Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1935, Page 4

PROTECTION URGED FOR PEDESTRIANG Citizen Attributes Accidents to ““Superiority Complex” of Motorists. Many traffic accidents are attribut- able to a “severe case of superiority complex” which motorists have ac- quired by assuming certain rights which they really do not possess, .n the opinion of Henry Taylor, 31 Franklin street. In a letter to The Star Safety Coun-, eil. Mr. Taylor points out that weak- nesses in the existing traffic regula- tions are due to a failure to take into account the workings of this complex. “Judging by their actions.” plained. that every pedestrian that they toot their horn at should scamper into clear. that the motorist has over the pedes- trian prevents the pedestrian from | contesting the right of way, and when | the horn is sounded, if it is not too | late, the pedestrian scampers. Pedestrian Not Protected. “When the big truck appears on| the scene the small car is in the same | predicament as the pedestrian and must surrender the right of way. Right by might is coutrary to any kind of regulations by law. Most people are familiar with the scene where a per- son crossing the street becomes be- | wildered when a motorist sounds the | horn. The pedestrian stops, goes for- ‘ | ward or back. then reverses. By this| . G rety chorus as he signs a Spar safe-driving pledge. of the Treasury Department, friend of Lombardo, who arranged to obtain time the machine either comes to & stop or moves on, maybe a hit and | maybe not. The law requires that | one motorist signal another motorist he ex- | “the motorists must think | The overwhelming advantage | | Safety | | | Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader the noted director’s pledge, is shown when a stop or turn is made, although | the motorist and the pedestrian have a right to use the same street space. No provision is made by law to pro- tect the pedestrian while crossing the street. The present traffic light sig- | nals do not afford the proper pmzoc- tion due to operation of the signal that permits the pedestrian to cross the street and at the same time al- lows the machines to make right and left-hand turns. As between the mo- torist and the pedestrian, it is evident that no law is necessary to protect the motorist, but a law is necessary to protect the pedestrian. As long as intelligence is no. a requirement to secure a driver's permit the life of | the people cannot be left to the mercy | of the motorist. stop traffic, but it is & crime to permit the killing of people. Therefore thege should be a law permitting the pedes- trian to stop traffic by a hand signal, and the hand signal should be as re- strictive as a stop signal can be. The law that prohibits the blocking of traffic could be applied and the pedes- triag required to furnish identifica- tion. The right to stop traffic should be determined after the fact, which is more desirable than picking up the crushed remains of a person. Would Cut Passing Speed. “The law requires a machine to keep | & safe distance behind a machine that is being followed or trailed. The law | requires a machine to slow down at intersections, but the law permits a | machine to pass another machine or street car or a parked car at the maxi- mum speed of 22 miles per hour. I have seen huge trucks and busses pass | small cars at a greater speed than 20 miles per hour. I have seen the same class machine squeeze through a space between a street car and parked cars just wide enough to accommodate the machine. I have seen machines wait- ing to make a left-hand turn at light- controlled intersections make a dive at excessive speed to get across ahead of opposing trafic. I have seen ma- chines violate the speed law by try- ing to beat the yellow light at inter- sections. There should be a law to prohibit a *truck or bus passing any object on the roadway, whether pe- destrian, parked car, moving car or street car at a greater speed than 12 miles per hour and a smaller. car or passenger car passing the same objects at a greater speed than 18 miles per hour. “Parking machines on the street is & problem for the individual motorist to solve, If they want to use the street | for a parking place, then they should be compelled to reduce speed while passing the parked cars. If they want to use the maximum speed al- lowed by law, then keep the streets clear, Opposes Caution Light. “The yellow caution light should be abolished as a traffic signal. It is being used as a proceed signal at most times and also as a speed signal. The traffic lights should flash from green to red and red to green, and | all signals held red for a sufficient | time to clear the intersection. This would force the motorist to approach en intersection with the machine un- der control, which is what should be. To prevent