Evening star., 1922-12-05
SAFETY FOR YEAR
AIM OF COUNCIL
D. c. Organization Would
Continue the "Don't-Get-
Hurt" Campaign.
OF WEEK A SUCCESS
Meeting of Committee to Be Held
Today to Make Plans for
the Future.

The ending of Safety week is the be-
ginning Of safety year for the District
OF Columbia. Plans for making the
year" as much Of success as the
week" are now being taken up by the
Washington Safety Council. which will
operate in the National Capital as a
permanent safety organization.
II plans of the council go through
the intensive campaign for street safe
ty which was waged during Safety
week will be carried on Indefinitely
school instruction and other agencies
will be utilized to educate every man.
woman and child to the dangers lurk-
ing in the present-day cities.
Meeting to Be Held Today.
A meeting of the council will be
held this afternoon. when plans will
be- formulated and put into i'm
mediate execution. If the death rate
i'll one week can be reduced from six
TO one. officials of the council believe
der way the death rate can be cut even
below that figure.
That Safety week was success
has been conceded by every citizen
OF the District. Not only was the
death rate cut to one-when. for a
long time the rate has been six-but
both drivers and pedestrians showed
the results of the constant admoni-
tons of the safety first committee.
1t is the hope of every motorist and
pedestrian that those who have
learned the lesson" will not forget it
and efforts will be made by the coun-
Gil to keep safety" constantly be-
fore the drivers and walkers who are
inclined to be careless when nobody
is looking"
Careful Watching Continues.
Motorists who have curbed their
wild tendencies will not be allowed to
return to them today, when Safe:.
week is over. They will be watched
just as carefully from now on as they
were during the week. Walkers who
have been religiously crossing at in
tcrSections for the week must not fall
back into bad habits and wander all
over the street: they will be looked
after also.
SO now begins period Of pulling
together: truck driver taxi driver
owner driver and pedestrians Of all
descriptions should work together 10
make the streets freer from accidents
and the city a better place to live in
The old-fashioned type of walker
who believes that automobiles are the
invention of the devil and should be
eliminated from the earth. must
change his views. 1t is pointed out
as we'll as the new-fashioned auto
mobile driver. who thinks that the
street was only made for machines
and that every pedestrian should bs
put where he won't be in the way"
Neither Has Right to "HoK.'
Both of these two types must real
ize that this is the twentieth century
that there will always be automobiles
and always pedestrians. and that
neither one has the right to hog
the street.
Safety lessons can do much to this
end. BE considerate' should be
stressed as much as Don't get hurt.
because whether a driver or a walker
is considerate shows the difference
between the gentleman and others
and often is the difference between
an accident and near-accident.
With Safety week for 1922 past and
gone. the period now begins when cit
liens of the city. whether driver or
walker. should work together to the
common end, Safety, first, last and al
ways"