Evening star., 1928-05-13

pccted to pay both ways. ThHT
are available to the general pub
lie, as we'll as to State highway
departments, road organizations,
automobile clubs. colleges. schools.
churches, theaters and other
agencies. In all cases 1t is neces-
sary that a reliable person assume
responsibility for such charges,
and for the safekeeping. proper
use and prompt return OF the
films. all OF which are OF standard
theatrical width.
Applications for permission to
borrow the films should be adj
dressed to the Office of Motion
Pictures, Extension Service. United
States Department of Agriculture e.
| Applications should be made As
| far in advance as possible, and
should specify several alternative
| choices of subjects and dates. The
! period OF loan requested should be
/ no longer than is necessary"
In a recent issue of the Literary
Digest is published an article sug-
costing the use of the city streets
by night as by day. Whether a
solution is to be found to the in
creaSing density of traffic or not.
the article Is of interest and worth
reading. A part of the article IS
as follows:
"At present we have congestion
worse congeSted by daylight and
an empty void in the darkness.
Would it make the residential
streets too noisy for sleeperS? Ap-
parenty the editor of the Ameri-
can City New York; fears so. for
he has placed the suggestive title
Shall We Abolish Sleep over an
article in which the day-and-
night traffic plan Is warmly advo-
Gated by Prof. John S. Crandall Of
| the chair of highway engineering
in the University of Illinois. Prof.
Crandall refuses to place any con-
| fidence in our present systems Of
| traffic control. and believes that
the only sensible way to relieve
congestion Is to make full use CT
what we have. He writes:
Traffic and more traffic. con-
geStion and more congestion;
waste of time and waste of
money, Yet what do we do about
it? Talk. and more talk. Police
departments frame uncomfortable
rules for regulating traffic. engl-
neering departments plan impos-
sible designs for street improve
ments, boards of trade bcseech
their members to refrain from
parking their own cars where Gus
toners would like to park, and
still the congestion grows.
Use Streets "a Hours.
Much of the traffic conges-
| ton of large cities could be elimi-
mated by the simple expedient of
using the streets "a hours of the
day. If the railroads stopped
their trains shortly after sunset
and started them about 8 o'clocl.
in the morning, it would be neces-
sary for them to double their ex-
isting mileage of tracks. And
what a howl there would be from
| every one IL such an absurd ar
rangement were put into practice!
Yet no one howls because most
streets are used only half the
time.
Several classes of traffic exist
In all cities. There are passenger
cars, retail store delivery wagons
wholesale store delivery trucks
municipal trucks, building mate
rials trucks, post office trucks, and
through traffic consisting Of most
! of these. It goes without saying
that the passenger cars must be
free to travel the streets at all
times, and the retail store deliver
| les must be made in the daytime.
Through traffic and trucks from
the post Offices will be passing To
and fro at all hours.
Bulky, slow-moving materials
such as building supplies, should
| be moved at night. This has been
done TO some extent, but only In
the most congested districts AL
trucking for building should be
done at night In cities of any size
This should be city traffic regu-
lation.
1.-The collection of express pack-
ages in the business district
should be made at night. In the
large office and loft buildings the
tenants should send their pack
| ages TO a shipping room set aside
in the building for that purpose
and that room should be kept
open day and night for the recep-
| ton and sending Of express pack
ages. The cost would be MOI
than offset by the speeding up OF
the service.
1.-The hopeless tumble that
J traffic Is in now is not aided IN
any great extent by new police
regulations. new signals, new laws
or rerouting. The dreams OF engi-
necrs who would build elevated
roads are impractical as well as
expensive. The one scheme al
present worth trying LIS to usC
what we have To its full capacity
and this may be easily accom-
pIished by inducing traffic TO fiov,
during the night. Some OF IL
may be compelled so 10 move bJ
law: some NAV be argued into II
and some will move when the
main body moves or Is moved >
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