Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1935, Page 4

A4 W LETTERS PLEDGE AID T0 CAMPAIGN Star Safety Council Given Splendid Support by Correspondents. Hundreds of letters dealing with various phases of the safety campaign have been received by The Star Safety Council. Excerpts from some of these letters follow: “Thank you for helping to stop the horrible slaughter of people in our city—absolutely unnecessary slaughter. I hope every motorist in Washington will sign the safe-driving pledge and, what is more, live up to it. ‘I think most motorists are pretty careful and considerate of others. However, when they have one of your stickers on the windshield it will be a constant re- minder to keep on being careful. “For that comparatively smaller but highly dangerous class of motor=- ists who care nothing for the safety of themselves or others, there is only one thing to do—douBle the amount of fines at once and if that does not help, double them again. That is the only way to make some people drive right.”—R. G. Vanssen, 508 D street southeast. “I am returning with this letter 22 signed pledges in connection with | your safe-driving campaign * * *| ‘The Star is to be congratulated for | its leadership in this very successful | work. I hope you will be successful in enrolling every driver residing in metropolitan Washington.”—George H. Palmer, manager Royal Typewrit- er Co. “I am on the Red Cross Executive Committee of Manassas Chapter and am willing to do what I can for safe driving. It have always tried to be careful. It's the other fellow I've al- ways had to watch and more so now than ever before. Yours in hearty co-operation.”—Daisie G. Douglas, Thoroughfare, Va. “Have read F. A. Allen’s article on driving with much interest. “I would like to say that the| reason pedestrians do not keep be- tween the white lines at crossings is that auto drivers stop, when they have to stop. right across the space between the white lines. thus forcing pedes- | trians to take #> the middle of the street in order to cross. “Don’t deprive the poor pedestrian of the very few rights he has left. | His principal duty seems to be to get off the earth when an automobile comes along or else get run over. “Also have noticed times without number when & stop is made on a red light the drivers keep inching along until they monopolize the cross walk in order to beat the other drivers across.”—Miss Alice E. Whitaker, Hotel Roosevelt. “I wish to show my sincere appre- ciation of your splendid effort to re- duce fatalities through automoblile | accidents and to pledge my whole- | hearted co-operation in this regard. | “I must also bring to your atten- tion the fact that there are in this | city some drivers who do not read | ‘The Star and are practically unaware of your splendid instructions for safe driving, also there are many drivers who are almost illiterate; these, in my | opinion, force the majority of haz- | ards on the street. It would be a splendid thing if these persons could be kept off the streets.”—Joseph N. Gownder, 1008 Euclid street. Safety (Continued From First Page.) Council to return the cards as rapidly as possible so that tabulations may be made. While many thousands have been returned, it is apparent that in a number of cases returns are being de- layed until all cards are in the hands of the unit safety director, so that the unit may be in a position to report 100 per cent returns. This is not nec- essary, it was pointed out by The Star Council today, since all returns from companies and other units are being filed separately and “stragglers” will be filed with their own units until all returns have been completed. No unit will lose its credit for 100 per cent co-operation through preliminary return of part of its pledges. “Walk Safely” will feature the ser- mons of the four minister members of the Washington Kiwanis Club next Sunday as & means of alding in safe- guarding the lives of pedestrians on ‘Washington streets. The safe-walking ‘program promoted by The Star Safety Council and William A. Van Duzer, director of motor vehicles and traffic and member of the Kiwanis Club, has the backing of the club’s board of di- rectors, The ministers who will use this sub- Ject as the topic of their sermons are Dr. Oscar F. Blackwelder, pastor, Church of the Reformation; Rev. Simpson B. Daugherty, pastor, Me- morial. United Brethren Church in Christ; Rev. John C. Palmer, pas- tor, Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Edward