Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-11 | Page 6 | Suggests Teaching of Safety Measures

Suggests Teaching of Safety Measures Editor The Telegram To protect children from accIdent accidents acci accI- dents dent du due to motor vehicles chIcles several several several sev sev- eral of or the larger cities clUes In the cast hays have Introduced safety instructions in the schools The system in vogue ogue In Milwaukee tIl Is quite typical of or the system It follows for tOr It could be applied In Salt Lake JAke City CIly The child i la Is first taught not to play in the street Then comes the themore themore more moro formal Instruction and practical drill In how to cross the street avoiding a Ja Jaywalking looking both ways Interpreting traffic lights and sl signals and obeying traffic regulations regula regula- Blackboard diagrams are arc used to show children how bow to cross the tue street at Intersections with and without light controls and to look first to the left and lh then n to the right The They are arc taught in particular ular to watch vatch for tor automobiles making mak mak- Ih big ing rJ right ht turns on green lights When hen a child first t starts to school in Milwaukee the principal advises the mother as to the tho safest route under existing traffic condItions conditions condi condI- between the home and the school for the child to follow In the hh higher her grades the they are in instructed instructed In- In in the perils of or hitching hItchInS roller skating In the streets running after bouncing balls passing suddenly sud sud- denly from behind street cars or automobiles automobiles au au- au- au into nto the path of or moving 1110 traffic and of or the dangers daners of or railway rail way crossings and of or streets with curves cur and bends The They learn also the functions of or traffic police the tle elementary rules of traffic regulation regula regula- lion tion and the different phases of or ac accident ac- ac prevention H t- SAFETY ALWAYS 1