Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1935, Page 4

D.C. TRAFFIC HELD GOTHAN'S EQUAL Capt. M. D. Smith Believes Car Situation Here Also Is as Well Handled. ‘Washington traffic is fully as heavy during the rush hours as on many of the famous streets in the New York metropolitan area—and is as well han- dled—in the pinion of Capt. Milton D. Smith of the District Traffic Bureau. In a letter received by The Star Bafety Council from New York, Capt. | Smith reported that he has been driv- ing around New York and Newark, N. J.. observing traffic conditions there. “1 can’t say they have anything on | us when it comes to handling traffic,”| he said. “For one thing, the light| cycles are too .ong—seems as though you wait five minutes for the change, though in reality it is only two minutes at most points. | “Drove over the Pulaski Skyway in New Jersey and the new express high- | way on Lower Manhattan, across the busy Forty-second street and Broad-| way. I find it no worse than Four-| teenth and F streets, Fourteenth street | and Pennsylvania avenue, or along| Constitution avenue during our rush periods.” Capt. Smith described highway safe- ty campaigns being conducted in New | Jersey and said he has covered about 1,200 miles so far in New Jersey, Penn- | sylvania and New York. “The new No. 4 New Jersey route,” he said, “has no main crossroads— they are all over or under. At one point on No. 4 you drive over one crossroad and another is over your head—three levels of travel. New Jersey has some very wide, level roads | Route 29 from Lambertville direct to| Holland Tunnel has no main cross-| roads for about 30 miles. Traffic cir- cles take care of intersecting main highways.” The letter from Capt. Smith is one | of hundreds received by The Star| Council in connection with the pres- ent traffic safety drive. Excerpts from some of these letters follow: “Owing to the fact that 92 deaths have been officially recorded. we, the National Round Table Guild, wish to join in your safety campaign. “We pledge ourselves to obey all traffic rules and regulations implicitly and to be more cautious in our driv- ing as well as in our perambulations | about the streets, We shall do every- thing within our power to make this a | safer city to live in and to decrease the number of accidents. “HOWARD WYATT, “Corresponding secretary.” “1 wish to report what is, in my opinion, one of the most deplorable traffic conditions in the District of | Columbia, in the hope that your or- | ganization, which is behind the pres- ent safety drive, will investigate and possibly do something to correct it. “This condition exists on West Ex- ecutive avenue, bordering the White House, and is as follows: Official signs plainly state that parking is prohibited | between the hours of 8 and 9:15 am. and that parking is permitted two| hours the balance of the day. Every | weekday morning. without exception, cars are parked on the east side of the | street between 8:30 and 8:50 a.m., two and three abreast. To make matters worse, policemen may be seen watch- ing cars struggle to get through, but making no effort to force the parked cars to move on. About 10 minutes to 9 the cars parked double or triple, as | the case may be, start making U turns for the west side of the street, where parking is allowed at a 45-degree angle «but not before 9:15 a.m.). Frequently fenders are bumped or scraped in the mad effort to get a parking space on that side, and no regard is shown for the driver going south through that street. “The reason for my informing you of this condition is that I drive through this street every morning and | feel very fortunate if I get by with- out some sort of an accident, as I know others are not quite as lucky. Also, 1 have often wondered why the Police Department allows this condi- tion to exist. “RUSSELL L. DALE.” “Inclose safe driving pledge, signed, and am heartily in co-operation with the Safety Council of The Evening Star. “JOHN C. PAINTER.” “As the police force is too small to do more than what they are doing, and the City of Washington has not the funds to employ more men, I think it would be a good plan to al- low Maj. Brown the right to appoint | special officers who offer their services | Iree. “In this way he could get them to report all careless drivers, also report the citizens who cross in the middle y block. has come a time when all good citizens have to help and report all who are guilty., Then the guilty ones will be more careful in the future. “HARRY LIVINGSTON RELF.” ANTI-SEMITIC OUTBREAK Bomb Thrown Into Jewish House of Prayer in Poland. WARSAW, Poland, November 18 (#). =—A 14-year-old boy was reported near death yesterday in Sosnowiec as the result of a bomb thrown into a Jew- ish house of prayer. The incident was one of a number in an anti-Semitic outbreak over the week end. Students of the Warsaw