Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-20
NORWICH TO OBSERVE EYE
 SIGHT CONSERVATION


 Aided by representatives from Presi- dent Harding's cabinet, federal and state officials. university professors, engineers, industrialists and civic leaders, the Eye Sight Conservation Council of America, with national headquarters at 42nd street and Broadway. New York city, has set in motion a movement for the ob- servance throughout the country. of Eye Sight Conservation Day in the schools.
 Every school in Connecticut will be asked to join in establishing the new semi-annual custom of Eye Sight Con servation Day, planned as universal and permanent contribution to the Amer ican system of education.
 The Eye Sight Conservation Council is enlisting the assistance of commission CTS of educationi In every state, and of superintendents in every county and school district. Connecticut school offi- cials have been provided with a com plete Eye Sight Conservation Day pro gramme. To execute this plan A. B. Meredith of Hartford, state commission CT of education, and local superintend- ents throughout the state, will cooper ate in the Eye Sight Conservation Day movement, including Warren A. Han son, of New London, Edward J. Gra- ham of Norwich, w. R. Snyder of Ston- ington, Frank H. P. Clement of Gris- wold, V. D, Moody of Montville and Waterford, Mary G. Collamore of Essex, Frederick H. Brewer of Groton. S. L. Butler of Plainfied, William L. Mac Stafford, E. F. Kimball of Thompson, Egbert A. Case of Windham, Horace F. Turner of Killingly and H O. Clough | of Vernon.
 '-The object of an Eye Sight Conserva- ton Day in schools is to discover the fact that a child has a defect of vii I sion or symptoms of a defect, rather than to determine the degree of >defi- | ciency," it is stated in the suggested programme which the Eye Sight Con- servation Council is taking up with the l Connecticut officials
 Eye Sight Conservation Day should be observed semi-annually, shortly after l the beginning of each school semester and should be an integral part of the general school programme. On this day 1 the educational programme should be | omitted until the tests and observations have been completed"
 Every teacher in the country, accord. ling to the council, is a potential crusad- CT for better vision. Teachers everywhere are being given instructions for testing visual acuity. Success of the movement according to it's sponsors, will mean a definite physical advance in future gen. ! erations of Americans.
 l Leading universities are taking up eye conservation. CofuntHa was the first to make it part of it's regular summer school curriculum, and the re- suits attained were 50 satisfactory that the course will be continued. The Uni versity of Chicago, New York university Ohio State university, Teachers College Columbia, and the College of the City ,! of New York have, through member: lof their faculties, identified themselve. with the movement Other active par lticipants are L. w. Wallace, of Wash l ington, executive secretary of. the Fed Ierated American Engineering Societies land president of the Safety Section O lthe United States Bureau of Standard and vice president of the American So ciety of Safety Engineers; John J. ri 1gert, United States Commissioner 0 Education Allan J. Mclaughlin. Unite'
 States Public Health Service; and AT
 thur L. Day, director of the Geophysi
 cal Laboratories of the Carnegie In stitution, Washington.
 The Hoover Committee on the Film ination of Waste fn Industry stresse. the importance of eye care, revealing heavy economic losses because of poo
 vision. Poor spelling, according to au thorities, is due largely to defectiv eyesight The eyes of industrial work CTS are now regarded as an fmportan
 factor in production costs. Millions 0 i, Americans are suffering from. defectiv
 vision, most of which can be remedieo