Show I oJ TRAFFIC HOlD HOlDI HOLDS I ATTENTION Of I POLICE POUGE CHIEFS Commissioner Barnes Returns Returns Returns Re Re- turns turns From C Convention Pensions S 'S Supported by Action tion of of Del Delegates gates A w J 7 traffic and how to handle was rt the problem that occupied a large fe part of the attention of del dole dole- aies es to the tho annual convention of ot the Jr Association of Police Po Police Po lice Chiefs held recently at Buffalo said d' d Commissioner Arthur F. F Barnes h head had ad of the department ot or pubic safety ty who returned this morning in after attending the conven conven- tion Traffic In every city of ot tho the country is 13 increasing on a scale t that that at v u require most drastic measures to control according tc to evidence given at the tho convention n the commissioner said In In New cw York City the police ce force numbers men Mr Ir Barnes said and It its heads declare this s is far tar from being heing a large larg enough force farce to police the city and i attend also to to the traffic In several several sev soy eral different sections of ot New York City City- the street traffic tra raffi is directed I I through the twenty-four twenty hours of I I i every day dayS t t My Iy personal observations lead I I i me tTe to sa say with all du dup due respect to drivers of this city that those of ot I Eastern cities ar arp arl much more careful care- care f ful l at intersections and congested 1 d districts I j i PENSIONS DISCUSSED i I i Among the important matters rs I discussed at the convention was p pensions for policemen A resolution resolution resolution I i tion was unanimously passed by bythe bythe the delegates which pledged d them I j I J to work for tor creation of ot pension provisIons provisions provisions pro pro- visions in cities of or the first class I through gh the city It Such provisions provi- provi J already ex ext t In Iii some or QI r the th I larger cities cite at present There t the e ething thing has hai hen been be n worked d Out on a practical plan m wl with h tho the main source j i of revenue coming from a percentage per per- I c of or the tinEs lines and forfeitures collected by bv courts curts for tor traffic rule violations The total of or these fines tines i and forfeitures for tor say 1922 are Ii taken talen as a 1 basis Fifty per pOl cent of ot the ithe difference between the total fines and forfeitures of ot 1823 would j I Ig g go to the he pension fund The pensions pen pen- range around 50 60 per cent pen pen-j pay j after ter twenty-five twenty ears years service If it the worker is Incapacitated by old age or 01 ph physical Inability I j BURBIDGE HONORED i I I Salt Lake did not make a 1 bid for forthe forthe forthe the next convention There is no question however r that within a afew afew few tew years o our r city may have ha this I 1 convention If It it t. t is desired Salt Lake was honored In another way i though Chief of Police Joseph E E. j Burbidge was vas una unanimously elected I pf pi the association sergeant at I upon my my nomination which was was' I seconded by Chief of Police Daniel OBrien O'Brien of San Francisco The publics public's changing attitude toward forms of employment was revealed as one of the causes of modern crimes continued the tho Expressions given bYl s from various parts of the country showed there is a strong tendency being heeded generally by byth th public to drift away from the dinner pall pail type of lt employment ment and seek the white collar type In some of the larger cities of the East this tendency is so mar marked lied that it has hec become me necessary to Import large larg numbers o of laborers from oth other parts of Qt the country and fro from out out- the country The East is experiencing a real building boom and Indications In Illinois ls Indiana and Kansas point to abundant crops this year yean ear In are arc confronted with Kansas growers problem of ot being short shor shorthanded I the serious serious' handed banded during the IT harvest season |