H. Roach, assistant pastor, St. Matthew's Catho~ lic Church. X President Harold N. Marsh of the ‘Washington Kiwanis Club has received & letter from Harper Gatton, Madison- ville, Ky., president of Kiwanis In- ternational, calling attention to Oc- tober 5-6 as loyalty days and urg- ing the Washington Kiwanis Club members to follow the newest objec- tive of the organization, “Support of Churches in Their Spiritual Aims,” by attending church next Sunday. This church observance is asked by Inter- national President Gatton of approxi- mately 85,000 Kiwanians in the United States. The Washington club has an enrollment of 177 members. The local club’s major objective is aid to crip- pled and underprivileged children. Schoels Taking Part. Eastern High School, taking an acting part in the safety campaign, as are all local public schools, has requested an additional 50 pledge cards for the use of teachers and pupils who drive cars. Three thousand safe- driving pledge cards have been pre- pared for the District public schools and distributed to every school in the District. A number of parent- teacher organizations also have joined with the Star Council in its campaign for safety and. have undertaken the circulation Jf safe-driving pledges in the neighborhoods they serve. An outstanding example of the spirit ©° co-operation on the part of Wash- ington’s public school officials and teachers has been provided by Miss Helen C. iiernan-Vasa, 1213 Michigan avenue, teacher of advanced English | the use of models which cannot be | which they can move themselves, and erators’ permits have signed and thor- oughly understand the safe-driving pledge. She has given special in- struction on each of the 12 points of the safe-driving pledge. Education of school children in proper methods of crossing streets through the use of street charts and model street cars and automobiles is to be proposed to school officials by Edward A. Hines, 1420 New York avenue, who has developed a system of models now used in the District, Traffic Court, the office of the District corporation counsel at Police Court, by the Capital Transit Co. and by attorneys for several local taxicab companies. While on the flat of his back in a local hospital with a broken heel, Hines devised a system of interchange+ able street charts which can be used to form any type of street intersection or series of intersections. Separate charts are used for street car tracks. “There is no method of impressing an actual street scene on the mind so forcibly as the use of actual models,” Hines explained. “Police and court officials have found that obscure points can be cleared up easily through settled by testimony alone. School children are greatly impressed by these street charts and the use of model street cars and automobiles I am certain that the adoption of this system will strongly impress upon the minds of the children the primary rules for safe crossing of the street.” The Star Council's safety campaign has received strong support in the columns of the Washington North- western, community newspaper serv- ing Columbia Heights and the upper Connecticut avenue, Columbia road, Sixteenth street and Georgia avenue sections. On the front page of its latest issue the paper carries a copy of the 12 safe-driving rules included in The Star pledge, a reproduction of | the windshield sticker of The Star Council, with a plea to “Stick 'Em On” and an editorial under the head, “Keep Our Streets Safe.” This edi- torial says, in part: ““The first days of school have passed without serious injury to any of ap- proximately 100,000 school children who regularly cross dangerous inter- sections. “This proves the effectiveness of campaigns to remind auto drivers of their responsibility for the safety of pedestrians, most helpless of whom are young school children. “The Police Department, The Eve- ning Star, the American Automobile Association and its foster child, the schoolboy patrol, are leading factors in keeping our streets free from acci- dent. “Of equal importance is the co- operative attitude and practice of nearly all automobile drivers, without whose willingness to be careful no amount of safe-driving propaganda would be effective. “In the interest of making our streets safe, there remains a duty on the part of city officials, namely to give all possible attention to the elim- ination of noise.” JENNINGS TO SPEAK TO WELFARE GROUP Series of Lectures on Social