Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-05
Accidents in U. s. Kill More People
 Than Army Lost

Cleveland, O., Oct. 4.--Casulties in result of accidents were twice as in battle, Albert w. Whitney, chair the National Safety Council. pointed out in his paper read to the eighth annual safety congress here on Safe. ty Education in the Public Schools" " Deaths by accident in the United States, he said, total 10000 year and the number of serious accidents not resulting in death is about g. 000,000. "In other words" declared MT. Whitney, i've have in our fac tories and streets the equivalent in their effect upon our people of two European wars going on all the time" tighten this horror," he went on. country have done something to re- of many the undertaking has been thorough and effective. Many plants have been successful in reducing their under the old conditions.
 He pIOUleUl IS dI DOIGOIH d pSy chological one, to get people to think in terms of safety. Safety, the sav- ing of lives and limbs, is part of the conservation movement, and conser vation is part of efficiency. Engi- neers are thinking in terms of eff ciency; they are beginning to think in terms of conservation, and this must inevitably bring with it the conservation of humanity as we'll as of materials and energy"
 The public schools, he held, offer the most fertile ground of all for the work and the way has been shown by Dr. E. c. Payne of the Harris Teach ers' college, St. Louis, who instead of adding another subject, Safety" to the already crowded curriculum, in troduced safety education into the teaching of all subjects.
 During the first four grades the effort is particularly directed toward the formation of habits of safe con- duct," MT. Whitney explained. "Over against the intuitive appreciation of danger are developed normal reac- tions, which, with repitition, become established as safe habits. In these early grades the dangers treated must obviously be of the simpler type, such as crossing the street, playing with matches, and getting on and off cars. The dangers, furthermore, are per sonal-the action of the child in gen eral is directed toward his own safe ty." Later he is taught his responsi- bility for the safety of his associates and the community.
 Arithmetic classes are busied with the statistics of accidents; reading classes use newspaper accounts of ac cidents; drawing classes illustrate ac- cident situations; geography classes concern themselves with the life saw ing service on the coast, the fire haz- ard in cities, the forest fire hazard and other hazards that have local ized interest; and nature classes study the safety motive as it appears in the various adaptions of animals and plants to their environment.
 Committees of pupils cooperate with the school authorities on school safety, the school traffic committee naming school policemen who ecah day help get the smaller children safely across the street while an- other committee is "on the job" to prevent accidents of all kinds at school picnics. Others visit the shops and safety work.
 Recapitulating, MT. Whitney said that in the St. Louis plan safety "is not taught as bundle of precepts, but it is made to occupy an organic place in that body of experience which is used as the medium for teaching"