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Show Few Simple Traffic Rules Will Make Travel Safer Relieving that the careful . observation observa-tion of a few simple truffle rules will materially help In making travel safer on the highways the United States National Chamber of Commerce bas prepared the following recommendations recommenda-tions for 'drivers of automobiles: 1. Always remember you are an engineer, en-gineer, fully responsible. 2. Always test your brakes when starting and have them Inspected frequently. fre-quently. 8. Never pass street car when It Is slopping, or If the law permits, proceed pro-ceed very slowly past It at the legal distance. 4, Exercise especial care In crossing In front of a street car or In passing It, as you cannot tell what may be coming on the other side. 0. Always signal with hand when slowing down, turning or stopping, even though you have an automatic or mechanical warning device. 6. Look before you back and sound the horn three tlmea T. Try to drive with using the horn as little as possible. A sudden noise urn Biuf iwuenit IHUI IU llivir wacae rather than warning them. 8. Don't count too much on the common com-mon sense of the other fellow. No one Is 100 per cent alert all the time. 9. Drive slowly In streets where children are playing. Remember your own childhood. 10. Cross crossings cautiously. Warning Warn-ing bells may be out of order, watchmen watch-men or gnte operators may be off duty. Trains cannot stop as quickly as you can. Shift Into second to avoid stalling stall-ing oo tracks. |