Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-15


drivers to be constantly alert.
The children themselves must be
trained to be careful-how and when
to cross the streets. The school Roy
patrols have been a great aid in the
past, but it is only through full CO.
operation between the drivers and the
children that the lives of the young
sters can be saved.
Along this line a resident suggests
O pledge for the children that would
be of great assistance in intoxicating
good habits.
The suggested pledge is as follows:
In the interest of accident preven-
ton and safer conditions on the
streets and highways and in co-opera-
ton with the Safety Council of The
Star"
I promise to:
l. Leave home early enough to
reach school without running.
2. Never to try to cross the street
without stopping to look for safety at
crossings and at right or left turns.
8. Never to play in the street I'M
less 1t Is closed for the purpose of
play.
4. Never to hang on moving vehicles
at any time.
s. Always to use double care on
bicycles and skates
6. Always to stop. look, listen be-
fore running out into the street for
ball. hat or anything out in the high
way which we want to recover.
7. Never to impede the traffic by
unnecessary delay in crossing
8. Never to chase others out into
the street in play or alarm
g. Always be courteous and con-
siderate to others.
The above is we'll thought out and
should be recommended to all school
children.
Sponsors of the Nation wide high
way safety campaign launched in
August, which concentrated on carbon
monoxide gas as the unknown guam
tity back of many road disasters, are
continuing their crusade into Septem-
Der. Last month more than $1,000
motorists learned in detail the dangers
of the fumes through free exhaust gas
tests on power proven at service
stations, a motor analysis which will
remain open to the public until Oc-
tober l. Alarming conditions were
exposed in so per cent of the cars
tested. These included leaky exhaust
systems and high percentage of mon
oxide gas discharged from the motors,
unnoticed details which have caused
many accidental deaths through their
sleep-inducing effects on drivers.
With State motor vehicle commits
sioners and safety authorities endors-
ing the personal contact method of
combating the perilous gas, 10000
safety crusaders are being kept in the
field to acquaint drivers with the OPP
portunity to discover if their cars en-
danger them. In New York, c. A.
Harnett, Motor Vehicle Bureau head,
said, I'VE have taken cognizance of
these fumes as real menace. In OBJ
serving the rules of safe driving, mo-
florists should not overlook this invis-
ible danger"
Taxes levied upon the operations
and products Of the petroleum indus
try have totalled $500 1855, 432 in the
IA years from 1921 through 1884, as
compared with the industry's esti-
mated total earnings of 81, 1862, OBS, 974,
according to figures compiled by the
American Petroleum Industries Com
mittee.
Final estimates place the total tax
bill for 1884 at 81 ,036, 149,575, as COM
pared with 1884 estimated net earn
ings of 1864, 100000. The 1884 earn
ings represented 220 per cent upon
an investment of $4,000 900, 900, and
served to increase the average annual
net earnings for the IA years to 1876
per cent upon the average investment
estimated at $1o,312,73 1857.
Customers Of the industry came in
for large part of the tax bill. Case
line sales taxes paid by consumers
amounted to $735, l36, 1863 in 1884, this
figure representing State and Federal
collections without including county
and municipal gasoline taxes. For the
14-year period, gasoline sales taxes
totalled $4,518,685, 538.
Income and profits taxes paid by
the industry in the IA years totalled
an estimated 1927, $50, 1924, and "other
taxes" exclusive of gasoline taxes,
amounted to $1,757 ,023,57O.
Only in of the IA years were the
1nduStry's earnings as large as the
total tax bill. Since 1929 earnings
have never been as large as either
gasoline taxes or income taxes. The
1884 gasoline tax bill of $735 ,136, 269
was approximately $260,0OO 900 more
than the industry's net earnings in its
best profit year, 1929, and nearly
three times its net earnings in 1884.
Discard the speed complex and be-
come economy conscious, was the ad-
vice rendered today by the American
Automobile Association to millions of
motorists.
In recent years and despite hard
times, motorists have given little or
no consideration to the savings in
money and physical energy that would
result from practice of moderate
speeds as against excessively high
speeds which have become the rule,
Thomas P. Henry, president of the
national motoring body, states.
The A. A. A. president voices his
strong conviction that highway ia
talitieS and injuries would show a
marked and immediate reduction If
motorists would get into the habit of
asking themselves how economically
and comfortably they could make a
trip, instead of how fast they could
make it.
Motorists now are entering the
period of the year when motoring is
more pleasant and alluring than at
any other time-the period of Indian
Summer
The owner of an automobile can