Evening star. [volume], March 25, 1928, Page 4, Image 4

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Opening Scenes in The Star’s Golden Rule Crusade for Safe Driving Yesterday
The Golden Rale Car which will cruise the streets of Washington all during the next week impressing the gospel of safe driving just before it started on
JU maiden trip yesterday. '
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Htyti officials of the police force and officials of The Evening Star signing safe driving pledges at the opening of the Golden Rule campaign. Left to right: i
Frank B. Neyes, Theodore IT. Noyes. Beale R. Howard. Superintendent of Police Hesse. Fleming Xewbold and Inspector Brown, in charge of the Traffic Bureau.
.GOLDEN RULE TRAFFIC DRIVE !
I OF STAR OPENS WITH PLEDGES
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duty M s member of society by s mere
a mechanical compliance with the trst
ifle code, but that he must bear in mind
fat all times the Golden Rule, which is
* the supreme traffic law. It is hoped
that the crusade ml! bring home to all
motorists the dangers to which they ,
are exposing others—not themselves— |
by failure to use the utmost care and
ronskieratkm every minute they are 1
behind the wheels of their cars. For
m Use great majority of instances it
was preventable carelessness that
caused the deaths of these 92 children
Probably no laws were broken in most
eases—except the Golden Rule
Approximately 400 boys and girl*, most
of them accompanied by their parents,
were thronged on the Eleventh street
side of The Evening Star Building at
11 o’clock, and the filming of the fea
ture motion picture started immediately.
AH Typds Present
It was a representative gathering of
Washington children who faced the
camera for the first time in their live*, j
There were boys in sailor suit* and sol
dier suit* and policemen's suits. There
were girl* in sunbonnct* and girl* in
pink calico. Brown heads, black head*
and golden heads—blue eye* that
laughed spontaneously and big black
acious children, frightened children and
eyes that struggled to laugh—self-con
eonfidenl children—children dressed for
play and children dressed by doting
mothers for the movies—all type* and
shape* and siaes of children —they
massed against the curb on Eleventh
street, while the crank of the camera
was turning It was »ust such children
as these—they will be shown on the
screen at the Fox Theater suiting next
Saturday—that play in the street and
are killed or mangled by auimmobile*
Any one of them might be a victim of j
some driver who. while obeying all the
traffic law* doesn’t keep in hi* mind at
all times the supreme law of all—the
Golden Rule.
They smiled and waved their chubby
Httk band* at the kindly direction* of
the movie director They tried their
beet to act their parts They are look
ing forward confidently u» see them
aelvt on the screen— just as they have
seen Mary Pick ford and Doug Fairbanks
and the rest AH are over five but un
der io year* old They had giver, up
their hour* of play on this Runny Sat-j
Xna*f w ne»*> along the gupo wpr* of
putting the Golden Rile in the minds
«sf Washington motorists
ho* Most* Assist.
First the entire group was photo
graphed and then seven or eight views
were taken of smaller group*. Filly j
Boy Scouts of Troops 2 42 44 and hi,
in charge of Assistant Scout Commis
sioner Talley, a' ted a* a guard for the
children and will appear in the picture
They also had given up part of their
hohdsy from school to assist in »hu
good work in accordance with ihe
ideal* of the Seoul or®a«ix*tion
There seexped plenty of material for
child star* of the fir*) order among Or
t*oyi and girl* who came today Un
fortunately. however, there are feature
part* in the film for only six of them
probably fopr girb arid two boys and
< ncse must be selected ac/mding to tile
beet judgment of tfee director from all
whose faces appear in *h met** taken ;
yesterday.
Im mediately »lt« the filming of the
whlidreh tie street was cleared and the
big glid' d car drove up to the «orb
•The next act in this dram* of present*
day Waruington war tie feigning of
..pledge raid* pasaed out by Mist Ma'ci*
* vail; film actret>>: who plav* the role
* of Mot/ter of ftsfety in this picture
Those who signed pkrrrve i* among
thousand* expected to enroll during tie
heat week In tile Golden Role ftafe
Driver* Club tionv/i*d by The Evening
htar—-were District Commit .loner B*d
»**> F Taliaferro Msj Edwin B Hesse
head of tiic Metropolitan Police iiepart
rmni, Traffic Dtreevw Wilham H Mac
land Asaifetant Traffic Director M O
Jfeldi ioge Inspector E W Brown in
rhsrge of the Traffic Bure**, Ftsnk B
Noyes Theodore W Noy«*. IVale h
Howard Fu ming Newfeold and Newbukj
Noyes. Mis* Vaili then nil M-d the
< *id» and entered the ear Bhe w»^
accompanied on this fiisi trip «
gilded car by OommeMoc i no
a* out* **■ • '■» lebied
TH» uf'h ' r left Th» £ - »r Build mg
*#e to/bco mto feAravyivsn'.'s **.e»ue,
! preceded by an escort of three motor
! cycle policemen. The Boy Scouts, led
by Assistant Commissioner Talley
marched behind. After proceeding along
the Avenue, where it was witnessed by
thousands during the noon hour, the
car turned into other streets and cruised
about the city for th® rest of the after
noon driven slowly and carefully.
| ‘Drive U you would have others
drive."
