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Show Ing. It is a disgrace to our state and our peoples. Toddling youngsters, who cannot be expected to look after themselves them-selves and avoid the unfamiliar peril of streams or irrigation ditches, art entitled to better adult protection than they receive. re-ceive. Their play areaa should sot be booby-trapped with deadly water Morses.' In this are where there, are many thousands of miles of irrigation ditches, it is impossible to fence off all water courses. But we can and should fence off the play areas of tiny children so they cannot tumble Into these ditches. That's a parental responaibllity. If the Utah Safety council can persuade parents, par-ents, to do their duty of protecting their young " children" from this hasard, the lives of at less a doses children can be saved In Utah every year. It is indeed s worthwhile program and we hope the boms safety advocates press it vigoroualy. : " - : Stop Booby-Trapping Toddlers' Play Areas The home safety division of the launch a campaign to halt the appalling increase in child drownings in Utah. The division's sttention was called to the fact that 19 per cent of the home accident deaths in the first seven months of this year were drownings, with the victims principally children- under the - age of two. . Mrs. George P. Parker, head of the home safety division, said the campaign cam-paign will center on calling attention of land owners snd home owners, especially espe-cially farmers, to the "need of fence ' and bridge repairs, particularly where children cross streams and ditches." Thia is s aafety campaign which should have the fullest public support. sup-port. Th toll of child drownings in this state and for that matter in this whole mUranountein scgioa is shocks |