Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-01
E SOIR. Brussels tic
traffic control is becoming more
and more q feature of the larger

and more feature of the larger
IL European cities Until within
the last few years vehicles were
guided almost entirely by the signals
of police officers stationed at important
intersections. Now. however, electric
lights of various colors situated at the
corners of the street crossings. or even
in the middle of the thoroughfares. as
at Paris, alternately release the vehicu-
lar and pedestrian professions in
transverse directions.
This system effects a great economy
in municipal expense, after the cost OF
installation, as scores of police officers
are thereby made available for the
more important duties of preserving
order and preventing crime. About 100
of these lights are already in use in
Berlin. and save the city about 800, 600
marks year. In Madrid these lights
are placed at all important corners
where they have also achieved a con-
siderable saving in the municipal
exchequer.
The larger Spanish cities are better
provided for in this respect than most
of the English cities, including even
London.
To relieve further the congestion on
the streets of Brussels. the suggestion
has been repeatedly advanced in the
municipal council that all tramways
be elevated. at least in the central and
more crowded portions of the city
The advantages of such a system are
noted abroad. and it is only after we
travel to other cities that we notice
another feature of city tramways which
we have already enjoyed for long
time at home. and that is improved
methods OF ventilation. Three hum
dred and fifty of the cars on the
Brussels tramways already are equipped
with ventilating systems equally ef1ec-
tive both in Summer and Winter, and
all new cars are ordered built with
the same specification Of ventilating
apparatus.
London Lays In Modern
Traffic Control.
The Daily Mail. Iondon-Paris
Berlin and New York used to send
delegations to London to study British
methods of traffic control. Now it Is
time that London returned the COM
pliment-for she Is definitely tagging
behind.
In the control of traffic by lights
London is even less up-to-date than
some English provincial cities.
There is the absurd spectacle in
Piccadilly, for example, of q light
control system which, instead of being
addition to 1.-THE number of police on
point duty not having been lessened
and the light system being frequently
in contradiction to the hand system
Lon6on's latest development is In
Oxford street, where a progressive
system of light control from crossing
to crossing is to be installed. At the
moment Mr. Morrison. the minister
of transport Is hearing objections
raised by various Oxford street firms tc
one aspect or another of the system.
Modern Statesmen Overlook
Macedonian Problem.
La Macedonia. Genevs-Only those
can fully appreciate the Macedonian
question who are acquainted with ant
who have followed with objective in
terest the melancholy fate of thi!
brave, self -sscriicing people, people
permeated with q glowing love fol
their Fatherland The statesmen o
present-day Europe overlook the i'm
portance Of the problem and are re-
luctant to acknowledge that, without {
solution Of this question, peace ant
order in the Balkans Is impossible.
There Is lack today even in Eng
land, of statesmen Of the type of Glad
stone. 1t Is unfortunate for the Mace
DOMAIN people that the statesmen o
the present do not rise above the rank
of mediocrity, and do not care, even !
| they are prepared to recognize tn
existence of burning questions, to ex
pose themselves to the risk attendan
upon q just settlement of them.
We live In an age Of shallow com
promise. A scholarly example of thi