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Show world, might solve this problem, too. But while the remedy is left in the hands of policemen to formulate, no matter how interested or willing, or while the answer to the problem is given into the hands of hdcrrrr-'afxsrirljadinu citizens, no matter how well meaning we will still continue to kill our children. L" Traffic accidents to the young is a subject of national concern state concern, city and town concern, of such gravity and magnitude; that their prevention deserves the consideration of the very best minds in the country. I NATIONAL CARELESSNESS Statistics of the health service of the American Red Cross show that deaths among children of school age due to accidents arc proportionately pro-portionately larger than among other young children or older persons. per-sons. Out of each I 000 deaths of children between the ages of 5 and 9, 167 are clue to accidents; of children between 10 and 14, 177 and due to accidents. In proportion deaths clue to accidcnlss among children under 5 years of age and among adults are quite small. No parents need to be told that the most valuable possessions they have arc their children. But it appears that there is great need for some power to instill into the minds of civil authority the conviction convic-tion that the most valuable asset the state possesses is its children. Accidents do not "happen." There is a cause for every accident. acci-dent. Particularly is this true if traffic accidents, which are assuming alarming proportions in ihe larger centers. Of what use is it to the municipality or the state to spend ieargcr sums in educating a child to grow up to be a good citizen if it permits him to be killed by an automobile before he becomes an economic factor in the community life? ? Cities and Ir'.'fTio bureaus search madly for remedies for tiafTu-accidents; tiafTu-accidents; safely weeks' are proposed, debated, held; new and more drastic traffic, rules are formulated, and more or less enforced; more severe penalties are inflicted by th judges for driving recklessly, but the accidents continue. It would seem that the engineering brains th?t built a Panama canal, took 2,00(1,000 rivn to Europe in the face of submarines, and built and r.cifccled the largest railroad and telephone systems in the |