| Show Your Hurry I The City Council of Cedar City h has bas s started a campaign of traffic control designed not only to enforce the law traffic In Cedar Ce Oe- dar du but also to h help lp In he nationwide na na- campaign to make the streets and highways more safe for ev everyone and to curb the slaughter caused by automobile ao- ao C- C city CUy Council Arthur Jones chairman of the police pollee and public safety committee e of the council Is in charge tit the campaign 1 and in l I launching the movement Issues the following statement YOUR HURRY The city elty officers have seen the teed need for some acme time of very definite definite de finite traffic reg regulations rea on our main thoroughfare Both automobile automobile automo automo- bile bUe drivers and pedestrians are In danger unless we have some regu regulations lations and follow them out Tills This sears Means to be an anage age of speeding A uniform speed Is less leu dangerous than slow low drivers and fast fut drivers It Is sometimes just as dangerous when drivers driver drive extra slow low as asIt asIt asit It Is wh when th they y drive too fast Cars Car that have been traveling the open highway between towns have n 1 hard Job to cut themselves down to the speed required while passing throe through h the towns but this must b be tx flone as aa It is dangerous to pedestrians pedestrians pe pee pe- pe and also to other drivers driver of auton automobiles th la The city administration have marked matted Out pedestrian lanes on Main street at the points point where the heaviest pedestrian traffic occurs occur and we are appealing to the citizens citi CIU- citi- citi nets zens to use these theae lanes lanea when crossing cross cross' J. J ing the main thoroughfare SliM Signs have also been hem Installed atthe at I the main streets streeta to regulate the automobile traffic At the top of Main street near the Federal buildIng build build- 1 I Ing and also at the El EI Fa Escalante calante c Hotel corner comer there has hILI been a a aI I sign alan installed which says MYS Slow stow Pe Pedestrian pe-I pe I Lane warning the automobile automobile auto auto- mobile driver that he must beware beware beware be be- ware as pedestrians will be crossIng cross cross- Ing the street treet in lanes linos marked out for them At the three narrow streets coming into Main street between between between be be- tween these t two try points there are signs that say sa No U Turns and this will eliminate a great deal of this trouble we have had In holdIn hold hold- In Ingup jip traffic while a car makes a complete turn There are also many other signs placed on the streets street by the State Road Commission for safety In driving and these al and reg regulations regu regu- regulations lations will be also During the year 1935 1933 there were 3 people killed In motor car accidents In the United States Automobiles Injured others othen Carelessness was waa the cause of this horrible tale So far as America is concerned not even war has haa Inflicted In In- flitted so ao bea heavy vy a toll ton riving DrIving errors erroll were Involved In 10 two thirds of ot the accidents reported oa careless driving killed people So far as u the facts how the terrific tragedies of previous pre years yean taugh us very little Apparently more tore was exhibited last year far than ever be be- fore Excessive alve speed was a factor but not by any means maw the most mast Im tm- important Important portent factor according to the thea a made by br the insurance ex ex- ex perta Actually Just lust 23 per cent of the accidents Lt to drI driving errors erroll were due to exceeding th the speed limit Fast driving however was waa the cause of the killing of people or 31 per cent of the fatalities resulting from Improper motoring practices last year rear Other bad driving practices practice took an even larger toll tall For example people were killed in acct acci accidents dents dent In which operators drove on the wrong side ride of the road an and filled failed t to grant the right of oi way Cars Can driven off the roadway killed trued p people Reckless driving ex explained ex ex- deaths Dangerous driving practices were Involved In out of nonfatal non AC- AC dd its These huge hUe toU totals total of death and Injury merely emphasize what everyone who uses wes the public roads fOlds knows from personal rt dJs observation ruth Is that a large afire proportion of f. f motorists motorist constantly drive In a s manner which Jeopardizes their own safety and menaces menace the lives and safety arety of all aU others who use th the road A fool foot or a criminal or merely a reckless and Inconsiderate person at the wheel of the best car on the fIne finest t road Is still a pot potential nUal malmer maimer maim malm- er and of innocent people I Ithe laws law are useless and arod the best engineering design Is not enough Responsibility for safe operation op op- of a motor car finally rests 02 on Of t the Individual driver drivel I Thirty five years year ago aro railroad accidents accidents ac ac- ac- ac acI I were so 10 numerous that Congress Con Cone gress and the state tate legislatures were moved to enact drastic lam larrs Within these years rear the railroads wa waged a successful campaign In 1933 Just 33 38 were killed in train accidents The railroads won this measure of safety by improving equipment and establishing better signal systems systems tens but most of all aU by rigid dish If U locomotive engineers operated as recklessly as some motorists railway transportation would be swiftly destroyed As con con- conditions conditions conditions exis ex the railway man who becomes Involved In a preventable accident loses lose his Job lob So 80 accidents are not taken hun We must establish some effectual discipline fo to motorists It Itis Is alU silly to watt walt until a reckless driver er has haa killed someone before de depriving de de- him of his hll license Much sharper Inspection ct tt f driving practices practices tices Uces muse mus be bf established and those thole whose road habl's hibl clearly are a source of danger must be prohibited the use of the road The motorist is U not he the only reckless user of the roads roods Pedestrians tans ti-tans have han their altars of ot In fact the figures figure Indicate e that at least half halt of tf the adult pedestrians pedestrians pe pe- pe- pe killed n In n automobile ac accidents accidents failed to ex due care Reckless as pedestrians aM and reckless reckless reck reck- l less motorists alike aUke are responsible The motor car la is an In tool of our civilization but we ve have not leam learned t how t to o use It U without Incurring Incalculable losses in 10 life health and property The present waste is tragic and intolerable It must not be allowed J to continue Each Individual must consider himself responsible for obeying th the traffic laws and bf so doing we will make traveling safer safe |
