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Show university, stands Palo Alto. Farther south on the highway into which the first one feeds its traffic stream is Los Angeles. Lsit year thc-Los-Angeles lecoid fsrdeslhr- due to automobile accidents reached the appalling appall-ing total of 10001 In Palo Alto in the year there were four persons seriously injured and ONE killed! The Oakland Tribune has this to say about Palo Alto's proud record: Something more than plain good luck Is responsible. re-sponsible. In Palo Alto thare Is unrelantlng enforcement en-forcement of all trafflo regulations. Individually and through their societies and organisations elti-sens elti-sens cooperate In tha program to make the place safe. They sava lives and show others how they may do tha same. There tha law Is enforced and there no man may "fix a ticket" Palo Alto, In California, stands out as a city with tha best In tha nation. When tha time conies when a whole cltisenry of our communities may civs Its thought and effort to lessen tha ghastly accident toll upon the roads and streets, we shall have proved an Intelligence capable of solving what is at present one of our most pressing problems. When they make tha laws mean what they say, remove politics, poli-tics, erase an old Inclination to make exceptions for acquaintanceship and bestow privilege for friendship, wa may approximate tha record of one place which would make Itself safe. . Something like this has been said before here and in many other cities. Not a great deal of attention has been paid to it here, else hew is thet Sett Lake City's Tecortf In luc-"-cessive yesrs grows worse and worse? How a -Town Got Raiulh ON ONE of Csiiforrua's main highways, on a. stretch where communities are not thickly aet, where motorist fac a temptation to speed, where periodically monster crowds driv to see football games, where there is unusually heavy pedestrian traffic du to th presence of a great |