre-
vent suffering as well as to relieve
it. Accidents, like diseases, say Red
Cross chapter members are largely
lreyentable and while a certain mum
Der inevitably will happen the pur.
pose OF the instruction will be to les
sen the percentage aud also lower
chances of occurrence
The course includes four SUBJECTS
Training in accident prevention, first
aid treatment; instruction IN safety
first principles and disease preyen-
tion and rules for conducting classes.
Features Of the program were out.
lined recently by Dr. +, G. Pernoud,
director of the department OF first
aid of the southwestern division, st.
Louis, Mo.
"The Red Cross First Aid instruc-
tion," wrote Dr. Pernoud, "imparts
knowledge to the layman by means of
lectures and demonstrations, based
on the teachings of modern surgery
and common sense. The suggestions
for first aid as outlined in Red Cross
first aid text books, are not eabo.
rate or dtfuse; the primary consid.
GRAFTON is explicitness.
Unfortunately adults do not learn
I-rst Aid principles and develop skill
in their practice at time in life
when they prove most valuable.
Therefore, the first aid division has
offered instruction to the schools,
and many high schools throughout
the country have agreed to include
the course in the curriculum
statistics show that accidents have
been costing us 100000 lives annu-
ally Five times as many are Grip.
pied so that they can not longer earn
{ livelihood without re-education. In.
vestigati0n Of more than 20, 900 acci-
dents in large western metropolis
showed 1900 to be household acci.
Cents. In 1916 more than 1850 per
sens died from falls down stairs. The
same cause crippled 1000 others.
"The need is obvious. Why, some
counties in Texas with an area of
$50 square miles have no doctors or
nurses. Now we're going to have to
establish specialized organization
to provide someone there who will
he able to give the community First
Aid training Through the farming
districts the campaign will be spread
in farmers clubs You know how
many accidents happen on a farm.
We'll, classes Of women will study
these home tragedies such as burns
and scalds and sprained wrists and
SO on. They will learn TO treat nose
bleed and to revive persons suffering
from shock or sunstroke That's the
thing people go into First Aid tn
learn. You know il IS the first L.
minutes after an accident that counts
Efficient aid payes the way for the
doctors arrival
in industries, the Red Cross will
cooperate with the Safety First idea
and will endeavor through local chap.
ters to introduce its course into fac
tories. County superintendents have
been asked to consider its introduc
tion into school courses and many
OF them have extended full support
and cooperation.
These classes will start in Chicka
sha about September l and it is the
desire of the committee in charge
to have one representative from ev