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Show TIIK MAY-WALKER." O O ' - - In New York City alone, in the single year of 1923, there were exactly 123 persons killed by autos in the middle of the streets as the persons were cutting across the street rather than to go to the intersections provided for that purpose. ' This death toll in this particular instance can be avoided. The person who walks across in the middle of the block is called "A Jay-Walker." And the price they pay is often a visit vis-it to either the morgue or the emergency hospital. Crossings of streets should .always be made at the intersections, inter-sections, and even there, there is .enough danger. But in the middle of the block, the auto has the! ripht of way, and it is up to the pedestrian to keep from being hit. There are of course reckless drivers; but don't also overlook that there aro careless people afoot. Our danger in this community is not in. the streets, but from the dangers of facing a glaring headlight. Just as an instance, the other night, just-beyonfc;tha-LiOiie--vTxee,,.Qa. .tfafi, curve, here came an auto with only one light on, but that a terrible glare, and the occupants see sawed around the curve, very nearly running into another car. And another person reports to . us that he. '.'winked hi? lights" on sixteen approaching--cars,, asking,, for the.,courtesyil of dimmers (he himself dimmed his, and winked them at the other fellows repeatedly to have them dim theirs) ,b,u,t, on that" night's drive, not one single person dimmed a light for him. :j There are dozens of cars not within the law as to headlights. . |