Scouting, Volume 30, Number 1, January 1942 Page: 27
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Save Lives and Keep
Traffic Rolling
OUR NEW MOTORIZED ARMY OF
more than 250,000 vehicles,
which must be able to move
with speed anywhere and every-
where over the country, creates
an alarming traffic problem. Solv-
ing this problem is of extreme
importance to national defense.
Recognizing the importance of
safety and efficiency on the roads
— more vital than ever in time of
war — the International Associa-
tion of Chiefs of Police has
adopted an Emergency Traffic Law
Enforcement Program. In its re-
port, the police association points
out that while protection of life
and property has always been a
prime responsibility of law en-
forcement groups, the efficient
movement of traffic over the na-
tion's highways has today as-
sumed equal importance.
In a letter to Walter W. Head,
President of the Boy Scouts of
America, the President of the
Association has requested the help
of all Scouters in cooperating with
law enforcement agencies and
spreading the gospel of safety.
The letter reads in part:
"The traffic death record in each
state and community is its own
reason for more forceful enforce-
ment action. Through the member-
ship of your organization much can
be done to provide an informed
public opinion in support of this
official program and to aid the
local officials in their respective
states and communities in trans-
lating the national emergency
program into effective local use."
President Roosevelt has himself
stated that the traffic accident toll
must be considered a serious hin-
drance to the defense program.
It is up to each of us as individual
citizens, to cooperate cheerfully
with the police, to play safe on
streets and highways and to help
others to play safe.
The problem is stated by the
International Association of Chiefs
of Police in these words:
"40,500 traffic deaths in 1941.
"1,400,000 non-fatal injuries.
"Two billion dollars in economic
loss.
"A traffic death toll increase of
18 per cent over last year, and
still rising.
% * *
"Forty thousand deaths from
any one cause definitely hinder
defense and create a national
emergency.
"That emergency is here now.
"Its urgency has been empha-
sized by President Roosevelt in
his proclamation to the National
Safety Council, calling for all-out
effort to save lives.
"Many sound reasons are ad-
vanced to explain why the 1941
traffic record is the worst in his-
tory — but all that is beside the
point. The record is its own proof
of the imperative need for effec-
tive action now.
"Protection of life and property
is the first responsibility of gov-
ernment. Protection of life and
property on the streets and high-
ways is the first responsibility of
law enforcement agencies.
"Of equal importance is the
efficient movement of traffic. Mil-
lions of tons of raw materials and
finished products essential to the
national defense must be moved
by motor trucks, vital extensions
of the production lines of our in-
dustrial establishments. Hundreds
of thousands of workers depend
upon motor transportation for
movement to and from their places
of employment.
"Our national defense industries
extend into every highway and
street of our states and cities. Effi-
ciency there is synonomous with
industrial production.
"A motorized army of more than
250,000 motor vehicles moving in
serials aggravates and dramatizes
the need for effective civil traffic
control. One day the efficiency of
our civil traffic control organiza-
tions to move these units rapidly
and without interruption may
mean the difference between a suc-
cessful defense of the nation and
military disaster.
"Neither the materials nor the
time is available to build all of
the new highway facilities essen-
tial to accommodate this great and
critically important movement of
traffic. It is imperative that
through intelligent police control
we extract every bit of potential
efficiency from our present road
facilities.
"This national emergency is
equally acute in towns, villages,
metropolitan centers and on the
open highways. Immediate effec-
tive action through sound, uniform
law enforcement, stepped up to
meet the realities of the problem,
is vital to the protection of life,
limb and property so that human
and material resources may be
conserved for the defense of the
nation."
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Prepare Your Scouts lor Service with the Emergency Service Program
JANUARY, 1942 27
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