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TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
RATE UP TO CITIES
Engineering Must Be Linked
to Intelligent Law En
forcement.
This is the seventh and last of a
series of articles discussing meth
ods of combating the traffic menace.
BY BLAIR MOODY.
DETROIT, Mich., January 9
(N.A.N.A.).—Any city can pretty well
write its own accident rate—if an In
telligent program of enforcement, dove
tailed with modern engineering, is
•upported by the driving force of
public opinion.
That is the boiled-down summary
of what can be done' about today’s
leading tragedy, "death in the streets,”
which has been snuffing out lives at
the rate of 100 a day.
It is the path that progressive, trail
blazing cities have proved leads some
where. It Is the course available to
■ny city that wishes to follow it.
Practical business executives, as well
as professional experts In safety tech
nic, particularly urge the need for
strong sustained civic support to a
program of enforcement geared to re
duce deaths.
Perhaps best qualified among them
to speak is Paul G. Hoffman, president
of the Studebaker Corp. Hoffman is
chairman of the Automobile Manu
facturers' Association's Safety Com
mittee, which through its manager.
Norman Damon, is pouring Into estab
lished safety organizations thousands
of dollars to revamp and expand
safety programs handicapped for years
by lack of funds.
Hoffman Long in Campaign.
Hoffman was the first executive In
the automotive Industry to start ham
mering home, years ago, when many
of his colleagues believed that any one
whr mentioned accidents was "antag
onis ic,” the message all now agree
to— hat sooner or later traffic slaugh
ter would have to be stopped—and the
aooner the better for every one.
Hoffman's advice, therefore, if It
matches his vision, should be good.
Here Is what he has to say:
"The first thing a city must do to
reduce accidents is knock down de
featism—the idea that 'nothing can
be done.’ ■
“It is safe to say any community
ran pretty well write its own accident
rate, low or high, just as it can write
Ps own fire rate by having a high
grade fire department.
"But it is no flash-in-the-pan job.
It takes a long-term balanced pro
gram. A community without intel
ligent non-political enforcement can
do little. But if the best enforcement
program is to be permanently suc
cessful, it must have public support.
“That means a persistent, well
rounded program of education—of
keeping constantly before the people
what the elements of safety are and
what they mean to the city: what
they may mean to any family in the
city where a life is saved.
Safely Technique Diners.
"Evanston, Providence, Milwaukee,
Syracuse, Louisville, all have such
programs, and all have reduced
deaths. Details of their technique dif
fer somewhat, but the principles are
the same.
“In South Bend (where Hoffman
Is chairman of a civic safety group,
formed last year) we had eight traf- :
fir deaths in the first five months of
the year and two in the next five.
"Traffic safety must be attained
by organized and sustained com
munity effort, not a lot of speeches
about safety, or spasmodic traffic ‘ro
deos.’ It ha* proved wise in Mil- j
waukee, South Bend and elsewhere
to form a representative group of in- j
fluential men to support or direct the
movement.
"Some cities, like New York, have ■
made excellent records through put- j
ting one strong man. with authority, |
in charge of traffic in the police de- |
partment.”
The first step in the program, Hoff
man said, is to “move in on the po
lice department,” but the police can’t
do a complete job unless they have
community support.
‘‘All1 of the organizations interested
In safety—the parent-teacher as
sociations. women's club, Chambers
of Commerce and other business clubs,
the American Legion—should help to
drive this message home. Some of
them already are interested. All of
them should be.
opinion must ne namra.
"With their support, a city can sur
vive the inevitable reaction that occurs
sometime. during every real safety
campaign. Effective enforcement starts
to show results, but it makes careless
drivers, who get in accidents and are
prosecuted, mad. Their anger reacts
politically, and pressure is applied to
have enforcement relaxed. That is
■where the force of public opinion must
be rallied to the side of safety.
“There are a number of devices
that serve to stimulate interest In
safety on the streets. One of these is
friendly competition such as the inter
factory contests that have been so ef-!
fective in some communities, and
Inter-precinct police contests, such as
have been used in New York and De
troit. When the boss writes an em
ploye who has been • convicted of a
•moving' traffic violation (not parking)
and expresses ‘regret’ that the em
ploye has soiled the company’s safety
record, the employe will think twice
before he speeds or runs through a
red light again. When the superin
tendent tells an inspector to ‘go after’
accidents in his precinct—patrolmen
move into action—or else.
Intelligent Enforcement Needed.
