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Show TEI1S H Jit CURB SPEEDERS Confining Reckless Drivers Cuts Traffic Accidents Nearly in Half Workhouse sentences curb speeders find reduce street ac-erldenta to 50 per cent Experiences in Detroit and Clevc-1 land prove it. m cold statistics. Both cities ure automobile renters Both approximate 8 million popula-! tlon. Both have Buffered a rapid! mounting death and injured list from traffic accidents, despite tho efforts j of well-trained traffic aquada of police, po-lice, and educational campaigns. It so happened that the traffic' courts of Detroit and Cleveland were at about tho same time placed under tho Jurisdiction of Judges who believed: Jail sentences were the proper doses for traffic ordinance offenders. Both Judges have courage. Irrespective of pulls, personages, or personal friendships friend-ships the.se two Judges have refused to let off traffic ordinance offenders with small fines and suspended sentences. sen-tences. ACCIDENTS CT'T As for results. L In Detroit, where Judjre Charles L. Bartb'it presides over municlpul court. street accidents ha-e fallen ot: nearl3 l.r0 per cent as compared with a year ago. I In Cleveland, where Judge Alva Ii Corletl is Jailin-- even the first offenders, of-fenders, undei a new city traffic 1 I i si reel accidents dropped 20 per nt 'the first w i k and Police LlcuterT.int Martin Blecke, in charge of traffic 'predicts a 50 per cent nduction a at on as the terrors of- tht- new law have a chance to percolate thoroughl amoiig ih ranks of .the ' bandit drivers." driv-ers." - "I tne of our motorcycle men, who usually has 40 arrests a week." said Judge Coii tt, "caugh onl two spfcil-ers spfcil-ers goin more than 27 miles an hour last week." Womi n n Cleveland get workhouse terms the same as men. "It makes no difference to the victim vic-tim of an autolst whether the car It driven by a man or woman," said J i . 1 -; Ci r 1 ' t In senti-n Ing .Mrs FCIi::-abetb FCIi::-abetb Cheney, society woman to two days in the workhouse for driving her electric automobile past a stret car ;ls four passengers got off. Money and social prestige carry no influence In the Detroit court either. It was lud," Bartletl rho si nt John Du-val Du-val Dodge to the workhouse for f h days where h- washed dishes nnii shoveled coal. Dodge says he'9 cured, j "I'm goincr to settle d wn now and go into business," declared Dodge, who inherited $1,600,000. First ho is going to build his wife a home In ;ross point, fashionable Detroit suburb FK.l RES PROVE IT Arm il flqurrs In Detroit show 185 srrr-et accidents for March. 1022. as rftln Si J4fi for March 1021 In Cleveland Cleve-land accidents dropped to 0 the first week as against 100 for the corresponding corre-sponding week a year ago. It was feared that Jail terms would result in so many demands for Jury trials that the courts would be cloggr i Itut experience shows that autoisjts; 'don't ask for Juries. They take thMr medicine. And the medicine cures. |