Evening star., 1922-11-16
FEDERAL WORKERS
IN SAFETY DRIVE
Sixty Thousand Employees
Will Be Urged to Assist
Movement.
MASS MEETING PLANNED
Col. Sherlill to Suggest Program
at Interior Building
Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.
Th. $1,000 government employees n
Washington are going to take an
active part in making Safety week.
from November IS to December ::
~uccesS.
Col Clarence o. Sheriff.. who was
designated by President Harding to
,eprescn, the federal government on
he safety committee. today wrote TO
tEe heads Of all departments. request
ns them 10 send representatives. to
:. mass meeting d the Interior build
ing al 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
AT that meeting definite program
viii hs mapped out for the part the
thousands OF federal workers are to
AXE in the movement 20 reduce aC-
'dcnts.
Warming for Drivers.
III. safety committee. headed by
William +. liam. TO-DAY also addressed
= letter % every owner OF cor!!nertia!
-ehicleS y. Washington. asking hin
% impress the doctrine Of care1uiness
upon his drivers.
IN the letter to the beads oi these
concerns the committee inclosed
second epistie foc the special benent
": the drivers themselves. That letter
.-orcluCies With the following state
iUent:
Let me u.rl. yon mat You need eN-
pect no mercy from the judges or
ron! the police if You are caushl
driving III i way which will endanasr
YOUR own life or the LIE or others;
The public eye will be upon You ano
rant YOU TO Prov that you are
.atc driver and thai you are dong
>our par; in this Campaign
Harold BROOKS. cha .rman % tue
>uhromrHftje je.> c;I safety IL Industries.
10 the hea.iS ot twelve hundred bus
ness and industrial establishments II
tie city.
Volunteer Orators.
charles w. Datl. chairman of the
subrOn. on speakers. expects 20
have 800 volunteer orators at
meeting Al The Willard Hotel Mon
la! night. These speakers will be
.'rained to deliver snappy foUT-lulnute
talks On accdent prevention.
Washington Will be plasrered from
zone boundary line to another by pos
tiers and placa-ds depicting the dan
gers OF the streets This task has
hean assigned to John T.. Shoemaker.
:. The letter to drivers Of commercial
:, ehicles calls attention to! the fact
-rhat :l9 persons were killed in acci-
dents of all kinds in the District last
YEAR At least twenty-five times that
many were seriously injured. the let
{ ter points out. continuing. the mes
-Sase states:
The situation has become so alarm
,uS that the officers of the District
and a group of representative citizens
have Joined hands in organizing de-
:termined effort to reach the people OF
Washington and make them stop be-
ing reckless and careless. The cam
paien will open with a Safety week.
uurpose of the Safety week is to make
such demonstration in reducing
deaths from accidents that every man.
woman and child in Washington Will
ne convinced that accidents can be
prevented. and that every citizen
"ugh. to do his part during the COM
ing year in helping to reduce the toll
of deaths.
Plea for Human Life.
Every policeman has been iu-
structed by Mai Sullivan to go the
q. limit during that week to prevent
will expect every driver of a motor
vehicle to show his colors that week
and to prove to them that he is doing
his part in this campaign. Just as
each one Of US was expected to do
his bit during the war, SO each driver
during this week is expected to do
his bit in saving human life.'
Col. Sherrilrs letter to the govern
nlent departments follows:
TT is requested that representa-
I'VE of your Office be designated with
authority to act on tho government
departments safety committee.
The President; in letter ad-
dressed TO Mr.: W. r. Ham. under
undersigned as the government rep
resentative ON the Safety committee,
and under the authority of this ap-
nointment ii is desired to have
fuli representation from all the gov
ernment departments and establish
ments in order to carry on an in
tenSive educational campaign among
government employees and to awaken
'he interest of all government en-
ployes in making every possible ef-
fort to prevent all accidents during
Safety week as a preliminary tn q
continuing effort along this line in
Washington.
II this request for tho appointment
Of a representative from your estab-
iiShment meets with your approval it
~ requested that the person desig-
mated be directed to attend meeting
70 be held on Friday, November Il, at
10 am, in the Interior Department
auditorium. where an outline of the
work TO he done will be given
1t lS requested that he be author
ized to arrange suitable representa-
lion from your establishment in the
intensive Safety week drive. includ
ing the parade planned for Friday,
November "a"
1t is contemplated the government
departments safety committee, in ad-
dition to actively cooperating with
the Safety week committee during
Safety week. will continue its activi-
ties within the government depart
ments. with view to the education
of government officials and employees
in the observance OF rules tending to
secure the safety OF the public in
handling government equipment,
The details OF organization will he
outlined at the meeting of the COM
nittee on Friday morning next at the
Interior Department auditorium, and
arrangements then made for the i'm
mediate initiation of the commfttee's
activities.
CHURCH MERGER