Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1935, Page 17

OIL FIRM BACKS SAFETY CAMPAIGN Enrollment Gives Drivers Best Record on Atiantic Seaboaid. Declaring that as a result of the safety campaigns carried on in Wash- ington by the District government and The Star Safety Council, the Wash- Ington branch of their organization has been able to make the best safety record among all branches along the | Atlantic seaboard, the American Oil Co. has put the weight of its whole | local organization behind The Star| safety drive. “We are thoroughly in accord with | your safety campaign to eliminate | the accident tolls on the streets of our Nation's capital,” said J. P. Mc- Donald, Washington division manager, in announcing the affiliation of his organization with The Star council. 100 Per Cent Response. Mr. McDonald reported that com- | pany drivers and employes who drive | their own cars have made a 100 per | cent response to the campaign, every | motor vehicle operator in the organ- | ization having signed a special safe- driving pledge card and received a windshield sticker for display on com- pany and private trucks and cars. Going still further in its effort to co-operate with the Safety Council, Mr. McDonald said, the company is holding safety meetings once a month | for the discussion of suggestions as to | how traffic accidents may be avoided and prevented. | “At the last safety meeting,” Mr. | McDonald said, “the Washington branch was commended by the Safety | Council (of the American Oil Co.) for | the least number of accidents of any branch in the territories in which American Oil Co. operates, from Maine to Florida.” Company drivers are averaging ap- proximately 80,000 miles per month of travel on District streets and high- ways in all types of equipment. Fifty | drivers are employed by the company | in Washington. Names Are Posted. As a further incentive to safe driv- | ing, the company is posting bulletins with the name of each driver and his driving record. A silver star is used | opposite the names of drivers who have driven a month without accident. A red star shows that the man has had an accident during the month. The man who goes a year without ac- cident will be awarded a gold star, The Amoco News, official company organ, published monthly, is carry- ing special articles on safety. “The next issue, in two weeks, will | contain an article on what The Eve- ning Star safety campaign has done for Washington,” Mr. McDonald said. “The good record in Washington is | accounted for materially by the safety J P. McDonald, Washington division manager of the American Oil Co., is shown signing a safe-driving pledge as the local Amoco organization joined The Star safety campaign. Middleton, manager. Safety awards for leadership in curtailment of accidents have been awarded to three divisions of the Capital Transit Co., which is an active participant in The Star safety campaign. presentation of one of the awards shows, left to right: chief engineer; D. S. Schmidt, superintendent of transportation, awarding the Safety Courtesy Plaque; J. G. Jenkins, superintendent of the George- town division, which won the plaque for improvement in safety records during the past six months, and J. H. Stephens, vice president in charge of transportation. assistant divisional manager, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 0il Cofllpany Joins Drive Standing, left to right, are: J. W, and W. C. Connelly, branch —Star Staff Photo. The photograph, made at the R. H. Dalgleish, ~—Star Staff Photo. Safety campaigns carried on in W by the District governmer public-spirited newspaper ning Star. We will operate in every way to make your csmpalgn a succe: WOMEN TO CONSIDER CHILDREN’S SAFETY/ inued From First Page.) onal Guard with regard to safe, > driving is pointed out in a ding order issued by Col. Oehmann some months ago and signed by Col. | Peyton G. Nevitt, acting adjutant gen- eral of the District Guard. order, which is numbered memoran- dum 12, Headquarters, District Na- | tional Guard, it points out that each | Guardsman is “part of & group which stands for law and order” and calls | upon him to drive always in a manner Ways to Fight Traffic Hazards to Be Discussed by A. A. A. Committee. ‘Ways and means of affording maxi- | mum protection to Washington chil-| dren against traffic hazards will be discussed tomorrow when the Wom- en's Safety Committee of the Ameri- can Automobile Association holds its first meeting of the year at the Sul- grave Club, 1801 Massachusetts ave- nue. Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, president of the Board of Education and a member of the committee, will direct the meeting. Among those on the program are Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools; Maj.| Ernest W. Brown. superintendent of police; Selden M. Ely, supervising prin- cipal in charge of safety education: Dr. Elmer S. Newton, principal of Western High School; Mrs. L. B. Cas- tell, president of the District Parent- Teacher Association, and Miss Bertie | Backus, assistant superintendent in charge of character education. The program will be devoted also exclusively to consideration of safety education in the schools. The committee has recently been enlarged, it was announced by Mrs. George C. Thorpe, chairman, to make it more fully representative of wom- en’s activities in the Capital. New members include Mrs. Guy D. Goff, wife of the late Senator of West Vir- ginia; Mrs. Crawford Biggs, wife of the former solicitor general; Mrs. Clifford Lee Corbin, Mrs. Joshua Evans, Mrs. John S. Bennett, presi- dent of the Woman's City Club; Mrs. Lloyd Biddle, president of the Dis- trict of Columbia Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs; Mrs. Wilson Compton, treasurer of the Women's University Club, and Miss Theresa Rooney. which will reflect credit upon himself {and the Guard. This memorandum now is posted on the bulletin board in the Guard armory. Preliminary arrangements for affili- etion of the Guard with The Star| Council in its safety campaign were made by Chaplain A. L. Smith, with the approval of Col. Oehmann. Spe- cial safe driving pledge cards were provided for the 990 officers and men of the Guard and distributed to the Guard personnel at this week's drill in the armory, the old National Hotel, Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Nine members of the schoolboy patrol of the Richard Montgomery | High School, Rockville, Md., will put on a radio safety play during the “Aunt Sue and Polly” program broad- cast from Station WMAL at 5:15 p.m. November 1. The play is being arranged by Mrs. Dorothy Stewart, the “Aunt Sue” of the program and teacher in the Richard Montgomery School, with the aid of Bob Pumphrey, captain of the school patrol. The boys who will take part in the program, in addition to the captain, are Jack Clark, Rus- sell Davis, Bill Veazy, Dawson Wootton, George Lechlider, Woodrow Kraft, Al- lison Chapin and Charley Louder. Women Meet Tomorrow. Child saftey education in the Dis- trict public schools will be discussed at the opening meeting of the season of the Women’s Safety Committee of the District of Columbia Motor Club, American Automobile Association, at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning in the Sulgrave Club, 1801 Massachusetts avenue. ‘The meeting will be conducted by Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle. Mrs. ‘Geoerge C. Thorpe is chairman of the committee. Among the guests of hon- or will be Dr. Frank vx' Ballou, super- | Star, I promise to: 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 Never operate at reckless speed. Drive on right of highway, - Safe Driving Pledge‘l In this | intendent of schools, Selden M. Ely, | supervising principal of the fifth divi- | sion of the public schools, and mem- | bers of the Advisory Committee of the | A. A A, A luncheon will follow the meeting. The Capital Transit Co. reported to The Star Council yesterday that 1,360 | of its employes have signed safe driv- ing pledge cards, with a number o(. others expected to follow. Many of | the company’s street cars now are| showing safety stickers and 1t is hoped | that during the coming week the en- rollment of all employes will be com- pleted and all street cars, busses and other equipment of the company will display stickers. Sterrett Operating - Service has | notified The Star Council that it is| enrolled 100 per cent in the safety| drive and has returned safe driving pledge cards signed by all of its officers | and employes who operate automobiles, | whether individually or for the com- pany, and also pledge cards signed by employes of a number of companies which are customers of the service. In a letter to The Star Council, John A. Sterrett, president, says: “It may interest you to know that we own and operate by far the largcst‘ single fleet of motor trucks in Wash- ington. Our company now owns and supplies approximately 350 motor trucks on lease service to various businesses. We have in the past and | will continue to exert our utmost effort | to promote safe driving. “In closing, permit us to congratulate you and to express our appreciation Before You TRY THE ball bea “PDe Luxe” N YOUR OWN HOME The “De Luxe” Has AN These Features @ Bofl Bosring Beaber Brush. @ Boll Bearing Wheets for essy hendling. @ Three position handle-locking devics. Case hardened steel will never wear out. @ Motor never needs oiling. New Departwre PROBE OF DRIVERY MENTALITY URGE Dr. Ruhland, Health Officer, Would Have Compul- sory Test. Since most highway accidents are due to the human element rather than to mechanical factors, the only remedy society has against traffic hazards is to make requirements for drivers’ licenses more rigid, in the opinion of Dr. George C. Ruhland, District health officer. In a letter to The Star, in which he commends the campaign of The Star Safety Council to improve traffic conditions, Dr. Ruhland said: “I have long felt very strongly upon this subject.” Outlines Reasons. He sent with his letter a series of short quotations from radio speeches which he has made on the traffic problem, some of which follow: “The majority of motor zccidents arise from lack of judgment, lack of | courtesy, the attitude characterized by tre term ‘road hog'—all of which, in terms of psychology, means that the persons in question are emotionally defective.” * ok k¥ “In view of the seriousness of the | highway accident problem it does not | seem unreasonable to insist upon an official examination of new license applicants. * * * These examina- tions should determine not only physi- cal fitness, but, above all, the mental soundness and the emotional stability of the candidate.” LR “Physical examinations can dis- cover the cases of partial blindness, impaired vision, beginning paresis, the half-wit who never can act with ma- ture judgment and many other dis- qualifications which are responsible for a large number of accidents. | “It is high time that a certificate | of physical and mental soundness be required of all who desire to operate | motor vehicles. * * ¢ Such an ex- amination should be made compul- sory.” The letter from Dr. Ruhland is one of hundreds received by The Star | Council dealing with various phases | of the traffic problem in Washington. Other Comment. - Excerpts from some of these letters | follow: “The suggestion for a gong in con- nection with safety signals is well | worth consideration—maybe it will D. C, help the poor pedestrian. “Something ought to be done at Twelfth street and Constitution ave- | nue, the scene of so many fatal and near-fatal accidents. Traffic moves on half the street with the red light | and the person who can cross on foot |In sufety in less than five minutes | may count himself fortunate. Surely, this is one place that should have a traffic policeman in the morning rush hours. If the claim is made that they are short of policemen, let the Police Department take away one of the two men who do duty in the morning at | Ninth and C streets southwest. ‘ “You are doing a fine piece of work | —keep it up! “SYLVIA WILES.” “I agree with Mr. Thompson in his letter of October 18, as far as he goes. | He says those who walk have no | rights, and I add that those who own | houses have no rights. I drive and I| also use the street car and walk. Now, about the property owners. Why should a property owner have some one'’s car parked in front of his house all night or all day? I have friends who own their house, but do not own a car. Can I park in front of their house when I call? In- deed, I cannot—just once did I find the space vacant all last year, * ¢ * Hits Street Garages. | “It is quite time that auto owners —_— and drivers should think of other people’s rights, and I think the first step is to stop using the streets as a garage except in front of the prop- erty where one lives. “MRS. NATALIE R. FERNALD.” "AL !he lnt m:etlnx of the Colum- Citizens’ Association, on Ocmber 1, the following relaluuon indorsing the safety campaign was unanimously adopted: “Resolved by the Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association this first day of October, 1935, “That we support the safety drive campaign under the auspices of The Washington Evening Star. “That we commend and congratu- late this newspaper for its considera- tion for the welfare of the people of the city; and “Be it further resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to The Eve- ning Star, requesting that this citi- zens' assoclation be enrolled as co- operating in The Star's safety traffic drive. “I know only good can come from this concerted effort to hetter traffic conditions in this city, and can only hope that all citizens will join in this worthy move and that it will recetve tl.> hearty support of the police offi- clals and the courts. “W. 1. 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