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Show HUMORIST WRITES ROAD SIGN'S BETTER THAN HE KNOWS - "Bugs" Baer, a well known newspaper news-paper humorist, has written and published pub-lished a series of "road signs," probably prob-ably merely intended to entertain. But many of them might be erected with benefit to the safety of traffic. "Don't run up your mileage with skids," contains a lot of real caution in tabloid form. "Don't do your thinking with your breaks," will strike a responsive chord in every man who has had near-nervous prostration at the sight of the reckless reck-less driver stopping in a hurry. "There are three grades of eggs, but only one grade of crossing and that's dangerous," ought to be pasted in the hat of all those who try to "beat the train" across its right of way. To towns troubled with too much speeding by tourists, Mr. Baer suggests sug-gests "Speed limit in this town fifteen miles an hour. One day for every mile over that!" br "We have seven hotels and one jail, take your pick!" "Don't try to scare locomotives with your horn." "The minute you save may be your last one." "You wouldn't travel on a freight train, so don't try to travel under one," are all good to remember. Mr. Baer intended to be funny, and succeeded; he may not have intended to be serious, but many can take his cleverness seriously with benefit to themselves and the general public. In other words (Mr. Baer once more), "Accident insurance is a good thing to have without the accident." "The glass in your windshield is the same stuff they put in hospital windows. Which will you look through?" is a very pertinent query, and "Fifteen miles an hour may be a chill but fifty is fever," is not too medical to be understood. |