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U. S. SAFETY DRIVE
SHOWINGRESULTS
Committee Compiling Data
to Co-ordinate All Units
in Program.
me aamimsirauon s prugiam w in
ordinate and intensify a Nation-wide
effort to reduce the heavy annual loss
of life from accidents—e. toll which
overshadows the casualties of war
fare—is beginning to show signs of
progress, although Congress has not
yet provided funds requested to cover
the cost.
The plan to mobilize a united front
against the hazards of the home,
farm, factory, office, mine and rail
ways, airways and seaways, as well as
highways, was started through the
National Accident Prevention Con
ference assembled here last December
by Daniel C. Roper. Secretary of Com
merce, at the request of President
Roosevelt. Senator Harry A. Moore
of New Jersey, whose record for safety
legislation while he was Governor
commended him for the job, was
made chairman of a general committee
appointed to carry on the work, and
Labert St. Clair, transportation assist
ant of the Secretary of Commerce, was
lent to the organization as director of
activates.
Bills calling for $50,000 to defray
clerical expenses of the various sub
committees, whose members are serv
ing without pay, and for $200,000 to
set up a unit in the Census Bureau to
provide for the first time accurate and
comprehensive statistics on accident
casualties, were introduced soon after
the conference. Congress has acted
on neither, but passage of the $50,000
measure is expected soon, with the
other bill likely to go over until the
movement has been brought to a more
advanced stage.
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The studies assigned to a number
of the subcommittees have been held
up awaiting the appropriation. Never
theless. Mr. St. Clair already has
been advised of marked progress in
several fields of the undertaking. Ex
haustive reports and recommenda
tions have been submitted from the
various branches of the automotive
Industry, which has initiated a $300,
000 to $400,000 safety study and cam
paign in connection with the most
spectacular of the three major types
of accidents, those occurring on the
highways, before the conference was
called.
The American Red Cross, continuing
a campaign likewise started before the
conference, is pressing its effort to
make the homes and farms, which are
estimated to produce as many, if not
more, accidental deaths annually as
the highways, safer places. The steam
railroads, meanwhile, are understood
to be preparing ior a campaign to re
duce the hazards at railroad crossings,
and the electric railways are organ
izing a movement of their own to in
crease the safety of their operation.
The administration has emphasized
the voluntary nature of its accident
prevention mobilization from the out-'
set, stressing repeatedly that it had
neither desire nor intention to set up
a new. permanent Federal agency.
Its purpose was to bring together the
sgencies engaged in promoting safety,
to bring order into their scattered ef
forts. Once that is achieved, it in
tends to withdraw from the field on a
Federal scale, although, of course,
various Government agencies already
related to it will continue to function,
with revisions to fit them into the new
general plan.
Long Range Process.
The program is viewed as a long
range, permanent process, with special
Intensified campaigns and “drives"
omitted. For that reason it is thought
likely that after Congress has provided
the $50,000 to finance the present or
ganization. little pressure will be ex
erted to speed action on the $200,000
Census Bureau proposal until the pre
liminary studies have produced a
more definite pattern of procedure.
At present accident statistics are
recognized as unsatisfactory. Even in
the case of highway accidents, which
have engaged widespread attention for
years, the statistics which the Census
Bureau has been able to assemble pro
vide litle foundation for well grounded
attacks on the problems involved.
Secretary Roper told the conference
that the best available estimate W'as
that 100,000 American lives were being
Iqst annualy in accidents on land and
sea and in the air. About 35 times
as many persons are thought to be in
jured every year.
Accidents are thought to be divided
about equally among those on the
highways, those in the homes and on
farms, and those in industry. Rear
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, retired,
chairman of the American Red Cross,
who presided at the conference,
pointed out that while it was re
corded that 244.000 Americans had
been killed in the six major wars in
which the United States had been in
volved, it was estimated that 388,000
men, women and children had been
killed in highway accidents alone in
this country in only 15 years. He de
Test Two-Way Police Radio
—
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One-way conversations will be a thing of the past if the
Metropolitan Police Department adopts the neiv “receiving and
sending* radio sets for scout cars.
Police Superintendent Ernest IV. Brown (left) and Lieut.
James L. Kelley are shown testing one of the new models which
would enable cruising officers to converse with the broadcaster.
—Star Staff Photo.
scribed farming as "the most hazard
ous occupation.”
System for Statistics.
What is desired eventually in the
way of accident statistics is a sys
tem which will bring them up to
date, providing current, accurate In
formation on the number and causes
of each kind of accident, so that safety
workers can attack the greatest
hazards with maximum efficiency
through regulation where it might be
effective, co-operation of those who
can help and education of potential
victims.
It has been demonstrated, notably
in Milwaukee, that, through co-ordi
nated continuing effort based on defi
nite knowledge of where danger lies
and what Its causes are. accident tolls
can be reduced. At present the Cen
sus Bureau's highway accident sta
tistics. based on more or less desultory
reports from cities occupied by only
about one-third of the Nation’s popu
lation, are not available for any year
until the October of the next year.
As the movement is developing. Its
leaders are convinced that great em
phasis must be placed on educational
activities, especially in homes and
farms. While a certain amount of
regulatory action has been found
effective in reducing hazards in the
highway and industrial accident cate
gories, the latter embracing not only
shops and offices, but railroads, air
ways and shipping lines, the evidence
on hand indicates that education of
potential victims—who number about
130,000,000 in the United States—may
be made highly effective.
Dependence on Education.
In the third, and possibly largest,
category, that of accidents in the
home and farm, it is plain that chief
reliance must rest on education, with
the co-operation of those who supply
the equipment of farms and homes
essential, but subsidiary.
After surveying this problem, lead
erg In the movement have discovered
that there is now no text book on
safety for distribution among the
schools. The nearest approach, they
believe, is a 8.000-word report re
ceived by Senator Moore's committee
on the plan worked out in Milwaukee.
Civilian Conservation Corps directors
already have decided to make the
teaching of that plan a part of their
program, an educational effort in
various phases of safety designed to
send out hundreds of thousands of
youthful safety "leaders” and "mis
sionaries.” The young, it is recog
nized, are more responsive to safety
training than their elders, and they
will be the elders in a few years
hence.
The Miuwaukee plan, which reduced
traffic fatalities steadily from 132 in
1829 to 65 in 1935, cut deaths from
accidents in homes from 120 in 1934
to 100 last year. The home-safety
part of the Milwaukee plan, is de
scribed in a report to the National
Committee prepared by C. F. Butcher
of the Milwaukee Journal, is carried
on by the city’s Safety Commission
through the schools, parent-teacher
asosciatlons and clubs. The commis
sion keeps records of all fatal acci
dents. and makes sure that the people
learn of their causes.
Speakers and bulletins point out
that 75 per cent of the home fatalities
last year, and 81 per cent of those
the year before, resulted from falls;
old folks slipping on loose rugs or
highly polished floors or losing their
balance on unprotected stairs, and
persons of all ages stumbling over
obstructions or tumbling out of up
stairs windows. Three babies were
suffocated by bed clothing last year,
five In 1934 and seven In 1933. Four
teen persons died of scalds and burns
last year.
This kind of accident, It was em
phasized, was not confined to the
homes of the poor, but spread
throughout the economic range. The
dangers lurking in improper use of
inflammable cleaning fluid, litter In
basements and attics, wounds suffered
in gardening and in the preparation
of food were detailed vividly by
pamphlet, radio and screen, with In
■tractions on measures to be taken to
avoid falls, burns and scalds, asphyx
iation and such miscellaneous hazards
as poisons, loaded puns and infection
from cuts and bruises.
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All lamp posts In Bourne, England,
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