Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1935, Page 3

TRAFFIC CONDITION REPORTED BETTER Auto Insurance Adjuster Cites Drop in Number .of Accidents. Decided improvement in traffic con- ditions in Washington, evidenced in diminishing numbers of automobile accident insurance claims, testifies to the value of The Star campaign, it is stated in a letter received by The Star Safety Council from § Franklin Lynch, 3411 Twenty-ninth street, local automobile insurance adjuster. Mr. Lynch was the guest speaker @t a dinner meeting of local insur- ance workers sponsored by the Shivers Insurance Agency recently and joined With those present in signing The Star safety pledge. “You may be interested to know,” Mr. Lynch said, “that there were many favorable comments made in respect to the splendid work your good newspaper is doing toward mak- ing the general public safety con- scious, “As an automobile insurance ad- Juster, I am glad to note that there has been a decided improvement in the manner in which motor vehicles are being driven on the streets of ‘Washington. Other men in my pro- fession have told me that the num- ber of claims referred to them have diminished steadily since your cam- Paign was launched. “When a group of claim adjusters | laud you for the successful manner in which you are carrying on this | ‘worthy drive, it might appear that we | are rooting for the wrong team. How- ever, in spite of the fact that our bread and butter is earned because | of the fact that accidents do happen | in all their gruesome ramifications, | we are glad to stand up and cheer | you on to greater accomplishments.” Mr. Lynch also states that he was dnspired to incorporate the text of the safe driving pledge into what he modestly calls “a poem.” Here it is: A MINUTE LOST. Last Friday night. in the pale moonlight. At the place where dresms are spun, A long. black hearse, in accents terse. Was telling of things he'd done. “I'm an old. old car and I've traveled far,” He said. to the gathered throng, #But_even so. T'll have you know To drive lik» & fool is wrong. *The limit of speed you must always heed Give right of way when in doubt, T've seen enough of this speedy stuff; T know what it's all about “Keep to the right both day and night. And stop when the signal’s red, ¥or here I state it's best to wait Than to join the ones who are dead. *To turn from a lane be safe and sane— A signal wili do the trick: A broken bone will make you moan And who can afford to be sick? #1 do_my work and I never shirk Though some chumps make me i1l Whether lad or lass. you must never pass. On a curve in the road, or a hill “Take it slow. through rain or snow; Use extra care passing schools Your_courteous acts prove the facts. That the reckless folks are the fools. *Your brakes should hold when it's hot or cold. r cold, If kept in the right condition Your car in tune. from June 'till June, Will furnish the best ignition. #Now. things were worse.” said the aged | Hearse “And they'd gone a lot too far *Til a group of men. with ink and pen. Brought quick relief through The | ar. #They've started a fad that makes me glad. And thousands have made a vow o drive each day. in a safer way. And I note the difference. now. #My trips are few. I'm telling you An§ they'll be much fewer still 3t you'll not hedge when you see the pledse. ut sign—and I know you will. *Now here's the dove. and my one big 0} pe— It's the one I'm sure you've guessed. That all of you will be true blue, And give me a needed rest.” ‘With one last word, loud cheers were heard And the crowd heaved a mighty sigh, For the ancient hearse in accents terse, Had shouted. Never Die' And now. my friend. we near the end Of the tale we've tried to tell And you must show, what we'd like to know, That ‘you've learned your lesson well. ©ur old. old hearse. in awkward verse, This moral. has gladly shared. *A minute lost. is a trifling cost When a human life is spared.” “Peta Da Barb’” Also Approves Safety Drive Washeenton gotta Tony Da Barb'— Wan beega da bluff. The talka through da hat. Wan time wat he say ees orright— Star newsy-pape safety driva. You know Googla-eye da Sailor een | movie pitch’? THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Safety Leaders View “and—Sudden Death” Film Judges, police and traffic officials and their families were guests of R-K-O Keith's last night to see “March of Time,” featuring Furnas' driv- of the gruesoméness was missing, all Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown and | rors in the present campaign he did | as a shrewd politician. | business. ing-horror picture. Although some praised the object lesson described. Men, left to right: Hardie Meakin, theater manager: G. Adams Howard, Evening Star Safety Council; Sergt. J. J. Agnew, Sergt. Edward This Changing World Settlement of British-Italian Dispute in Medite- ranean Seen in Near Future. