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...undertook to discipline the more irrepressible of those who went West for gold, gambling and glamor. Instead of dying out with the establishment of law & order, Vigilantism in California remains a potent and honored means of squelching those suspected of Communism. Typical was the treatment accorded last August to Silva M. A. ("Jack") Green, sign painter. and Sol Nitzberg. chicken raiser. Reds who promoted an apple-pickers' strike in Sonoma County. One night a band of unknowns seized Green and Nitzberg, clipped their hair, stripped them to the waist, doused them in crankcase oil, feathered them, paraded them through...
...current nationwide drive for road safety emphasizes the practical value of Dr. de Silva's experiments. Every newspaper poll has shown a large majority in favor of strict driving tests in order to assure a high standard of driving and knowledge of the rules of the road. By contributing a scientific means of administering such tests, Dr. de Silva gives these polls some meaning, and does the public at large a considerable service...
...Silva, of the Harvard Bureau of Street Traffic Research, has developed experiments for testing driving ability which have been the subject of far-flung comment. The Associated Press, March of Time, news reels, and other publicity media have featured this important work, and Mr. Goodwin of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has volunteered to provide space for Dr. de Silva's apparatus. Persons who have been deprived of their operator's licenses and others interested are to be tested on machines which register the speed of their reactions, their excitability, power to steer a straight course, and various other...
...significance of Dr. de Silva's work is very great because of its future possibilities as an aid to safe driving. Installation of his apparatus in every driving test center in the country would simplify the problem of keeping incapable operators off the highways. As Dr. de Silva himself points out, the road tests now administered, usually consisting of a trip around one city block, are entirely inadequate, as no emergency is likely to arise. His experiments, on the other hand, endanger no one, as they are carried out in the safe confines of a laboratory. A system of point...
...present the testing machines are on exhibition at Hartford; Philadelphia, and New York, where Dr. de Silva is going today to attend a safety conference. But by next week the apparatus will be set up, and any students who wish to find out their efficiency at the wheel will be welcome...