the dive for position at - light-controlled intersections, one of the lights controlling traffic on the same street should be set to change at least five seconds ahead of the light controlling traffic in the opposite direction. To enforce traffic laws at least one, or as many traffic of- ficers as possible, should b¢ assigned to a section and be compelled to patrol the street in a conspicuous | way. If patrol cars are used they should be colored in a manner to make it possible to distinguish them at a distance and red lights should be placed over the tops at night for the same purpose. An ounce of pre- vention is still worth a pound of cure. “As & concluding suggestion, if the traffic law violation justifies the action, the officer making the arrest should compel the motorist that has vio- lated the law to park his car and his driver’s permit should be seized by the officer and turned into the Hey; di The man It is not a crime to | | | pledge. Seated is John A. Sterrett. Anderson, H. B. Hart, safety engineer, Sterrett Operating Service, Inc., Left to right, THE EVENING STAR, Symphony now playing at the Fox Theater, is shown seated at the piano in his dressing room adding his own note to Richard Morris with him. —Star Staff Photo. officials signing The Star safety in the rear, are: W. A. and Everett C. Scott, vice president. —smr Stan Photo. proper authority and, instead of pun- ishing the gutlty driver by fines and imprisonment, the permit to drive | should be suspended for so many days, or, if the offense is sufficient to warrant the action, the permit should | | be revoked permanently.” | Utilities (Continued From First Page.) | Securities Exchange Commission, a | new issue of these participating cer- | | tificates would be put on the market by underwriters, among whom Dillon Reed & Co. may figure prominently. | One question of interest here now | is the price at which the participating | certificates would be sold. The regis- tration statement of the North Amer- ican Co. declares that the maximum price of these certificates would be not more than $30 each. | On the Washington Stock Exchange this morning Washington Railway & Electric common stock quotations were $600 bid and $800 asked. This $30 is 8 maximum figure only. If the company received this amount for each of its 1,554,925 participating shares, it would, according to a theoretical computation, realize & handsome profit. The registration statement shows $27,370,644 in earnings has been turned back to the Washington Rail- way & Electric by the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. in the past 10 years into plant extensions, improvements and equipment. This gross, it was pointed out in the financial district today, is on the basis of a value of more than $400 a share on the com- mon stock. How much the North American Co. paid for its 62,197 shares of common stock is not known exactly to any one except company officials. It was learned, however, in the financial dis- | trict today that one block of about 27,000 shares of this stock was pur- | Hot-Air Furnace Parts and Repairs Including Oil Burners For Hot-Air Furnaces Holland Furnace Co. 1760 Columbia Rd. | Ph. Col. 7272 has to fiddle By the light of the wintry moon= He'd start right quick _ ilf his oil weren’t thick— He'd better get Gulflube soon! - chased from Washington banks at a | price of around $63 a share. These shares, if broken down into | 25 participating certificates each, and the certificates sold for $30 apiece, would bring the North American Co. a huge profit. It is known, however, that North American paid a price much higher than $63 for much of its Rail- way common stock. Some of it is known to have been bought for as high | as $600 and other shares probably higher. Railway stock ranged up to — | & maximum of about $1,000 a share i at the peak before the depression. Further computations in the regis- tration statement based on the amount of earnings turned back by | the power company into plant showed retirements of obsolete property taken off the books amounted to $6,703.000, leaving the net additions around $20,666. WASHINGTON, MAOR INDUSTRIES STILL “IN THE RED" Analysis of Corporation Tax Returns Reveals Deficit of $1,353,141,000. By the Associated Press. Banking troubles of 1933 were re- flected yesterday in an analysis of corporation tax returns for that cal- endar year, made public by the Treas- ury. The report showed that while the Nation's major industrial groups cut their collective deficit of 1932 by 67 1-- cent they remained $1,353,141,000 “in the red.” Of that figure $1,108,446,000 rep- resented the collective deficit shown i.. 121,683 returns representing “bank- ing, insurance, real estate, stock and | bond brokers, etc.” Method of Determination. mined by deducting sold, cost of other operations, compen- sation