Sons & Safety

Wrote United Feature's tart, smart Columnist Westbrook Pegler few weeks ago: "There is something very imprudent not to say brutal about the record of the Roosevelt boys who have figured in traffic cases. Here is a country with an annual death list of 39,000 in automobile accidents trying earnestly to bring the figures down, and here are the sons of the No. 1 Citizen earning a joint reputation as the reckless irresponsibles of the open road who don't give a damn what they do because their daddy will fix it up. Everybody has to grow up in time but the Roosevelt boys don't seem to realize that the children's hour is over." Last week the following events made news: P: In Chicago, the National Safety Council reported that U. S. motor accidents in the first ten months of 1935 had resulted in an all-time record of 28,760 deaths. P: In Washington, the motoring records of Sons Franklin Jr. and John Roosevelt officially became a national political issue when the Republican National Committee suggested that the boys take to heart their father's plea for safe motoring, addressed last month to the American Automobile Association convention in Chicago. P: In Warm Springs, President Roosevelt once again expressed grave concern over U. S. motor fatalities, announced that Texas' Representative James P. Buchanan had suggested to him passage of a Federal law forbidding interstate transportation of automobiles capable of more than 50 m.p.h.

P: In Washington, in response to a newshawk's question, Mrs. Roosevelt declared that as far as she knew her sons were now driving very carefully. P: In Cambridge, Mass., Junior Franklin and Sophomore John announced that they had signed safe-driving pledges as part of a campaign sponsored by the Harvard Crimson.

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