Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1927, Page 4

CITY T0 EXTEND TRAFFIC LIGHTS Many Streets Are Included in Signal System for Capital. Greater safety and m vehicular t pated by for both e officials as the is heavy in cross Jlazards are created, which directions. eve can be climinated only s bel by a more extensive aut tion of important strec Thirteen secti rou ind are to have the electric ons trol from whiie s in the automatic cor Mount Pleasa rsecti with more p electrical system where traf usually heavy. Selection of Locations. which the new been he sireets on be placed have the basis of traflic count accident statistics, T electric econtrol svst has heen followed hy reduction of the number Theyv accordingly have looked situation on s are not in ope have l'wl high accident rates which certain will be lowered \\llrn t more of the troubl is under the automatic liz Accident ures for which the are significan tiation of this view. On 10 ghfar select for addition to the electric control sys tem, there have !nm\ 1.131 accident from J , 19 to 'v!vrl lm !'M 4 August, fatalitics In direct contr Rixteenth street avenue where the stalled. Not a sin; curred during nearly two operation on these thoroughfares. In general, the extensions will con- | form in outward appearance to the signals already in use on Sixteenth | street and ) sachusetts and Rhode | Island avenues. Both the co-ordinated | groups and the isolated intersections will be of the four-corner type, and nowhere in the plan proposed will the center light be used. | Program Outlined. While details of design, material | and actual functioning of the equip- | ment which will he installed, neces sarily must be guarded by traffic of-| ficials until bids are obtained and accepted, the outstanding features of | operation, being _somethinz quite | ts. at vh» | " placed ast is the sit and Massachusetts apart from specifications and bids for | i equipment, are outlined by Traffic Director William H. Harland and are | somewhat as follows 1 The fullest possible flex eration is the goal of the traflic office in setting up the extensions. Con | siant progress is being made in the design of the automatic signal lights ty of op- and considerable variation in the dura- | tion of time for each colored light has been made possible.. For examnple, the latest type of light permits a varia: tion of timing of from 20 seconds to 1 minute for traffic in both cross directions, allowing north and south traffic from 20 seconds to 1 minute, and the same range for east and we: traffic, depending upon the need of | the particular street or mm:e:zmnv at_different periods in the d To achieve further flexibility of the electric traffic lights, there will he a wider “use of the manual control in combination with the automatic con- | trol. This combination will exist at 2 the isolated intersections and at cer- tain crossings on the streets on which sections for several brocks are con- trolled by the lights. In this way a police officer during the rush hours may switch the lights from automatic operation to permit him to change their timing at will and change them at irregular intervals just as he would , the new lights will bhe timed to raffic condi- tions existing at the location where they are placed. Some streets may have changes every two blocks or every four blocks, the number of lights which will show green at one time depending upon the traffic conditions. Pedestrians to Benefit. The new installations also will dem- onstrate the extent of usability of the electric signals in congested areas. Lights will he placed on E, Sixth and | Tenth streets, all large volume of traffic tions that will be somew from the streets on which they been placed. Not only motorists but pedestrians, will _benefit | installations. | reets on | no con have new on s little or will he eliminated, the lizhts are in place Traffic officials are proceeding in the | belief ashington definitely | needs control lights Autor = of traffic is com- | ing me e \n he N unques- | tioned n In so far as W ington is eoncerned, traffic author are anxious keep the National Capital well in the forefront of the movement in the direction of the automatic system | The electric teenth street n nue, the two thorou motorists first were g tunity to experience the fects of orderly movement are viewed tageous. To vision Sixteenth street hours withe ghts it is ) sh 1 Maskachusetts ay es on which |{ en the opp henefic of tr and adva moving the rush m of the and south. | as necessar traffic on! the restrict mination, they installation as possible. leve, will result of the lights durinz the to and ir the scene from the nd o4 1 iding A 200 acc The I»'w'M Avenue street ywest, 95 Sixth street hwe Massachusetts avenue norths Maryland avenue. Second to Fif stree 5 h strec eet northwest, northwest, 81. Record of Fatalities, Fatalities were distribu Eixth street northwest, 7; K northeast and northw 5; hod e lsland_avenue northeast and ‘Worth west, 3; Massachusetts avenue north- 136 thus street | street | street. narthwest | L STAMPS TO BE DISPLAYED‘ NEW TRAFFIC LIGHT PLAN PROVIDES MANY EXTENSIONS ¥ | $ AN Gonn Are Conn Ave @A’Mmma /gz/ flaAred s - e;r//mplr Thirteen sec rafted by the di town_traffic, an lected on the to afford automatic e of a trafic count an Georgia a/n/ N THE EVENING ol anp Ave. MERIDIAN HiLL PARK STAR. WASHINGTON. D._C. FRIDAY, NOV "EMBER 1927. 