The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-12-26
Various Punishments Melted Out
to Stop Steadily Mounting
Toll of Victims.
JAIL SENTENCES EFFECTIVE
Digest Of Reports From Middle West
ern States Shows Methods Being
Employed to Check Evil
Fines 81 Per Mile.
What do you think ought to
be done to stop the slaughter by
auto speeders7

| Chicago-Heavier fines, Jail sen
fences and trips through morgues ano
| hospitals to view the dead and injured
| victims Of reckless automobiles are
becoming effective in many parts OF
the Middle West to curb the steadily
mounting toll OF auto victims, digest
from the report of several states
shows.
Fines alone, the reports indicate. are
not proving effective. In Chicago and
Cook county, despite increasingly
heavy fines, the death toll In auto
mobile accidents for the fiscal year
ending November 80 was 736 lives, as
compared with ego last year and 542
the year before There were Is auto
mobile deaths in November OF this
year.
In Louisville, where Al persons were
killed by automobiles in the first
eleven months Of the year, fines have
also failed, officials say. One police
Judge there imposes fines of So for
each mile per hour on speeders, and
adds Jail sentences If the prisoner was
intoxicated.
A successful campaign was launched
ut Detroit more than a year ago, when
Judge Charles l.. Bartlett began send
ting speeders to Jail for terms Of one
to fifteen days. Among those SEN
fenced was John Duval Dodge, wealthy
young man, who served Ave days.
Recently speeding returned to De
troit and Judge Bartlett began con-
Quoting offenders through the mOrgues
and hospitals to see the results of
speeding. Arrests the week after the
trips started dropped from 76 to rs.
Revokes Drivers License.
In Cincinnati Jail sentences have
been invoked and in some cases driv-
er's licenses revoked.
cleveland. wfth~116 deaths and 1885
injuries in traffic accidents up to the
middle Of November, is employing
wOrkhOuse sentences and mOrgue and
hospital visits, as we'll as fines. Six
speeders were sentenced to attend the
funeral of a four-year-old victim of
q speeder.
City Law Director Lambhas pro-
poses the speed of automobiles passing
schools Fairgrounds and churches be
limited to ten miles an hour; that
judges be authorized to revoke speed
TEN for autoists stopping, turning or
eighteen years Of age be permitted to
drive in cities or under sixteen years
of age on any road.
In Des Moines Police Chief John
Hammond has ordered Intoxicated
drivers held without bail, while judges
are adding Jail sentences in many cases
to heavy fines.
Judge George E. Mi. of st. Louis,
who assesses fines as high as $500,
has added, traffic law school to his
court. Speeders who admit they know
the traffic ordinances draw heavy
fires. Those who do not are required
to sit down between two policemen
and study it. When they can recite
the entire law to the Judge they get
a lighter fine.
In Indiana, the secretary Of state
has revoked autoists licenses on rec
of courts, and has |
promised to continue his cooperation. |
Judge Delbert Wilmeth of the Indian
Bpolis court has added Jail sentences |
to fines of third convictions.
impose $25 Fines.
heavy fines on jail sentences, but no |
continued campaign against speeders.
Police take license numbers of traffic
aw sviolators and on the third VIOLA
ion fine of S25 is imposed.
Judge w. f. Wappick of Omaha
axes groups of speeders to hospitals
II the police patrol to see their vic
inns and then assesses fines.
Judge Sylvester j. McAtee of San
recently sentenced speeder
0 sixty days in Jail, and announced
.e would continue drastic campaign
gainst traffic law violators.
Oklahoma officials at Oklahoma
,ity, Tulsa and Muskogee are warning
III speeders. Twenty-Five persons have
'een killed in Muskogee county and
leven in Oklahoma City this year.
The worst offenders in Dallas are
tight commercial trucks according to
Judge z. D. Crawford He assesses