‘ tor Vehicle ' Dept.
res Drivers Who
ake Drink of Li-
nor—Fatalities
ighteen out of 188 motor vehi-
operators involved in fatal acci-
ts in Connecticut in the first six
nine of this year were held crim-
lly responsible by county coron-
. it is disclosed by the current
l° of the state motor vehicle de-
ment bulletin. Eighty-eight were
" blameless. sixteen were killed
eleven evaded responsibility.
Some coroners and some courts
still too generous'in their in-
pretation or the iiq'uor law as re-
ng to the driving of a‘motor ve-
ic," in the opinion of the depart-
nt. "A man who will drink and
‘reafter attempt to drive a car."
ii Commissioner Stoeckel, “takes
' . tters out of the bounds of fair-
h and equity and ought‘not to
ie any consideration. He is not
for the read. When a fatality
urs. the question of criminal re-
nsibility goes before the coron-
i court for the county. The cor-
ir investigates and. on the evi-
ce obtainable. either 'exonerates
operator or holds him for. trial.
has nothing to do with the
stion of damages or civil recov-
but is the determination of the
e of criminality." .
he subject of this (September
etin is “Fatal Accidents." which
shows to be decreasing in the
cr towns and cities and increas'
{in the smaller places.
he reason is quite obvious.”
eludes the bulletin. "Towns of
r size are now maintaining
Ieful supervision of triadic while
small towns either have nobody
have some person paid by a fee
. tent or. on part time. while traf-
T ’ is increasing all the time." , .
n a discussion of some simple
toes of fatal accidents. in the
iiicauon. it is shown that. while.
nerlcally, fatal accidents are in-
asing in Connecticut. the per-
itage of accidents which result
~ buy is lower than' it has been.
i percentage for the first eight
him of this year, is. as was that
all of last year, 1.4. whereas it
I 1.8 in 1923 and 2.1 for 1922.
a conclusion drawn from that
t is that Mr. Everyman is more
to survive than he was." but that
re are certain types of accidents
artlcipants in traffic, other than
, , automobile operator, where
. re is no betterment'ln the class.
iPedestrians are the worst suf-
rs from fatal accidents." it is
ted out. “This is because tllére
so many more of them than
-a are vehicles. A pedestrian is
ly killed. It is almost unite.
able how slight a touch will
ick down and injure or kill a
. As between pedestrians. those
are the least capable to care for
elves by natural qualification.
rience and education are the
apt to'be caught. In 1925. to
ember 1, there have been 105
strians. including . sixty-one
dren. killed in the state." The
is number of children killed .in
3 and 19241eachywas sixty-two.
point is made that the adult
estrlan usually. gets ,into a fatal
dent through his own negli-
ce. He is supposed to be av'vare
is surroundings and to know he
, rt do his share to avoid accl~
t. "It is strange but neverthe-
l true that persons who are do-
live in hearing or eight or cripo
do not on account of. those‘de-
s, participate as victims. The
on is that such person realizes
defect and is super-careful.
arents are exhorted to "impress”
11 their children the dangers of
’ highway and the desirability of
being upon it any more than“
,essary." “Public school courses
is felt. “could be much amplified
excellent results," but opera-
should bear constantly in mind
children are dependent largely
n them'for their safety and op-
ors should therefore be‘supcr-
‘ ious when they see children who
get in front of their cars;
hile all the educational and
’entlon work is in progress "to
bat motor vehicle accidents. the
etin says, "all those persons who
i not inclined by nature to be
r to others. who insist upon using
hater vehicle as a toy to scare
tple or as a convenience to them-
'es with distress to others. must
lrestrained and severely punihed.
leaders will some time sense
1t public sentiment. now dormant
this subject will surely eventual-
.arise and demand punishment
gthe guilty. Then Judges will pin-m
severe sentences. recklessness
l other bad offenses will become
, exception. and each will receive
..notice and criticism it ought to
e. In modern language. expreg.
if not beautiful—"Come on You
lie Sentiment."
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(UNI). Th. Mind-0t.” in-
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igs to the throat. God! 1’0! Old
I young. You have a eough. Why
try it? 'Reftue dismal. Still-
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In Not Continuing
WASHINGTON.‘Sept 19. (A. P.)
-—Thevfsct theta large‘psrt of. the
public =remains . .“unconvinced with
referenoeto the liquor treffio'hcou-
pied with failure of the federal gov-
ernment to make any "adequate ef-
fort" et‘enforcement and delinqency
of the churches in continuing tem-
perance education. were held ‘reo-
ponslble for the present prohibition
situation in findings made publii
last night by the Research and Edu-
cation Department . of the Federal
Council of Churches. _
These conclusions were announc-
ed by the department in making
public the last installment of‘ its
special report on the social conse-
quences of prohibition. compiled af-
ter and exhaustive investigation.
Other portions of the report have
been made public previously during
the past week.
In view of the government's-re-
cent enforcement reorganisation. the
present situation was declared to
present " an unprecedented chat.
lenge" to‘the churches and schools.
