Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-06
>OLOGNE GAzETTE.-The ap-
palling increase in the number
of automobile accidents is get
- ting the attention of the en-


tire country. No longer are
traffic accidents confined to the cities
just as many and just as serious ones
are occurring in the rural districts.
Since the death of the assistant build
ing commissioner, Herr Schilling, and
public counselor, DR.. Vossen, victims of
collision at highway intersection near
Dorsten, provincial authorities, both in
Munsterland and in Wesphalia, are con-
Sidering how these road crossings can
best be protected
1t is unfortunate that action was not
taken at much earlier date. 1t is now
very much like the circumstances of
covering the well after the child has
fallen into it. The highway crossing,
for instance, where the two gentlemen
described met their death has long been
considered one of the most dangerous
in the whole district of Munster, yet it
was absolutely unmarked. There was
not even sign of the usual crossed
boards to indicate the intersection of
the two roads at this point.
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tuberculosis
Spreads in Rural Districts.
FL Sol, Madrid.-Though life in the
country and exposure to fresh air all
the time are supposed to be some of the
consumption and preventing it, yet the
fact remains, through some paradox,
that people living in the country are
just as susceptible to the disease, and
there are just about as many cases,
proportionately, in the rural districts as
in the urban. In fact, pulmonary tu-
berculosis Is increasing faster in rural
districts than it is in the cities. This is
due, no doubt, to the absence of all the
sanitary and hygienic regimen that has
been adopted in the cities of the world.
People living on farms do not have their
food and drink examined and certified
as in cities. Many of them drink water
that would not be tolerated in any mu-
nicipality. Then, too, in the cities the
possibilities of contagion are minimized
and people afflicted with tuberculosis
are segregated as much as possible, so
the disease will not be communicated
to other members of their families. Be-
sides, the victims have opportunities to
receive the best treatments for the dis
ease known to medical science, a means
of restoration almost wholly lacking in
the country.
Some reasons assigned for the in
crease of patients in the rural districts
is that the country people, as a rule, do
not have much leisure or Iepose. Those
with the disease need complete rest.
Another is that patients from the city
go to the country for their health and,
coming in contact with the rural dwell
ers, expose them to whatever infection
is communicable in this disease. The
increasing frequency of the visits Of the
country people to the cities also lowers
their resistance to the malady. SAM
tary arrangements in some communities
of the same type they were 500 years
ago enhance these dangers to health.
May Be Tried
For Reckless Driving.
Cork Weekly Examiner.-In the
Northern Ireland House of Commons re-
Gently on the committee stage of the
motor vehicles bill, a compromise was
reached on the clause which lays 1t
down that a motor-driver acquitted of
manslsughter may be charged, and, if
convicted, imprisoned for two years. for
the lesser offenSe of reckless driving.
The government offered to reduce the
sntence of two Jears to six months, but
1t was held that this would reduce the
penalty too materially and that public
safety would be better protected by
heavier penalty for those acquitted of
the charge of manslaughter, but still
morally responsible for the death.
Funds Lacking
To Purchase English Books.
The Observer, London.-The Turkish
government has made English compul-
sorry in the schools, and the younger
generation are taking great interest in
learning 1t. In the past, German was
tn principal foreign language stressed,
due to the weighty influence of the
German government, and more lately
French has been pushed by Partisan
diplomats and bureaucrats. English,
now coming to the fore, finds itself con-
fronted with handicaps which the other
two languages have overcome. English