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Show MOTORISTS ARGUE FOR ADDITIONAL SAFETY MEASURES OK HIGHWAYS Convince Officials of Perils on Many Crowded Roads Prevention of Dust an Important Matter to Be Considered. j f fr 4 W y . The White Painted Guard Rails Help to Make Curves Safe for the Motorist. DESPITE the increase in the use of white painted guard rails, whitewashed traffic indicators of one sort or another and more elaborate elab-orate danger signals, automobile accidents acci-dents are steadily growing more numerous, nu-merous, automobile associations point out in reviewing the summer's casualties. casual-ties. The next great important step to reduce- the number of accidents will be the elimination of dust, in the opinion of those associations. Dust, in Bpite of the greater mileage of concrete roads, is causing many accidents, ac-cidents, a condition due In part to the constantly growing highway congestion. High winds and passing cars raisa dust clouds that have been compared with the smoke screens of naval destroyers. de-stroyers. Through that screen the average motorist must guess his way and trust to luck that no one is directly di-rectly in his path, the autoniobilists assert. In some sections of the country, where motorists have been able to convince con-vince officials of the perils in dust-covered dust-covered highways, the authorities are applying chemicals to the road surface, sur-face, particularly calcium chloride, a moisture-absorbing material that lays the dust. The prevention of dust Is unquestionably a large factor in any safety first campaign. |