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Show Let's Play Safety First! Let's Play Safety! When the fact is known that 36,000 men, women and children were ruthlessly ruth-lessly killed in automobile accidents and wrecks, and that hundreds of thousands were more or less injured during 1934, it is, and should have been, the signal to stress more on "safety." Educational efforts have been made to curtail the loss of life, new traffic speed laws have been made, law enforcement has been more pronounced but the killing cont'nues to a horrifying extent. It seems impossible, im-possible, apparently, from reports throughout the nation, to control the "mad" and careless driver and the devil keeps on playing his harp. Members of the Gunnison Lions club, in keeping with a campaign instituted by the International Lions club, is to join in a movement in Gunnison to create a different condition con-dition in the hopes of avoiding death or accidents. True, this1 city has escaped es-caped mighty fortunately, as but a few deaths have been caused by automobiles. au-tomobiles. However, disaster can follow fol-low with the recklessness of some of the local drivers, of cars'? as well as those who, demon like, speed through Main street. With the starting of school, when children are going to and from their studies, morning noon and night, there is a dangerous hazard when T the students cross the streets. Un-thoughtful Un-thoughtful of harm, the little ones, disregarding the proper crossings, dart in and out at any point, flirting flirt-ing with death. The demon speeder and careless driver thinks only of himself and his car and plunges ahead, and someday something is bound to happen unless steps are taken tak-en to avoid all such dangers. The school room is a mighty fine place to instruct the children of the dangers, and to teach the youth to regard re-gard the laws when crossing at dangerous dan-gerous points. Last year boy students, stu-dents, endowed with the power to control oncoming travelers while the children were crossing the dangerous I places, policed the streets with commendation com-mendation and won the plaudits of , the citizens. Place the youth again in the same place and with plenty of authority, and the dangers will be lessened. It might be well, too, to enforce laws regarding the driving of local automobile owners. Many here knowing know-ing the laws have little regard for the edicts, and many imperil the lives of the school students as well as the adults.' The move taken by the Gunnison Lions club should have the backing of every honest and real American citizen in Gunnison, and -with the cooperation co-operation of all, accidents and deaths may be entirely avoided. |