Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-05
MORE POLICE NEEDED
Small cities In the state Put Phlla-
deIpha to Shame in This Respect.
Matthew Vassar and His Millions.
An id.SchooI Senator
Ry GEORGE NOX Mccain
DIRECTOR CORTELYOU, in his appel

nlRECTOK CORIEb1OU, IN his appeal
~ to Council for $50 more policemen, is,
] think. too modest in his presentation OF
the situation in this city.
Special Police Commissioner Barclay
Warburton has made survey. and 1t shows
that there Is, as already pointed out, ap-
proximately one patrolman at night for every
5000 dwellings.
One policeman in the Germantown and
Chestnut Hill district has beat that covers
over twelve square miles.
Small cities in Pennsylvania put Phila
dcphia to shame in the matter Of police pro-
lection for their citizens.
lniOntown is the best poiCed little city
in the state. 1t has a policeman for every
$40 inhabitants
Up in Wilkes Barre. a coal-region town,
remember. there is a cop for every S16
residents.
The great outstanding fact which citi-
2cns fail to realize and which Council fails
TO grasp is that the increase in automobile
travel has been recent and so great that
hundreds of policemen are needed now to
guard crossings instead of patrOlling beats.
The safety Of the citizen is Eafeguardcd
in one direction and weakened in another.
There is imperative need for more police
mcn-and they will cost money, too.
COUNCILMAN Won TAGEN is greatly
~ interested both in the police increase
and the auto parking situation in the heart
of tho city
His constituents will be among those who
will suffer from abrogation of parking
privileges.
They arc business men, Facilities for
getting into the city. except by auto, are
limited. OnCC in the city the machines must
be- parked somewhere nearby
Common sense methods in handling down
town traffic would. he says. clarity the travel
tHnge
On every main road leading into the city
from north, south or west great sign
should be displayed at the city line.
1t should warn strangers OF traffic laws
and instruct them to obtain a copy Of the
rules from policeman, or at q designated
point, for their guidance.
Copies Of the police auto regulations
should be printed by the thousand. Every
auto owner should have one.
The State Department of Highways in
closes copy of the State road laws with
every drivers license sent out from Har-
risburg.
In the interest of foolish economy
council would doubtless veto any suggestion
Tor signs or printed rules.
They would cost money!
MISS JEANETTE FRANCIS. who is
A'1 of the enthusiastic cotcre of college
women who are putting over the Nassar
'oIIcge Endowment Fund, informs me that
already they have felt tho advance waves
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