Evening star., 1932-10-07
HOME ACCIDENTS
STUDIED IN FINAL
SAFETY SESSIONS
Alice L. Edwards, Grace Ab-
bott and Dr.. Otis Marshall
Among Speakers.
GOVERNMENT PHASE
OF WORK CONSIDERED
T. Mccall Frazier of Virginia Ad.
dresses Street and Highway
Traffic Session.

Methods Of reducing the enormous
number of accidents in homes Of the
United States were under discussion
this morning as the twenty-first an
nual Safety Congress entered its final
day at Wardman Park and Shoreham
Hotels.
Speakers before the home safety
section included Alice l.. Edwards, ex
ecutive secretary of the American Home
Economics Association; Grace Abbott
chief of the Children's Bureau, De-
partment of Labor, who described meas
ures for protecting children from acci-
dent in the home. and DR.. Otis Mar
shall Of the American Red Cross, who
gave first-aid demonstration of prac-
tical use to householders
Another conference sharing general
interest with the home safety section
as the 1000 delegates prepared for ad-
Journment later this afternoon. was a
meeting at Wardman Park Hotel this
morning to discuss governmental rela-
tions in safety work.
New Yorker a Speaker. d,
Ethelbert Stewart, leading labor stat
istician and former official of the Labor
which was addressed by c. S. Ching of
New York. director Of industrial and
public relations for the United States
Rubber Co.: Charles R. Blunt, commits
sioner of labor for New Jersey; Lew
R. Palmer. conservation engineer of the
Equitable Life Insurance Co.; DR.. P. G.
Agnew. secretary of the American
Standards Association of New York
City, and John Campbell director of
the Bureau of Industrial Standards.
Pennsylvania Department of Labor and
Industry.
The final session Of the street and
highway traffic section in Wardman
Park Hotel this morning was addressed
by T. Mccall Frazier, director of the
Virginia State division of motor We
hicles. Mr. Frazier told how the pres
ent drivers license law was enacted
and some of the results of this safety
legislation.
Wives of the delegates to the con-
gress were received at the White House
yesterday at noon by Mrs. Hoover A
high light of the entertainment pro-
gram was the congress frolic' in the
gold room at Wardman Park last night.
Dancing was enjoyed by the several
Thousand guests and a cabaret pro-
gram was put on, followed at midnight
by a supper.
Other important meetings this morn
ing were the electric railway and public
utility group sessions at Wardman Park
Hotel
Next City Undecided.
The next convention city Of the con-
gress has not be determined, and prob
ably will not be announced for several
months. although officials said that
Grand Rapids, Mich. is making a
strong bid for the meeting.
Local arrangements for the congress
were made by committee Of leading
citizens, headed by Newbold Noyes and
George w. Offutt The Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee Of the Wash
ington Board of Trade co-operated with
the citizens group in arranging for
the entertainment of the visitors.
The reasons underlying the fact that
no child has been killed or seriously in
jured in traffic accidents near Wash
ington public schools In the last six
years were outlined to the child health
section yesterday afternoon by Selden
M. Ely. supervising principal of the
fifth district Of Washington public
schools.
Mr.. Ely told how approximately $500
boys from the schools OF Washington
aided in getting their classmates safely
across street intersections going to and
from the schools. The patrols direct
children, not traffic" Mr. Ely said,
"and members of the Police Depart
ment, when they began to understand
what the boy patrols stood for, changed
from an attitude of reticence to one of
real sympathy"