Evening star., 1932-10-02
SAFETY SERMONS"
TO Be PREACHED IN
Is PULP|TS TODAY
Ministers to Fire Opening
Gun in Exposition Con-
vening Tomorrow.
WASHINGTON TO BE HOST
TO 1000 DELEGATES
Visitors Will Inspect System Of
Traffic Control in Accident
Prevention Campaign.

Preaching safety, ministers from
more than 25 Washington pulpits today
will fire the opening guns" for the
twenty-first annual Safety Congress
and Exposition which convenes tomor-
row at Wardman Park and Shoreham
Hotels
The messages from the churches are
part of an intensive campaign to make
the streets of Washington a proving
ground for modern accident prevention
measures during the weeks stay here of
approximately 1000 visiting delegates.
A high-light of the congress will be
a three-hour bus tour by delegates
Tuesday afternoon to observe the opera
ton of WaShington's elaborate system
of traffic control signals, which are
especially interesting because installed
at widely different types OF intersec-
tions.
The visitors will 60 first to the de-
mand signal near Pierce Mill in Rock
Greek Park for protection Of horseback
riders. then to Connecticut avenue and
Fessenden to see danger signal lights
before the new fire house there, thence
to demand signals on Wisconsin avenue
at Macomb street and Massachusetts
avenue
The party will observe the signals on
Dupont and Scott Circles, another de-
mand signal at Seventeenth street and
Connecticut avenue, control lights at
the Arlington Bridge draw, and the ar
rangement of signals on the Capitol
Plaza, Truxton Circle. North Capitol
street and before the new fire house at
Thirteenth and K streets.
Pastors IN Jrroe Safety
Pastors will urge their congregations
to give special attention to highway
safety here next week, although the
main purposes of their sermons will be
to awaken permanent safety conscious
ness.
Finishing touches are being put on
the safety exhibition of the congress,
which will fill the large display hall at
Wardman Park Hotel with almost every
type Of accident prevention apparatus.
The National Safety Council. which is
sponsoring the congress, has completed
a survey of causes underlying the $4,000
death toll of automobiles annually and
will submit balanced program for the
reduction of traffic accidents to the
general meeting.
While emphasis will be laid on street
and highway safety and the unifica-
tion of traffic codes. the congress will
devote many special conferences to
safety measures for factories, mines,
rail and air commerce, Offices and
homes.
Awards for the largest improvement
during the past year in the industrial
safety record of various safety coun-
ellis in leading American cities were
presented yesterday by c. w. Bergquist
of Chicago. president Of the National
Safety Congress, to the councils OF
Blackstone Valley, Pawtucket, r. J..
first: Chattanooga, Tenn, second, and
Providence, r. l., third.
The presentation was made during a
pre-convention session OF Safety Coun-
Gil managers at Wardman Park Hotel.
safety Sermons"
Among pastors who will use safety as
the major theme Of their sermons to-
day are:
Rev. Howard E. Snyder, Atonement
Lutheran Church, "Carelessness.
Rev. Paul Sperry, Church OF the new
Jerusalem, Safety"
Rev. C. w. Fuller, Capital Heights
Christian Church, Am MY
Brothers Keeper"
Rev. Ivy Snuff, Wilson Avenue Bap-
IL,
sonal Liberty and Public Safety"
Rev. Walter Franklin Atkinson, Lin
coin Road Methodist Episcopal Church,
Dying Like Fools"
Rev. w. W. Mcintyre. st. Paul's Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, NEED
less Sacrifice"
Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, D. D.,
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Churcn,
Safety First"
Rev. H. w. Tolson, Westminster Pres
byterian, Safety First"
Rev. John j. Neighbor. st. Philips
Church, Laurel, Md, Fellow Travellers :
Rev. w. D. Moore Anacostia Baptist
Church. "A Roadside Parable"
Rev. Walter F. Eagleson. Sherwood
Presbyterian Church, rs the Young
Man Safe?"
The following pastors have not as yet
announced their safety subjects, but
plan to discuss the accident problem:
Rev. j. H. Miers, Fourth Presbyterian
Church; Rev. B. P. Robertson, First
w E. LaRue, Takoma Park Baptist
Church; Rev. James R. Glenn. Strauss
Memorial Christian Church; Rev. Allen
A. Stockdale, First Congregational
Church; Rev. Luther B. Franck, EN-
manuel Episcopal Church; Rev. Frank
A. Tyler, Rockville Methodist Church,
Rockville, Md; Rev. C. L. Dawson, First
Methodist Protestant Church; Rev.
Glenn B. Faucet, East Washington
Heights Baptist Church; Rev. E. j. Con-
nelly, st. Peters Catholic Church;
Rev H. A. Woolfall, ST. Marks Church;
Rev. C. B. Austin, West Washington
Baptist Church; Rev. S. H. Kornmann,
st. Stephens Lutheran Church: Rev.
william L. Mayo, Holy Comforter Chapel
protestant EpiscopaD.