New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1929, Page 23

NATIONAL PROGRAM 10 SAVE EYESIGHT > pelling Treatment of Babies New York, Dee. 6.—Because an ounce of prevention is worth mo than a ton of cure when it comes to | saving eyesight, the National ciety for the Prevention of Blind- ness already has made a New Year's resolution. It is a three-fold one. i , the society wants the re- ning s es th do not now have v law requiring a silver nitr treatment of newborn babies’ ¢ nd enforce one, of eradicating which often cause blindness Second, the organization plans an extensive nation-wide program dur- ing 1930 to educate the public 4 the ad m to pass as a mie “baby sors bility of eve pre school child, in ord lease 2,7 saved lindness in om seriou; 37 men and wouen from serious injury or total were Joth injury eyes 4.654 or blind- ness § none eye hecause goggles were worn. This is based on the ible assumption that every time zoggle lens was shattered. pierced or splattered by molten metal or orrosive chemical while in an ve would have been destroyed if no and total plaus- 150, Organization Seeks Laws Com- ! and down and so do tables t rective measures may be employed instead of desks, that h pupil’'s to conserve what sight there is. | range of vision may be accommo- ‘A Third, the socicty will co-operate | dated. The y are placed at an with the American Federation of [in the room, that the best pos ILabor in the coming yea to con- |lighting, coming over the Ioft shoul- serve the vision of workers by in- | der, may be achieved. They > sisting on goggles, machine guar aught orally as much as possi A and other safety devices, in occupa- [ and write in large letters and tions dangerous to sight, and by |to avoid all unnecess strain. climinating poor lighting which [ With small units, teachers can give o causes eye strain, the third great | wdividual attention to further of blindness, ranking close to | n strain and accident, | These tion heyond Children’s Eyes Tested ust ge hool Perhaps the work this society | Along with the technical perfection does testing little children's e B classes, Mrs, Hathaway and £ about the most fascinating. in the work offer vocational 5 now have perfected a littl guid <o that a near-sighted game, where, by use of the letter I, | child, for insta will avoid choos- standing on its three legs, lying on |ing work she could not possibly do. / its back, pointing its paws this way | One illustration of this was an ar- or that, an efficien test can tistie little thi nting to do made of the vision of a child as!miniatures. who s steered into young as thre yeur 1f deficient | poster des . which she could do | - t, the child has much better | and which sh eenjoye of having its sight salvaged —_— - o = when the deficiency is discovered at T 3} 2 ! g o nas | North Carolina Cave Man y i er ways, sometimes | Has Warm Home in Rocks | ° this vision is improved. Blmwood, N. (. Dec. 6 (P—G. | One nurse, trained in testing the | 1 .0 1roos 1Sk North( q pre-school child's sight. spends her | 0% SRl . whole time demonstrat the ne- Pl cessity of such tests, During 1930, is lived in caves v she hopes to have the co-operation g them cooler in of many clubs and schools in com- | winter 1 munities throughout the country. | qidences The Society. " for Prevention of | “1is new home, which he [} Plvagess s o the top of a rocky hill Yean sucyvey of 1584 ol th long, 12 feet wide and seven fec . dustrial plants in the co S S 100000 o e 4\‘ p. 1t has a combined roomn caaed i p g td living room and a kitehen, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929. goggle had been worn | ures on the Sovict 1 them, whether they are One of the advanced branches of ‘RIEH ARE EJEETEB | non-worlk it of the family or 1 the Society's work is that of con- in and o Rooms for Workers Only serving vision for the partially| £ 1 which 1 project prohibits house sighted child, instigated and in-| FR[]M APARTMENTS 3 « zed and mu- spired by Mrs. Winifred Hathaway, | 1 [ T4 T p ldings to ‘mother of sight sa classes.” | AN i 1 | 10 is not Mrs. Hathaway, in , assisted b alt « I made rst course for t saving given Columbia Sinee teachers : supervisors at many of the country's Dest univer IR sities and colleges and has even heen | | called to England for consultation | Moscow, Dec. 6 lon similar work there for partially familics of traders sighted children. | holc 1 5,000 sight saving classes ' proleta are needed to provide for the visu-| ally handicapped school children in this country,” Mrs, Hathaway esti- d. “There a $ such class noblemen, an eler ejected from the ments, and the 1,800 they occupied have to f y workmen Moscow roon en give nd 1l Moscow Bildings Reserved for * Workmen and Families "0 1 had t i co ¢ - home. Among iction are: I 1 o handicraf apar more persons v ceeds 1,500 op proprictors workme n or only i d loyul to HELD BY GERV i o Tougon Seientists Accused of rrvor e o o o KeenmosRemelyiSIbroel G S man t to manu- | tusal ¢ GRANGT to enjoy bee ointed o cted to se- | since it is, if, the committee’s solicia d be comprehensible, But fact, a new process of involving a saving to committee’s res is de« investigate ING AND SUPPER ill work the third lass of 24 Saturday will be vs. Visie MET or ing am spected from other A hary pper will be Officers at cting on now and they have proved iles At o many children accounted mentally sabnormal, morosc ven considered cri displayed intell lispositions when they ed cspe defective vision Scientifically FEquipped | The cquipment of these class rooms is scientific. Chairs move up | v use | STAR'S NAMIL TO AIRPORT Olathe, K Dee, 6 (Rr—0lat new 80-acre airport is to he na after Charles (Buddy) It vie actor and town idol in Ol lis birthplace. 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