The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-06-14
NEEDLESS SLAUGHTER IN
TIME OF PEACE


TIME OF PEACE
There was a man who fancled mat
BY driving good and fast
He'd get his car across the tracks
Before the train could pass.
He'd miss the engine by an inch,
And make the train hands sore,
There WAS man who fancied that
There isn't any more.-Tx.
RECENT horrifying accidents at
railroad crossings have served again
to call attention to the absolute neces-
sity of education of the public along
lines of safety. Near Boise the other
day a terrible accident occurred, the
driver, husband and father, is still
in the hospital; and the pains OF body
are as nothing compared to the men
'tal agonies born of the thought OF a
wife and child in untimely graves.
A nationwide careful crossing
campaign" is being conducted by the
National Safety Council, in coopera-
ton with the National Highway Traf-
fic Association, the U. S. Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, the transpor-
ton companies and others. The thot
behind this campaign is education of
the public. That seems to be the on
ly solution. It has proven effective
with relation to railroad employees
why not with the public? On railroad
lines education as to safety has re
duced the deaths of employees on du-
ty from 1854 in 1907 to 2578 in 1920
the latest official figures, nOtwithstand
ing increased forces. 1t is logical tn
assume that education of the public
will have similar beneficial effect.
Not only does the danger lie in
railroad crossings but 1t exists
to an alarming degree along our high
ways and even in the main street OF
Challis where reckless drivers con
tinually, in spite of warnings, try to
make areoplanes out of machines that
are built to run on the ground. They
not only take their own lives in their
hands by fast and reckless driving
but the lives of those riding with
them are placed in Jeopardy as well
as the lives of others-pedestrians as
we'll as occupants of cars or other We
hicles.
Some time ago we published war;
ing to fast drivers calling their al
tention to the exising danger Of fas
ulIVluS dAu QuACC a AUAAOS'
took the warning in good faith as j
was intended while others seem t.
pay not the slightest heed to our e"
forts to minimize the danger whic'
fast driving creates
| Anyone driving a car should neve
Iurn in the middle of the block BIZ
should 60 to the corner and turn a.
ter making the correct signal as t
his intentions thus letting the posi-
BILE man behind know what he is G.
ing to do. Monday evening car tor
up Main street and turned in front q
this office at speed which made t.
car skid and careen frightfully-lucl
lily the driver injured no one or r
thing but the car he was driving.
We would like to see our Vs"ag
Board order the installation of turr
ing or traffic posts on main stree
corners and when this is done every
body should observe the regulat1o,
traffic rules and thus avoid accidents
which so far by the Grace of 9 Di
vine Providence rather than iron
careful driving. has been avoided.
This article is not ment for any on
person but is published solely in tn
hopes that it will result in saving in
jury or perhaps death to someone.
Let's quit the reckless speeding.
Let's punish those who persist /,
violating this law as the law provides