New-York tribune., 1922-10-10
10000 Children.
Join i'm Safety
Week Parade
Six-Day Drive Opens Will,
Dedication of Memorial
to l,O54 Young Lives Lost
by Accident Last Year
Medals Given for Rescues
Procession Passes in Review
Before Judge Gary and
Other Prominent Citizens

The Safety Week campaign to reduce
the big annual death toll from acci-
dents got into full swing yesterday
with parade of 10000 children up
Fifth Avenue, and the dedication of a
memorial in Central Park to the 1,054
boys and girls who accidentally lost
their lives in this city last year.
1t was "Children's Day" of the
weeks drive by the Safety Committee
OF America to save the ten lives that
are lost daily in New York through
avoidable mishaps of one kind or an
other. The banners and signs carried
by the Boy Scots, Girl Scouts, Camp
Fire Girls and similar organizations
participating in the demonstration
bore impressive pleas for greater
guarding Of human life.
Gold Medals Awarded
AS an additional stimulus in this di-
rection the institute yesterday awarded
gold medal to the Boy Scout per-
forming the most distinguished act Of
heroism during the year. He is Sam
uel Levine, of 240 Dumont Avenue,
Brooklyn, who saved two boys from
drowning in ice-covered Glover Lake,
s.. l., last February. A similar award
was made to an unidentified girl, whose
IDENTITY Will be made public later.
Street and,Fifth Avenue and proceeded
to Seventy second Street. It was led
nv Sophie Irene Loeb. head of the
Board of Child Welfare, followed by
symbolic groups of adults and young
sters. There was one impressive Sec
tion representing the 1,054 children
who had been killed in the year. Be-
hind them marched fifty white star
mothers, who had lost that number of
children in 1921.
The message of the procession, how
ever, was sent home through the
numerous slogan banners borne by the
paraoers. Here are some Of the strik-
ing warnings and urgent appeals for
greater care:
"A nut takes more chances than a
squirrel"
Don't be buffaloed into taking fool
chances"
Jay Walkers Warned
"Jay walking is short cut to the
hospital"
"An elephant lives a hundred years,
but he's careful all the time"
"The A B G of safety is-always he
careful" ~
"A cat can risk eight lives-a boy
can't risk one"
"A rash minute-a human wreck"
Better be alert than a cripple"
"A moment Of caution or month o4
PAIN 0'
Better belated than mutilated."
Don't dash in front of a trolley
it may hide an auto"
"a word to the wlse-use YOU,
eyes"
more headwork at crossings-les.
surgical work at hospitals"
The procession was reviewed a
Sixtieth Street, where sat city official!
and prominent persons identified will
the safety movement. Among thess
were Ebert H. Gary, head Of the Pub
lie Safety Committee of One Hundred
through whom the Safety Institute Of
America is conducting it's drive; Arthur
illlams. Franklin D: Roosevelt, Police
Commissioner Enright. General Rob
ert Bullard. Monsignor Dineen, Marcus
A. Dow, Laurence v. Coleman, Barron
G. Cillier, newly appointed Commits.
sioner Of Public Safety, and William
L. Ettinger, Superintendent of Public
Schools.
The Central Park Memorial
The memorial in Central Park is q
slmpie siaD against background OF
evergreens. 1t was designed by
Thomas Hastings. The dedicatory
ceremonies were presided over by e
H. Gary, the dedicatory address being
delivered by Commissioner Of Health
Copeland as the representative OF
Mayor Hylan. DR.. Copeland reviewed
the efforts for safeguarding the lives
OF children in the past and compared
thera with those of to-day. There were
1000 deaths from motor car accidents
alone in this city last year, he said
but if only the proportion that pre-
vailed ten years ago had prevailed to-
day, he pointed out, the death toll
would have been 10000.
The gold medal presentations were
made by Commissioner Enright.
A mothers mass meeting was held