Show GAR CAP headlights DENOTE FUNERAL important traffic problem may be solved by washington official the solution of an important traffic problem seems nt at hand with granting of permission by director eldridge to washington morticians to use headlights on cars in funeral processions professions process ions 0 to o indicate to other traffic that the cortege has the right of way action of the traffic director followed a suggestion written to him by a washington mortician who emphasized the need of making known to all motorists when a funeral procession la Is a part of a traffic stream has right of way under the regulation a funeral cortege has the right of way may under all conditions but as the writer pointed out there never lias bas been any menns means by which a funeral procession Is recognized zed tills this Is true especially under present conditions w m hen in slow amov ing traffic a funeral procession hardly Is distinguishable from any other line of cars the modern gilmou ine casket coach Is unlike the old stile carved hearse and the passenger ger cars which make up many corteges cortexes corte tire arc furnished by friends of the deceased and may toe be of any style or color therefore such a procession la Is not easily recognizable as one having right if t way Se several years ago we adopted the use ot of a sticker for the windshields wind shields of cars the use of which was approved appo cd by tiie the then head of the traffic department these viere vere discarded for the reason that the majority of drivers of privately drien cars objected to having them attached atta clied to the windshield the same objection applies to any type of insignia that must be attached atta clied for the occasion and be removed as soon as the procession Is disbanded other cities follow the mortician submitted statements to the traffic director from pittsburgh and minneapolis ties the practice of burning the headlights Is IQ in force at these places and with no small measure of success in his letter to the director lie he pointed out that he bell believed eved the follow loin ing amendment to the existing regulations ions would be of inestimable value in clearing up lip a rather tangled situation amplify paragraph c e of section 2 article 11 II by adding the word provided funeral procession professions process ions a are re made recognizable by all motor vehicles in said processions professions process ions displaying headlights of a type approved by th alie director |