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Show Uniform Sign Is Urged by the Highway Bureau Standardize danger signs along American roadways. Make them alike from coast to coast. So urges the bureau of public roads, United States Department of Agriculture. The recommendation is made for the consideration of highway high-way officials, automobile organizations, organiza-tions, municipal officials and other persons interested in safe driving. By standardization of all highway danger signs the department believes automobile accidents may be lessened. Deaths from automobile accidents have nearly doubled since 1915, and the rapid increase of such accidents, the department believes, can be appreciably ap-preciably checked by the adoption of standard danger signs, easily read and distinctive, along American highways. A tourist at the present time will see almost as many kinds of signs as Hiere are states he visits. Also, in some cases, the style of sign changes In going from one county to another. The subject is under consideration by a committee of the American Association As-sociation of State Highway Officials'. |