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Show Children to Be Tauaglit Safety i, record. 'I'lii' hi i;;it cllies where school .siiperhllenileiil.H luive ( ; l It ' II up accl-ili'iit accl-ili'iit prevent Inn Insl rnei Inn liirlnileil New York, Chicago, 'Incinnii 1 1, I'll T-fnln, T-fnln, Milwaukee, Seiillle, P.o.slon, I.nu- 1 .-t 1 1 1 1 . Rochester I Baltimore. The Aincrlenn Museum of Nuluriil Illslnry, Mr. Dow added, luiil co-opor-iiteil wllli tlie council In preparing exhibits ex-hibits showing protection among nnl-li nnl-li in In. mill showing the? conned Inn of proscrviilion of life by present-day met boils. Anti-Accidrr.t Study Wit Bo Part of Regular Curriculum in Public Schools. Atlantic Oily, N. .1. Two million school children this fall will begin the study of accident prevention as a part of the curricula, Marcus How of New York, president of the National Safety council, reported ie enily to the executive execu-tive committee and directors In session ses-sion here. Special textbooks have been provided and other Instruction by drill, slogans, statistics, organizations, do-bales do-bales and other features which lire Intended In-tended to reduce drastically the estimated esti-mated annual 1!0,000 fatalities among school children. ' School olllclals and teachers Joined In mapping out the program and a textbook covering virtually every form of accident and prevention was compiled com-piled Intended to appeal to the children's chil-dren's instincts for self-preservation uud self-impressions, said the report. Use English Classes. For example, It Is continued, Eng-! Eng-! llsh classes offered an unlimited Held for work In accident prevention through reading, composition, speeches and debates. 1 "rawing bad an equally extensive scope through posters, construction, con-struction, sand-table models, scrap book and bulletin boards. An arithmetic class, It was found, could use accident statistics of the city, state and country as a basis for groups, problems, learning meanwhile to keep an accurate account or accl-dents accl-dents so that the extent of the accl- j dent situation might be known. It : was found civics could include the study of municipal governments' agencies agen-cies for the protection of lives of citizens. Safety Is emphasized In geography geo-graphy through the study of forest fires, and Hoods and peoples of various climates and countries. Study Current Dangers. Each month of the school year will be devoted to study of the accident danger most Imminent at the time. These will stnrt with street dangers, and continue through the list of lires, weapons, burns and scalds, poisons nd asphyxlatlons, electric safety, falling fall-ing objects, rnllwny tracks and trains, accidents in play and drowning. Mr. Dow disclosed that In some cities where Bafety education had been tried out, fatal accidents among school children had decreased nearly half. In Cleveland such deaths decreased by 1G1 in the year. A 50 per cent reduction re-duction resulted from six years of school safety work In Detroit, he said, and St. Louis also had made a good |