Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-06-02
SAFETY WEEK
IS OBSERVED
Joint Meeting of City Clubs
to Be Held at the
Y. M. C. A.

I'm for Safety r. UP"


This slogan appearing on buttons,
banners. pastors and window cards,
is constant reminder that this is
Safety Week in Perth Amboy. For
the past several weeks. Derben w.
Bartholomew, director of Safety
Week, has been arranging for the
events to take place here in the in
terest of safety and today everything
was ready for the frthering of
safety during the extensive cam
paign..
Today the first speakers in the in
terest of safety appeared in several
of the largest plants of the city and
gave short talks to the employees.
The plants in which safety talks were
given and the speakers were: Frank
Godfrey, at the Standard Under
ground Cable Company; A. o. Stork
at the Perth Amboy Dry Dock Com
pany; H. B. Byrne, at the Cheese
brough Manufacturing Company. At
5:45 o'clock this afternoon Mr.. Stork
will address the employees of the
Sharp & Hansen department store.
On Saturday the Boy Scouts and
others distributed safety buttons.
window cards and other campaign
matter obtained to further the safe
| ty idea to the. people of this city.
Posters urging people to be careful
have been placed ON all trolley cars
operating in the city and also inside
1.-THE cars.
From January 1, 1921, to January
II, 1924, a total of twenty-eight peo-
pie were killed in this city. Four
persons have been killed so far this
year and twenty-nine injured as. the
result, of accidents which could have
been avoiled had safety been the first
thought of those concerned. Four
people were injured last Friday. 1t
Is the hope the campaign for safety
will result in the cutting down of this
list which promises to grow to large
numbers unless people can be In
structed to be more careful.
A feature of the campaign will
be a play given by the Safety Patrol
of the grammar school for the bene-
fit of the Safety Patrols of the city.
in the high schools auditorium next
Friday afternoon and night. The al
ternoon performace will take place
at 3:45 O'Clock and the evening per-
formance at o'clock. The play will
Frank Seiboth OF the local police
traffic squad. A feature of the play
will be a children's chorus of 100
voices of the Greek Ukranian Cath
olic church. The chorus will be un-
der the direction of Joseph Stetke-
wicz. A violin solo will be rendered
by Joseph Stetkewicz, Jr. There
will also be a harmonica contest,
player representing each school to
perform. The best players will be
awarded a prize. Two safety films.
"Goodby Daddy" and knights OF
the Cross Road" will be shown at
the evening performance.
Safety talks were given to the
scholars in the various schools today
by their respective teachers.
Instead of holding their regular
weekly meetings this week the Ro-
tary, Lions and Kiwanis Clubs Will
get together Wednesday noon In the
! Y. NJ. C. A. at a joint meeting for
! the purpose of observing Safety
Week" Mayor Wilson will PRESIDE
as honorary chairman of the meet
ing and the principal speaker. will be
7. Alfred Fleming, supervisor oi
Conservation, National Board of IN
derwriters and former insurance
commissioner of Ohio.
! 1t is expected that about 100 meii,
members of the three clubs and their
invited guests, will attend this ses-
sion. A special program in keepins
with the observance of Satety
! Week" will be carried out.