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Show SIMPLE TRAFFIC SIGNALS ARE BEST Simplicity in traffic signals will go! farther towards preventing accidents1 on the streets and highways than any one other thing, insofar as the mo-jtorlsts mo-jtorlsts ar concerned, according to the l National Motorists association. The value, in this connection, of simplicity, it la pointed out. lie In the text that a few natural, easy to recog- nlze signals, vlll soon become second nature to driern and also familiar to pedestrians . in a fctatcjment on tho subject, th N. M. A. says: "One trouble is that dlf'ermt signals sig-nals are observed in different cities or j parts of the country, and another Is I that these all too often partake too much of gesticulation. For example, there are certain well-known signals iused now almost universally by drivers driv-ers who persist In them merely be-cause be-cause they are easy to recognlie. and jwill be the more readily followed " |