of officers, rent paid on busi- ness property, intere:. paid, taxes, bad debts, depreciation, depletion and loss from sale of capital assets” from “gross sales, gross receipts from other | operations, interest, rents, profits from |sale of capital assets, receipts, dividends from domestic cor- porations and interest on tax-exempt oblig..tions.” In 1932 the collective corporation deficit was $4,114,918,000, while in the | banner year of 1929 collective profits | of $10,676,071,000 were reported. Largest profits of any group in 1933 were reported by “food and kindred | products” manufacturers with a net of $169,235,000, while transportation ‘-nd other public utilities showed a net | of $151,625,0° " The net deficit of all corporations before payment of income and excess ! | profits taxes, was listed at $930.073.- | 000, compared with $3,829,000,000 in the previous year. Income Tax Receipts Up. ‘The department said its income tax receipts from corporations gained 45.5 000.000 against $286,000,000 in 1932. Total corporation receipts rose 3.2 per cent in the same period, amount- ing to $84.234,000.000 in 1933, com- | pared with $81,638,000,000 the year before. Cash dividends paid by corporations dropped 19.5 per cent in 1933 to $3.- | 127,000,000. totaled $3,886,000,000. Officials ex- plained that in 1932 the practice of | | continuing dividends, even though un- earned. was widespread. The department received 446,842 re- turns from active corporations cover- ing operations in 1933, which was 1.1 per cent less than the previous year, when 452,884 returns were made. This | shrinkage was attributed to a cleaning out of depression debris in the ranks of business. Although the financial group | individual firms made profits to enable the Government to collect $35,848,000 in income taxes and $504,000 in excess profits levies. - - Safety ___(Continued Prom Pirst Page.) campaign is being conducted under the personal supervision of McDougle. After the assembly, when the eve- | students in the various class rooms. Every teacher and student who drives | a car will be asked to sign a pledge, | so that the school may join the honor | roll of 100 per cent organizations af- | filiated with The Star Council. | More than 13,000 students now are = JEWELRY INSURANCE and all forms of Insurance J. Blaise de Sibour & Co. INSURANCE BROKERS 1700 Eye St. N.W. 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The District public schools joined The Star safety cam- paign as & unit on the opening day of the present school term, under the personal leadship of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools. ‘The District of Columbia Congress of Parents and Teachers and many of the member parent-teacher associa- tions also have joined the drive. Wil- son Teachers’ College, the Americani- zation School and two of the voca- tional schools also have afliated with The Star Council in the safety drive. Urge “Civilization Test.” Institution of a “civilization test” to weed out persons who are unfit to be trusted with the operation of au- tomobiles in traffic is proposed by the Trinidad Citizens' Association in a resolution adopted on motion of Mar- tin G. Stecker, treasurer of the asso- ciation. ‘The proposal, offered as “something new in the way of solving Washing- ton’s traffic troubles,” is intended to “not only bar all reckless drivers,” but to “deny a permit to any person who might prove to be a potential reckless driver.” “Much of our traffic trouble and practically all our trafic deaths and serious accidents are due to the fact that powerful machines are too often operated by persons who are unfit— | usually ethnically unfit—to be trusted | with the operation of a complicated | mechanism that fits into a highly | | civilized state of society, not into a | society of ethnical inferiors,” it was | explained. “These inferiors, as any anthro- pologist well knows, are found in all walks of life, in all countries, and among all races. But, for obvious reasons, they are very numerous in |and around Washington. These in- | feriors are good citizens, pay their | taxes, go to church and all that sort | of thing, but they are not fit to drive | | & car on crowded streets. ! Ask Test for All Drivers, “The trick is to subject all drivers, both those now possessing a permu‘ and those applying for a permit in| {the future, to a test that will bnnl‘ out their inferiority. We might call | | this, for the sake of ready compre- hen.sxblmy. the ‘civilization test.” “A little co-operation between our | traffic authorities, our police, and lmme such bureau as the Division of | Anthropology or an ethnological sec- | [ tion of the Smithsonian Institution, | would soon produce a civilization test | | that would be passed successfully only | bv persons ethnologically competent to | drive a car on the streets