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Show Blame Rests on Adults Education of motorists in traffic is still in the little red school-house school-house stage of development, in the opinion of Harold G. Hoffman, Motor Vehicle Commissioner of New Jersey, who believes that adults are largely responsible for the slow progress of safety training. train-ing. Although ' good work has been done in instilling safety codes in the young, Commissioner Hoffman comments, "Our efforts in teaching teach-ing safety to children cannot come to full fruition until we have been successful in bringing to the adult motorist a full sense of responsibility re-sponsibility to his own children and others. We must engender, too a general and wholesome respect for- the motor laws designed to promote safety on the highways, and insist upon their equitable enforcement. Commissioner Hoffman also points out that while younger children have demonstrated an aptitude to assimilate safe practices, prac-tices, the elder ones, now in high school and college, have not shown the same tendency. "Statistics show," he says, "that these youngsters are notoriously unsafe drivers, and for the tragic accident record of youth, I am convinced that our high schools and colleges must accept a large share of responsibility. The high schools prepare these boys and girls for various activities of life; but when it comes to an activity that we are sure most of them will take up, that of driving a car, they do comparatively little. "Education in the traffic field is universal in its application. Too often we are tempted to confine consideration of it to children, and even to the motor vehicle administrator, ad-ministrator, the highway engineer, the legislator, and even the corner traffic cop must go on acquiring new and more useful knowledge." |