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Show Although Many Accounts on Front Pages, Ratio of Accidents Acci-dents Decreases Automobile accidents continue to get on the front pages of the newspapers, newspa-pers, but the fact remains that the ratio of these mishaps to the number of cars and pedestrians grows less each year. "And the reason for it is the attention atten-tion people are paying to the safety first movement, which is one of the big things of the age," says John D. Jaarfsfield. "Education has rooted out carelesB- ne3S to nn extent. When you are outj ion a popular and crowded highway i ' you see comparatively few infractions ! ' of the rules Driving which reminds one o tho wild west boys in the films is becoming scarcer, the owners of 1 cars having learned that it does not' pay. Some of them havo learned this j at an expense and others have caught tho spirit of equal rights, which means safety. "Of particular importance is watch-I watch-I ing out fcr children at all limes. They jdo not know Uie rules, the direction jin which they will jump from a bunch i of kiddies is a closed book, so when in the. vicinity, of them it is Veil to! be all eyes. There is no tragedy so appealing as that in which a child is( the victim, and it is up to the motorist to help the liltlo ones who cannot; help themselves. j "Pedestrians afe slower in J earning the laws of traffic than are motorists for the only penalty that attaches to their heedlessness is their own liability liabil-ity to accident. But they are learning. learn-ing. They mind the police much better bet-ter and fewer of them out across lots on the busy corners. "It Is noticeable in the larger cities where thero is the greatest congestion the percentage of accidents is small-' est and the reason for this is that both motorists and people on foot are playing play-ing the rule:; of the game Saretv First." imj.um ii i ir j i. , iiillll1 .r , i n mi i i tu.mmiTCTa |