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Show Jay Walker Claims Exalted Place Is Big Booster For Casualty List Ogdesi Has Many of Thera in Ac.ion Jay Walker Esq., 01 Everywhere, U. S. A. This gentleman comes of a rery distinguished line. His first cousin tn ihe distaff side In f'beer-; f'beer-; fill Yd lot. who ifl universally loved for his gallant exploits in rocking the boat n the oilier sld' of the I house Mr. Jay Walker claims con-, con-, Bangulnity with Gunne E'oynter. whose scientific experiments are ln-rternatlonally ln-rternatlonally famous under the head- line. "He Pldn'l Know 11 Was ! Loaded." in the intiinaie bJstoriea of the 'present era. which will sonic day he jwritton, .Ia; Walker will claim au! j exalted place. He it Is w ho is boost- j ing flu- casualt column tinder the I claS8lflcaUon of motor vehicle acci- ; IdentS He Is ubiquitous in blS opers-jtions, opers-jtions, Snowing no union rules, work-Ing work-Ing earnestly at hitj chosen task day ; ' , - . 1 and uilir. every dav. everywhere "J ry way. To see him "leaping lichtly and tare-free amid tbe convolutions con-volutions ol modern traffic brings tears of apprehension to the eyes of all beholders. To see him step gracefully grace-fully Horn the curb Into the street, without once looking to sec If nny vehicle Is approaching, is a lesson m pedestrian insouciance. To watch him cross a crowded street, while en grossed in the pages of his favorite newspaper lakes the punch out of Marshal Ney's claim to the Mth "bravest of the brave7!" Having paid this inevitable tribute tri-bute to the courage and abandon of Jay Walker, we may look at him briefly from another point of view as the worst menace existing in modern traffic Tbe toll of motor ve hide accidents is mounting, as counl-lss counl-lss authorities have pointed out. It 1 Will continue to mount until all traf- : fic is com rolled pedestrian as well j as vehicular Traffic experts real j ize that it is impossible for all I classes of modern traffic to occupy ' the same right of way at the .s;in.e time in cafely. Vehicles are nt-i allowed on the pavement and ar" only permitted to use the sin e -undei control of traf tic officers YV. cannot -forbid pedestrians to use the vehicular .-eetion of the streets for crossing purposes, but we can compel com-pel them to use them under definite rules of conduct, designed lo pro mole their own safety and that i.r other users of the right of way. The OOner this problem is scpjarely met, i the sooner we shall achieve reasonable reason-able safety for all in modern utban traffic, which at besi is existing under un-der conditions never anticipated by our fathers who laid out our cltv highway systems. Editorial by Alexander Alex-ander Johnston, in BioToR for January. Janu-ary. oo |