This is the whole message intended
to be carried by the gilded car and the
I safety crusade. It is no platitude. It
is the most fundamental and applicable
, law in the world. No traffic code pos
j sibly could cover the whole field. The
motorist who has the welfare of his
neighbors at heart must make his own
code and obey it. He must drive al- t
ways as if his own child were playing
in the street just around the corner, j
She might be for some other motorist. 1
There are lots of things that the
driver can do safely ninety-nine times
out of a hundred He may continue S
doing them all his life and never get
into trouble. They may be things for
! which he never will be forced to an
swer in traffic court. But. however
skilled he may be, these things en- i
danger the life of somebody else When
he does them he forgets the Golden
Rule, as it applies to motoring.
Life Today More Complex.
It isn't so easy, in some ways, to order
one'a life according to the Golden Rule
as it was 50 years ago. Living has be
come a more complex proposition. There
is more to worry about. There is more
to lake up ones mind The very com
plexity of modern life call* for thou
sands of new laws, of one kind or an
other, annually, but few of them accom
plish much good unless they have the
neart of a community behind them
! One of the most comole* factors In
ai) this complexity is the automobile,
standard makes of which now ate so
cheap that they are within the reach of
the average family. All sorts of per
sons are driving automobile* under all
sorts of conditions Cars are driven bv
nervous men. tired men, drunken men
deaf men. short-sighted men and
rattle-brained men Every automobile
is a potential instrument of death when
mishandled Control over such ipeed
and weight is a terrible responsibility
to place m the hands of any individual
t even the most careful and responsible
man alive The problems raised are so
widespread and intricate that they
never can be solved by any code They
can only be solved when every driver
takes as his first rule of conduct th®
Golden Ruh- never to drive unlews h*
is: sure he i# fit to drive, never to take
i bis car from the garage unices it is in
good condition so that It ran be kept
in perfect control and never to take a
chance on injuring some other person
These are the cardinal rules, and if I
hoped tha* the appearance of the
gilded crusading car will help fix them
In the minds of ail motorists
GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO.
JAmisy Langley, 5. Hunt Into Chi'*
pH'h—Jr,jtnin Believed Slight.
t'r e»year.oid Maigy Ismgiey, 3226
Kiwtcfnlh Mr* v.uf klrutk by un
automobile night Althouih rh»k*n
»id bruised *he sa not b-lleved Ki be
tpured Mrr*Mi*i)r.
The »tula ofi Into the path of an
wjVifnflWl*, drl /*<; by D W. Manner*,
50 year* old 3J<Ki Sixteenth M.reet.
which proceeding *outh on Nine*
•O'jith urcH in front of h»r him**, 1
police ♦»* «<#-<} hhr v.na taken to Prove
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Follows Operation
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COMhEM.Aim Mii March 34 H
t’-ay Straw Hi year* old widower who
i iv>d (3 years us mayor of Piedmont,
V/ V» and also a member of the coun j
i <ii fit a number of term* died h
’IMP I *1 Western Maryl'x TuaplUl
h'-r* following an / .o t ||? bad
conducted *< ‘ ~a« y »t Pi- dmont
s *‘ < ...t Shaw w«* a m inb'i
o KioMborj* i/air>* of Elk*. 11*
*§* an ardent »port\nun
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n»id*» l vn»* ni'i from ih* c*n*i.
J'iendb hi th* UttH*A Bt*u* |m< year,
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I • free to abide bv the Golden Rule of Mntordnm, "Drive at
you would bsve other* drive.” and el all lime* ba
comiderafe of pedettritn* and ehitdran.
»'*■ ai,4 Mall *» Tl*» K**«*'*g »*a< at Wane (a Aar CaUeewta
Vice President llawr* sign* the drat aafr driving pledge In The Star’*
rruaade.
Commcrcia ipi anes Removed From List !
