Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07


lens prompted the Chamber of
Commerce OF the United States to
arrange for the eight assemblages.
Public trafflc officials and au-
thorities and aviation experts will
attend the sessions and partici-
pate in the discussions.
The conferences are designed
primarily to enable business or
CARNATIONS and business interests
OF the country to approach and
consider their local and regional
street and highway and their air
traffic problems from the stand
point of a national perspective,
and to facilitate the exchange of
views and experience In these
matters from both a regional and
Nationwide viewpoint.
Keynote by Butterworth.
William Butterworth, president
of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, will attend and
make the keynote address at the
regional conferences. The re-
spective vice presidents of the
National Chamber for the several
geographical divisions of the coun-
try are expected also to attend
one or more of the conferences
that affect their parts of the
country.
While the discussions of each
conference will be concentrated
upon the vehicular traffic and
aviation problems of each of the
regions, and of the Nation as
whole, attention will be given
especially to questions that pecu-
liarly affect each region, with
their relationship to the advance
ment and development of aviation
and Of street and highway safety
from a national standpoint.
The outstanding aspects of
motor vehicle traffic conditions
that will be considered are:
/. Adoption by States and cities
OF uniform laws and ordinances
for the control and regulation of
state and highway traffic.
2. Safety and accident proven
ton in the operation of motor
vehicles and the movement Of
traffic.
8. Immediate and permanent
measures for the relief of traffic
congestion and facilitating the
movement Of vehicles.
4. Safeguards and safety meas
ures at street and highway inter-
sections and railway grade-cross-
ingS.
S. Promotion of traffic safety
and effective control through CO.
operation of business organiza-
tionS and citizens traffic commit
tee, and the intelligent coming
and planning of towns and cities
and locating arterial streets and
highways.
6. Effective safety education,
especially among pedestrians and
children, and means for their pro-
lection in traffic danger zones.
Many points in the programs
for the regional conferences were
considered by the third National
Conference on Street and High
way Safety, which was held in
Washington last May.
Better Business Indicated.
That an upturn in business will
be evident by Fall appears to be
the general opinion of manu-
facturer and jobber members of
the Motor and Equipment Associa-
ton, according to M. L. Heming-
way, managing director, who has
compiled results of a question
naire sent to all members of the
association.
The QUESTIONABLE asked mem
bers to report on the status of
their business during the first five
months of this year as compared
with the average for the first five
months of the past three years
and their opinion as to business
for the third quarter of this year
as compared with the same period
during the three past years.
Out of TIA manufacturing men,
bers reporting 81 per cent re-
ported their business for the first
five months above the average for
the past three years, Is per cent
indicated that it was slightly be-
low the average and 48 per cent
reported sales distinctly below the
five moAths' average. Most of the
48 per cent said that the decrease
was more than seasonal. On the
other hand 8 per cent of those
reporting said that their sales for
this period were from Is to 100
per cent over the three-year
average. Opinion as to sales for
the third quarter was about equal
ly divided, some foreSeeing a rise,
others no rise, but in general most
agreed that Fall would see a
change for the better.
In the jobber group, out of 104
reporting, one-third have sales
above the three-year average for
the first f1ve months and two
thirds are under their average.
They are about evenly divided on
prospects for the third quarter,
but most think improvement will
be noticeable by Fall, especially
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