New Britain herald., 1923-10-03
EYE CONSERVATION
 DRIVE HERE OCT. Ig
Charles ?. Southard to Speak to
 Teachers and Pupils

The national movement for eye
 conservation has been carried 10
 Connecticut, where during October an
 intensive program will he pursued m the public schools. Charles r, South
 ard of New York will deliver a series
 af illustrated addresses 10 pupils and
 teachers. Mir. southard is held seer
 retary of the Eyesght Conservation
 Council Of America, in cooperation
 with which school officials of Com
 neetient towns and cities will conduct
 the eye campaign.
 The work begins in Danhnry on ue-
 teber 2. and is continued during the { following two days in Norwalk. For three days, beginning october s, the
 campaign will go on in Waterbury,
 and on October ii and ls it will be shifted to Meriden. Other dates are' October ls and id. New Britain; oe-
 Niber i9. Norwich, Plans for other places will he announced later.
 The work in the Connecticut schools fellows similar effort In the towns and cities of New York and New Jersey. and is planned broadly to reveal act. uai conditions and to provide the special instruction essential to laying the foundation qf permanent scheme of prevention through super vision by parents and teachers. on Health Day In New York city. the IEyesight Conservation Council co- operated with the board of education In testing the sight Of more than l.-' 0oo,ooo pupils.
 Enormous annual waste in indus try was revealed by the Hoover com mlttce of the Federated American Engineering societies. One Of the factors in producing this waste, the engineers found. was defective vis- s ion. Their findings. embodied in what has now become famous as the Waste Report, was sustained by sub seauent surveys in factories and in schools.
 { The president of the Eyesight Conservation Council is Lawrence ". Wallace of Washington, executive. sec .retary of the Federation. who as vice. chairman actively directed the waste the chairman being J. -Parke Charming, noted mining en- gineer of New York.
 It has baen disclosed, largely through the efforts of the engineering investigators, that about 25,000,000 i gainfully emrloyed Americans have defective vision requiring correction and that seventy-five per cent of these cases could have been prevented by the application of proven methods. ! Saving eyesight has now become a matter of national concern, according to Guy A. Henry of New York, gen. cral director of the Eyesight Conser- >ation Council, which is carrying the slogan First Health, Then Wisdom" to school houses and workshops all | over the land.
 Universities are taking up the work, and Columbia gave a summer course | in sight saving. In Connecticut as in New York and New Jersey it is aimed X to bring about continued supervision of the children, mothers cooperating with the teachers in identifying de- E fleets, often hidden, and in applying corrective measures.
 Many distinguished engineers edu- cators and public men are members of the directorate and Board of Councillors of the Eyesight Conser- ration Council, universities repre- sented including Columbia, University of Chicago. Ohio State University. New York University and the College of the City of New York. Among the public officials who are