Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-03
TELLS Of TRAFFIC
OFFICERS MEETING
HELD At SEATTLE

Bush Anderson, in charge of traffic
in Phoenix, returned yesterday morn
ing from Seattle where he attended the
convention of the National Traffic Of
ficers association, beginning October
20 and lasting three days. The ses-
sion, he said, was a most interesting
one. There were hundred represent
atives in attendance, traffic officers,
chiefs of police and members of com
mittees of safety There were dele
gates from Minneapolis, Twin Falls,
Idaho. Butte, Mont, Vancouver, B. C.,
and all the principal towns OF WASH
ington oregon and California.
The outstanding feature of the con
vention was the great interest the
delegates took in their work and the
consciousness that they were engaged
in service to the people, the saving of
property, life and limb. They realized
| that the task before them was one
that required the education of the peo-
pie and the cooperation of the people.
If the people would give the co-opera-
| ton the traffic departments would at
tend to the education.
Various resolutions were adopted,
one of the most important being rec
| ommendation for uniform traffic regu-
lations in the states and cities, all
based on the new California vehicle
law, which is working most sdctCss-s
fully. 17~s
Apother resoSution directed at the
makers of Automobiles urges the stan
dard equipment of automobiles as to
lights and signal devices.
Speaking Of lights, Mr.. Anderson on
returning from the convention stopped
lot T,oix nf oil for u,
course in headlights That business in
the state of California, under the law,
has been lodged with the university,
l which prescribes the kind of head
!, lights that may be used on the roads
. and in the cities of the state. IT un-
1 dertakesthe education of officers with
: respect to the focusing of lights, the
y power of lights that may be used and
s generally everything having to do with
T the headlight.
0 The convention elected the follow
ing officers for the coming year:
President, Lieutenant Sylvester
chief of traffic. San Francisco; vice
: president, Joel F. Warren, chief of po-
y lice of Seattle; secretary, N. Johnson
g chief of police of Portland treasurer
! B. Anderson, in charge of traffic
N Phoenix; sergeant at arms, A \
SpIdS ue VI VIII It Oils. lhdHO 1T
10 next session will be at San Francisco
next August.
tof Mr.. Anderson spent a short time il
81 San Francisco observing the operation
or of the new traffic law there. One fea
lie ture consists of control stations undel
IN whose observation automobilists mus
10 leave the city. There are three o
d. them and there is no way to get out o.
r the city without passing them. b
cd means of these stations large numbers
n of stolen cars have been recovered
I'll Such stations are being established or
ed principal roads throughout the stat
o. and a little later Arizona will be asked
II to cooperate with California by es
D. tablishing such control stations at al
er possible points of ingress or egres
us along the border.
fe The fact was brought out at the con
IN vention to show the urgent need o
m traffic regulation, that there ar
IN 6,500,000 automobiles in the Unite
al States. At a single street intersection
"a in San Francisco more than 200
al were counted in a single day.