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week signed personal pledge card to
adhere rigidly to the u primary safety
rules of The Star Council and to act
in the interest of accident prevention
and safer conditions on the streets and
highways.
Commerce Signs More.
While the Post Office Department was
getting into the safety campaign, the
Department of Commerce, first Fed
eral unit to join the drive, exhausted
its first order of 1900 safe driving
pledges and yesterday afternoon placed
an order for 500 additional cards for
the use of official departmental drivers
and its officials and employees who
drive their own cars.
The United States Treasury Depart
ment Beneficial Association. with 1000
members in the Treasury Department
and with an affiliated membership of
100000 in all Federal establishments,
was the second to join the drive. The
association, confronted with the task
of signing up drivers in Treasury bu-
reaus and divisions in buildings scat
tered all over downtown Washington,
has made geOd progress, returning
nearly 1000 signed pledge cards to
The Star Council within few days
and reporting many hundreds of others
waiting to be collected.
The honor roll Of Washington Or
eanizations reporting 100 per cent en-
rollment of misunderstanding en-
ployes in the ranks of pledged safe
drivers is beginning to grow. Among
the 100 per cent units reported within
the past few days are Mazo-Lerch Co.,
Maurice Joyce Engraving Co., Poole's
Parking Service. D. j. kaufman, Inc,
Drinks. Inc, Frazee- Potomac Laundry
District Highway Department and
Christian Heurich Brewing Co. The
Washington Rapid Transit Co has
completed the enrolment of all drivers
and employees with the exception of
a few on leave. Many other organiza-
tions are nearing the 100 per cent
mark.
Sticker Supplies Rushed.
Although the supply of windshield
stickers has not kept pace With de-
mands, due to delays in getting the
cumming completed, new shipment
Of 10000, due tomorrow, is eX-
pected to take care of virtually all of
the requests now on file. Those who
have received stickers may begin dis
playing them at once.
The American Radiator Co. indors-
ing the safety campaign has asked for
pledge cards for all its drivers. The
American Ice Co., and John P. Ag-
new g. Co., Inc. elSo have affiliated
themselves with The Star Council and
obtained pledge cards for all COM
pany drivers and employees. The Sun
light Market, 4400 Seventh street, is
to receive pledge cards today for its
employees.
Among the individual pledges, signed
on blanks published daily in The Star
and mailed to The Safety Council, was
one received today from Maj. Edwin B.
Hesse, retired superintendent of the
Metropolitan Police Department.
Other individual pledges show that
plnSOINoLly an VI tllC SN4Sl al SONCIIA-
ment departments are represented, al |
though they have not all joined the |
campaign as units yet. Pledges were |
received today, for example. from the
War Department. Veterans Admins
tration, House Office Building. Wash
ington Navy Yard, Library of Con-
gress, Department of Agriculture, In
terror Department, Navy Department, |
District Government and Labor De- |
partment.
Horn footing Criticized
Unnecessary use of automobile horns.
especially as a means of "shooing'
pedestrians, is denounced in letter
received by The Star from a pledge |
signer
mo mention is made" he said "of
unnecessary horn -honking at pedes-
trians crossing streets at the cross |
walks and at motorists stopping at
stop streets and red lights, or who
are already travelling along at the |
speed limit permitted, which, I pre-
sumo, is covered by pledges and II,
In lieu of specific reference being made
thereto.
II believe reference should have |
been made to prohibited parking in