Os It ems Banned for Export to Mexico
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Amplifying a change hi polity that
began vnh Hit- flight „r r.ui Charles A
l.l.urtb rgh to M< sPo City, the fHat*
' l> partin' nt announced yesterday that
. minimif i.tl airplane* had been, taken
oft the tint of article* forbidden for
exportation to Mexico under the em
bargo again*) shipments of war rrtu
u-rifclh and munitions
' Hint)' 163 d it baa Inn necessary for
any twcsori do tting to ship airplane of
, purely commercial t liaraeb i into
■ Me*lc * to obtain an export. iicenge from
the State Heparin-nt. even In ct-wg '
when* flight * into Mexico were rim
lemplgted Itcemm* were requited,
The flrat of these lle/nhs n for tram- |
porUttl'tti !>•/ air to Mexi o i f comm l
Hal fls ti ll was that granted r ~| |
IJindbogb It wan followed by others
j and *lnr» la-i |im ■< mher all apple .p,t<>rtn |
I horn tjramifa*hirgts or from any nU|«i |
j ootjrce for permit**ton to export «• im
j met Hal plane* to M* x|co have been
granted a* » mahei of policy
j It was explained at lit* State lle-
J psrtment today fltui b ana* nt the d«.
nit* of tip Washington fio. onm nt to
I promote de t iopment of root mes Hal
'griMion, thP policy with r**P#el to
' the U*4 le##i» tvyhud amt that
today * iirtlon was merely r routine re
moval of ronmiririsl airplane* from the
list of at title* or rommodltje* forbidden
for export under lire arm* embaiHh
since it w»* Intended to continue to
grant it*»u for export of commerelal
plant’. Ip any cnee
Military airplanes on well an virtually
ali other war material* or munition*
remain under elose embargo and mnv
hr exported Into /dexioo only on their
export license, whirl) thUa lur has been
granted only in ease* where tire Mex-
I lean uiv i rimrrtt itself h«» desired to
nui 'in it am h materials lu the United
tJtatea.
BOY STILL UNCONSCIOUS.
' C hild P:ru k by Auto In Serious
CondUton,
Mote llis'i 31 Hour* after he lisd been
! trurk by an auinmohiln, ft-year-old
Hoy Hacksaw of flap Ito I Iteighlx, Md
Hill lay uneonsoioiu last night at nas*
oatty Ilntuhßl, where ll was reported
hi* condition was "serious.'*
The rhild wae hil while near hit
' Uwra. Hu skull w« fractured.
After impressive ceremonies with leading District officials present, the Golden Rule Car, heading down Pennsylvania avenue, escorted hy motor-cycle pnlir*-
men on its mission to make the streets safe for pedestrians and children.
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Children being filmed for test* for parts in the motion picture "The Penalty." a drama depicting the needle** sacrifice of child life in traffi*-. which Is being
made as part of The Star's safety campaign. Six boys and girls have been chosen to take parts in the movie which will be shown at the Fox Theater starting
Saturday.
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District Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro. signing his pledge to drive
safely at the opening of the Golden Rule rampaign at The Star Office yesterdav.
Photo* hy Star Staff Ph<»t»er»i*h»r. j
Two Sailors Praised for Offering Lives
In Gas Tests on U. S. Submarines
IBy the A•»<>• ! sii'd
Because they offered their lives in ex
periment* to determine the effects of
carbon dioxide in submarine* on human
being*, Elbert McCoy, englnrman, of
| Van Lear, Ky., and Qeorge T, Oowan,
I *eaman, of Cherokee, 8 C.. have been
; commended by the Navy Department
1 for their meritorious conduct.
The experiment* were conducted at
1 the Naval Arsenal at Edge wood. Md .
under the supervision of Comdr. E. W
Brown of the Medical Corps.
PARACHUTES SAVE
TWO NAVAL FLYERS
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Airmen Jump 3,000 Feet After
Control Wire* on Craft Snap.
Both Escape Serious Hurts.
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QUINCY, May* , March 34 ■ Para*
chute lump* from a height of 3,000 feet
over Quincy Hay today, after the con
trol wires on their plane hud snapped,
landed one naval aviator In (he shallow
water and the other against the side
of a house. Both escaped serious injury
The abandoned plane In Its fall swept I
a short distance Inland, set aped along
the top of one house In the Atlantic
district, knocking off a chimney, struck
another house with such force that the
engine was torn out and went througn
the roof and landed In a hack v aid
The aviators were I,lent Walter C
Oreene of Atlantic, and lleut Samuel
Caldwell of Providence Caldwell struck
the water not tar from shore and had
no difficult v in reaching land Oreene
was forced against the window of a
dwelling smashing it In tlien was car
ried to the ground beside the house
Hevci ul children were playing nearby t
and one lltili* ghi wa* hit In the head’
nv a piece of brick (mm the demolished
chimney
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fill Is replacing coal g* fuuj in many i
put* of Sun pa, |
! In recommending the commendation
Comdr. Brown said that the men were
subjeted to a considerable number of
the experiment* which wore "distinctly
uncomfortable and in some instance*
Involved physical strain. They not
only co-operated cheerfully as subject* •
but showed an interest and a spirit of l
helpfulness m the work which was
very gratifying It is felt that their
service* should have distinctive recog
nition
Tlie results of the experiments were
not divulged.
