Evening star., 1936-05-31
$4,000 IS NEEDED
|NACC|DENT DRIVE
Presidents Conference Can
Go Little Further Without
Appropriation.

Tn6 future OF the natlOndl aCcluent
prevention campaign, launched last
Winter at the request of President
Roosevelt by the Commerce Depart
ment, will depend on the reception
by Congress during the closing days
of the session of a request for an ap-
preparation of $4,000, it was indi-
Gated yesterday.
Without the appropriation there is
not much more the Presidents con-
ference can accomplish in its cam
paign to curtail the country's toll Of
accidents on the highways, on the
seas, in the air, in industry and in
the home, it was admitted yesterday.
An earlier appropriation of $780,
600 included in the Commerce Depart
ment budget at the request of the
safety conference was thrown out by
Congress. This amount was asked
for a special study by the Census
Bureau of the number and type of pre-
ventable accidents, as basis for
preventive work.
Appropriation Incomplete.
Authorization for the $4,000 ap-
preparation was passed by Congress
and signed by the President during
the past week. Actual appropriation
of the funds has not been completed.
This money is needed for clerical,
mailing, printing and travel expenses.
All members of the conference are
serving without compensation.
If the appropriation is made the
money will be turned over to the Ac-
cident Prevention Conference, of
which Senator Moore of New Jersey
Is chairman. The Budget Commit
tee of the conference would allocate
the money to the II conference sub
committees. The greater part Of the
funds allocated grobably would go
to the Subcommittee on Uniform
Traffic Regulations, under the chair
manship of Representative O'Neal of
Kentucky.
This subcommittee is planning to
set up contact committees in all of
the 48 States to work for uniform
traffic legislation. Governors of 81
of the States already have accepted
the request of the conference for
cooperation and key men have been
named in most of these States to d.
rect the work. National organiza-
tions interested in accident preven-
ton also will be asked to name con-
tact men in the different States to
work with the Governors Commit
tees. More than 40 large organiza-
tions, including groups from the au-
tomotive and agricultural industries,
motor car owners local. State and
national civic bodies, insurance groups
and similar organizations are par
ticipating.
License Laws First Goal.
The first object of Representative
O'Neals committee will be to obtain
drivers license laws in the following
States, which do not have them now;
Alabama Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Ok
lahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wy
oming. Following this an attempt
will be made to bring about uniform
ity in all traffic laws, the uniform We
hicle code, worked out over a period
OF years by the Conference on Street
and Highway Safety being used as a
basis.
Programs also will be laid out for
the other subcommittee which. with
their chairmen, are as follows:
Causes and remedies, Henry H. Hei.
mann. Niles Mich. rural and home
accidents, Senator Capper of Kan
sas; urban street safety, Thomas J.
Watson of New York; cooperation
with common carriers, w. Averell
Hartman of New York; cooperation
with the automotive industry, John
L. Lovett of Detroit; driver training
and law enforcement, DR.. B. L. Cor
bett of Milwaukee; education, Barron
G. Collier of New York; cooperation
with safety groups, Fred M. Rosseland
OF Newark, N. j.; safety in the air,
Senator McAdoo of California. md
safety at sea, Walter Parker of New
Orleans.
Labert st. Clair, transportation as
sIstant to the Secretary of Commerce,
Is in charge of co-ordinating the ac-
tlVties Of the subcommittee.