The “delinquency" of~the former in
carryinging on the temperance work
begun long before prohibition was
described as “perhaps evengreater
than that. of the federal govern-
ment." . ,
"A new opportunity' is at hand"
concluded the report. “The‘crisls
that has developed in the enforce.
ment of prohibition calls for a frank
facing of facts and a new assump-
tion of responsibility." ‘ ‘
“The federal government has an-
nounced a right-about-face‘ on en-
forcement policy. That is the gov-
ernment's task. it is not its task to
.ligion‘ and education must do‘thst.
Nothing but energetic and sustained
education eflort, can“ atone for
past negligence." ‘
Withregard to the attitude of
the public. the report presented the
results ofva 'nilmbcr of polls among
various elements of‘Americans. .but
commented that figures could form
little basis' for definite conclusions.
“It may be said with a good deal
of assurance" the investigatc‘irs con-
tinued, that many populous sections
ofithe country would now reverse
the verdict if they had the chance.
but there is much reason to believe
that most of the states. taken as a
whole still vote afflrnatively. atti-
tude of the smaller communities
and the rural sections is difficult to
discover. The most recent evidence
a new it «- [MN-rim“... ,. 3..-...
nuts: 011001158“ is
change the ,minds of the people. Re.
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Report 'ClaimsiMinisterslHave Been Delinquent
Temperance Education
e-i—Mosthtates Would Vote for Law, But
Large Cities Would. Change Act
of the trend of popular opinion was
’sa'chuseits in November. 1924. of a
law similar to the Volste’ad Act. The
majority wee small. but it reversed
a considerable adverse majority of
two years before. '
"Two facts. however. need to be
kept in mind. So much stress is
put upon the moral issue involved in
prohibition that it is highly probable
that many perpons. and especially
legislators. vote for prohibition laws
against their preference. because
they cannot stand the gaff of moral
criticism. Furthermore. it is now
sufficiently clear that more majori-
ties in the case of so hotly contest-
ed an issue as prohibition presents.
are of little permanent signifi-
cance." . '
One of the polls recorded in the
report‘was taken at the Citizens
Military Training Camp at Fort Et.
han Allen in 1924. Of 59'! men en-
rolled. only 104 recorded themselves
as favorable to the existing prohi-
bition regime. While not accepting
this result as an adequate test by
general opinion. the report remark-
ed that “so long as it is possible to
get from representative groups of
citizens such a response as this. the
task of establishing prohibition
firmly in the country is manifest»
far from complete."
Out of 1.70 editors who took part
in another roll. 100 reported the
sentiment of their respective como
munities as favorable to prohibition
in’its present form. Of 109 business
men whose homes appear in the
New York City Director of Directors
51. were for prohibition as it now ex-
ists. and all the others favored some
form of modification or repeals. A
series of polls among laborers led
the investigators to the conclusion
prohibition. .
The view was expressed that un-
less the new federal enforcement
campaign succeeds the task will do-
volve upon state and municipal
agencies "in which case the immedi-
ate future in several states is dark.
' ,“Tho fact which must be kept
constantly in the foreground. " said
the report. " is that a favorable and
encouraghg trend which began sev-
eral years before 1920 has been re-
versed since that year temporarily
many believe. There is not little
ground for hope that we are turning
the corner. but there is no basis for
assurance."
Decla’res‘ Service
SEAL HRABOR. Ma. Sept 19.—
Henry Ford in an interview at his
Summer home here yesterday. pro-
phesied that‘the country is in for
100 years of prosperity. Times are
goo‘dphe declares. and will be even
better. ,
“The thing we must bear in
mind." he continued; "is serious.
Service—that's the thing. We should
give service. The individual should
give service. Service brings pros.
perity. , '
“Making money isn't important.
The important this: is to give ser-
vice. Then you can’t help making
money. , . '
"The trouble is there are too many
headset organisations who try to
screw down wages and wring 'divi-
dends out of the business. my
want to get a lot of money and re-
tire.‘Si ' ~
"Men should not retire. I haven't
retired. The thing to do is to keep
on working. Anda man should not
consider his business as a dividend
producer. Any man who thinks
more of dividends than he does of
service of dividends than he doesof
service and the welfare .0: persons
who work, for him is a [poor busi-
ness man. .
“His business. will. not survive
“Ma’ngerguson';
new. YORK. ,Sept Ill—(LP '.)
"'Ms” Ferguson. governor of Texas.
is identified in the‘mln‘ds of some
American ' school students as ‘p‘res-
ident ‘of Mexico and also. .as‘ Babe
Ruth. Teapot Domed: thought-by
other students to > be . a . building .- in
Washington and still others, confuse
Mussolini with Battling". Siki. Al
Jolson and Billy Sunday..,
These were ' among . the surprising
answers given 1by American High
school. college. and. .nniversity .stu-
dents in the annuul'tests on current
history conducted by the . Review of
Reviews the'results of which were
made public vesterday.’ The survey
was based 'On-th'e examination pap-
ersofr 1,050, students scattered
throughout the country. ‘ .
