Show t Who Cares for Protection After the Damage Is Done commission has indorsed the movement toward Even eJ the city districts 1 First the in the downtown safety safet islands in the traffic seas m the city solons investigated a permanent structure re The estimates too tho high and the plan was abandoned were Then rhen it was suggested that temporary temporary safety safety zones be es struck the commissioners commission rs as feasible The suggestion to the ends sought ought econom economical al and md working They hey indicated support for the tile movement Days Vas M hive v poised and no further steps toward prote protecting ting the people who vho use street cars have been taken tak u Evidently it was m merely moral support that the tile commissioners wished to give to the V safety safet movement The rue proper time to protect life is while there is is life to protect A t We all admit the dangers encountered in catching a n car on a busy I for to see a human life sacrificed before before be be- street It is not Dot necessary necess ilY us fore acknowledging t th the need of safety zones I lust ve sacrifice the life of a useful some citizen some useful cit cit elt- I still ride on street c before cArs before we throw up the protection We Ve saw sav the lesson in the The investigation u was started after hundreds of homes had been broken Protecting then could not bring back the lives of the victims I INow power lower Now we see a 6 danger at home w see we-see see need of prote protection tion As Asyet Asyet Asyet yet we have not sacrificed life Ere on the altar of neglect Is there any reason why we should t tIt It doesn't require an insurance urance man to sense the risk encountered encountered encountered by man woman or child in dodging automobiles and motorcycles motor- motor motorcycles motorcycles cycles to catch a car on a crowded thoroughfare Perhaps all of the drivers are careful ll all of the time and maybe we wont won't have ve veIto Ito to to pay the penalty with a life On the other hand we read of or drunken drivers in other cities maybe some of them will come here before we have established the tIle wall of protection When some pedestrian is run down and a family o of kiddies is rendered fatherless or motherless motherless maybe maybe both then both then maybe well we'll I Iet get et some some safety zones That will be time enough protect to the lives of other pedestrians but it iC wont won't do lo much for the sacrifice and aud andrender render very little consolation to the strick stricken n family It looks look l like ke a moral responsibility settling down on someone it is not to res rest on the pedestrian pedestrian ely merely because And sure surely y 1 IS g going I he had to ride o on a street car It looks as s though the public g guardians are face to to face with face with some public demands or at least I some some- crying needs it k i 1 I |