Show - -- - I 0 - 010 2-- I MA 4o - 'it - of t - - t - ift "' k Aom ' - 7 oir 10 4 0 Sfl Ow 10 :No - ' grib ofa Rib lb -- k" 1 i rot— kit 4 40 A lb ! 1 11 ' 40- r '''' 1 - t - ---' - r 10 4 W t i 4r 1 i r 4 o -- I-- I ' Ilb ' 7 e 7 -- 4deast:4d6 46401111 STRUCK COWL He was hit at a crossing 'in Mineola N icIt - Ai ' Au UNITS might have been a different 'story with a School Gacird 1M PRINS - U - that has spread to 122 cities It started 29 years ago when Here's the dramatic story of a movement trYVVIWV': 11111Plmr hundreds of children7s lives a Cleveland lady took over a policemans post at a school crossing and saved By Oscar Schisgall ' t to open all over - This was particularly the case with 'school children cities are again faced with the old and dangerous problem: Capt Arthur Roth of the Cleveland Police notion that spet how to make the school crossings safe for the Department had cial guards atschool crossings might be the youngsters wertóthechlldend of The problem There- -' The problem is being met and licked in fore he got permission to hire a force of unemmany cities with an adjunct to the regular ployed World War I veterans for duty at some police force known as Women's School Guards of the most dangerous crossings Composed mostly of mothers this outfit takes Wrim schools getting set 11 the country America's the-brigh- - - -- over for the busy policemen and directs traffic at ' the school crossings --- with astonishingly good results The idea actually started 29 years ago in Cleveland At that time automobiles were rapidly becoming more numerous and street accidents were on the rise Pedestrians of that day were less familiar with autos and therefore much less alert than we are today Women On Duty is 1342 THE program was so successful that it was gradually enlarged until 1942 when manpower grew very short because of the war It was then that Cleveland started hiring women — for replacements The women guards worked out so well that today 360 mothers or about 90 per cent of the total School Guard bre on duty at the crossings They're well drilled wear caps and Sam Browne belts and work only' hours when children enter or leive school and draw wages of$80 a month Quietly through the years the idea spread to other communities In fact it has spread so far that today — accbrding to survey at - a made by Audrey M Daviet of 122 American of Public Administration cities with populations of 50000 or more use School Guar& these uniformed mostly women As Police Chief Heustis of Louisville KY wtth 75 women guards said: "The only inexhasn't plicable part of the program is that yet been adopted by every city in the U S te well-drill- it - Conlinued pagt 13 - CUARDlbewort't brunt you but most drivers won't tangle with her 7 |