The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-18
SAY fr WITH MORE LAWS

A young lad was drowned In q prlynio swim
ming pool tho other day and Immediately q
correspondent wri'cs The world urging laws
to protect our children against swimming pools
both public ana private. II a citizen s. ran
down b, a motor car there IL an Immediate
outcry of indignation and an insistcnt demand
for laws making is Impossible for n cltzcn 10
be Killed untl he is ready TO die About the
only disaster which docs not bring a reaction
OF this kind Is when nature flys into a tantrum
It Seems 10 be accepted inevitable that tho
winds the lightning and earthquakes cannot
be Icglslatcd against
We really do not enjoy pointing out tho folly
of this sort ot foolIshncss. yet It does seem
ncstaaary. Death 81 something that cannot be
svolded not even II the legislative bodies sat
continuously and promptly nassed n law against
the cause OF every death occurring Accident Is
another thing which cannot be forestalled
Fence every swimming hole in Christcudom.
place fourteen guards to every yard Of shore
line. and there would stiu be accidental drown
ings Even make It capital punishment for any
hoy or girl or woman 10 go into water
deepcr than their knees raise the tax rate to
pay Officers to enforce the law, and still folks
would be drowned It Is not lnfrcduently that
We Arc Eultfu On 10 NtIbHIcif tHe drowning bl
some child In a. bathtub. What kind Of a law
going to enact to meet that situation2
This penchant for turning to the legislature
to prevent things on one hand, require us to do
things on the other. should be csrhcd by our
thinkers or they should cease thinking, 1t is
all tommyrot. There are moro than a hundred
thousand people within tho environs OF Tulsa;
normal healthy. active. responsible folk. They
are going In swimming in all sorts OF places at
this time OF the year; they the streets
thicker than flys about the bunghole OF n mo-
lasses barrel. Yet serious motor-car fscci-
dent n case of drowning Is tho rarest kind OF
thing.
, Reasonable care on the part OF the individual
is nil that Is necessary. Where there is criminal
carelcssncss on the part OF car driver or the
owner OF n swimming pool there exists ample
law now TO afford practical satisfaction to the
damaged party children fall from trees or
housotops and are killed. they swallow needles
or pennies and die; they pick up rat poison or
get into the medicine chest: man in his every
age rubs elbows with accident and death every
moment of his life.
why speak OF coerciyo measures 10 prevent
such things? Law Is destructive in one form
or another always, II is not only folly It is
hirhly mischievous, this habit of shriokIng in
disnation against somebody or something every
time an accident occurs, ana urging that a law
be enacted. Probably already this senson chill
dren Of Tulsa have been exposed to the possible
dangers of drowning at least a hundred thousand
times. The law OF averages makes It certain
that now and again one win drown. Yet no
argument whatever Is produced thereby to JUS
tfy denying childhood the right to enjoy Itself
IN the water.
we sensible, practical, reasoning human
beings, let us demonstrate the fact once I'm Il
while