The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-23

and have often been led to handle in a
panicky manner condition which will
yield to normal treatment.
We have passed stringent laws, cried
for punishment of the speeder, and de-
handed that traffic rule violators be put
n jail. This is all well enough, but it
IS not fundamental. Persons who spread
disease should be quarantined, but that
does not necessarily stamp out the
source of the malady.
Causes of Accidents
Among the causes of traffic accidents
are careless driving, children PLAYING in
he streets. poor parking accommoda-
tions, insufficient Fairgrounds, bad street
ightlng. lack of signs. narrow street
iInits. inadequate police force, unintellf-
gent traffic regulations.
IF a boy or girl in your community
is taken i'll. the doctor is called in and
uakes his diagnosis. He decides whether
he trouble is Group. or scarlet fever. or
what. before attempting to prescribe a
remedy. If child has typhoid fever
he whole water supply system of the
own may need investigation.
IF child IS injured in an automo-
lie accident. however, someone may be
lrrested, the police may insist on all
motorists carrying special cards, a few
nore ordinances may be passed, but in
most communities there will be no ex-
austIve examination of why that acct
dent occurred.
What Club Women Can DO
If the club women of the United
| states would confer on themselves the
legree of doctor of safety accidents
you'd soon be virtually done away with.
ANY woman's club can make a safety
diagnosis of its own town, and cure the
2Ccldent EVIL Make map of the city.
lace white pin at every point where
child accident occurred during the past
ear, and Q blue pin for every adult ac-
ldent on the highways There YOU have
basis for determining accident causes:
| Are there many pins concentrated at
ertain points! Perhaps better light
ng. more signs, and more police are
leeded there. Are most of the pins in
| he middle of blocks rather than at in
sersectlOns: Then Il campaign 10 urge
roSSlng at the crossings is needed. Are
he child pins prevalent? Then more at
ention is needed in school instruction.
home training, in local Fairgrounds.
Following this anatomy study.
hich should reveal the worst Of the sore
pots. should come study of the police
ecordS on accident cases. At what
me Of day and year did these occur?
'pecial traffic police relief at peak pc
iods might help. What was the appar-
mt Immediate cause Of the accident?
{ speeding and carelcsSness are coming
lore in evidence, a campaign on public
pinion on the part of the mother would
e of great assistance in law enforce
/ nent.
"This diagnosis Of the anatomy and
he records is but the beginning of the
ask, but it is a beginning which has
cen largely overlooked
Iodel Cities
For the remedies one may turn to
| Detroit which has large Fairgrounds, and
| laborate safety Instructions in the
| choolS: to Cleveland which has junior
atrois to aid the young and helpless in
| rossing the street. to Buffalo, to Indian
/ polls, and 10 other cities on the safety
onor roll of 1921, where the local
chools and associations will be able to
| I'll what methods are being used TO make
| heir highways more safe.
| Among the other leading cities which
eeorded fewer traffic fatalities in 1921
| han i'm 1920 are: Akron. o. Atlonta,
| IA Bayonne. y. J.; Berkeley. Cal :;
bridgeport, Conn. Cincinnati, o.; Day
| IN. O.. Grand Rapids. Mich. Lansing,
| Iich. Milwaukee. Wis; Minneapolis,
| linn. Newark. y. J.; New Rochelle,
| : Y: Norfolk. Va; Ogden, Utah;
| 'aterson. y. J.; Peoria, Ill. Pitts
| urgh, Pa Pittsfield. Mass; Provi-
Iencc. r. L.: Richmond, Cal. Trenton,
| \ j.. and Youngstown, o"