Show y I l Education Helps ii FAT JAT T the public effort to reduce the number num nuni- If J ber bar of traffic accidents can be materially ved d by educational processes is demon- demon S f ted in a report just made by the New York freau reau of public safety In spite of an inease in- in in-I in r ease ase of automobiles over last year yeara I tod nd a Q t population of more people Ite te e h record fo for the period between n 1 I and October r 1 I shows twenty two ver fatalities than the corresponding period Ht f 1923 3 The The New York department was established I dhe express purpose of studying traffic and devising ways and means of oling Qing safety It operates after the fash- fash fash- fash f. f an n advertising agency fhe the purpose of li 1 is to sell safety to the public Its advantage is a study of the problem l 1 all aU a to instruct t the jedes- jedes I q ns as as well welI as the automobile driver in the theof I of safety Considerable progress ss was made t this is year l liC i. i elimination of jay v jaywalking a course of my In Iii n the first nine months of Hi 4 24 fatalities were attributed to this thise W e a as as against deaths in the first nine nin is of of 1923 The schools have been It'd to be a valuable medium for spreading f. f ospel of safety Lectures on n safety 5 are given at tt intervals intervals and the scho school l ren Iren are tre required to write essays on t this is t ce se lectures are re given not only to school ren n but to automobile drivers Meetings l ld at intervals in garages for the pur pur- of stressing the need of reaching the problem from both sides In this r chauffeurs were reached last The New York department also has hasi i inspection squads They travel in pairs operate within the radius of a few blocks ng ii ig a part or an entire day Every car cat It passes is halted and the brakes exam- exam i. i If one is defective the driver is given appointment to meet the policeman at a an n point on a i certain day with all repairs Ide 1 a If both brakes are o out t of order he is ise t e Q summons to appear in court Q 0 it is that the New York bureau is Coring v ring to solve the traffic problem in pnat- pnat jitt t manner supplementing prosecutions v 1 consistent public preachment designed design d ring home flome to each individual his own in the campaign to eliminate necessary traffic accidents When each inu in- in dual u l surrounds himself safety pre- pre ions and and nd when every automobile driver jj V uses to take chances hames with the lives of oth- oth s i. i it stands to reason that many accidents will be eliminated and n many cent lives saved |