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Show ' SCHOOL GH1LDHEI1 : : AS TRAFFIC COPS ' Innovation Could be 'Installed Here As Means of Keeping Down the v . ; - Speeders, " , , O Early this year this paper suggest-. suggest-. - j7 1 d tnat pupils of the Bingham Cen- tral school be appointed traffic offi-.' offi-.' ..' . cers during recesses and during the ' v ' luncS hour, but nothing ever came of v v the suggestion, and so as -many oth- aV ers, have done, we. are going to try again. ,;;;. : ' .-.Thiif'plan has been tried ;out in ; ' " large1 cities and has met with wonder- . -v . . . ful success,' different 'children being : ' appointed each week to watch the au-; au-; - tos as they pass the school house, ' ' and to take the numbers of those who ' violate the city ordinance relative to ". Speeding. v.- ; , 7' . . y If our memory does not ' fail us, t ;.; there is an ordinance stating that it . . j is a violation of the law for a car to s ' ' pass the Bingham schools except in v ' second or low gear. It is a known ' '. - . fact that this law has never been car- ' C( ried out, and while the memory of . . the .accident fcf little Joe Geisler is ' - , .'. still fresh in our mind, we would sug-. sug-. 'Tgest that this said law should be in- !'. . - j forced ere. another accident occurs. r "-It is an impossibility for the police ' f officers of the town to be everywhere ' - . and thus the suggestion that the chil-: chil-: . - drcn of the local institution of learn-' learn-' ... ing be appointed traffic officers, and ' ' -: in case there is a law violation, that the car number of the offender be v given the proper officials, and the V; ' . proper course taken to punish said '. offender. ; . , j , After aa accident has occurred it is ' too late to try and mend our ways, and formulate plans to do away with .' the -same sort of accident.' NOW is ' . . the time to get busy. Let the school -.. (. officials confer with the city officials, ' and let some of the older pupils at the school take turns in apprehending . the culprits whp insist on putting the ' "t ivcs of our young in 'jeopardy. |