? YOUNG LIVES
SAVED IN 79
: 81 PATROLS
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Translated into terms of lives,
the school boy patrols and the
other safety educational work of
the American Automobile Associa
tion resulted in saving seven chil
dren under the ages of 15 years
during the year 1929, according to
Howard N. Starling, director of
safety for the District o Columbia
division of the A. A. A.
The A. A. A. official bases this
Statement on the fact that if the
1926 automobile casualty rate had
been applied, to the increased popu
lation and the greater motor ve
hicle registration of 1929 there
Would have been seven more child
ren’s lives sacrificed than actual
was the case.
Started In 1926.
■ The year 1926 is taken for com
parison as that marked the in
ception of the school boy patrol
movement in this city and the re
cords of that year show that there
Were 20 children killed during the
period in automobile accidents
giving a casualty rate of 3.79 per
cent per 100,000 of population and,
the* estimated number of chil
dren under the age of 15 years, a
Casualty rate of 18.94 per 100,000
Children.
Considering both the increased
Humber of automobiles and the
population growth, those rates if
applied in 1929 would have meant
that a total of 27 children under
15 years of age would have been
killed in auto accidents, with a
casualty ration per 100,000 chil
dren of 23.78.
Patrols Have Increased
- Fortunately such did not prove
to be the case. During the inter
vening years there has been a
continuous campaign for (the cause
of safety with emphasis placed
on child protection. The school
boy patrols have Increased in
numbers until there are now
active units in 170 private, public
and parochial schools in the ter
ritory covered by the District of
Columbia division of the A. A. A.
with a total enrollment of some
2,000 school boys.
Each month safety posters
teaching some safety rule are dis
tributed to- the schools and the
1929 totals for these were 15,000.
In addition over 30,000 safety les
ion sheets were placed in the
hands of the school authorities
during the same period. Hundreds
of mass meetings have been held
in the schools with safety educa
tion as the sole topic and the
police department is actively co
operating by detailing a police
man in each precinct to act as
instructor-inspector for the patrols
in his territory.
All this, points out the A. A. A.
safety director, has resulted in de
creasing the death rate per 100,-
000 of population from 3.79 to
3.55; in lowering the rate per
100,000 of children under 15
years of age from 18.94 to 17.76
and has brought a drop in the
ratio of accidents per 100,000
motor vehicle irom 17.94 to 12.53.
William A. Francis Takes
Graham-Paige Position
William A. Francis, until re
cently a Ford sales executive in
New Fork and New England,
has joined the Graham-Paige
Motors Corporation as manager
of branches, with offices in this
city, supervising the factory
branches throughout the United
States.
Francis started as a retail sales
man 16 years ago, and won rapid
advancement to the position of
manager of sales of the New
York branch of the Ford Motor
Company. In April, 1922, he was
appointed manager of the Cincin
nati branch, and after three and
a half years was transferred to
Boston, ana there served as
branch manager for the entire
territory of New England.
Radio Corporation
Buys Land Tract
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (1.N.5.).
The Radio Corporation of Amer
ica has acquired 800 acres of land
between New Brunswick and
Bound Brook, N. J„ for the pro
jected expansion of its short wave
communication accord
ing to an announcement by Frank
Salerno, president of the Sar
dinia Realty Corporation of New
fersey, which consummated the
iransaction.
The purchase price was given
Us $304,500.
New Hampshire Has
Big Garnet Deposit
PLYMOUTH, N. H., Feb. 26 (I.
N.S.).—One of the only two large
deposits of abrasive garnet in the
world is situated in this State. At
present this material is being
shipped to world markets for use
in the making of sandpaper and,
glass polishing.
Some of the largest crystals of
beryl have been found in New
Hampshire.
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Midweek News Review
A Tabloid Survey of the Important News of the
World, interpreted for the Convenience
Os Those Who Want to Keep
Up With the Times
Out of a rather muddied cur
rent of • news which coursed’
across the front pages the'last
seven days, a few items stand
out as having genuine signifi-,
csqice.
At the top of the topics of the
week is President Hoover’s warn
ing to Congress that it must
economize. The comfortable Mel
lon surplus which has been reg
istered with such regularity, for
the past six years may be con
verted into a deficit unless there
is a sharp pruning of appropria
tions. Tax receipts, in fact, are
falling; the March income. tax
receipts are expected to show a
marked drop from last year. The
reasons for such a fall—in view
of what happened in Wall Street
last December—are obvious.