•'The main point is tha£ * com
munity can have, in safety as in poli
tics, just the sort of record that it
wants—if it wants it badly enough to
stay awake and be determined to
get it.
"A city should have intelligent en
forcement. It should have a trained
traffic engineer. There are myriads
of examples proving that scientific
study of physical traffic hazards pays.
In Los Angeles, for example, the flow
of traffic on one hlgh-accldent street
was quickened 50 per cent, and the
accidents reduced 50 per cent, by a
simple, common sense program of
engineering and pedestrian control.
"But in any city, a safety record
Is likely to be as strong as the man
—or men—who direct it. And a big
part of the job of this dlrecitng force
is to keep the public alive to the fact
that lives are precious: that they are
worth saving—and only an Intelligent,
strict and consistent safety program
will save them.”
(Copyritht, 1037, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, (ne.)
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Collects tickets.
A doctor at Munich, Germany, who
has been collecting transportation
tickets for years and now has 40,000
specimens from 100 countries, claims
he has the best collection in Europe.
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‘Brass Pounders’ in Congress
Not so many years ago these two were "pounding brass” on
the Burlington Railroad. Now they are both members of Con
gress. but still carry union cards in the Order of Railroad Teleg
rapher.
Senator Ed Johnson (left), new Democratic member
from Colorado, and Representative Lewis M. Long, new Demo
cratic member of House from Illinois.—Harris-Ewing Photo.
Cabinet
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English lines, and for the establish
ment of a fact-finding agency within
the Budget Bureau, which would have
power to make investigations and
surveys of the Government's func
tioning, and present further recom
mendations for reorganization to the
President. Both of these have been
very strongly urged on him by his
advisers on his Special Committee
on Reorganization.
The “career service” idea is espe
cially interesting. It would set up
four or five “farcers" in the Govern- j
ment service—perhaps an administra
tive, an expert or scientific, an office
workers and a manual workers. With- ;
in these, promotion would be by
merit, on a ladder system, and each
career might be topped by one or!
more “permanent undersecretary- 1
ship6.” on the English model. The
“administrative career” would supply
“permanent undersecretaries” to all ’
the departments.
His central idea in reorganization,
as he has often said, is that the Gov- j
ernment should be regrouped along
“functlonar lines. He is a great
admirer of the New York State re
organization. carried out under Alfred
E. Smith with the advice of Robert
Moses, and something of the same
sort is his objective for the Federal
Government.
“Functional" Idea Outgrowth.
The scheme for the two new depart
ments Is the outgrowth of the "func
tional" idea. In each of them would
be concentrated duties and powers of
a related nature which are now scat
tered through many departments and
agencies of the Government. For
example, the Works Progress Ad
ministration, which provides immedi
ate relief for unemployment; the
Social Security Board, which provides
long-term insurance against jobless
ness; the C. C. C., which cares for
jobless youth, and one or two other
agencies and bureaus of a similar
character would all find their way
into the welfare department.
As for the Department of Public
Works, it would have a double func- |
tion. Its first duty would be to do
all construction work for the Federal
Government. It would have the
further duty of preparing an in
tegrated long-term public works and
Improvements plan for the whole
country.
In his functional regrouping, the j
President does not wish to stop there,
either. There are. at present, 137
independent agencies of the Govern
ment, from the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Commission to the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Of these, 57
were born In the last yean of the
New Deal.
The President wishes to bring many j
of them into the cabinet departments,!
so they will head up more or less
directly to the Chief Executive. It'
is not known whether he would go
bo far as to put such semi-judicial,
historically independent agencies as
:he Interstate Commerce Commission
into departments where their policies
would become directly subject' to.l
presidential influence. Here again, the
idea is opposed by the conservative
reorganizers. But it is undoubted that
he desires toe get many of these inde
pendent bureaus and commissions
covered Into the central governmental
structure.
It is because of this that he is likely
to request authority to carry out his
functional regrouping within the broad
framework already laid down. Reor
ganization is a difficult business when
it must be done through Congress,
since every department and agency
which is threatened with extinction
promptly descends on Congress in
force, and harries the Representatives
and Senators who are its friends
through patronage until an opposition
has been whipped up. Undoubtedly
reorganization would be easier if the
President did most of it himself.
While the President busies himself
with his message, Senator Byrd, Demo
crat, of Virginia. Is working hard over
hw own reorganization scheme. An
elaborate and far more detailed pro
gram Is being prepared by Senator
Byrd, and it is understood he will soon
present the first segment of his plan—
a scheme for reorganizing and con
solidating the lending agencies of the
Government.
