The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-16
Warfare On Lunatic
 Drivers Is Started
Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officers of 43 States
 Adopt Six Point Program to Curb Accidents

Washington, D. C.--Motor vehicle enforcement officers of 43 states to- day declared open warfare on what term the lunatic fringe of motor istS whom they say records show to be 8 primary cause of the highway traffiic problem. A statement by Lew Wallace, president of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Ad- ministrators, and administrator of Iowa, explains a six-point program just adopted by that association and emphasizes that solution of the &C., cident problem is matter to be handled by the individual states.
 "Motor vehicle administrators, having the responsibility for the conduct of motorists on the high ways and authority for dealing with the situation" declared Wallace, "are closer to the accident problem and more affected by 1t than any ohtre group. Our knowledge is prac- tical and our interest is governed by only one thing--a desire to serve the public to the greatest possinle degree"
 The six-point program Is summar- ized as follows:
 i. To get proper support for ad- ministrative and enforcement bodies in carrying into effect legislation now in existence, or when passed, and closer coordination of the work cf aArni,,istratiye and enforcement bodies and the courts, there should be formed in each state a state safe- ty committee including all civic and service organizations to back up the work of the executive heads of state departments who should be formed into an ofiicial committee by the chief executive of each state.
 2. The passage of uniform state trafic laws and municipal ordin- ances is vital to further progress In highway trafic regulation. We pledge ourselves to actively assist in securing that result. It is our belief that through the establishment of ofIicial coordinating committees and state safety councils, together with the influence of interested national agencies and our own association, 2 program along this line can be pro- jected and enacted through the as- sembling and correlating of material now available.
 Better Records Advocated
 3. Standard operators and chauf- feurs' laws, the definite power of sus- pension and revocation of licenses and . severe penalty for driving while a license is under suspension, and better methods of keeping state records of license holders are the first steps that should be taken in the direction of proper traffic con- trol legislation.
 4. We believe the greatest field for the improvement of highway traffic lies in the proper education of our youth, both before they be- come eligible to drive and during their early years of driving. We believe that traffic safety education should be part of the regular cur Yiculum of primary and secondary schools and 1t should be standard ized under the supervision of in- structors familiar with and trained in the teaching of this subject. We offer our fullest cooperation in carrying out programs developed along this line.
 s. We believe that the appeal to fear has served it's practical pur- pose in arousing public conscious ness to the accident problem and that any progress to be made in the future must be based on construc- tive lines. Radical suggestions or in- novations which now flood the desks of enforcement officers should be held in abeyance until scientific, engineering and public support is forthcoming.
 6. Through various. committees now appointed. we believe that as state administrators, together with other interested officials of our re- spective states and the nation and public cooperation, we will be able to offer by the end of the current year definite uniform proposal &C., ceptable to the general public. The assistance of all groups interested in the accident problem is earnestly solicited.
 "The suspension and revocation of