Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-16 | Page 8 | Highways as Home Benefit

HIGHWAYS AS " HOME BENEFIT Automobile Man Points To Betterments and Dangers Dan-gers for Children CHAUTAUQUA, N T., Jury 15. Highways benefit the home. Highway accidents are preventable. preventa-ble. These two themes wero developed by Fyke Johnson and John CJ Long I of the national automobile chamber ! cnnlal convention of the General Fed- eratlon of Women's Clubs In scxlon hero recently Fresh food Is made available for the city children, bettor schools .'.n.l wider social opportunities are prodded prodd-ed for the country boys and glr'.s, through Improved highways and rm tor transportation. Johnson pointed out. (Guarding the danger points, prosecution prose-cution of the careless driver, ample playgrounds and education In schools will eliminate accidents, Long Indicated. Indi-cated. Twenty-eight cities active In safety v.ork reduced their motor fa-i tahty record last year. A great educator has said that education is nothing more than an Interpretation to the child of the environment en-vironment in which ho . lives," a.. II Johnson, "and of this environment tho highways today have become .1 moat Important part 'It is tho highway which biii the doctor to the door and It is Qver the highway that we go for most of the Important events of our life "It is the condition of tho highway high-way which determines whether our childron shall go to school every n j during tho school year or whether they shall have to stay at home to ootner uioir motners p.ixt 01 tne inni "It Is the condition of the hujhwa which determines whether the milk which is brought to our door n the morning is fresh and whether wc' shall receive It regularly. "Without the highway, our great ' national parks, the playgrounds of the nation, would be largely inacces-: siblc In fact thero Is no phase Of our dally ljfe which haa not been materially ma-terially and seriously affected In some way by the roads which pass the door " ' If every woman In America would enroll for the degree of Doctor of Safety, the accident question would soon be solved," ald Long "The diagnosis is pimple Twenty-eight cities reduced their motor fatalluee lSt year. Massachusetts cut down tho number of traffic injuries 60 per cent. The four main accident symptoms symp-toms and their remedies are .hcM "1 Danger t.pot. suoh as eunef. blind corners, busy Intersections. Sufficient Suf-ficient guarding by patrolmen or by signs Is an immediate remedy, with improvement of thu physical design of tho danger pot as an Ideal cure. I That is, a sharp curve may bo patrolled, pa-trolled, but It should ultimately be1 straightened. "? -Prosecuting the careless driver. Citizens' complaint bureaus, like thoso' in Ietrok and Syrauf0. are ncodod to j facilitate complaint aain.t and prosecution pros-ecution of tho reckles? minority who sre making the entire community pay I 31 1 the price of thlr heidlesenosc "3 Playgrounds. The school de-1 1 partisan! should be consulted as to ; whether there Is enough play space.1 land whether there are enough ployj I instructors to Justify telling the children chil-dren not to play in the btreets. Pend- Ing the building of more playgrounds, If needed certain streets should be roPQd off as play areas. i Education In tho schools Children Chil-dren are naturally Irresponsible, but through traffic games, pluylots and' 'other Instruction they can be trained ; habitually to conduct themselves j properly In traffic '