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. |ideal solution—for Italy—materializes ISCUSSIONS to patch up the | he will have his hands full for many British-Italian dispute in the | years to come with the turbulent Mediterranean are now in | Ethiopians. progress and. despite the The British, who came out so gloomy tone adopted by the British, | strongly in favor of sanctions, are it 1s believed in well-informed quarters | satisfied th-t the waters of the Nile in Washington that a settlement |Will no longer be threatened by Italy might be reached in the course of this | and are reported to be willing to avoid month. rmother world conflict by meeting the * | Italians halfway. Mussolini, who is probably more | S e SR anxious than the British to avert a| To lend credence to these reports, row with the British, has made the |it is peinted out that the Italian first move toward reconciliation by | Minister at Addis Ababe is still there, ordering a whole division back from |although the Ethiopian government Lybia. handed him his passport three weeks He did this at Laval's bidding, |280- At first Selassie wanted to expel The French premier who is in @ |Dim by force. But his advisers, the tight spot, between his desire to |Dritish and the French Ministers, told keep Britain’s friendship against him to leave the Italian alone. Gernmny ant Haig's susport in And believe it or not, Count Vinci Central Europe, urged Mussolini is quite comfortable in his self-imposed Zthe offender—to make the first |\mprisonment at Addis Ababa. gesture toward a compromise. At first he was carefully watched by ¥ ¥ the Ethiopian police and was ostracised There is another thing Laval has " poq0 of his colleagues. But now, e e dowmine some | While still confined within the limits of their naval units from the Mediter- | 00, '1° Iegation, grounds. he receives ranean he has a perfect alibi when | gy, o o 2 g : he will refuse to get entangled ‘“‘fitgqflix;a‘;,:%d;:pr;;:‘o‘;fi;:.cm‘ an eventual British-Italian conflict. * % p‘ * . e The last few days have been marked Selassie himself is reported mot by intense diplomatic activities at| [0 be too unfavorable to a settle- Addis Ababa, in Rome and in London.| ™ent along the lines described When Emperor Haile Selassie broke | @bove. 1f the powers can take all known precedents and asked news- | Care of the eight Rases and keep paper men at Addis Ababa to deny them from becoming _muchxevoua, the stories that the Italians had made | ©e himself is quite willing to ac- themselves guilty of unwarranted hor- | €ept a compromise which would safeguard the dynasty. not act only as a wise man, but also by his followers. * X ¥ X He tells the story of the difficulties Behind this gentlemanly state- ment there is much more than the desire of the Ethiopian monarch to continue to be the gentleman he has proved to be. There has been some progress toward what will be undoubtedly called “a pacific solution” of the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. The result will be that the Ethi- opians are going to be made the scape- goats—but that is nothing new. * % ok x Under the leadership of Premier Laval, who is confronted with a seri- ous domestic situation as soon as the French Parliament meets, the British and the Italians have been talking the first airplane: “My n.inister of war, Harti Georgis, was strongly opposed to such a purchase. ‘Aslong as I live,’ said my faithful servant, ‘there shall be no airplanes in Ethiopia. The | angels alone are destined to fly—not | the human beings. I don't want to offend the Almighty,’” Selassie had to yield to his faithful war minister. “Fortunately,” he added smilingly, “the | Almighty God called my dear Harti !to a better place soon after this con- | versation.” —_— Bees Douse Light. Bees recently extinguished the lan- | tern on a buoy off Scotland. The British cabinet has finally come to realize that Mussolini is not bluffing and that to drastic sanctions he will reply with drastic actions. Mussolini has understood that if he gave real guarantees to the British that he does not contemplate to ex- pand into the Sudan and Egypt, the | British may forget that they are the defenders of the faith in the League of Nations. Laval has co-ordinated the loose strings from Rome and London and has repeated his suggestion of six weeks ago: “Each of you take a slice of Ethiopia and let's call it a day.” % The British seem inclined to sit at the