of a civ- ilized city. | “Trinidad Citizens’ Association, at | | its regular meeting on this day, there- fore, approves the following resolu- | tion: “Resolved, That attention of the Commissioners of the District of Co- lumbia is called to the urgent desir- | abllity that the Traffic Bureau co- or anthropological agency of the Fed- NOVEMBER ¢, operate with the proper elhnoloclcal;: 1935. DICKINSON OFFERS A A A SUBSTITUTE Equalization Fee Principle Urged With Co-operative Marketing of Crops. By theAssociated Press. MOUNT VERNON, Iowa, November 4—Senotor Lester Dickinson, Re- publican of Towa, persistent critic of the A. A. A, today offered a five- point farm program of his own. The Senator’s proposal was his first statement since the Farm Admin- istration’s 6 to 1 victory in the corn- hog poll. Senator Dickinson outlined the five- point plan in an address prepared for delivery before the Annual Forum Conference of Methodist Ministers and Laymen at Cornell College here. His program was: 1. Eliminate contradictions in Gov- ernment policy which seek on one hand to limit crop production and on the other to subsidize vast ir- rigation and drainage projects. 2. Stabilize production through re- tirement of marginal land and stim- ulate diversified farming to obtain & more “balanced production”. 3. Remove artificial controls and | bureaucratic regulations and develop co-operative keting. 4. Restore export markets through price equalizing fees based on im- port tariff dutles. 5. Revise taxation to reduce tax burdens on farms and real property. Scores “Political Miracles.” “Upon these principles,” Senator Dickinson said, “it is possible, I believe, to build agriculture into a prosperity that will be permanent, without re- | liance for its accomplishment upon political miracles. “It will be founded not upon optical illusions produced by Government magicians, but upon self reliance and common sense.” The Senator readily admitted that | conditions throughout the farm states were “better,” but denied that the A. A. A. was responsible. “As I shall try to show, this is due more to a wise and beneficent Provi- dence, which balances a year of bad { crops with a year of good crops and redresses drought with an abun- dance of rainfall, than to the course of treatments which has been pre- scribed from Washington. “These, judged by the results that production and mar- | have attended them. although bear. f eral Government in quest of some | simple test, to be known as the ‘civili- | zation test,’ that would scientifically | show when a person is fit or unfit to motor vehicle in || Radiator Covers PREVENT SMUDGE. PROVIDE PROP- PR RUMIDITY. = BEAUTIFY HOME. Reasonable Prices. Convenient Terms. F. B. BLACKBURN se1 Clln(l" Na Letterheads gossip. Il They whisper secrets about |l your business. And some- imes when they're cheap and flimsy, they give a false impression that may contradict the favorable points that you hope to make. But engraved let- terheads tell always a story of stability. 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A. benefits, the Senator said: “# ® * ¢ We must not delude our- selves that temporary relief, provided through pumping emergency Govern- ment funds into any State or com- munity, has brought about perma- nent solution for deep-seated eco- nomic maladjustments. “These enormous expenditures have provided merely temporary stimulants, like the administration of a drug, without permanent benefit to busi- ness.” In introducing his five-point farm program, the Senator declared no pro- gram can be advanced with finality until the Supreme Court passes upon the legality of processing taxes. Should these be held unconstitu- tional, he said, “the A. A. A. passes | into oblivion as complete as that which has descended upon N. R. A. All that can be outlined today, there- fore, are certain basic principles which must underlie any constructive policy, whieh is sound both economically and politically. “If we set proper objectives and hold them clearly before us the meth- ods by which they are attained become | secondary considerations involving merely ways and means. For natural flavor trick. |ACCUSED OF INSULT, MAN IS FOUND SLAIN Tennessee Group Avenges Woman. Body Is Discovered in Road- side Thicket. | By the Associated Press. WHITE BLUFF, Tenn., November 4—A colored man listed as Baxter ! Bell, 35, was killed early today by a group of white men who riddled his body with bullets for an alleged insult to a white woman as she alighted from a bus last night. The killing occurred on a road to Kingston Springs some distance from | White Bluff. The man's body was thrown from the roadside into a | thicket. A short time later Deputy Sherift ! Clyde Petty said five white men ap- peared at the jail here and surren- dered. 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