Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
MOTORISTS
F should KNOW
i TRAFFIC RULES
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M
THAT should he conduct himself care
1fully and escape a second or third
warming, the first warning will not
Nresult in any punishment
4 For something more than three
4years the traffic division Of the New
York police department has been IN
der the active direction Of Inspector
TThomas Myers. Many Of the methods
Sreferred to in this paper originator
with him and his officers and men,
&apd to them should be given great
0amount of credit for what has been
accomplished in the traffic regulations
=ef the city.
~ Should any of you be sufficiently
INTERESTED in this subject TO find out
"a detail just how our system OF warn
Wngs is kept. | should be very glad
Ito send you personally brief treatise
On this subject upon request.
II, But warnings, safety zones, one
Way streets, play streets, and car
3tops are only a part of this traffic
Negotiation as the New York police de-
lbartment sees II. BY talks, moving
Bictures. lantern slides and news
s8aper publicity, Commissioner Woods
has tried to keep the dangers OF
Ntreet accidents and the value of trat-
iltc regulations constantly before the
Hubble. The campaign of education
rs he has carried it on is roughly as
follows:
Police sergeants have been as
signed to talk in the various garages
and stables to drivers and chauffeurs.
They base their appeal to these men
on the assistance the police can rem.
der in protecting the property in their
care, asking for cooperation and ap
pealing to them to exercise care and
judgment in protecting the pedes-
TRANS. ...=
Police sergeants are sent to the
public schools to talk to children on
how to avoid street accidents.
The department distributes lantern
slides illustrating the common causes
of street accidents and how to avoid
them. These slides are displayed
throughout the city. ...:..-
A year ago, the police commission
er asked the aid of the Advertising
Club of New York in publicity cam
paign on traffic regulation and street
accidents, and the club in response
gave the department a group Of ex-
perts In about every line of advertis-
ing. With q wealth of suggestions
having been contributed by members
and officers of the force, this adverr
Using committee with, representa-
tive of the department worked out
y campaign which included the use of
about every possible publicity medium
Tor bringing facts and figures to pub
lie attention.
The whole campaign was based On
q colored picture Of a careless driver,
an officer carrying an injured child
away In his arms, and line directing
the public to ask q policeman for a.
safety booklet. With this as trade
mark of the campaign, the town was
placarded-in store windows, elevated,
subway and street car lines, public
schools and other places. There
were issued $4,000 Of these cards, and
approximately 100000 OF the safety
booklets were given out by officers
on post. Stereopticon slides carried
the picture into every moving picture
house in the city and the film com.
panies further cooperated by making
moving pictures illustrating the warn
ings and advice given in the police
safety booklet. Advertising compan.
les painted the police warnings On
conspicuous out-of-door signs through
out the city. Merchants came into
the campaign by carrying the warn
ing captions and headlines in the
reading matter of their paid adver-
tisements ia the newspapers.
Never before ii tae history Of thu
department has any such attempt been
made to reach the people by such an
appeal, and never before did mem
bers Of the force come in such d.
rect personal contact with an appeal
that made so many friends for the
force. This is proof, in my mind, that
not only can the public and police
cooperate in good police work, but
that such cooperation is necessary and
essential to good government.
In conclusion, then, traffic regula.
tion is something which demands the
cooperation Of the public with the po-
lice, and in the working out Of an
affective system the rights of both the
pedestrian and the driver must be
kept in mind.
Drivers have a right TO expect:
l. That all persons be prevented
from hooking on behind vehicles, or
stealing rides on trolley cars.
2. That pedestrians do not cross
heavy trsffc streets at other places
than street crossings.
8. fersons crossing streets do
Dot carry umbrellas or bundles so as
% obstruct their view. 49, =. . 4
4. That persons do not read news
papers while crossing the street. :.
5. That persons walk on the side.