Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-03

OldpCl Hill, July O.-AS pdIt VI d
special program IN safety education
being conducted this summer in CO.
operation with some fifty colleges
and universities by New York Uni
versity's National Center for Safety
Education, Dr. Herbert ]. Stack, di-
rector of the Center, will lecture and
hold conferences on problems of &C
cident control during an all-day visit
at the University Of North Carolina
Thursday, July 6, it was announced
today by Prof. Guy B. Phillips, sec
rotary of the summer session.
The University's safety conference
is to be held Thursday and Friday
and is to be conducted with the &C
tive cooperation of A. M. Higgins,
of the Carolina Motor Club; Ronald
HOcutt, of the safety division of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission; and officials of the
American Automobile Association. 1t
is the beginning of a program of
safety education teaching at the Uni
versity of North Carolina
DR.. Stack will give a public adj
dress at 1920 o'clock Thursday morn
ing, after which he and DR.. Amos
Neyhart, consultant of the AAA, will
give demonstrations in automobile
driving at IL o'clock.
Under the leadership of local and
national authorities in safety educa-
ton, discussion groups will be held
Thursday afternoon, beginning at
2:3O o'clock.
At 7:3O o'clock Thursday night
there will be an address by Burton
w. Marsh, Of Washington, d. c., di-
rector Of the Safety and Traffic En-
cheering Department of the AAA.
DR.. Neyhart will speak again Fri
day morning on Safety Programs in
Secondary Schools and Traffic Pro-
blems", after which there will be a
general discussion
DR.. Stack is a we'll known author
ity in the field of safety education,
having lectured and held conferences
in more than 400 colleges during the
last few years. He will address vari-
GUS classes at the Summer Session,
hold conferences, and provide an ex-
hibit OF the various materials used
in classroom instruction.
The Center for Safety Education at
New York University, of which Dr.
Stack is the director, has had an en-
rOllment of more than 400 graduate
students during the last year, SO OF
whom were holders of scholarships
or fellOWships granted by the Cen
ter
''There have been some striking
gains during the last few years in
safety instruction in the schools, DR.
Stack says in a statement in connec-
ton with his forthcoming visit.
"The start that has been made in
the high school driver education pro-
grams in North Carolina is one of the
outstanding efforts on the part of the
schools to teach young people the
basic facts about safe driving.
"Of the three requirements of good
driving knowledge, skill and at
titudes-the last is by far the most
important. Studies have shown that
where classroom work can be sup
plemented by actual road instruction
young drivers have a much better
safety record over period of years
than when they have had no such in
structiOn''
The program to be conducted al
the University by DR.. Stack is part
of the campaign of instruction and
research in safety education that has
been carried on under his direction
by the Center for Safety Education
since it's establishment at New York
University a year ago under a special
grant from the National Conservation
Bureau, neutrality-suspicious. division