green table and carve up Ethiopia into several slices. Mus- solini wants to appear kind-hearted —may lead to warmer climes, ton all Winter long can be su Anthracite. and you'll find its even heat Winter. For a load of hi NA. 0311 TODAY. Then you musta be acquaint weeth Pete Da Barb’ of Old Alexand'. Beega bunch-a Washeenton lady/ an’ gentlamen driva down to Pete Da | Barb' for firsta class shave an’ hair| cut. | Automobeela driva een Alexand’ go slow. He geeva way to pedestriani. | and is disposed to allow Selassie to keep the meck of the Ethiopian bird for himself. * x ¥ % From what can be learned here, it is said that Il Duce is willing to ac- cept those territories he has already conquered as parts of the realm of the Italiar. kingdom. The highlands will Marlow 811 E St. N.W. he encountered when he wanted to buy | Women, left to right: Williams, Judge John P. McMahon, Judge Gus A. Schuldt, Judge Walter Casey, Lieut. Frank A. Varney, Traffic Director Willlam A. Van Duzer, Acting Inspector Milton D. Smith, Miss Eleanor Hickerson, Mrs. Schuldt, Mrs, Van Duzer, Mrs. Howard, Mrs. McMahon, Mrs. Willlams, Mrs. Varney, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Smith. soclety in The Star safety campaign. Medical Building, 1335 H street. Safety (Continued From First Page.) i support of both the society and its | individual members and that only | through such co-operation on the part of every member of the community can the rising tide of traffic deaths be stayed. During the half century since den- | tists in Washington began to work as | an organized society, they have sup- @ Heads of the District of Columbia Dental Society are shown signing safe-driving pledge cards as they led the enrollment of members of the ‘They are Dr. W. M. Simkins, secre- tary-treasurer of the society (left), and Dr. Stephen C. Hopkins, president. The picture was made at a meeting in the George Washington University —Star Stafft Photo. days, and the first American to specialize in dental surgery did pot appear until 1788, when John Green- | wood began to practice in New York. In 1800 there were 30 practicing den- | tists in the United States and the first | dental school in the world was estab- | lished in Baltimore in 1839 as the | Baltimore College of Dentistry. The | first dentist of record in the District | of Columbia was Robert Darrah, who | was practicing here in 1822, Award to Be Presented. Safety awards won by motormen, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935. the trainmen of the Georgetown division for making the greatest im- provement in their record for safety and courtesy during July, August and September. Their rate was announced as 26 per cent better than for the previous quarter, while the record of the Brightwood Division, nearest car or bus division competitor, was 18 per cent. The reliability award will be pre- sented to the car-house crew at Ten: leytown for making the best improve- ment in thelr record for keeping cars in operation on the street and free from delays due to mechanical or | electrical causes. Their record of im- provement was announced as 67 per cent. The safety award for the greatest | improvement in safe hours worked | will go to the operating crews of the track and roadway department. These mwen worked the past three months a total of 52,740 hours, with only one disabling accident from any | cause, as compared with six during the preceding six months. ‘The Capital Transit Co. has joined The Star Safety Council in the present city-wide safety drive and now is undertaking the individual pledging of every motorman, bus driver and in- dividual employe who operates any form of vehicie on the streets and highways. Announcing virtually a 100-per- cent record for the motor-vehicle drivers in the employ of the executive office of Arlington National Cemetery, Col. Charles G. Mortimer, U. S. A., retired, officer in charge, has returned 47 signed safe-driving pledge cards to | The Star Council. Students Join Campaign. “I am in thorough accord with the worthy motive back of this campaign,” Col. Mortimer said, “and I am hoping that the members of my organization, who have signed these pledges, includ- ing myself, will be able to maintain the high standard of motor conduct re- quired by the conditions of these pledges.” Students of Class 5-C and 6-B of the M. F. Maury School, Clarendon, | Va., 10 of whom previously had signed | individual pledges to obey all traffic | and road rules in riding bicycles, have | joined The Star safety campaign under the leadership of their teacher, Miss Grace C. Hall, 1207 North Din- widdie street, Waycroft, Ballston, Va. | guire, chairman of the federation’s