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Notable during the past several days has been the activity of the Harvard Bureau for street Traffic Research, which attracted attention in the newspapers Thursday morning with a statement on auto headlights by Val J. Roper, of General Electric, and this morning with an address on traffic fatalities by a member of the National Safety Council. The public has slowly come to realize that driving a car is an exacting, complicated task. They are now eager to be told what the latest research in this field has discovered. For this reason, the Street Traffic Bureau is an important public oracle...
Characterizing the mounting toll of traffic fatalities as "largely an after dark increment," Val J. Roper, engineer in charge of automotive lighting of the General Electric Company, advocated an increase from 30 to 50 watts in the brilliance of headlight, in an address at the Burean for Street Traffic Research yesterday...
...Good Good --2 26 Pink'm Ntch, N.H. Good Good --6 27 Plymouth, N.H. Good Good --6 27 Stowe, Vt. Good Good --8 10 Sun'pee Reg., N.H. Good Good 4 12 Tam. Region, N.H. Good Good 20 22 Warren, N.H. Good Good 10 20 W't'rv'le Val., N.H. Good Good --12 30 Whitefield, N.H. Good Good --4 14 Wolfeboro, N.H. Good Good 6 16 Woodstock, Vt. Good Good...
...Ministers and legislators marked for arrest at the outbreak of the rising, a file detailing meaus of seizing garages and busses belonging to the Paris street-bus system and municipal garbage trucks, to be converted into offensive weapons, plans to seize the supply of arms stored at the Mont Valérien fortress, and so forth...
...After his death in 1916 Mrs. O'Day took up social work and politics and, with her close friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, helped organize New York women for the Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop. When Caroline O'Day ran for Congress in 1934, Mrs. Roosevelt broke precedent to campaign for her. She was re-elected last autumn. No rabid feminist, she smooths ruffled Congressmen by such disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics...