Show LAW AGAINST JAYWALKERS JAY WALKERS Newark Enacts Ordinance To Further Safeguard Traffic A Jay according to tho the diction diction- dictionary dictionary ary besides being a a n member ot of the crow cro family i ia Is a stupid or gut gut- gullible gul gullible lible person A jay walker v there there- therefore therefore fore Is a stupid or gullible lles pedestrian trian trian gullible In the sense of ot nc- nc nc lieving that all automobile brakes are aro newly relined and tha that ell all auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile operators can tell a little In advance when someone Is 18 go- go going go going ing t to walk In front of ot their car cars care The Grand Jurors association of the city elty of ot New York Issued a statement recently which said that jay walking was as one ono of at the roost most prolific causes of ot automobile l acci acci- accidents acci- acci accidents accidents dents It Intimated that some some- something something thing as radical as Jay anti walk walk- walkIng walking walking ing legislation right might bf bl necessary to Induce pedestrians to I keep e p ot off the sick lck list White While such auch legislation legislate Is being suggested for New York they has hav e alreadY prepared passe puse 1 t And tn- tn enforced en enforced forced It over In Newark N J 3 The traffic authorities of Newark have felt for tor years ears that their city's quota ot of Jay walkers allters is greay greaty oversubscribed 0 scribed The last census gave Newark Inhabitants and an accordIng to Traffic Officer Frank McF ot of the these thee o have bees Decus- Decus accustomed tomed to cross crOSB the busy bullY at atthe the corners Deputy ChI Chief st t A T 1 MeRell being more conservative was willing to put this figure as high as aa a thousand Chief directs Newark's Ne arks ark's traffic which now takes In the mn man who walks In the street Last year 2089 2039 were vere Involved In automobile a accidents as occupants of ot cars Innocent by bystanders by- by bystanders standers or credulous Jaywalkers The records revealed that a sur- sur ur- ur large number of preoccupied preoccupied pied pled pedestrians had ruined I their health against the radiators and fenders of unsuspecting vehicles At least the Essex county grand jury was surprised when it ea saw the figures Jay walking was written beside the other details of fifteen serious accidents In a a short period last summer With ordinances covering just about every illegal thing an auto auto- automobile mot mobile lIe can do It was recommended that should be encouraged encouraged encouraged aged among walkers by forbidding them to dl dispute 1 uto the right o 0 way with moving mo vehicles Considerable political courage was required to enact a jaywalking ordInance Pedestrians as a group can play a a decisive role at elec elec- electIon election ton tion time In any community Mak Mak- MakIng Making Making ing the perambulating citizen cul- cul culpable cul culpable pable pablo for or a breach of ot highway eti- eti etiQuette etiquette eti etiquette quette might bo construed as favoring favoring oring the silk sock against the i blue shirt or the crepe de do chine blouse against the cotton shirt shirtwaist waist Nevertheless It was decided that the population must bo be kept a as by m- m r early Intact as possIble 25 25 tor r ing jog people pay tr from rm m 2 2 to ot of the seeks to which ordinance The walkers to keep keep theIr Induce feet on Oil thoughts thought s as well wen as a their the Section ground U At l-At says ct every on Newark where I 5 po- po police In the cIty of to regulate lice officer Is stationed unlawful for tor traffic It hatt be such street street In Ina ina pedestrians pedestrian to cross a SWo diagonal direction shall l No 7 o pedestrian Section street until the the po- po DO- DO DOd such cross any It I stationed d at the L Inter inter- section tI thereOf hr f haU have given It 5 traffic and ani signal for tor pedestrians to proceed i 1 Section sS rAl 3 A y person or 01 perSons p- p who shall violate the provi- provi provisions sons this ordinance shall upon of ot conviction thereof be fined not less and not more than 25 than 2 the theother theother The people In the city on other end of the Hudson tube seem last the to to be law abidIng even to five little ordinance because up ot of the weeks after the passage vIola vIola- vIolation violation measure no arrests arresta for Its tion had been made It appeared that Newark residents would Walle wali Into certain Injury as long Ion as a there thero was no law against It but that would they forbidden onCe on e It was wu be more moro careful Even that representative citizen clUzen who geta gets himself arre arrested tod to test th the constitutional Ity been Ity ot of a novel statute hasn't taken Into custody to date But there Is la sun still another reason for tor the scarcity of ot arrests |