It was found that no particular
section of the"‘couniry 'stood out
markedly above the hverege in the
knowledge of cui-re’nt‘s'ifaire. Elev-
en per cent. ,of‘ihe students failed to
recognise'the photograph of ‘ Presi-
dent Coolidge. Orily 4: per cent.
knew, the name,ef_,the inventor of
Acid. Thrown By.
. Father. Kills Woman
NEW YORK. Sept. 19.-—(AP).
Mrs. Marion Pretzels of Brooklyn
died yesterday in Jamaica Hospital
from burns inflicted, when her fath-
er. Abraham Lapetcls. threw acid in
her'faee'becanse'she refused to get
up for breakfast on the'morning o:
m mmrvhmsoa.
.. ;. ta. ta.
FordllltcdictsCentury‘omepefify’;
With” 511‘ ‘
long. It can't. He may think it can.
but he is fooling himself. Such a
man hurts a business.
"I believe in good wages. I pay
them. it makes prosperity. if. you
don't pay good wages you hurt
yourself."
He thought the nation's system of
government was working out finely.
He considered it a. benefit that Con-
gress was slow and ponderous.
Speaking of his airplane plans. he
added:
"The airplane of the future. in my
heavier-than-air plane and helicop-
ter. We are working toward that
end now. That gives you stability
and'speed and the ability to navi-
gate more easily."
He declared that every family was
entitled to an automobile. "It isn‘t
extravagance.” he'inslsted; "a fam-
ily needs an automobile.
Touching on dancing. he assert-
ed that he had found that the young
people of ‘today liked the old fash-
ioned 'dances. once ~ they learned
them. He had tried it outand found
that the young folk actually enthus-
ed over the dances that their math-
ers enioyed.
' He expressed the belief that the
youngvgeneration was the greatest
ever because it was intelligent.
studentsooiéiKhomeini.in...
Silnfrom Mussolini
wireless telegraphy. . Only one of
(our could identify‘a reaper and a
tractor-even when it was given a.
setting, of a grain field.
Some of the students placed
Muscle, Shoals in Italy, others plac-
ed it in the Pacific ocean. One
youthwu convinced that the Uni-
ted States had purchased Japan.
“The question may well be rais-
ed," the report said. "whether we
are supplementing the head-line
reading. the picture newspaper. the
picture supplement and movie news
with serious study in the class room
to an adeuuate degree.
i‘Too ‘frequenily .the question:
‘vau enjoy. reading the newfiper
and magazines?" was answered
frankly. ‘yes. the funny part."
Rural. urban and metropolitan
communities were covered by the
report.- The general average of the
1.350 test paper was 43 per cent.
although many schools which made
low percentages did not forward
their papers. one senior high school
returned papers why 1! per
correct.
when arraigned yesterday in Brook-
lyn on a charge of assault. Police
said today he would be re-arreste
on a charge of'murder. ‘ .
Amid! ' hill .
the approval by referendum in Mas- '
that “industrial labor is hostile to ’
mind. is a. combination of dirigible. i
cent.
entrust :
DEFACED" WAR '
~ , MONUMENTS
Thirty Persons 'A r e
Hailed t 0 Court ~—
. Scratched Names at
I
Gettysburg
SCRANTON. Pa.. Sept. 19.-—(AP).
Thirty persons from many sections
of the country will be asked to ap-
pear before the Octobcr term of the
Federal District Court here an an:
swer charges of defacing monu-
ments on‘the Gettysburg battlefield.
Criminal informations were issued
against them yesterday.
Most of the defendants are al-
leged to have written or scratched
their names on a New York state
bronze memorial tablet on Little
Round Top, 9. favorite stopping
point in the tour of the battlefield
for visitors. The New York monu-
ment. ocupyiiig the leftiest point on
the knob, is annually visited by
thousands. The alleged defacing was
said to have been done about June
1
Conviction by a federal Jury
would carry a fine of from 810 to
31.000 and a prison sentence at the
discretion of the court.
Ame—icons Becoming
Thriftier, Banks Show
WASHINGTON. Sept. lit—Ameri-
cans are becoming thriftier and
thriftier. all wailings about “spend-
thrlft America" to the contrary not-
withstanding.
Figures made public today‘by the
Federal Reserve board disclosed
that in 1902 principal banks on Au~
gust 1. savings accounts amounted
to 37,903,000000. a gain of more
than half a billion dollars over Au-
gust 1. 1924. or nearly $5 for every
man. woman and child in the couno
try. .
The figures disclosed. however. a
drop of about "5.000.000 from the
previous month’s figures. but board
officials attributed this to the fact
that July is "vacation month."
The New York district led the
country with 30 banks reporting
savings deposits of 82.098.000.000
August 1.
Boston took second with 81.324.-
100.000. and San Francisco. third
with 81.115.638.000.
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