Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
Higghlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
ANIsH COMMERCIAL

- ANISH COMMERCIAL RE-
VIEW.-Street traffic in most
of the great cities in the world
- has increased immensely dur
ing later years, largely as a
consequence of the role now played
| by motor vehicles. This development
has created an imperative demand
for an effective system OF trafhc--
regulating signals. The supply OF
suitable apparatus for this purpose
has given rise to a new industry, and
In this connection the Danish concern
"Sirene-og Signalbriken" (the Siren
and Signal Works., Klampenborg, near
Copenhagen, is playing quite signif1-
cant part. The factory was established
in 1920 by a Danish engineer, M. Axel
Klein, and at first was mainly engaged
in the making Of electrical motor sirens,
including the siren used in American
banks, which are operated by floor
pressure in case of emergency. Other
types made by this concern are fog,
f1re-alarTn, factory and ship sirens.
On the strength of this experience,
the firm took up the designing and
manufacture of apparatus for regulating
street traffic, and in this branch 1t has
met with great success. It's masterpiece
is four-way suspension type crossing
signal, fitted with the three interna-
Der. 1t is not a clockwork apparatus,
but an electrically driven machine with
very economic current consumption,
One great advantage of this type is
that the traffic officer may at any mo-
ment shut off the automatic changing of
the signals and take direct personal con-
troll over the apparatus for so long as
special traffic emergencies may make
necessary. When the officer releases
Iao ha q nj
reverts again to automatic operation.
U. s. Indian Among
British Film Types.
Morning Post, London.-Two thou
sand film actors lined up outside
the Regent street Office of British Inter-
national Pictures had to be kept in
order by a large detail of constables.
The management had called for a large
crowd for the filming of the production
Cape Forlorn." Various types were re-
quired, and the gathering included
scores of Negroes, Turks, Hindoos, Chi
namen, Arabs, Algerians and one Amer
lean Indian with war-bonnet and paint
and tomahawk.
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Driver Of Train Free
In Toxic Crossing Death.
Asahi, Toxic Japanese vernacular pa
PERI The question whether the driver
of train is culpable in running over
pedestrian at a railway crossing has
been settled. The Supreme Court, in
rendering a decision in the case of
motorman who killed a pedestrian on
the Ikegami tramway, has acquitted the
man, reversing the decision of the lower
court, which had fined him 60 yen
(about 500. The ruling is important
in that it makes it arbitrary for a pc
destrian to cross the railway tracks at
his own risk. This is contrary to the
popular idea which. holds the driver
responsible for an accident to a pe6eS-
TRAN crossing the track. The new rul-
Ing Is good, so far as 1t goes. 1t Is one
which will be welcomed by everybody
with a desire for speed In transporta-
ton. But it puts new responsibilities
on the operators of services. If the
public crosses tracks at its own risk, it
has, at the same time, right to require
the operators to provide for the safety
Of pedestrians at the crossings.
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Beggars In Corral
Object to Cleanup"
Ell Universal, Mexico, D. F.-The di-
rector Of public beneflcence, DR.. Noises
Saenz, has not yet decided what Is to
be done with the mendicants and des-
titute musicians who have recently been
removed from all the city streets. 1t
must be confessed that there has been
certain void created by the absence,
brief as 1t has been, Of the picturesque
types that used to touch their guitars
to the airs OF haunting harmonies or
sing the melancholy songs so appropri-
ate TO their state.
The beggas and street musicians