Serv- ice Problems Is Ar- ranged. Coleman Jennings, chairman of the Special Gifts Commiitee of the Com- munity Chest, will be the speaker at the first of a series of lectures ar- ranged by Catena, an organization for men interested in voluntary social service. The series will be inaugu- rated Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at the Friendship House, 324 Virginia ave- nue southeast. Jennings’ topic will be “The Tradition Back of the Group.” The other lectures, to be given on successive Wednesdays, will be as fol- lows: October 9, “Community Organiza- tion, Council and Chest—Scope of and Need for Social Work in the Community,” A. Boyd Hinds; October 16, “How the Volunteer Can Help and How the Work Can Help the Volunteer,” speaker not announced; October 23, “Juvenile and Adult De- linquency,” speaker not announced; October 30, .‘Settlement Work— Shaping the Existing Social Order to a More Just and Beautiful Life,” John P. S. Neligl Club Work,” ins; November 13, “Hospital Visita- tion and Library Work,” speaker not announced, and November 20, “The Goal—What It Is All About,” Rev. H. Waldo Manley. Catena is an outgrowth of the Toc H Club and is interested in recruiting, training and placing men with established welfare agencies in Washington. J. 4. Shortland is leader of the organization. to adult foreign-born students in the ‘Webster - Americanization School, Tenth and H streets. . This teacher has voluntarily under- faken to stress the necessity for safe driving and has seen to i that all of > THE ‘EVE Carroll and Fred S. Kogod. H. C. Ullman, general manager streets, standing at the left and just ING ' BTAR, WASHINGTON Store Fixture Group Joins Drive Officers and employes of the Kogod-Dubb Store Fixture Co., 1731 Fourteenth street, are shown affirming their promises to abide by the rules of The Star safety pledge. Francis, M. David Dubb, Everett G. L3 In the foreground, left to right, are: F. T. —Star Staff Photo. of the Goldenkerg Co., Seventh and K in front of the line of girls, is shown pledging himself and fellow-employes of the company to compliance with the 12 primary safe-driving rules of The Star Safety Council The Golden- berg Co. is one of a number of local department stores already affiliated with The Star Council jn its campaign for safer driving on the streets and highways of the Capital. —Star Staff Photo. ROOSEVELT TO SEE FLEET MANEUVERS 100 Warships and 400 Aircraft Steam Into Pacific for Ex- ercises Thursday. By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif., September 30. | —Tactical exercises, part of which will be worked out before President Roose- velt, sent more than 100 warships and 400 aircraft of the fleet into the Pa- cific today. Naval officers believe the brief war game will be the first ever witnessed ’ on the high seas by a Chief Executive of the Nation. The first two days of the maneuvers will be in secret, with no civilians per- mitted aboard the ships of the fleet. The President is scheduled to board | the cruiser Houston at San Diego | Wednesday for the trip to the sea “battle.” Final phases of the exercises will be worked out before him Thurs- day morning. Airplane carriers, battleships and heavy cruisers weighed anchor in this port today, while the lighter craft and submarines departed from their S8an Diego base. At the end of his visit in California, the President will board the Houston for the return trip, going through the | The Houston will be | Panama Canal. convoyed by the cruiser Portland. Star, 1 promise to: Never operate at Make turns from Keep my vehicle “Safe Driving Pledge N THE interest of accident prevention and safer conditions on the streets and highways and in co-operation with the Safety Council of The Evening reckless speed. Drive on right of highway. Stop at all 8-T-O-P signs. Refrain from jumping trafic lights. the proper lanes. Signal before turning or stopping. Give right of way in doubtful cases. Heed pedestrians’ rights. Never pass on curve or top of hill. Slow down at intersections and schools. in safe condition. Be courteous and considerate Ofl others. Nemeroooo tooo oo oo o0 Addresesa oo iniioi e oramli i o Emgloyer_ The Safety Council Of The Coening Star Sign and send above coupon to The Evening Star Safety Council, Room 600, Star Building ARTHUR JORDAN PIANO COMPANY Wendell Like New $1 WEEKLY PAYS! IS AlLL News and Used Choose Any New or Used Grand, Upright or Player in Stock .