Evening star., 1928-03-24
Six Children to Be Selected
for Special Screen Roles in
Traffic Safety Movie.
HUNDREDS ARE FILMED
AS CAMPAIGN BEGINS
Officials and Prominent Citizens
Are Enrolled in Safe
Drivers Club.

Symbolic of the Golden Rule applied
to motor traffic. gilded automobile,
preceded by a police escort. left The
Evening Star Building at 1918 today.
| Slowly and quietly for the next week
this car will cruise about the streets Of
| Washington as an example of cautious
and conSiderate driving, both in crowded
| thoroughfares and in quiet residential
avenues.
just before the departure of the
resplendent symbol the first scenes
were photographed for the feature
motion picture, The Penalty intended
as lesson in the application of the
Golden Rule to driving.
Children Are Photographed.
Several hundred Washington school
children we're assembled on the Eleventh
street side of The Star Building and
group shots were taken which will ap-
pear when the finished production is
released at the Fox Theater next
Saturday.
The children were marshaled under
the direction of Marcia Valli well known
motion picture actress, who stars in
mother roles" and who will play the
part of Mother of Safety" in this
strictly Washington film. Out of the
crowd will be selected six children for
special screen roles and will be given
featured parts in the production and
will have a splendid opportunity TO
demonstrate their talents in scenes call
ing for real acting.
Safe Drivers Enrolled.
Before the car started the first men,
bers of The Evening Star Golden Rule
Safe Drivers Club including District
officials and prominent citizens, we're
signed up by Miss Valli. There was
no obligation involved for anybody in
becoming member of this club The
only requisite was pledge to drive as
they would have others drive and drive
through residential and school safety
zones as II their own children were at
play in the vicinity. Before the week
is over 1t Is hoped that a majority of
the motorists of Washington will have
Joined this organization with a firm
intention OF keeping the pledge as long
as they continue to drive their cars.
The departure OF the gilded car was
witnessed by the children who had
gathered to take part In the film. They
were under the protection Of so Boy
Scouts of Troops g. 40. ~ and ST. who
volunteered their services for the oc-
casion in accordance with the Scout
ideal OF disinterested service in what
ever makes for the betterment OF the
community
Taliaferro Is First Passenger.
The first passenger was District Com
rel E.
enthusiastic in his Endorsement of the
project for bringing home to the minds
OF Washington motorists the Importance
OF keeping in mind safety of others as
we'll as their own welfare. The car was
preceded by an escort of four motor
cycle policemen.
Before the week is over the car will
have visited every section of Washing
ton and many OF the suburban towns
and. il Is hoped. will have served as a
reminder 10 many thousands OF persons
of their duty not alone 10 obey the
traffic laws OF the respective communi-
ties where they drive but TO make laws
for themselves at the dictates of their
own consciences which will be even
more binding than any restrictions
others can place upon them.
In other words. the car. the moving
picture and all other adjuncts are in
tended as vivid reminder TO all of the
ever-present duty Of applying the Gold
en- Rule to all human relationships
and very particularly to one fraught
with so many elements Of danger to
others as driving an automobile.
92 Killed i'm 5 Years.
In the past five years 90 children
under Ii have been killed by automu-
biies on the streets of Washington.
II wasn't always technically the faul.
OF the motorist In good many cases
there was nothing for which he could
be held responsible by the law. But
in nearly every case there was a con-
scious or unconscious violation of the
Golden Rule. The motorist would have
wanted another driver TO act differently
II one OF hts own children had been in
volved.
Innumerable instances can be re-
called where little altruistic thought
might nave prevented a tragedy.
Little boys and girls at play In the
streets, most drivers will admit, are
nuisances.
It's hard TO blame the motorist some
times Tor being, To say the least ex-
tremely impatient with them and with
their parents.
Take, for example, boy nonchalant-
ly gliding along on roller skates amid
moderately heavy trafflc or a girl with
a soaring kite, her eyes fixed on the
clouds while autos dodge around her
It's enough 10 make any one an
moved,
"oh, but the poor dears have no other
(Continted oN paoa y Tat,,o,n 81