Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1924, Page 11

DISTRICT RESIDENTS UNITED IN DEMANDING TRAFFIC RELIEF Curi‘,i}ress Commzuee HarBlg Task in Framing Law : To Fit Necessities of Motoring Safety In Washington. Barber_ traffic expert of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Other provivsions in the bill which the committee will discuss when ft (Continued from t Page.) ¥ and especlally in the jast few months, that a sepa- 1 rate traffic court was indispensable to | mects again on January 5 are: i Proper administration of Justice | Issuance of ' operators p9r31| s (n‘ rapidly growing army of traffic| three colors, elimination of all-night | keen disappointment | parking, speed and reckless driving, when the committee | Penalties for violation of traffic laws, provision, | headlights, garage reports on repair g fo the local courts,|ing cars, operation of pound for mo- ‘ver. will serve the same pur-{tor vehicles and citizens’ complaint '« it both of the new judges are |cards. ussigned ‘to traffic; if suitable hous- Optentor's Gard System: ing can be found in the present court| o oo il Drovidey that the If the judges alt at night| , iginal operator's card shall be in iequate personnel is added 10| pire; that on first conviction this| the court for the transactlon of thel ;4 gnail be forfeited and a blue S R card substituted, and on second con- viction the blue one taken up and a vellow one issued. While this system undoubtediy | would go a long Way to check up on motorists, there are many who feel that it would mean a large amount of | bookkeeping, and that if the original| card were punched or marked in some | way when the holder is convicted of a traffic violation the same result would be obtained The elimination of all-night park- |ing 1s a moot question. although it} is admitted that it would be a desir- able thing. There are three classes | of motorists to whom t would ap | ply—those who have not the means | to provide a garage for their rs, those who live considerable dist: from a garage and those who } tate to leave thelr cars in public| garages. There are probably a great many motorists belonging to the first class. Of course, the argument is immedi- ately advanced that if they cannot afford to store thelr cgrs, they should not own them. Of the second class there are many, too. They might be described as “lazy,” but no one cares particularly about walking four or five blocks if the car is needed fn a hurry. The third class is the small- est and consists of those who do not want their cars handled by any one but themselves. felt for ma larger Plon Trafic Axsignme: I to the first it s be the plan of the committee least two judges s n trafic cases and th be held | until 11 o'clock at might. There has been considerable doubt expressed b; court officials thats room could be found in the present building and that in adding two judges Congress would provide for more court assistants. One official puts it this way: Here we are up to limit in work s proposes to add two judges where there is not ot the business w. Some way must be new judges are provided . quarters and to get an corps to handle the con- tly tncreasing volume of business. has been a proposal advanced divide one of the present court- yms into two rooms. Anybody who the trouble to investigate will w impossible this plan is. If ress provides more judges it will to make the change a whole- New judges will not help much unless new quarters jore assistants are provided.” New Assistants Probable. s matter was brought up in the smmittee, and it is thought probable t additional clerks will be re: Housing was also discu it scemed to be the consensus opinion that the present buil ps to thht at T riara s building Speed Question Looms. | The speed question is one that will| | probably bring forth a great deal of 1ld take care of the Increase. argument, although students of traf- he committee should go further | pebRETE Ty P00l e e ‘conclu- » the matter before making defl- | 4jon that not speed but reckless driv- the final bHL Court offictals or | frof TA%7, 10 SRCCC wed. It is under- + one familiar with the situatlon | 4564 that meny members of the com- 'uid be heard, so that the real facts | yttee favor a maximum speed limit 1ld be arrived at. Congress Cer-|g,¢ 39 an hour, with a drastic reck- y does not want to make changes | j..q griving provision which would | 1 not relieve but aggravate | maye jiable to arrest any motorist Jrdl L operating at any speed without duc regatd 1o, the regard to the safety of trafiic. Any Steln i £hio iatelch speed over 30 miles an hour would | : mmittee took occasion|pe prima facie evidence that the mo- | » ged inactivity on the | iorist was reckless. t of the Engincer Department in}| “yrpjje the provision relating tol creation of these streets. Thel, .qignts in the tentative bill is| the matter is that up untll the | grpgtic in the extreme, it does not| « President signed the defi-| o o tne problem, because it merely | ncy biil there has been no money | ,rgyides that headlights are not al- Bl Ui e lowed to be dimmed in the city; that To Visit Other Cities. the lights shall be visible for at least $10,000 provided for | 200 feet ahead, and that the lens shall © of these highways, | have been approved by the Bureau of agree will materially | Standards. °d up traMc Maj. W. H. Hol-| There s considerable controversy be, chairman of the District Traf- |about the first item. Even States Board, intends, immediately after | with acknowledged headlight laws, ristmas, to tour the larger cities|such as Maryland and Connecticut, of the t for inspection of the|have mot been ablo to Ket away from various types of signals used for the | the dazzling light menace. What pro- ligh-speed boulevards. tection is there to the District If ail Th two propositions have been|lights are ordered by law to be only ones that the committee|turned on full blast? There is noth- 4 upon, the third meeting having [ing in the tentative bill that men- becn devoted to hearing Col. A. B.