| playing in the street, and 6 per cent Cable & Sens $60 Up b Over 200 Grands, Uprights and Players to select from. Remember, after this sale thése prices and terms will positively be withdrawn. Think of purchasing a fine, brand- new Grand, Upright or Player at only $3 down and $1 a week, plus a small carrying charge. None higher—you may pay mere if you wish. Your old piano, radio or phonograph will be acceptable in trade at a liberal allowance. ARTHUR JORDAN PIANO COMPANY 1239 G St. N.W, . TRAFFIC TRAGEDIES| TOLD BY CORONER McDonald and Aide Say Pe- destrian Control Is First Step. ‘The gruesome side of traffic tragedy was described to the radio audience yesterday by the two men whose busi- ness it is to look on the torn remains of each automobile victim—Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald and Deputy Coroner Christopher J. Murphy. Interviewed over Station WMAL in connection with The Star's safety campaign, they told of the 86 autop- sles they have performed this year after automobile wheels have sent them a victim. Both agreed pedestrian control is the first step necessary to reduce highway fatality. Of the 86 victims this year, 55 were pedestrians, Dr. Murphy pointed out. Analyzing these 55 deaths, he said 65 per cent were due to crossing in the middle of the block; 12 per cent were caused by stepping from between parked cars; 9 per cent crossed against a red light; 9 per cent were caused by children by pedestrians who stepped into the | street from a safety zone instead of | | leaving by the crosswalk. Cites Children’s Deaths. Dr. MacDonald called attention to | the fact 16 per cent of the pedestrians | killed have been children between | the ages of 2 and 4, and appealed to | parents to keep their children off the streets and even off sidewalks un- less they are cared for by a com- petent person. The coroner is notified immediately by the Central Bureau of the Police Department after a trafic death is verified and the coroner makes a per- sonal investigation at the scene of the accident. Some of the scenes recalled by Dr. MacDonald and Dr. Murphy were: “A girl who was stabbed by a da ger-like sliver of windshield glass”; “a woman who was gored by a radia- | tor ornament as efficiently as if it| had been & bull's horn”; “a man who | had shattered pieces of his rear- view mirror driven completely through his skull and into his brain.” Assist Police. Each body is taken to the District Morgue where a complete autopsy is | performed to ascertain the exact cause | of death and any detail that may | assist police in their investigation | of the accident. Dr. Murphy explained exactly what is done at the autopsy—outlining the incisions made both in the trunk and head of the victim to learn just what injuries he suffered. He told how he had found the print of a tire tread on & man’s bedy “plainer than those you see on a wet street”; how radiator cap | ornaments and qther fixtures are found within a body; how grease or paint peeled from e fender often is found imbedded deep within wounds. | Both made a strong appeal to the | public to drive more carefully to avoid Eat Holmes HOLMES DOUGHNUTS 107 F St. N.W. For a Real Treat Scene from Jack. London’s “Call of the Wild” at Loew’s Palace! ‘HOLMES MODERN BAKERY for nearly 50 years has been making and delivering the FINEST DOUGHNUTS to Washington homes. ITY, TASTE and DELICIOUSNESS. Try a dozen of Holmes’ Doughnuts. Simply phone National 4537 for delivery to your home. 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Grayson, chairman of the Red Cross, in ane nouncing the drive, described this cir cumstance ‘“disaster of greater pro- portions than any we have been called upon to cope with since the World War.” The following safety rules are to be impressed, by means of displays, post- ers, pamphlets: Stairways and steps to be kept clear, repaired, lighted; porches and balconies to have secure railings; toys and utensils to be properly stored: a stepladder - to be available in the | home. “Safety matches” to be used, kept out of the reach of children: bonfires to be prohibited, fireplaces screened; utensils filled with hot liquids to be kept away from small children. The garage door or windows to be kept open when the automobile motor is running: gas appliances to be kept in good condition. the gas shut off, it equipment is defective, until repairs Roosevelt. waves can be made. a | even the chance of sudden death on the streets. 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