Evening star., 1935-11-28
Safety
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cards were distributed, with the ac-
companying bulletins, the afternoon
they we're received from The Star
council and at the opening of business
the following morning 800 signed
pledge cards were received by Mr..
Emmerich's ofice. Others are coming
In steadily.
Pledges TO be Collected.
In the bulletin which accompanied
the pledge cards. Mr.. Emmerich said:
THE Evening Star has, for some
months, been sponsoring a campaign
to promote careful driving and 70
reduce accidents in the District and
its environS.
Many Government departments
have indorsed this campaign and the
Farm Credit Administration, sympa-
thizing with the purposes of the drive.
is calling it to the attention OF the
F. C. A. employees.
Accompanying this issue of the
bulletin is an individual pledge card.
If you drive car and care to pledge
yourself to promoting safe driving.
sign the card and place it In your
outgoing basket. The messengers are
instructed to see that such cards are
collected and they will be taken to
the safety campaign headquarters.
Pledged Safe Driver stickers for wins
shields will be distributed to those
who sign the pledge cards"
Many Units Involved.
The Farm Credit Administration
which is housed in the old Southern
Railway building, Thirteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, also is
handling the distribution of safe driv-
ing pledges and stickers to such af-
filiated Federal units as the Central
Bank for Co-operatives, the Emer-
gency Crop and Feed Loan Section,
the Federal Credit Union Section. the
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation,
the Federal intermediate Credit Bank
Section, the Federal Land Bank Di-
vision, the Joint Stock Land Bank
Section, the National Farm Loan As
sociation Section, the Production
Credit Division and the Regional
Agricultural Credit Division.
Thousands of Federal employees,
representing virtually every branch
and agency Of the Federal Government
in Washington, have been enrolled as
pledged safe drivers. They have
joined the drive in many cases as
volunteer individuals. Thousands,
however, have come into the cam
paign as units, backed by the official
support of their Federal departments
or agencies. Others have been en-
rolled through the United States
Treasury Department Beneficial As
sociation, the National Federation Of
Federal Employees and the American
Federation of Government Employees.
Under the personal leadership of
Secretary Daniel c. Roper, the De-
partment of Commerce was the first
Federal organizations to join The Star
Safety Council in the drive for safer
streets and highways. Secretary
Roper's enthusiastic Endorsement of
the campaign was matched by the
officials and employees of his depart
ment, which has made a splendid
showing in the campaign. Secretary
Roper a few days ago was authorized
by President Roosevelt, himself o
signer of a safe driving pledge of The
Star Council, to call conference
early next month to consider the re-
duction of the American accident rate.
The lead Of the Commerce De-
partment has been followed by the
Post ONCE and Navy Departments as
organizations and by a score Of the
Alphabetical agencies" and sub-de-
partmental groups.