25, | A;]/ Ave.& S:Dakola Are @ KEY o | mmmm Streets on which Traffic | | signals are now operating xS @ !solated intersections now 18} Isolated infersections fo X G Ngp. & Fla Are. treets and 21 I~nlnl?d intersect lpl oved by the Commissi he ext ntrol for cortain individual intersecti d accident statistics, and also on a sury HaAve 1ol efet/fl?/ 4.8 CaproL @‘”‘%f"" ; treets on which Traffic signals areto be insfalled controlled by signals ! be controlled by signals aution beacons now in operation. 5HEHE Mo AveNE Q/%g gga Are US.NAyr Yaro. jons are to be controlled by the aute ns are planned to provide several light-cont believed in need of the lights. Streets and inters which ar of conditions throughout the city. ! Good Hope R @ /Mchols #re S.E ymatic traffic lights, according to a plan lled thoroughfares for cross- NS were se- 3 nd avenue, Second to wenth streets northeast and Fif: ith street northwest, h, and Sireet morthwost and Tenth street 3 st, 1 each. < avenue northwest leads with the heaviest traffic volume | int made during the rush 4 to 6 p.m. The total was Next is It 1 nue with a count cf street north est was third with nd K street fourth with 2,164. total for E street northwest was 2 The_count for 1487, Tenth reet, 891 to The street, d N ond 798. In striking contrast is the exper ence on Sixteenth street and M chusetts avenue. No fatalities have occurred since the traffic lights have been installed on these thoroughfares The sitnation there immediately s gests the question “Will serious acci- | dents be curtailed or entirely elimi- | nated from these other the lights have been installed”” answer of traffic authorities phatically in the affi the effect will be time alone will re- veal, but logical deduction would seem to be on the side of tle traffic office. Streets Included. The streets on which there is to be co-ordinated groups of als are Rhode Island avenue northwest— Towa circle to Fourth street north- east. street northwest—Twelfth street orth Capitol street. I\ street northwest—! teenth strect. Sixth street northwest—TLoui: avenue to Rhode Island avenue. K street and Florida avenue to Fifteenth and H northeast, Massachusetts avenue northwest— Fifth street to New Jersey avenue chusetts avenue northw th street to Twenty-second inth street to iana ifth streets l\\Pm street north- avenue—Second Fifteenth street Maryland b theast to street northwest—H ssachusetts avenue. avenue—McKinley zhteenth street to M and Fifteenth street northwest—Ver: moni avenue to Florida avenue. Fifteenth strect northwest—Euelid streat to Irving street. Tenth street northwest Massachusetts avenue. . street to Isolated Intersection The isolated intersections on which there will he hoth automatic and manual control of the lights are as follows: Connecticut avenue, nue northwes and New Jersey street and > avenues northw Park road and New Hampshire nue northwest Florida avenue and Eckington place northeast. I street and North Capitol street Fourteenth street and Park road rthwest, Rhode Island avenue \th street northwest (r trol 1o be added to present method). Sighteenth street road northwest, Pennsylvania street sontheast. Good Hope road and Nichols avenue sontheast. Y'an" ave- and Four- anual con and avenue and Eleventh Istand and Sou‘h northeast and East Capitel streets, v and 11 streets northeast. rmont avenue and U .reet north- northwest 1fth and T automatic | lumbia | Dakots Dakota | BUSINESS FAVORS DEMOCRATS ONTAX': U. S. Chamber of Commerce Survey Shows Bigger Slash Is Wanted. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. If there were a Rip Van Winkle of national politics and he returned to-| day he would be amazed to find the Republican administration’s policy on tion in some important particulars and the Demoer “olitics may make strange bedfel- ws but nothing stranger than the effect of the referendum just com- pleted by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States which places that tion directly behind Represen- tative Garner, Senator Simmons and other Democratic leaders and directly opposed to the viewpoint of President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon. View on Public Debt. Although the Chamber of Commerce through its membership voted for a $400,000,000 tax cut, which is what the Democrats have been saying could casily he accomplished notwithstand- | ing Mellon's figure of $223,000,000, the most significant statement is that re lating 1o the retirement of the public debt. In this the chamber argues ve surpluses are not needed to the public debt and that busi- ness should be given the henefit of lizhter taxes through these surpluses, It's the same old story that has heen | debated since the armistice of whether | it is hetter to have the present gen- | eration pay off the war debt as rapidly as possible or spread the payments over many years to come. Will Pay Off in 20 Years. At the present rate of payment the American Government will pay off its debt in less than 20 years. No other pvernment in the world is doing it as pidly. The Treasury has consistent- IHlIHUNl that this is a wise se America is prosperous | todi fford debt reduction, and that every dollar reduced on the deht and the means that much better horrowing refunding of future s less interest power for wities, ceord- mber out having sueh 1 000,000 surphu [ tast fiscal yea grow more and more they