Show pedestrian Is vani vanishing shafig american A M N 6 al R U I 1 M I 1 1 3 pima pi MA au Y k 41 MIN NO the pedestrian unless he mends his ways bids fair to become the twentieth cent vanishing american according to a new booklet on highway safety just issued by tho the travelers insurance company when the white man first set foot on our shores the booklet says he was beset by many perils not the least of df which were the resentful indians many a pilgrim chest was pierced by an arrow winging its way apparently out of nowhere and many a skull was split by an unseen tomahawk yet the white race survived to dominate in america why because the white man recognized danger and strove to meet it ile he learned to walk with the stealth of his red brother to avold avoid open spaces in the forest to sharpen his senses to move quickly and surely then he aught these precautions to his hildren something of this pilgrim spirit and fortitude Is needed tite among pedestrians today all al around hem are dangers but pedestrians dest rians heed them not instead they cling to the outdated out dated ides that they can use the streett street when and how they please dis regarding the fact that their ranks are thinned by many thousand every year the booklet points out that 12 pedestrians were killed in 1940 and more than others were of the pedestrians killed more than 34 per cent and of those injured 61 51 per cent were crossing streets against signal crossing between intersections sections or coming into the street from between parked cars such figures point once more to the major role that human carelessness plays in the sad drama of the highways they shout the need for caution to those who travel afoot |