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Show PROPER WALK ON COUNTRY HIGHWAY- Children in Rural Sections Know Better Than Walk With Traffic. Do yon know the proper way to walk on a country highway? Most persons, especially the city bred, do not, and so the Chicago Motor ?Iub, In the poster issued to school children. Illustrates the proper method of walking on a country road. Children Visit Country. In 25,(XK classrooms In this territory terri-tory the following bulletin, prepared hy the club, will be read: "June days are here; many children living In cities and towns will go to the country. The lesson taught by the poster does not apply to country children. chil-dren. Children who live In the country coun-try know better than to walk witli traffic, that Is, to walk on the right side of the road. Country children always walk on the left side of the roadway, against traffic. Visitors from the city nnd town are the ones who need this warning. Some Drivers Careless, j "Cars travel swiftly on country highways; drivers are not looking for anything to cross their paths. If you were to walk with traffic a car might bear down upon you before you could get out of the way or before the driver could stop his car. Many accidents have happened In this way. Drivers whose vision has been obscured hy other cars, a turn In the road, a hill, or by poor light have struck persons walking on the right side of the roadway. road-way. These accidents, never would have happened If the persons Injured had known that the only safe way to walk on a country road was to walk against the trafiic." |