Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-31
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Safety Council and Highway Com
missioners Experts TO Meet in
Washington January 10.

Invitations have been sent out for a
national conference on the standardiza-
tion of traffic avs which will affect the
country Mt large including Delaware, II
the plans of the National Safety Council
and the National Conference on Highway
Traffic Regulations are put into effect.
This conference will be held IN Washing
ton on January | and will be attended by
members of the Delaware Safety Coun cil.
Lewis A. Dellois, President Of the Della
ware Safety Council, is chairman of the
Standardization Committee of the public
safety committee of the National Safety
Council, and the meeting at Washington
will be presided over by Charles M. Tai
bert, present Street Commissioners of
st. Louis and also Chairman Of the Public
Safety Section OF the National Safety
Council.
The question Of standardzing traffic
laws has been discussed time and time
again during the last few years by all who
are interested in reducing tho number of
accidents. The state Of Delaware like
all other states of tho Union. has its full
share of visiting motorists who often find
themselves violating the law because of
pure ignorance of 1t.
The plan to be discussed nj the n atlonal
Con 'croncc will look TO the adoption OF
code of traffic regulations which viii
standardize all traffic laws throughout the
country. so that the visiting tourist will
find himself perfectly familiar with the
traffic laws of the state where he IS so
Journing The code TO be p eserted will be
drawn up hv representatives Of 45 nation
al associations, including such well known
and Interested organizations rs tho Inter-
national Association Of Chiefs Of Police,
the American Automobile Association,
the Coz neil of National Defense. National
Automobile Chamber Of Commerce,
National Grange, Governor S Conference,
and such other important organizations
rs tho American Electric Railway AS
aociation. American Railway Association,
Interstate Comm cree Commission, Nation
al Highway Protective Society and the
Society Of Automotlve Engineers.
II is conceded hv everyone who has
lookedInto the question that if code Of
traffic regulations can be Prepared and
can ho passed by the various state lcgis-
latups of the country, n rcat forward
step will ave been taken IN reducing
accidents and in doing ava with much
misunderstanding not infrequentlv lead
ing to accidents With such a standardiza-
ton Of traffic laws. deaths and injuries re-
eulting from automobile accidents cAused
bv ignorance or mlslnterpret alton Of
traffic laws will be reduced The municipal
courts IN many of the larger cltics which
are now flooded with traffic violation
eases viii be relieved Millions of dollars
in property damage which annually re-
suit from accidents due To this same mis-
Interpretation Of traffic laws will he saved.
and above all il viii result in n speeding
uD Of traffic in the congested districts Of
cities hy making il possible Tor the motor
isl 20 know what To do and what TO expect
from other motorists
Ii has been pointed out that every city
in the country now finds itself face 70
face with one great difficulty, and that
is the handling Of vehiculaT traffic upon
It's streets. THIS traffic s increasing Stran-
gers 70 a city are in nearly every case
ignorant of its traffic laws. and in street
snd localities where traffic officers are
not available accidents frequently re-
suit from Their ignorance Of local reglla-
tlous
For wears there has been a great duplica-
ton % efforts IN the agitation for a nation
ID traffic code and there arc now at least
tour proposed standards FOR such code;
enc prepared bv a committee ofthN Nation
al Council of Defense another sponsored
hv the Motor Vehicle Conference Com
mttee which includes the American Auto
mobile Association, another by the Ameri-
cln Electric Railway Association and
a fourth by the National Traffic Officers
Association
These four codes agree on at least ninety