President Hoover believes that
if there is any increase of more
than $50,000,000 over the budget
estimates for the current year,
the surplus will vanish. Despite
this, there are proposals pending
in Congress which would add
more than $1,700,000,000 to cur
rent expenditures of the Federal
Government.
The President’s comment on
such a program of appropria
tions is eloquent: If it be
adopted, he declared, it will mean
a tax increase of nearly 40 per
cent.
Os course, every official in
Washington knows that such an
increase would be politically and
economically disastrous and that
there is not the slightest - possi
bility of the Hoover Administra
tion sponsoring it. The statement
is merely the President’s way of
saying that he will throw his
full influence against any largely
increased supply bills at the com
ing session of Congress.
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* Comedy has its innings by the
bewilderment into which Presi
dent Hcover has thrown the
“Old Guard* of the Senate by
his stand upon the tariff situa
tion—or rather, by the reports
which Indicate that he is not
altogether in opposition to the
coalition bill, now being written
by the Democrats and the Pro
gressives under the leadership of
Senator Borah.
Senator “Joe” Grundy, of Penn‘
sylvania, has done his best to
‘ smoke the President out” with
regard to these reports, but so
far has failed. He is said to be
much aggrieved because the
White Hous? has not strongly and
outspokenly stood by the Watson-
Smoot-Bingham group in the Sen
ate in its efforts to pass the orig
inal Smoot Hawley- bill, which is
row—so far as the Senate is con
cerned—as extinct as the dodo.
Probably the President is tak
ing his own method of telling the
country that he will sign the coa
lition measure, should that bill
ever emerge from Congress and
be sent to the White House. He
does not intend, however, to
openly repudiate the so-called
Administration bill backed by the
“Old Guard” and carrying mark
edly higher rates in the indus
trial schedules.
The naval cohference in Lon
don remains marking time, await-
e v e r y
EXPECTANT I HIR
MOTHSR ■ ■ JEr ■
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Plenty of this soothing antacid to penetrate the crevices of the
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ing the hour when the French
delegation, called home by a
cabinet crisis, will again take its
place in the deliberations.
There is a distinct slump in
confidence in the successful out
come of the parley now, so much
so that powerful forces ore at
work in England, including two
great groups of newspapers, at
tacking the conference as a
failure. Most of these attacks are
propaganda, it is recognized.
1 Nevertheless, the chance di any
large accomplishment in the way
of naval reduction is regarded
as slight. However, it is ex
pected that a “limitation treaty”
will be written at London; one
which establishes ratios of naval
strength between the powers, per
haps permanently. Such an
agreement will have its value,
even if it does mean that the
United States, in obtaining parity,
must embark upon a large naval
construction program.
Just across the border line from
Haiti, which is the scene of an
American protectorate with the
Marines in charge, is the tiny
Republic of Santo Domingo, now
in the throes of a near revolution.
President Vasquez was forced to
take command of his troops in a
fortress, but this was captured
and subsequently Vasquez re
signed. The rebellion is precip
itated by Vasquez’s announced
intention to seek re-election on
May 15 at the polls, but the
chief executive seems now to be
in a position where he will have
to revise this declaration.
Senator George W. Norris and
his aids are fighting manfully to
have the Senate authorize an in
vestigation into prohibition en
forcement. They have been
blocked, however, by the action
of the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee in calling Attorney General
Mitchell and the so-called Law
Enforcement Commission before
them two weeks hence to testify
as to existing conditions.
“As I look at it, prohibition can
be enforced if an honest effort
is made,” Senator Norris says.
“There is no doubt that the pres
ent machinery is shot through
with graft and corruption.”
Senator - Norris indirectly at
tacked President Hoover in his
statement by declaring that
"until the President takes the ap
pointment of prohibition officers
entirely out of politics no real
effort to solve the problem will
be made.”
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There seems to be more than
a fair prospect now that a revo
lutionary civil service retirement
bill will be written on the statute
books in the next few weeks. It
is the revised Lehlbach bill, carry
> ing so-called “tontlnie” features,
and it provides for larger annui
ties for all classes of superannu
ated Federal workers. It also
means an entirely new system of
withdrawals a n,d contributions
from the salaries of individual
employes for the creation of a
much larger retirement fund.
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