are reduced, | of Co leaf out by_urging that productive as the Chamber Tellon's hook g0 _down so It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow. Kalorama road Connecticut ave nue northwest Georgin and New northwest, Twenty-second west Hampshire and Q streets north econd ind New York ave ne | Fifteenth Winners of Collections Tomorrow. Winners of the stamp sshibition of the Junior of Washington recently collection Philatelisis awarded show the f the | Stamp Club tome afternoon at 2 yelock in the rooms of the Philatelic iy, 1022 Vermont avenue | Delegations from the various high chools also will attend, Judges of avenues | and P streets north and T1 streets northwest, | Contest Will Exhlhlt‘ hy Boys' | 7 MORRIS PLAN Easy to Pay Monthly 1 Deposit | For 12 $300 $360 | $540 $1,200 3100 00 56,000 $500.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury are taking a | that business can feel more a n-l more the henefits of equitable tax The sinking fund requirement e: lished by law is $250.000,000, which means that for the last several vears such an amount has been cut off th public debt and the surpluses have been in addition to that figure. The chamber points out that a surplus of $635,000,000 last year now may be followed by a surplus of about §4 000,000 and thinks some of this sur plus can be used to cut down tax | rates. Backing Is Imporatnt. The backing of such a Nation-widc organization as the Chamber of Com merce is an important factor in tax legislation, but it is even more impor (ant when the Democrats, who usually wre not helped by business interests, ab- | | find themselves sponsoring a program | something like that of the chamber The significance of the event is that x legislation will really be non-p: {san this lime with the Democrats en deavoring to show that the cut in |taxes can be deeper than recom mended and with the Republicans more or less forced to go along wi the Democrats as was the case in the last sessiol Both President Coolid; ind Secretary Mellon know that from the point of View it is much hetter to avgue for a $225.000,000 maximum in | November and take a cut of $300.000, { 100 or thereabouts in MarcH or April | than to vield an inch,of ground at this time. The prospectk for a hig cut | however, have been improved by the announcement of the chamber of com- merce. (Copyright. 1927.) | the number CHRISTMAS FUNDS Banks to Issue Checks De- cember 1 to Enable Early Shopping Here. id growth of the early Christ nas shopping movement. officials of the mail early—shop early camy here pointed out today, is indicated | changes which have heen made by ther fina ement of their Christmas When th vas inanznres it was the universal custom to make the annual distributions of this money on after December 15, This vear, how- aver, the hanks will b the distribu- tion December 1, it nnounced hy Edward D. Shaw, rvetary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso. ciation, Savings Ine These savings this y mated sed. ar, it will amount to $5,994.903, <uch deposi These represe; crease of $300,000 in the amount of avinzs over last year and an increase of 6.000 in the number of depos “Rankers have heen quick with rs total an in %145 of v commented The depositors found that where dis tribution was delayed until December 15 or later they were losing the f the Chiistmas shoppinz opportuni ties. Their money was not availahla intil the merchandise stocks in their city had been somewhat depleted, and hey were forced to compete with the | tremendous _crowds which thronged the stores during the latter part of {the Christmas shopping season.” | Early Season Indicated. Bankers state that a chief factor in bringing about earlier distribution of { these funds was the fact that in prac- | tieally all cities retail merchants have znized the tendency toward earlier <hopping, and this season are placing their Christmas holiday stocks on sale ier than in former years. In on, for example, merchants this vear are displaying their full holi- day; lines lier than ever before. A local banker who has watched the development of ristmas savings funds in this city stated today that in his opinion the srowth of this idea would bhe a considerable factor in <timulating early Christmas shopping. IDENTIFIED BY TEETH. His two gold teeth, one set with a liamond valued at $125, made police dentification of ing in a ‘“stone hole” Raleigh, N. C., easy. The poss )t the gold teeth, Frank inown under sever ses, one of em_being “Black * had been ntified as being wanted here to swer a charge of havir 0 from Georgiana Jones, 715 New Jersey avenue, i the pocketbook tri It was due to the efforts of Do!nc Jones and T. 2 Johnson, who was ar Vilson, N. C., for having opers windling trick there, was located in he e hole” and detained after ompleting a sentence of one year. ones was on hand when he was re. ased and the alleged swindler was rought here. Mrs. Jones identified him. The case «ill be tried in Police Court Monday. johnson gave his address as 141 One- hundred and Thirtieth street, New York City. wor colored. of by m s His Birthrigh Maybe—at forty—he’ll have vital, overflowing energy. But at four, he must have it! Energy is the birthr ight of childhood. For his weight, your child uses almost twice as much energy as a grown-up! And one food alone —bread—supplies at least a quarter of it. 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