Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-07
Knee.Hi Is Opposed
To Children Playing
With Motorcycles
Safety Dog Performs
At Bryon and Holy
Comforter Schools

Knee-Hi doesn't like motorcycles.
What's more, the little canine safety
instructress hates to see school chill
dren playing with motorcycles
especially those parked on WASH
ington streets by policemen while
they are responding to a call.
This was emphatically made clear
yesterday as Knee-Hi began the
eighth week of her campaign to
make Washington school children
safety conscious with a demonstra-
ton before $500 students of the
Bryan and Holy Comforter Schools
at Fourteenth and East Capitol
streets.
School children should leave
those machines alone declared
Knee-Hi through her interpreter
and teacher, DR.. George E. Brun-
son. It's too easy for them to
get burned severity b. touching one
of the hot cylinders of the motor
cycle. Surprising the stand which
holds the motorcycle up gives way
and the machine topples over on a
child. This has happened more
than once already"
Might Harm Radio.
Knee-Hi pointed out, again
through DR.. Brunson, that children
should not play with the radios on
the police motorcycles for fear they
might be put out Of commission and
the policeman might miss an i'm
portant call.
To prove the point two motor
cycle policemen parked their ma
chimes alongside the curb and a
group of children were told to play
with the various gadgetS on the
cycles. Immediately Knee-Hi's dan
der was up. and she made for the
children, barking furiously and
finally chasing them away from the
motorcycles.
In addition, Knee High went
through her other PAGES before the
children, who packed the four cor
ners of the intersection for the
demonstration, sponsored by The
Star with the cooperation of the
Board of Education, the Police De-
partment and the Department OF
Vehicles and Traffic.
The little Wire-haired terrier
showed the children the way to
cross the intersection on the proper
signal. Looking to her left and
right, Knee-Hi refused to bulge an
inch from the curb until the street
was clear of traffic. Not even DR..
Brunson could persuade the little
dog to disregard the necessary pre-
cautions.
Objects to Street Football.
Football in the streets also goes
against Knee-His grain. When
members of a student patrol gave
a demonstration of this common
practice among school children
Knee-Hi began to bark furiously
and when released chased the boys
off the street. She also voiced her
disapproval of cyclists who ride
side by side against traffic instead
OF in single file along the curb
AS for those who hook" rides on
trucks, Knee-Hi would have none
of it, as the audience could see in
a demonstration. And last, but by
no means least, the little dog even
showed the children the correct way
to board and leave a streetcar 60
ing to or from school,
Today, accompanied, as usual, by
DR.. Brunson and Announcer Jack
Dalton, Knee-Hir was scheduled tc
perform at Twenty-second street
and Virginia avenue SW. at 1:3(
pm. for students at the Briggs
Montgomery School. Tomorrow she
will go to Delaware avenue and NJ
street Sc at $50 for the benefit
Of the children at the Syphax ano
Bowen Schools. On Thursday Knee
Hi goes to the Raymond School
Tenth street and Spring road NV
at pm, and her final appearance
for the week will be at the Lovejoy
School at $50 am. Friday al
Twelfth and D streets NE.