Polytech- nic College smashed windows of Jew- ish-owned stores in the center of the city after rioting at the school, offi- cials reported. Individual PLANKED STEAK 50 tchable meal—iuicy "Tenderioin — Planked HOTEL HARRINGTON 11th and ¢ Augustus Gumpert St Manager i+ Daughters of Officers of the Kenmore Chapter T America Join of the Daughters of America indorse The Star safety campaign at their meeting held at Odd Fellows Hall, 419 Seventh street. Left to right: Mrs. Viola Frazier, associate State counselor; Mrs. Rosa Buckner, counselor of Kenmore Council No. 23; Mrs. Maude A. Wine, State counselor of District of Columbia, and Mrs. S. Belle Gibson, past State counselor. —Star Staff Photo. Instinct (Continued From First Page.) ture of human nature to fit automo- biles. This conclusion was presented be- | fore the National Academy of Sciences, meeting at the University of Vir- ginia today, by Dr. Yandell Hender- son, professor of physiology at Yale University and one of the greatest living authorities on human reac- tions. “Righting Instinct.” ‘The instinct referred to by Prof. Henderson as a “hitherto pected interaction between cars and human nature” is the “righting in- stinct.” He described it as “a com- plex reaction in which head, body, unsus- | down in an emergency. Pressure on this pedal would turn a valve in the carburetor and shut off the power. In this way, he said, the righting reaction could be changed from a fac- | tor of danger to one of safety. e Safety (Continued From First Page.) Roosevelt Night High School, the Gar- net-Patterson Night School and the Central Night High School also have indorsed the safety drive and under- | taken the pledging of teachers and pupils to compliance with the 12 pri- mary rules for safe driving. arms and legs are all involved. It is an impulse to steady oneself in the seat. with his whole strength. His arms stiffen and he is as likely to drive off the road as on it. His legs are forcibly extended and the legs are pressed down. With a series of jolts the legs are pressed harder and harder.” This righting reaction, he said, al- most universally occurs when a driver gets in a tight fix. The result is that | joined the campaign for safer streets | the throttle of the car is opened to its utmost, the speed of the car is increased instead of slowed down, and a fatal accident is registered on the | police report as due to “the car being ' out of control.” The death of the late Queen Astrid of Belgium, Dr.| Henderson said, was due entirely to this reaction. Cites Car Construction. All cars are so constructed, he said, that they make this kind of accident likely. It is pressure of the foot upon the accelerator that increases speed. This movement for such a purpose is altogether contrary to hu- | man nature. Throughout the ages men and animals have used identically the same movement to slow down rather than to speed up. True, he | said, the brake is also applied by | pressure of the right foot, but thiai movement requires removal of the foot from the accelerator first. The instinct works quicker than reason. The “self-righting instinct,” Prof. Henderson said, always comes into play when an individual is in trouble and has been a potent factor for the preservation of the human race through the ages. It is called into play particularly by any disturbance | in equilibrium. There is almost al- ways such a disturbance in an acci- dent. Baby Has It at Birth. All animals which have been stud- ied have it, he said. Every baby has it at birth and cannot be deprived of it. He displays this instinct when he presses his tiny feet against the | sheets of his cradle. The most dan- gerous position in which primitive man could find himself was that in which he did not have complete con- trol of his equilibrium. Both feet are pressed down. There are several applications on file, Dr. Henderson said, for patents on de- vices by which pressing the acceler- ator to the floor automatically will close the throttle. These, he stressed, are open to the objection that in many cases of emergency the motorist needs to put on full speed to avoid an accident. It would be a bad solution to have a device which automatically would slow down or stop a car when crossing a grade crossing with a loco- motive bearing down upon it. As a remedy Prof. Henderson pro- posed the incorporation in all cars of a safety pedal to be operated by the left foot, close to the floor of the car and so close to the clutch that the automatically extended foot always would press upon it when pushed WATCH TH B The driver grips the wheel | D. of A. Joins Campaign. ‘The State Council of the District of Columbia, Daughters of America, also has come into the safety drive as a unit. At the same time Thomas N. Fen- | wick Post, No. 749, Veterans of For- | eign Wars, of Hyattsville, Md., joined | the drive and is