Smyrna times., 1936-09-24
STATE SAFETY
COUNCIL NEWS
Good Advice To Motorists
and Others on Care and
Caution on Highways
IN INTEREST OF SAFETY

IN INTEREST OF SAFETY
TWenty-nine motor vehicle reg
istrations revoked for failure to
have undergone inspection and be-
ing approved. This brief sentence
tells the story of the initial efforts
in the drive against motor vehicles
which fail to display the official
1886 approved stricken, issued for
automobiles which undergo the
State inspection and are found to
be safe for use on the highways.
Motor Vehicle Commissioner Wal
ter Dent Smith has announced that
approximately $500 motor vehicles
are using the roads despite the
fact that they have not been ex-
amined and approved. These cars
are being stopped by police and the
drivers are being given five days
notices in which to have the cars
inspected and approved. Duplicate
copies of the notices are being sent
to the State Motor Vehicle Depart
ment and failure to take cogniz-
ance of them will result in the re-
vocations. Safety lanes are being
maintained at Bancroft Parkway
and Pennsylvania Avenue in Will
mington and in Georgetown and
Dover.
The campaign for a S25 900 OPP
Grating fund being conducted all of
this week by the Delaware Safety
Council will end on Monday even
ing in the gold ballroom of the
Hotel DUPONT at a combination
closing meeting of the drive and
annual meeting of the council.
Dinner will be served at $50
o'clock and speaker prominent in
safety work will be the principal
speaker. DR.. Harry V. Holloway,
State superintendent of public in
struction, is in charge of the drive
in Kent County, while ]. Wiley
Trought of Laurel is in charge for
Sussex County. j. K. Johnston of
Newark is general chairman for
the campaign. DIR. Holloway is
vice-president of the council in
charge of child safety, while Mr..
Thought is vice-president for Sus-
sex County. Mr.. Johnston is sec
retary of the council. In addition
to the election of directors and Of
ficers, reports will be submitted by
the various officers and team cap
tains. Walter Dent Smith, presi-
dent-manager of the council, will
submit his annual report. The
Delaware Safety Council is the hub
of the safety movement in Della
ware. 1t is an association of or
ganizations and individuals which
for Is years has been working to
reduce the number and seriousness
of all kinds of accidents. The
council is cooperative non-profit
association interested in the devel-
opment of a safety atmosphere in
the business and social activities
which will tend to reduce and pre-
vent accidents. Through education
it seeks to demonstrate that the
safe way is the right way and best
way too from the standpoint not
only of human satisfaction but of
social efficiency and economy. The
purposeful endeavor of the Della
ware Safety Council is demonstrat-
ed through practical program of
education that accidents do not
happen but are the result of some
one failing to think or act in safe
manner. The Delaware Safety
Councils specific task is to point
out to Delaware people why and
how they can avoid accidents. The
Delaware Safety Council is en-
deavoring to create a safety con-
sciousness in citizenship. This has
been the aim of the Delaware Safe
ty Council since its creation in
1918. The activities promoted by
the delaware SAFETY council IN
volve an immense amount of work
carried on in the councils head
quarters in Wilmington by a paid
staff of four members. They are
directed and assisted by 100 COM
mitteemen serving without salary,
who form the Councils executive
committee, directors and numerous
sectional committees. These vol
unteer workers extend as a great
network among the trades and pro-
fessions over the entire State and
much of the Councils force and ef-
ficiency take their rise directly
from them. The Council has al
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