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Show CHILDREN INVITE DEATH. There are chargeable against the automobile drivers more than one offense, but the chauffeurs are not alone in the offending. Little boys and girls, playing in the streets of Ogden, often deem it "smart" to stand in the pathi of a speeding machine and dart out of harm's way when the automobile is almost upon them. This play will continue until some one's little boy or girl is carried home fearfully fear-fully mangled or dead, and then the chauffeur will be blamed for an accident that had been imminent for months, but which parents, in their carelessness, had failed to take heed of by reprimanding their children, and which through that neglect, became a certainty. The auto driver, repeatedly annoyed by children throwing themselves in his way and then dashing to safety, may learn to expect ex-pect these antics until, indifferently regarding them, he will meet with the little boy who forgets to get out of the course of the moving mov-ing machine and the tragedy will come so suddenly as to be unavoidable unavoid-able and heartrending. The attention of our officers and of parents i3 called to this perilous play of children in the streets. |