American Citizenship Committee, was | well undey way today. Efforts are to be | made to have the entire membership signed up within 10 days. NEW TRANSPACIFIC AIRMAIL CONTRACTED By the Assoclated Press. Postmaster General Farley an- nounced yesterday the bid of Pan- American Airways for the new trans- Pacific air mail service had been ac- | cepted by a committee of six cabinet members and department officials. | The new service will be weekly from | San Francisco to Canton, China, by way of Honolulu and Manila. Pan-American, only bidder on the | first trans-Pacific air service, bid the maximum rate of $2 per mile for the specified load of 800 pounds, and $1 per 1,000 miles each additional pound of mail carried. i BELL-ANS' FOR INDIGESTION (W R |50\ NOW I EAT Hamburger Upset Stomach Goes \n Jiffy with Bell-ans. % > 6 Bruans. FIRE INSURANCE and_all_forms of Insurance J. Blaise de Sibour & Co. INSURANCE BROKERS 1700 Eye St. N'W. NAtl. 46713 LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH I’I!IETIIG BYRON 8. DAMS Low operating In a letter to The Star Council, signed by all the pupils, they inclosed | pledges to ride bicycles safely and to | walk safely, asked for safety stickers and for a copy of the safety song, “I | ‘Will Take Care.” | The following signatures appear on | the letter: Thomas Bridges, Llovd | Bullock, Robert Burke, Harry Gray, jr.; Eugene Gurganus, Richard Hines, Wilbert Miller, Ralph C. Muschlitz, Courtney Owens, Edgar Rice, Howard Skillman, Willard Snaidman, Edgar Spratt, Malcolm Tuthill. Lorraine Basye, Naomi Goodman, Pearl Kelly, Doris Merchant, Myra Lillian Mitchell, Marie Oram, Elaine Turner and Miss G. C. Hall | A “safety cover” on the “Diamond Chatterbo: organization publication, is a contribution of the Diamond Taxi- cab Co., and its editor, Miss Anne L. Graham, to the safety campaign. On the cover, in bold-face lettering, ap- pears the following: “Roads are ported civic movements in the interest bus drivers and other employes of the | safer, cars are safer, is your driving of the community. The society was K Capital Transit Co. in three quarterly | safer?” | His efforts to keep abreast of modern | jnstrumental in bringing about pass- | contests will be presented at a general | civilization have always been hampered age of the first dental law in Wash- | safety meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at | cards to 2,000 members of the Mont- Distribution of safe-driving pledge ington. It was not until 1924, however, | Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and | gomery County Federation of Women's that there was really a strong control | of dental practice in the District. In 1928 the present society was cre- ated by the consolidation of the Dis- | trict of Columbia Dental Society, | which then had a membership of 250, | and the National Capital Dental So- | clety, with a membership of 85. | Dentistry as a distinct profession did not exist in this country in Colonial Furnace Parts Presidential Tours but you remaining in Washing- re of comfortable warmth, too, if you’re burning heat-crammed Marlow’s Famous Reading You'll never want to leave its steady fires— sticks close to your home all ealthy-heating hard coal call 77 Years of Good Coal Service TR Coal Co. NAtional 0311 | New York avenue. ‘The safety-courtesy contest award | of the company will be preserted to | Clubs, which joined The-Star safety campaign as a unit yesterday under | the direction of Mrs. Joseph T. Ma- 15 pressure of one to three pounds assures quiet operation and less wear of parts. 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Furthermore, he won't meed to worry about finances. The Italians will have to look after that. * ok kX This scheme, which the British had REGISTERED Oriental chances of being accepted now. The Italians have always been anxious to obtain a strong foothold in Ethiopia without taking too many risks in a protracted campaign against Selassie’s warriors. * Mussolini realizes that even if this AT2P. M. “Judge John Barton Payne SALE Rare and Valuable Household Adornments Important Paintings, Large Diamonds and Other Jewelry, Antique Silver, Unusual Rugs, ete. AT PUBLIC AUCTION Within Our Galleries 715 13TH STREET Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday, October 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, November 1st and 2nd EACH DAY By Order of SILAS H. STRAWN and the WASHINGTON LOAN & TRUST CO. Executors of the Estate of JUDGE JOHN BARTON PAYNE, Deceased Together with Additions from the ESTATE OF J. A. . CASSEDY George C. Ober, Jr., Administrator THE ESTATE OF MARY H. 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