Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
SAFETY CAMPA|
LAUDED IN MAIL
Taxi Driver Sees Considera.
ton Need-"Spotters
Club" Proposed.

Hundreds of letters dealing with
various phases of the safety campaign
have been received by the Star Safety
Council. Excerpts from some of these
letters follow:
LAS an independent taxi driver with
seven years Of safe driving without
accident in the District, I wish to
inclose signed copy of the Safe
Driving Pledge.
i find in my experience during 10
to Is hours of driving a day that
caution, care and courtesy are the
prime essential factors in the opera
ton OF car on the public streets.
We are all human and open to slight
mistakes. Therefore, consideration
should be allowed and shown for the
smaller things which are eventually
corrected with experience and educa-
ton in the safe operation of a vehicle
on the public highway. On the other
hand, reckless driver who cannot
learn these things and refuses to obey
the law by repeatedly taking unreces-
sary chances and violating these
traffic rules should be treated the
same as criminal who mows down
humans, not with an automobile, tut
with machine gun.
FRANK e. LEA,
"48 I street"
II am in favor Of a spoilers club
composed of known careful drivers.
based on their long records of safe
driving at the Traffic Bureau, particu-
larry those with absolutely clean
states, who should feel honored that
they have been selected to work in
the interest of safety and the saving
of life and limb and property damage
and to assist the police. The MEM
bers Of this club should be furnished
with conspicuous stickers for both the
front and rear Of their cars. to in
form unsafe drivers that they are
duty-bound to report their acts. Have
enough of these spoilers so that any
reckless driver would be almost GER
tain to be within sight of a spotter
at all times. night and day. down.
town. uptown, residential and outly-
ing sections, compelling the Unsafe
driver to obey the law or else
"E. j. K"
With your safety campaign ap-
parently bearing some fruit, am Won
dering II it will be possible for YOU to
accomplish something in this neigh
borhood We have not been able to do.
There are 81 children in this block,
not counting the babies. and to date
we have been unable to get a new stop
sign at the corner of West Virginia
avenue and Mount Olivet road north
east. The old one cannot be identified.
I am just poor postal employs
trying to raise a family and I dom.
want to have to go through the same
experience as a father I saw yester-
day identifying his boy.
ALBERT n. BERG
"l722 West Virginia avenue northeast"
May We contribute to the safety
drive that you now are sponsoring.
Charles Broad. aged 8, and Ricr-
ard Broad, aged S. would like to offer
to every person living in Washington
and vicinity q poem that will aid in
your drive
They are sure that If you wouii
broadcast this poem over the air.
preferably having children repeat It
daily before the mike. and If YOU Will
print the poem in your paper It might
sink in and be of some benefit to
some persons. adults as well as chill
dren.
The poem goes something like this
and the children wish to say that they
learned this thought while living in
the West:
In roadways must never play:
have no legs to give away.
have no arms that can spare:
To keep them safe I must take care.
IF this poem were made a daily
recitation requirement in every school
class, II mothers would require pre-
school children to repeat this poem
just as soon as they were able to tax
i am sure that some benefit would
result.
CHARLES BROAD,
Calvert avenue, College Park, Md"
II am wondering if an out-of town
resident can enlist in the campaign
for safe driving in the District of Co.
lumbia. I thoroughly indorse the
movement you have started and am
filling out the Enclosed pledge.
HI G. CASHELL,
Register, the Orphans Court for
Montpomerv County Rockville Md"