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reduce these farm accident deaths, so
many of which are due entireiy to care-
lessness.

It has been said that "A nation walks
forward on the feet of its children"
it is our obligation to teach our chil-
dren to walk safely,

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We are very happy to present an art-
icle by Dr. F. P, Helm, Guest Fditor for
this issue of the Pulistin. Dr. Helm, as
Executive Secretary of the Kansas State
Board of Health has been very active in
urging and promoting sarevy education in
the Kansas public schoois, His articles
on safety appear regularly in many of the
newspapers throughout the state,

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Safety Education
in Dodge City High School

Safety education is being stressed
more and more in the Kansas schools as a
result of the need shown by the large
number of accidents constantly occurring.
It has been definitely proven that inten-
sive education in safety does greatiy
decrease accidents among school children,
St, Louis was one of the first cities to
prove this fact more than 20 years ago,
One of the first, if not the very first,
safety courses to be used in this country,
was developed and used in that city with
exceedingly good results,

An intensive and well thought out
course in safety has been developed by
Mr. Ralph Churchill, Director of Physical
Education, at Dodge City, Kansas. This
course is designed for high school stu-
dents and is taught to all sophomores,

He has developed a course which is having
some very fine results. Mr. Churchill
gives the following description of his
work:

All of the Sophomore boys and girls
are enrolled in Safety Education for one
semester. Safety Education alternates
with Physical Education, The time al-
loted for the course is 2,5 periods per
week for one semester, each period being
55 minutes in length.

The text books being used at present
are: "Man and The Motor Car," by Albert
Whitney. Hducational Series Vol. X

National Bureau of Casuality and

Surety Underwriters ~- New York. 1936

“Safety First and Last," by Charles

E. Dull, Senior High School, Newark,

New Jersey, Copyright, 1928 by Henry
Holt and Company.

These are secured by a 15 cen:
rental foe per pupil,

Twentv~seven periods are used in
studying automobile safety. In ail
casos we try to relate our study with
actual happenings in and about lodge
Citw. The students keep newsparcor
articles vortaining to automobile,
home, school and farm accidents, We
correlate all of our academic work
with these nowspaper articles,

After teaching Safety Education
three years, I am sincerely convinced
that toaching driving in the school is
very impractical, Driving is habit
formation and takes considerable more
timo than we have alloted for it.
Teaching dfiving is similar to that of
coaching football, It takes hours of
consistence repetition to bocome effi-+
cicnt in the basic fundamentals,

I do believe we have accomplished a
great deal along the line of pedestrian
travel, especially around the school
and downtown, Maybe this is because
we are always on the lookout for one
of our students to break a pedestrian
law and use him as an example, |

The remaining twenty-five sessions
we use for home, school and farm safety.
covering such topics as;

Safety at Home

Fire and Fire Prevention

Safety at School and At Play

First Aid

Safety in and About the Farm

Use is made of several aids in mak~
ing the course practical, graphic, and
interesting. These include talks by
speakers such as the police and fire
chiefs, motion pictures, and lantern
slides. One of the most interesting
and valuable methods used is for the
students to visit the scene of serious
accidents that occur, In cooperation
with the police department they study
the accident, learn its cause and then
discuss ways in which it might have
been avoided. Thus they learn cause
and prevention in connection with real
accidents,

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Cathedral High School of Wichita
will compete for the city basketball
championship with Wichita East and
North High Schools this year,

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