(Copyright, 1P3T. by New York Herald
Tribune.)
Indictments
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tion. One was described in the in
dictment as a member of the Kansas
City police force.
Thirty Defendant* Named.
Thirty of the defendants were
named in four indictments accus
ing them of conspiring to violate th#
civil rights act by miscounting votes
for President and Congressman. The
other six, whose names were not' an
nounced, were accused in an indict
ment that1 was kept secret.
Essentially, the defendants were
charged with making false returns of
the votes cast, with reporting Re
publican votes for Democratic candi
dates—thus "injuring and oppressing"
voters and violating their civil rights.
United States Marshal Henry L. Dil
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lingham said the aecuaed persons
would be 'brought to court Monday.
At least two of the indictments ac
cused the defendants of erasing the
cross mark denoting Republican choice
and placing Jhe "X” on the Demo
cratic side.
Changed Totals Charged.
In one instance it was charged the
Rooeevelt-Garner ticket was given 501
votes against 31 for Landon and Knox,
when the “correct and truthful” count
was Roosevelt and Garner, 391; Lan
don and Knox, 141. In that same
precinct, the Indictment charged, Rep
resentative C. Jasper Bell, who directed
the congressional investigation of the
Townsend pension plan last Bummer,
was given 501 votes, against 31 for
Paul Byrum, the Republican nominee,
when it should have been 390 for Bell
and 143 for Byrum.
Two years ago a grand jury headed
by Russell Greiner, once president of
Rotary International, spent seven
weeks investigating conditions in Kan
sas City but returned no indictments.
That Jury reported:
"We find that Kansas City is in
fested with gambling, racketeering
and other forms of lawlessness, and so
dominated by intimidation and threats
of reprisals by the underworld that
citizen* are afraid to tell the truth
to the grand Jury."
Five Slain in 1934.
Five men were killed in a city elec
tion in 1934. John Lazla, a Pender
gast lieutenant, was shot down sev
eral weeks later.
Since his illness, Pendergast has
turned active direction of the organi
zation over to his nephew. James M.
Pendergast—but "the boss,” as his co
horts call him, has recovered suffi
ciently to come to his unobtrusive
downtown headquarters almost daily.
The grand Jury is to resume its work
Tuesday morning, aided by agents of
the Justice Department's Bureau of
Investigation.
All of the precincts named in the
indictments are in the twelfth ward.
Those Indicted are:
Leo B. Roach, polioeman.
Democratic judges: Callie Clark,
Lome Wells, Margaret T. Kelley, Ce
celia Ditsch, Edson M. Walker, Loretta
McEntee, John T. Little and Alice M.
.Froeschl.
Republicans Also Indicted.
Republican judges: Frank H. Ad
ams. Beulah Walton, Chloe G. Al
bright. Elijah Burke, James E. Maxey
and Lena T. Green.
Assistant District Attorney Sam C. I
Slair said Maurlne Nelson, a Republ
ican judge, also was Indicted.
Democratic clerks: Joe R. Wells, Jr.:
Digs Kegln, Anna V. O'Laughlln and
forest C. Holman.
Republican clerks: Pearl Sperry,
Marie Denger, Tessle Mears and Ruth
Hogendorn.
Democratic precinct captains: John
K. Luteran. Trank Ditsch, George Nee
per, John H. Drummond, Joseph Hob
ly and Gilbert Stevens.
PROGRAM DISCUSSED
FOR NAVAL RESERVE
3o-ordination of Plans for
Change in Set-Up Is
Arranged.
The job of handling co-ordination
pf the Maas bill, the Navy Department
compromise, and the Naval Reserve
program on a change in the Reserve
set-up was yesterday referred to the
National Committee on Legislation by
vote of the delegates at the annual
United States Naval Reserve confer
ence now going on at the Washington'
Hotel.
The demands of the Reserve Involve
a direct budgetary approach, a sep
arate bureau headed by a rear ad
miral, an additional Secretary of the
Navy for the Reserve, representation
on courts and boards in so far as they
touch the Naval Reserve, and expan
sion of the Fleet Naval Reserve and
the volunteer general class. Neither
the legislative nor the departmental
proposals embody all these objectives
and It was felt that the committee
could iron out the difficulties more
easily than the convention as a whole.
Resolutions were passed to maintain
an adequate appropriation to provide
the men with the usual 14 days' active
duty and 48 annual drills with pay and
to work to offset the subversive work
of nn-Amerlcan groups.
Unable to complete Its work, the
convention, which was to have ad
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