undertaking the | pledging of its membership in the Maryland suburban area. | _Crew Levick Co., operating the local | Cities Service Stations, which has and highways, now is engaged in the pledging of drivers of its trucks and equipment in Washington and the employes of its service stations throughout the city. The company safety drive is being conducted under the supervision of John J. Mershon, station supervisor of the local area. Central Night High School, latest of the evening public schools to join the safety drive, is planning a safety assembly in the Central High School this week under the direction of Rob- ert D. Brinker, principal. Richard M. Ham, safety director of the District of Columbia Motor Club of the Amer- HE EVENING STA WASHINGTON, fcan Automobile Association, s scheduled to address the assembled teachers and students on the necessity for eternal vigilance while at the wheel of & motor vehicle or while on foot. Safe driving pledge cards will be distributed to teachers and students in the class rooms following the as- sembly. . Garnet-Patterson Joins. The Garnet-Patterson Night School has joined the campaign under the leadership of its principal, Mrs. J. H. Crawford, and now is engaged in the enrollment among the ranks of pledged safe drivers of all its teachers and students who drive cars. Roosevelt High School has been un- usually active in connection with the safety campaign. Teachers of the day high school there took the safe- driving pledge during the early days of the campaign, as did the teachers of all the District public day schools. Student. of the school, through the student council, have joined in the campaign, with the support of the school’s student paper. Officers of the student council undertook the pledg- ing of all students in the school who operate cars. The Roosevelt Night High School also has indorsed the drive. In opening the safety drive among the night high schools, George F. Waltz, principal of the McKinley Evening High School, called a general assembly to make sure that every teacher and pupil understood thor- oughly the scope of the safety drive and the individual responsibility of the motorist. Mr. Ham also spoke at that meeting and showed a sound pic- ture dealing with the traffic safety problem. Details of the safe-driving pledge, with its 12 primary safe-driv- ing rules, were explained by L. I. Mc- Dougle, teacher of the civics class at the school, who took personal charge of the campaign there. 13,000 in Night Schools. More than 13,000 students now are | enrolled in the District public night | schools, approximately 9,500 of this number being in the white schools. With the enrollment of the night| schools, the educational system of the | | District is represented by virtually 100 | per cent in the safety drive. All of the local public school teaching staffs and officials of the school system were | enrolled under the personal leadership of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent | | of schools. The vocational and Amer- icanization schools and the teachers’| colleges were enrolled as separate | units. The leading local colleges and universities also have added their sup- port to the campaign, pledging mem- bers of the faculties and student bodies. | Thomas N. Fenwick Post of the V. F. W. voted its unanimous indorse« ment of The Star safety drive at a | | meeting in the Hyattsville Armory, at which 600 members of three posts and two auxiliaries from the nearby Maryland suburban area were present. At this meeting Clinton L. Mattingly was re-elected commander of the post | and Past National Commander in| | Chief Paul Wolman was the speaker. Members of Stuart Turner and Mil- | ton Hartman Posts and their auxil-| iaries were present at the meeting. As | a result of the action of the members of the post, The Star Safety Council was called upon to provide safe-driving pledges for the membership and these | | will be distributed to the members at Safe Driving Pledge D. Singer Killed AUTO ACCIDENT IS FATAL TO KAY WELLS. KATHERINE McGLONE Of Jersey City, N. J,, 25, who was killed early yesterday in a collision between an automobile in which she was riding home and a milk truck. Miss McGlone, a singer, was known to radio audiences as Kay Wells. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. the next meeting of the post Friday evening. Action by D. of A. The Daughters of America, State Council of the District of Columbia, has thrown its support into The Star's safe-driving campaign. Indorsement of the organization was made through the efforts of the State councilor, Mrs. Maude A. Wine. The organization is a patriotic, beneficial and fraternal one, and is the recognized auxiliary of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. It has a membership of 150,000 in 33 States. Among the objects of the order are: 1. To promote and maintain the in- terests of Americans and shield them from the depressing effects of un- restricted immigration. 