Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
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New York, Aug. 11.-Mr. Harold
Fowler, this towns first deputy police
commissioner, who is of patrician
stock and, one of the best public of
ficials on the local horizon Indeed,
given free hand, believe Fowler
could woo. New York back single-
handed to moderate respect for or
der and private property addressed
assembled chiefs of police from many
cities at the Astor the other day on
the subject of traffic.
Now traffic, dull matter in many
bailiwicks, is of an incredible impor-
lance and interest here. There have
been jams which have blighted rom
ance and stymied million-dollar deals.
The state of the local traffic is Of
more concern to vast numbers of the
citizenry than the state of the wealth
er to a Florida orange grower. Many
a news-beat has been lost because re-
, porters could not get taxi drivers to
ike wing and leap over broadsided
trucks in the crosstown thorough.
fares.
Mr.. Fowler did not offer any pan
aceas' for unclogging the boulevards,
although for. all my deeply-rooted sus-
picion of curealls and panaceas do
| think the situation could be vastly
| improved, but he has some osserva-
! tions to make about tickets" and
| speed traps He thought the first
;; should not be so frequently and
readily fixed by violators with po-
; titical pull. and the opined that the
second should not exist at all.
l hope the observation about speed
traps burned the ears of some police
officials from suburban towns. For,
with all the deviltry that goes on hero
the speed trap is not a hazard NOR
florists run within the confines Of
! Greater New York At least this re-
porter has never heard any COM
plants, although he has seen traps
| in outlying districts so efficiently
conducted that motorists had to line
UP and pay the collecting cops as il
they were Smelling out bride toll.
+, AS rule, it's7true, the: cops here
are so eager to keep traffic fluid. that
they will wave you by an intersec-
! ton with "a fitty-nril es-an-hour ur-
! gency, But it's also true that if you
get arrested for traffic violation
/ here YOU have usually done something
fairly naughty. You aren't just pounc-
ed upon and held up by the heels anG
shaken, with all the punitive glee OF
an income taxscollector, by the blue
coats in charge of vchiculari move
ments, That seems to be failing con-
fined to nearly villages with bud
get in the red and good eyes for spo,'
ting yellow and black New York II
cense tags.
Mr.. Fowler's concern for a. more
rigid impartiality in the prosecution
of traffic ticket holders undoubtedly
| is a sound and lofty sentiment But
wonder it, he knows what an ordeal
! it is here to- get al ticket fixed" Even
reporters. who in legend know droves
of acknowledgements able to fix every
arrest short of. one for murder with
a curt telephone call, wink or q
scaled note, steer carefully clear OF
attempts to- get traffic tickets lixed-
# they've ever tried. NJ
And / have. Once, holding q sum
mons for third offense in parking
my car in the street outsi1e my
apartment building in the hours when
influential garage owners ought to
be earning money for storage, l tried
| to get the ticket quashed. The trou'
BILE was not in locating a party aoit
| to do the job~-or start the ball roll
ing-but in selecting from the horde
Of acquaintance who offered to aid i.3