Evening star., 1937-12-12
MEETING CALLED
TO MAP TRAFFIC
SAFETYPROCRAM
Schultz Wants Conference
Wednesday to Draft
Cooperative Plan.
OFFICIALS ARE INVITED
TO OFFER SUGGESTIONS
mo Excuse for Slaughter of 100
or More" on D. c. Streets Each
Year, Says Representative.

Representative Schultz, Democrat
OF Indiana yesterday called confer
ence of police, traffic and transit
officials for Wednesday in an effort
to work out a safety program that
will reduce the Districts ever-mount-
ing traffic fatality record
II want to make 1888 a deathless
year for traffic" he declared.
The conference will be held in the
District Committee room with Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer anc
his staff as the first witnesses. Later
MIR. Schultz plans to call in Police
Supt. Ernest w. Brown and other
police officials as well as executives
OF the Capital Transit Co.
To Be Traffic Clinic"
Mr.. Schultz said the conferences
would take the form of a traffic
clinic" Various officials will be asked
to present their views as to steps that
chould be taken to make the high
ways safer
L believe the streets of Washing
ton can be made safe for both the
pedestrian and driver" said Mr..
Schultz. There is no excuse for the
present slaughter of 100 or more per-
sons in traffic accidents here every
year.
With the proper cooperation from
, all officials and agencies concerned
with the traffic situation, am conf
dent the death rate can be reduced
But there must be cooperation.
Seeks Data on Control.
Mr.. Schultz said he wanted to find
out from traffic officials if more lights,
more one-way streets and a prohibi-
tion against left turns in the business
section would improve conditions.
From police officials he wants to learn
how many more officers would be
needed to patrol the highways ade-
quately.
Transit officials are to be invited
, to the conference, Mr. Schultz eX-
planned, because street car motormen
and bus drivers violate traffic regula-
tons, and he wants their cooperation
IN the safety campaign He said he
also might invite number of Wash
ington's leading merchants to parti-
cipate on the theory that they can
control the drivers of their trucks,
and perhaps make them responsible
instead of the firm for any serious
accident in which they are involved.
Although Mr. Schultz initiated the
safety campaign, he plans to ask all
members of the House District Com
mittee to take part. Mr.. Schultz is
. one of the most active members of the
committee and served on a special
subcommittee which two years ago
made an exhaustive study of the Dis
trict's traffic situation.
Committee Offers Suggestions.
Soon after Mr.. Schultz disclosed his
plans for traffic clinic" Chairman
Palmissano of the District Committee
received several suggestions for re-
ducing the traffic toll from the Wom-
ems Safety Committee of the District
Motor Club of the American Automo-
bile Association.
The committee specifically recon-
nended:
l. An increase in the police force.
2. Enactment of bill pending in
the Senate to require owners of taxi
CABS and other public vehicles to carry
liability insurance.
g. Establishment of a police sub
station in Northeast Washington to
reduce the area now patrolled by the
eleventh precinct.
The committee pointed out that.
with funds available in the special
fund containing revenues from the
gasoline and motor vehicle weight
taxes, the police force could be sub
stantially increased without any in
crease in taxation"