2. To assist Americans in obtaining employment. 3. To establish a fund or funds for the payment of benefits in case of sickness, disability or death of itg members. 4. To maintain the public school system of the United States and to prevent interference therewith and to PAIN OF CANCER KILLED BY VENO Academy of Science Hears Cobra Poison Better Than Opiates. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. UNIVERSITY, Va., November 18.— The venom of the cobra, most deadly of poisonous snakes, may be the logical substitute for morphine and other habti-forming opiates for the relief of unbearable pain. Experiments with cobra venom as a pain killer were described before the National Academy of Sciences, meeting here today, by Dr. David I. Macht, Baltimore pharmacologist. In collaboration with several Bal- timore surgeons, Dr. Macht made in- jections of a venom solution in the muscles of 100 sufferers from in- operable cancers and other malignant tumors who suffered constant agony with even the most powerful narcotics. It was found to be more effective than morphine or any other generally used opiates. Improvement General. Moreover, he said, there was in some cases & very marked improve- ment in the general condition of the patients, which may have been due to the better fight individuals freed from agony were able to make against the deadly neoplasms. Cobra venom, he found, was entirely non-habit-forming and did not have| the dangerous side-effects of the | opiates. | | Thousands of drug addicts blame their condition to opiates taken origi- nally to relieve pain, with increasing doses necessary for this purpose set- ting up a physiological craving which could not be overcome when the sick- | ness was ended. But there is no dan- |ger of a generation of cobra-venom addicts. Apparently, Dr. Macht said, the venom affects some pain center in the | higher levels of the brain, presum- |ably in the cerebrum. It does not appear to affect the ascending or de- scending nerve fibers which carry the sense of pain to the brain and back | again to the organ in which the |agony is felt. He also found that it |did not paralyze the nerve endings which start the pain impulses. Apparently Halts in Brain. To confirm the brain-effect hy- pothesis, experiments were conducted :‘}‘:‘r‘:’; the reading of the Holy Bible | with rats in which convulsions of 5. To promote social Intercourse and ' :':;in d‘;fi::n h;.:eb;:';nm;:;?nsz C:;: :fit";‘s‘omv“f'::mg the objects of | parently go to the braln and stop 6. To establish a fund or funds tovmf‘.y;e“;};?:t ‘b:l::‘gn ‘;::Bmises to be assist and care for orphan children. | ¢ th t notable d: t 7. To establish a fund or funds m,one’o . mosdno < ;ug conl;x- provide a home for the care of the |:;“' (})::s ?;rkm:o: u"fu;m“l:xgifs'_ = 5 aged and infirm members of the order. | acht’s stitutes p- pearance in the United States. There In a letter to The Star, Charles H. . i Miller, secretary, writes in the follow- ;‘;::nb“n socvi ST 1 ing indorsement of the organization: | ™ 'm0 ;o unquestionably a hereditary “The State councilor of the District | of Columbia, Daughters of America |{actor in tuberculoeis, Dr. I}urmond | (Mrs. Maude A. Wine, 116 Third street | P¢arl of Johns Hopkins University | told the academy on the basis of re- D e Tt may ehae or ments |cent statistical researches. _Studying | be pleased to sign on behalf of herself | ;:;ug::orgi ?;\x?d lt‘k:g: :\;}:;be;mo}: and the 3,000 members of the ]c»cnl\pm[_m5 are tuberculous, there is ap- organization a safety traffic pledge in | 5 of the local order. We enthusiastically |tract the disease. When only the indorse And commend Jour spiendid father is tuberculous the chance is f 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 Star, I promise to: Never operate at reckless speed. Drive on right of highway. Stop at all 8-T-O-P signs. Refrain from jumping traffic lights. Make turns from 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. Keep my vehicle in safe condition. Be courteous and considerate of others. NaAME e aeomanaonaasonson Address._ Employey The Safety Council Of The Ebvening Star Washington, D. C. Sign and send above coupon to The Eveming Ster Safety Council, Room 600, Star Building IS PAPER NOVEMBER 21 A , campaign in behalf of the lives of others and fervently trust that it will conduce to a material lessening of fatalities in our fair city.” 12 Injured in Train Wreck. PALESTINE, Tex, November 18 (#).—At least a dozen persons were injured, none seriously, when a north- bound Missouri Pacific passenger train was wrecked early yesterday near Jewett. Three chair cars and a sleeper left the rails and overturned, sleeping passengers and minor injuries. 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