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Show Student Jaywalkers Severly Condemned "I am wondering if parents, if the officers, it' tne faculties of tne school-, of this city, fully sense the dungei in allowing the children and students stud-ents to use tho highway as a wuIk in going to and from school. Everyone Every-one knows the dangers connecteu with the practice, and steps should be taken at once to put u stop U it." Thus spoke a business man to t. News representative yesterday, whei. the subject of tho injuries and the narrow escape Miss Hill had when she was badly injured Saturday evening. ev-ening. "There is a law prohibiting the use of the highways as a walk for pedestrians and it should be vigorously vig-orously enforced. Ii our walks are not in fit condition fix them and make them useable for the students. 'Other cities regulate such dangerous dang-erous conditions and you seldom hear of fatalities. Naturally some would say that no one has been killed. While this is true, there is the danger always al-ways lurking when the highway is crowded with students, particularly from the high school. And some are the most defiant you could meet. They not only use the highways as a walk, but many of them will undertake under-take to crowd the autos from the road, either walking- or standing directly in front. It is a genuine nuisance and a dangerous practice and the city officers, parents and all who would protect life, should band together and forever stop the practice. "I think it would be a mighty good subject to take up in the school. Let the faculty warn the students of the dangers. They teach, or should do so, fire drills and other modes oi safety, but if taught the dangers oi the highway-walking practice, it has had little effect thus far. Let's get together on this matter and have better regulations before some student stud-ent or child is ground to death under the wheels of a speeding automobile.'' |