Show TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ACCI BEiraS statistics published by the health service ot of the american red cross show that deaths among children ot of school age due to accidents are proportionately much larger than among either cither young children or older persons out ot of each 1000 deaths of children between the ages ot of live five and pine aro are due fo accidents ot of children between ten and fourteen are due to accidents in proportion deaths du adne to accident among children under five years of agi age and among adults are quite small no parents need to be told that the most valuable possessions they lave have are their children but it appears that there Is great need tor for some power to instill into In the minds ot of civil authority the conviction that the most valuable I 1 asset the state possesses possesses Is its ita children accidents do not happen there is a cause for every accident particularly ticul arly Is this true of oe traffic accidents which are assuming alarming proportions in the larger centers ot of what use Is it to the municipality or the state to spend large sums in educating a child to grow up to be a good citizen if it permits hirn aim to be killed by an automobile before he becomes an economic factor in the community life cities and traffic trade bureaus search madly tor for remedies tor for traffic accidents safety weeks are proposed debated held new and more drastic traffic rules are formulated and more or less enforced more severe penalties are inflicted by judges tor for driving recklessly but the accidents continue I 1 it t would seem that the engineering brains which built a panama canal took two million men to europe in the face ace of submarines and built and perfected the largest railroad and telephone systems in the world might solve this problem too but while the remedy Is lett left in the hands of policemen to formulated formulate no matter how interested or wining willing or while the answer to the problem la is given into atie the hands ot of aldermen mayors and lead leading citizens no matter how well mean ing we will still continue to kill our children traffic accidents to the young is a subject ot of national concern state cc concern city a concern ot of such gravity and magnitude that their pr prevention ef viii tion deserves the consideration 0 ot the very best minds in the country |