The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-10
TOO MUCH SPEED
Topeka Auto Club Plans to
Lessen Number of Accidents.
No "Secret Police" Methods
VIII Be Used in Campaign.

There is too much speed in Topeka.
That was the stand taken by the To-
peka Auto club Tuesday night The
large number of traffic accidents and
serious smashes of the past few weeks
are largely due to speed in some form
or other according to a set of resolu-
lions passed by the club at its last
meeting These resolutions set aside
the week of August 5 as Too Much
Speed Week." during which period the
club intends to try for a clean record
for Topeka motorists in the way of
accidents.
Speed, the resolutions state, is the
contributing if not the actual cause of
practically every smash-up and during
the week every motorist in Topeka and
Shawnee county will be called upon to
use the utmost caution and the least
necessary speed. The full program for
the weeks activities will not be an
nounced, according to Secretary G. w.
Seeley. each event being brought to
the attention of the public in turn.
Fffty-Fifty Campaign.
This is to be a fifty-fifty cam
paign," said President Albert C. Nagel.
THE rights of the motorist and the
rights of the pedestrian are both to
be considered. We will aim to point
out to the man who walks as we'll as
to the man who rides that speed is
the chief cause of accidents"
The club in its resolutions calls up
on every church. public organization,
itheater. official anda publication to as
sist in pointing out the dangers of too
much speed. There will be no secret
police" methods used. No one will be
asked to spy upon other motorists, but
all will be urged to cooperate. to OBJ
serve the traffic rules and the speed
laws for this one week in a demonstra-
tion that speeding is the real cause of
accidents.
Committees Appointed.
Committees have been appointed to
take charge of every phase of the edu-
cational campaign proposed and work
toward making the week one to be re-
membered has been going on for sew
eral days. Each day of the week will
be devoted to some detail of the
fSafety Idea" and will be presented to
the public in a unique, out of the
ordinary manner SO that the lesson
will be driven home.
Resolutions of Club.
The resolutions as passed by the
club are as follows:
Whereas, many serious accidents have
been reported in Topeka during the past
few weeks and
Whereas it is held that too much speed
has been the contributing if not the chief
cause of all smashes and
Whereas, the safety of the public both
HutO OMiers anu peuestrldhs, demands IhaC
auto drivers take every precaution to avoid
damage to life, limb and property and
Whereas, The Topeka Motor Club repre-
senting the auto drivers of Topeka and
Shawnee county, believes that the cessa-
ton of speeding will minimize accidents
Be 1t Resolved, that the week Of Au-
guest 10 be set aside by the Topeka Motor
Club rs Too Much Speed Week and
That all members of the club join in
bringing the attention of the public to the
criminal hazard of speeding and
That all auto owners of Shawnee county
be invited to join with the club in pledging
enreful driving well calling the at
tention Of others to the dangers of too
much speed. and
u That all public organizations, the
thorities of both city and state, the
churches and theaters be asked to assist in
this effort to make the week of August
u completely free from even the most
THE TOPEKA AUTO CLUB,
ALBERT c. NAGEL. Pres't,
c. W. SEELEY. Sec'y.