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May, 1930] SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS 581
service of the newly formed Section, he proceeded with the nominations for the offices of secretary-treasurer and two managers.
The committee nominations for secretarytreasurer were D. B. Hyndman and W. R. McNair, and for the offices of managers were H. Griffin, M. C. Batsel, J. R. Manheimer, T. E. Shea, and G. C. Edwards. It was moved that the manager receiving the highest number of votes be designated the long term manager, and the one receiving the next highest number of votes be designated as the short term manager.
The election of officers then proceeded on the basis of these nominations, and the subsequent count revealed that Mr. Hyndman was elected to the office of secretary-treasurer, Mr. Shea to the long term office of manager, and Mr. Batsel to the short term office of manager.
A telegram from the West Coast Section was read offering their Section's best wishes for the success of the New York Section.
A motion was then made and passed that the New York Section through its officers petition the Board of Governors to reconsider the limits of the New York Section, and to accept the definition of the metropolitan limits as those given by the leading national authority, which is assumed to be the United States Chamber of Commerce.
NEWS NOTE FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS
New York City, March 30. — The League of Nations is undertaking an exhaustive study of the effects that motion pictures may produce on the eyesight of children and young people, it was disclosed here today by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
"The widespread use of the cinema throughout the world now, its additional possibilities for visual education with the introduction of talking pictures, and its increased use in schools and colleges has called forth the present investigation," explained Lewis H. Carris, managing director of the Society.
"Under the supervision of Dr. Lucien de Feo, director of the International Educational Cinematographic Institute of the League of Nations, the study will seek to determine whether any disturbances of sight are provoked by watching a brilliantly lighted screen in absolute darkness, the maximum time that a show can last before producing a tiring effect on sight, and similar answers which may influence the use of motion pictures for juvenile education.