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Maxwell Halsey, new Michigan state highway traffic safety director,
taling over his job in Lansing, said he considered Michigan, the auto-
mobile state, was an ideal "test tube" for traffic safety experimentation.




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Band To Present
Concert Tuesday
Its first out-of-town appearance
of the year, the University Concert
Band under the direction of Prof.
William D. Revelli, will present a
concert Tuesday in Jackson.
Among the featured numbers on
the program will be Thomas' "Ray-
mond Overture;" a trumpet trio,
"The Three Trumpeters," by Agos-
tini; Polonaise from Rimsky-Korsa-
kov's opera "Christmas Night;" and
a "Christmas Fantasie" by Lillya, in
keeping with the holiday spirit.
Also scheduled to appear on the
program, which will close witp "Mel-
odies of Michigan," a series of Michi-
gan songs, is the Band quartet, the
Meta-Four, presenting old-time mel-
odies in barber shop style.
Buses will leave at 4:15 p.m. Tues-
day from Morris Hall, Professor Rg-
velli announced.

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State Can Be
Safety Model,
Expert Says
LANSING, Dec. 6-(Pi-A research
expert whose laboratory has been the
highway system of America believes
Michigan has a potential traffic safe-
ty set-up which could become an ex-
ample and stimulant to every state
inthe nation.
The man is Maxwell Halsey, re-
cently appointed executive secretary
of Michigan's new state safety com-
mission, who last week took up the job
of coordinating a score of "well-
grounded" traffic safety and control
programs in the state.
Formerly At Harvard
Halsey left a position as associate
director of Iarvard University's Bu-
reau for Street Traffic Research to
tackle the Michigan job because,
he said, he believes this state can be-
come a model for the nation.
"Michigan is a key state and there
is a chance to do a real job here."
Halsey declared. "It has the third
most automobile registrations in the
nation and is the center of the de-
fense production program with all the
highway traffic problems which that
has created. It is the center of the
automobile industry and more than
that, its four governinental units in-
terested in safety are well-developed
and provide a basis for new advances
in traffic planning."
Michigan, Halsey asserted, is better
prepared than many states to get a
head-start in a "growing understand-
ing throughout the nationof what a
basic safety program must contain."
State Need
State governments generally are
finding, he said, a need for coordina-
tion of departmental traffic programs.
"Many times departments start out
with entirely sound and valuable safe-
ty programs without ever consulting
the other agencies in the same field
to see what they, too, are doing. The
result is confusing, waste and inef-
ficiency."
Halsey declared many states have
resorted to more detailed program-
ming to step up the efficiency of their
programs. Such states may have a
well-developed winter safety pro-
gram for 1942 under way now."
Bald To Deliver Lecture
On John Donne Writings
A poet who; has had profound in-
fluence on modern poetry will be dis-
cussed by an authority on 16th and
17th century England when Prof.
R. C. Bald of Cornell University de-
livers a University Lecture on "The
Poet and His Reading: John Donne"
at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Rack-
ham Amphitheatre.
The lecture, given under the aus-
pices of the Department of English,
will be open to the public.
Professor Bald will also deliver a
lecture to members of the English
department and graduate students at
8 p.m. tomorrow in the West Con-
ference Room of the Rackham Build-
ing on "Evidence and Inference in
Bibliography."

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