The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Thursday, August IL, 1910

Daily ana weekly newspaper eul-
tors who at Duluth last week at
tended the first three-day traffic
safety seminar ever conducted in
central or midwest United States,
this week moved to organize their
fellow editors, in communities
large or small, in a more scientific
and effective statewide campaign
to reduce the traffic toll on Mime
sofas streets and highways.
More than half hundred editors
attended the sessions. where they
heard the traffic safety problem
discussed by the foremost experts
and authorities Of the nation.
Traffic safety, construction and
maintenance representatives Of the
State Department of Highways
staff attended the six sessions of
the seminar, headed by Highway
Commissioner M. J. Hoffman,, who
was one of the speakers on the
final day of the assembly.
Climaxing the three day program,
Paul Keith Of Chatfield, state presi-
dent Of the Minnesota Editorial As
sociation, appointed from among
those in attendance a committee Of
six member editors to carry on to
the other editors Of the state, who
were unable to attend, the know
ledge gained at the seminar, and
encourage them to join hands in a
statewide newspaper campaign for
better education Of Minnesota's
l,.Ik q - to-
results Of traffic safety engineer
ing, traffic law enforcement, and
improved motor vehicle operation,
with view to further reduction of
Minnesota's street and highway ac-
cident rate.
President Keith appointed Basil
Walters, managing editor Of the
Minneapolis Star Journal. as chair
man and named to the committee;
John e. Casey, Jordan Indepen-
dent; Claude N. Swanson. Fair
mont Sentinel; Clarence M. Hill
man, Two Harbors Chronicle; Lud-
wig I. Roe, Montevideo News; and
Kenneth 4. Larson, Mountain Lake
Observer. The committee is so sell
ected that each geographical Sec
ton Of the state will be represent
ed In the work it will undertake.
Commissioner Hoffman, explain
ed to the assembled editors the
purposes, aims and functions Of the
state Highway department. in the
field of Traffic Safety Engineering
and the Highway Patrol.
Nationally and internationally re-
cognized authorities who addressed
the educational sessions of the
seminar, conducted by the G. I. T..
Safety Foundation of New York
City, and sponsored by the Mime
sofa Safety Council, included: DR..
Miller McClintock, director Of the
Bureau for Street Traffic Research
of Yale University: his associate
director, Maxwell Halsey; John w.
Darr of New York, trustee of the C.
I. T. Safety Foundation; Norman
Damon. director of the Automotive
Safety Foundation of America; 1t.
Franklin M. Kreml, director of the
Northwest University Traffic in
stitute of Evanston, ILL.,; Judge
John Gutknecht, famous jurist OF
the municipal traffic court Of Chi
cago; Leslie e. Strang of the Safe
ty Foundation; Burton w. Marsh,
director Of the Safety and Traffic
Engineering department of the
American Automobile association
Mildred Y. Mckay, director Of
adult driver education Of the Cleve-
land automobile club; Sidney J.
William, director Of the public safe
ty division Of the National Safety
Council; Louis r. Morony. execu-
tive director Of the American AS
sociation Of Motor Vehicle Admin.
istrators of Washington, D. c.;
Lew Wallace state legislation and
administration consultant of the
National Safety Council; w. Earl
Hall, managing editor of the Mas
on City, Ia, Globe Gazette and A. v.
Rohweder, president of the MINI.
Safety Council.
Preident Keith announced that
the newly appointed committee of
Minnesota newspaper editors would
contact other editors with view to
crystallizing the results of the con-
ference into local community traf-
fic safety campaigns and better,