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Show TOM FOOLERY. . . Teachers at Hamilton grade school have hit on a novel way of making their little charges safety-conscious. During November they're conducting a safety jingle contest con-test at the school and each week will choose the best ones submitted by the young scholars in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades. We're flattered, of course, that the Hamilton teachers have asked the Pyramid to publish the prizewinners. - Let's start off with Sixth Grader Clair Seely's jingle. Be careful when you cross the street, And when you climb stairs so steep. Be careful when you go to hunt And let's make this a safety month. Diane Ball of the fifth grade contributed this one. There was a young man named Tim, Rules of safety just weren't for him. Stop signs he would dash through, Red lights he would crash through. Wherever he went, he went with a dash. And one day he met with a terrible crash. Patsy Rosenlof of the third grade also wrote about Tim, concluding with the lines: Stop signs he would dash through Red lights he would dash through And now they are burying poor Tim. ludy Lund of the fourth grade has a low opinion of day dreamers. Here's her safety jingle. Each morning as I go to school . I will obey each safety rule. I'll wait for the traffic, Cross streets with care, And not stand in the middle of the road and stare. . These Hamilton school jingles recall the days in our late teens when we chauffeured for an 'elderly gentleman of strong opinions, including the ones he held on safe driving. One day, following a tight squeeze at an intersection, our passenger Jeaned forward from the. back seat and demanded de-manded to know why we were taking chances with his automobile to say nothing of his life. "We had the right-of-way," was our meek answer. Then in a strong voice he answered our answer thusly: Here lies the body of John Grey Who lost his life claiming a right-of-way. Now John was right as he sped along But he's just as dead as if he were wrong. |