|tions focusing and tilting, which are arterial highways several mem- re is now tabitahm | sustment | win | parked over {idea of walking several block |ited to only a few men, but the ques- | tion of having to go into court as a THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 21; 1924—-PAR'1‘ i . . far more important than merely &p- proved lens. Are we to have every car in the city with headlights switched on and blinding every on- coming driver? Light Rules Perplexing. As mentioned before, there is more to the matter than that. The States with model laws. regulating helght focus, tilt and distance, as well as lens, have emphatica’ly not been able to cure a large percentage of dazzling lights on automobiles There are not cnough poilcemen in the world properly (o check up on every motorist in every State every time he takes his car out, because a4 30-mi e ride will, at times, disturb the mosnt perfect focus and light ad- This provition should be entirely rewritten, according to traffic ex- perts. It should contain all the ideas on light regu'ation learned by motor | experts in the various States, and the committee should ook thorough- | Iy into the no-dimming edict when experience has shown that no mat- ter how tight the law a tremendous percentage of motorists will still have dazzling lights. It will then : down to the question of which Ix worse, inadequate street lights or darzilng headlights. There are many | who will concede that it will be thé | latter. Would Have Check on Repairs. 1t is generally admitted that a reg- ulation compelling garage and serv- ice men to repori to the nolles when a car which shows evidence of having Been in a collision is urned G .o tiiem for repaif is a good one. This measure wil enable the police to| check up on the “hit-and-run'® fraternity. % { Operation of a pound for motor cars probably abate the *parking nuisance to some extent, but diffi- ities are bound to follow if the po- lice ure allowed 40 tow every car me to a pound In (‘.m‘ first place there are not enough au- tomobiles in the department for this| work; in the second, injury to cars may result with no redress for the owrner, and thirdly, the trafiic jams caused by a large number of these stowaways will be serious. The impounding idea for cars i« all right, but they should be impound- d on the spot where the crime is committed and the owner forced tof g0 to a precinct station for his re- lease. This can be done by provid- ing the police with some kind of auto lock which will prevent moving the car before the release si obtained. Al- though this plan may keep the cars in parking spaces a longer time, there is no motorist who will relish the toa him | precinct station and it will ma do & bit of thinking before he violates |~ the law again Complaint Card Objections. ie citizen complaint card idea was tried out by the motor corps which was In operation in Washington for many yvears. It was not conspicu- ously successful and led to many ar- guments. It might work well If lim- witness for a conviction has destroyed its efliciency. The committee, in framing this model traffic law, should look beyond the mere rules governing traffic, it is agreed. It should seek to find out just why Washington is admittedly weak in modern traffic regulations and their enforcement This is the reason, according to those who have carefully studied the | question. Washington Js woefully | undermanned in its Police Depart-| ment and a thousand and one laws may be enacted with no improvement in the situation. To enforce the traffic laws Washington must have the proper number of policemen. These policemen must be adequately equipped and they must be mobile. Of what use are footmen to chase |John L. Lewis conferred with Rinaldo {and agreed upon a statement of facts | the statement will not be made pub- speeding cars? Of what use are antiquated motor cycles, many of | which saw service in France, for the' SYMPATHY STRIKE INMINES OPPOSED Union Officials Warn 12,800 Lehigh Workers to Live Up to Contracts. By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa., December 20— Twelve thousand employes of the Le- | high Valley Coal Co., who are to take a vote next week on the question of joining in a sympathy strike with the 12,000 employes of the Pennsyl- vania Coal Co., who have been idle three weeks, were warned by district union leaders today that any such action will be recognized as a viola- tion of union laws and will be dealt with accordingly. The district executive board in spe- clal session here sent telegrams to the 12 local unions of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., advising them to live up to thelir contracts and not to vote for a strike. Report Due Next Week. The commission named by President Cappellini and board members today, on the Pittston strike, which will be forwarded to President Lewls. Circulars containing the same state- ments are to be printed next week and sent to all local unions in the Scranton district. Until such time as the circulars are placed én the mails lic, President Cappellini satd SCHoOL CONTRACTf GIVEN Commissioners Select Builders for John F. Cook Structure. The District Commissioners yester- day awarded the contract for the erection of the new John F. 3 School to the frm of Skinker & Gar- rett for $237,951 The school is to be a 16-room build- ing, erected on P street between First and Third streets northwest, and is expected to be completed in about 10 months. chasing of 90 automoblles. Lack of Funds Hampers Work. Is there any other city comparable | in size to Washington in the world | where in order to get white lines painted at crosswalks for the protec- tion of pedestrians a public-spirtted citizen must donate the money? Is there any other clty in the world | where the citizens must take up a collection to send the head of the| traffic squad to an fmportant meeting | in another city, where he may learn what has been accomplished in trafic betterment? 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