Beaver County News | 1926-09-10 | Page 2 | Uniform Traffic Rules for United States Highways is Great Need

i Uniform Traffic Rules for United States Highways High-ways Is Great Need j By HERBERT C. HOOVER, Secretary of Commerce. j Highways of the United States must be constructed in the future with a view to protecting lives, and not merely to provide a temporary means of transporation. Uniform laws by the states are necessary to check the terrific toll in life and property that reckless automobile driving levies annually in America. The activity of the American Road Builders' association in securing se-curing such regulations should be supported by the entire country along the lines recommended by the National Conference on Street and Railway Rail-way Safety. When we had only three people in a township they did not require traffic rules to keep their elbows out of each other's ribs, but when we get a million in a community somebody has to tell them how to move or they will run into each other. Roads must be constructed wide enough and numerous enough to handle them.