| Show BOYS REDUCING I ACCIDENT TOLL School Children Enlist In Education on Safety WASHINGTON D. D C C. July 16 With accidents among school children chil chil- children children dren showing a decrease while traffic traffic fic fie mishaps Involving adults arc are growing In those centers where school schoolboy schoolboy boy soy patrols have ha been organized by bythe bythe bythe the clubs of the American Automobile association the national motoring agency Is preparing now to expand this movement mo ement to Include all of the cities titles In which It Is represented by e. e local organization This form of safety education has proved Itself valuable almost beyond belief seller says SAS a II statement Issued by na na- national national headquarters of the A. A A. A A A. A and its extension on a II wIde nation scale Is deemed absolutely necessary as a cardinal cardIn point In the safety pro pro- programs programs programs grams of motor clubs THOUSANDS HELPING ELtING Thousands of boys already are en enlisted en- en enlisted enlisted listed in the sen service BenIce ice of local A. A A A. A A clubs In patrol work and have proved themselves efficient and responsible guardians of the safety of the hun hun- hundreds hundreds hundreds of thousands of school children whose lives lI they are safeguarding the statement reveals In a bulletin giving givIng giving ing local club leaders the formula for forthe forthe forthe the organization of a school boy pa pa- patrol patrol patrol the club service department of the A. A A A A A. A A. states stat s The School Boy Safety Patrol movement Is In the broad field of public service rendered by motoring organizations affiliated wIth filth the Am Am- American American Automobile association Through the combined efforts of all ai of our affiliated clubs much can be accomplished toward reducing the number of fatalities and injuries among the nations nation's children and to this task the energies and resources of the American Automobile association assocIation tion must be increasingly dedicated CHILD HEEDS YARNING WARNING The child is easier to reach with safety education than Is the adult live tl broad experience of the national motoring organization in this field in in- in This fact Is found clearly dearly re revealed re- re revealed in the sharp reduction of acci accI- accidents accIdents accidents dents wherever where the message of safety has been taken into the schools through the medium of the patrols Concrete te illustrations of this point are aregI given giten gI en by the experience of many o othe of the larger cities In Akron Ohio for Instance since the organization o othe of the patrol three years ears ago there has not been a 0 single accident involving a school chool child at any corner comer where a patrol has bas been in charge of traffic In Chicago there has been a reduction of 14 per cent In accidents Involving school children Other cities show similar improvement and because o othis of this fact the tha officials of the A A. A A believe there is imperative need of ex extending ex- ex extendIng extending tending this work |