LOST PASTOR’S WIFE
STARTS BALM SUIT
Charge* Woman With Alienation
of Mate’s Affections Cleric Miss
ing Since Early in Month.
m no* v«»tii-!j*ii>n i*i,*»».
i WAVCHOSB. On.. March 24 Mrs
Herbert II Young, wife of the missing
pastor of tit' Central Baptist Church
heie, today filed *uM against Mrs E. P 1
Walker of this city, charging alien*-
lion of her husband’* affections.
Hev Mi Young disappeared from the j
Atlanta V M C A. early this month
aftct he went there presumably lo at- !
lend a church conference
Later court official.* at Meridian, j
Ml**, announced that a man giving hi» !
name as Kev Herbert O Young ob- j
tamed a marriage license there March I
3 to marry a Mrs E P Walker of t\>\ - t
mg lon, Ky , and New York The nun
jlsier who performed the wedding cere- |
mony there related a description of the *
minister which was said lo have cor- !
ivh|*mdcd with the men missing here 1
Mr* Walker let! town in Eebvuaiv to!
! visit relative* in Covington, but t» said
to nave left that city,
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A ropv of Col Lawrence's Haven Pit
|i«i* of Wisdom'’ was sold ut Loudon ft*
|lenity (or |LIM.
PROPERTY OF 40 S-4 VICTIMS
REVEALS STORIES OF OWNERS
By the V«.<v m*».l Pre««.
BOSTON. March 24—Forty Navy
yard tables, each containing personal
effects of a man who died on the sunken
submarine S-* today contradicted the
aphorism dead men tell no tales."
I Each table told a dramatic story
about the 40 victims. The piles of
sodden clothing were grim reminders
of the submarine tragedy, but more
poignant were the personal possessions
There were cameras, watches, pens,
photographs of wives, sweethearts and
children, and letters.
Other articles dug out of the slime
of the raised S-4 indicated the hobbies
of the dead men Among these were
stamp albums, foreign coin collections,
a pair of roller skates, books of all sorts
and a base ball bat.
Property of Officers.
On the tables allotted to three of
the four officers were their swords.
The table which bore the name of
Lieut. Joseph A. McOinley. executive
officer of the S-4. held his commission
as an officer in the Navy and also a
certificate which states that he was
married to Adeline Clark in Chicago
on June 14. 1923.
| Lieut, Thomas Wvlley and a corps
of assistants have assembled the per
sonal property of each of the dead men
When the work is completed all of the
t personal effects, including the cloth
ing—for Navy men purchase their own
equipment—will be sterilired and
shipped to the next of kin of the dead
owner.
Only one article was found on ?h»
S-4 which could not be identified This
is a Mystic Shrtner's sea bearing the
name of El £asal Temple of Fargo N
Dak It was neatly rolled in a small
red bag.
Newspaper Men Admitted.
Today newspaper men were permitted
to inspect the interior of the S-4 for
the first time since she was raised
Everything was coated with oil and
slim* and every bit of metal not pro
tected by paint was found rusted and
pitted by the salt water and arid from
the ruined batteries.
| An inspection of the control room
revealed the reason why the submarine
sank. A ruptured ventilation pipe in
dicated exactly how the water poured
directly down on the main switch
board on the starboard side The
board's discolored switches bore evt-,
• dence of the flashes and explosions
• which then resulted and caused the,
gas which forced the crew to abandon
ihe only compartment in which they
had a chance to work their rammed
boat to the surface
The hole in the hull, seen from the
l mside. Indicated that the water slowly
entered the battery room rather than
poured in. since at no point us there
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wide, due to the jamai’d k~rl of the
Coast Guard Destroyer Paui-Jins which
blocked much of the puncture
A general survey of the submarine
made it appear that virtually all of the
delicate electrical equipment and en
gines were ruined beyond repair.
FLYER MAY RECOVER.
Army Airman Regains Conscious
ness at Walter Reed.
Lieut, mrry J. F .at equal of s he
Army Air Corps, injured when his plane
crashed at Bolling Field Wednesday, »
now believed to be recovering it was
said last night at Walter Reed Hospital,
where he is under treatment.
The offeer regained consciousness
yesterday. At first ft had been feared
his Injuries would prove fatal.
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Would Regulate Busses.
A bill to provide for the regulation vt
passenger busses operating in inters tot*
service was introduced yesterday b>
Chairman Parker of the House com
mittee which considers such legislation.
The bill provides that States shall cre
ate joint boards to regulate such service
and would provide for appeal to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
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