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Show cause of confusion, accident, loss of property, and loss of life. Uniform traffic laws, the same the country over, will promote pro-mote safety. The objection urged against uniform traffic laws that traffic conditions are different in different dif-ferent localitiesi does not hold in the face of the obvious power pow-er of the locality to modify or add to the uniform law for special spec-ial conditions. There are many observances which, made uniform, uni-form, would make for safety such as the system of signalling for a stop, slow up and turn, a uniform rule as to right of way at crossings, safety procedure at grade crossings, a heavy penalty pen-alty for such dangerous practices prac-tices as passing another car when coming to a curve or top of a hill, etc. With forty-eight States and thousands of municipalities, all making their own traffic rules, the motorist is more or less at sea as to what he can and can not, should and should not do. But when the National Government Govern-ment builds roads for the Nation, Na-tion, a national traffic law will be inevitable as a national police po-lice force for the national highways. high-ways. 'A paved United States in our day" is not only devoutly to be wished for, because of the material benefits it will bring, but because of the safety the uniformity of traffic rules will provide, when the Congress authorizes au-thorizes a system of national highways which will serve all the States as a good State highway high-way system now serves all the counties in that State. EDITORIAL UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS ON NATIONAL HIGHWAYS Present Chaos Must End When Nation Builds Roads Traffic laws which differ in different States and different v towns in the same State, are a |