TRAFFIC SNARLS
CALLING ALL PARi^TSi CALLING ALL
PARENTSi CONTACT YOUR CHILD IMMEDIATELY.
warn him of the dangers involved in driv*
ING THAT SCOOTER. DON’T DELAYl
Yes, Parents, check your child out on
traffic rules and road regulations or
you may be regretting your negligence for
years to corns. An accident is bound'to
occur unless someone "wises up"—but soon#
Driving too fast, riding too many pas
sengers, crossing loose gravel patches on
the road, and maintaining speed to make
the h:lls are all dangers to the scooter
cro-wio Every parent should satisfy him
self that his child has been prcporly in
structed before he is allowed to use the
public thoroughfare#
Ordinarily traffic does not concern
the Dillingham resident# The pedestrian
has always had the right-of-way* Driving
a car here has always been dene at the
risk of the driver: ho has to slow^up if
people are visiting in the street; he has
to stop to let child'.1 cross in front of
his car or wait tilJ tv oat ter strikes
cut; and he has to p\uJL off on the one—
way roads to allow bicycles and baby bug
gies passl Here, traffic is solely the
drivers headache.
The acooter-crcwd are children who have
grown up with an unawareness of traffic
dangers, who find themselves suddenly in
the middle of the stream' of traffic© They
are not disciplined to watch for small
children who used the roads with freedom;
they do not know the fundamentals of road
courtesy* To them driving is a new ad
venture ”not nearly as hard as it looks •*,
The fact that motorizsd equipment in
Dillingham is not always kept up, such
as faulty brakes, lights that don’t work,
clutches that slip, horns that don!t
toot, etc*, all; nM to the dangers in
volved and an awareness of eventualities
must ever be in the mind of uhose behind
any motorized vehicle*,
A seasonal,but great danger, is the
loaded gravel truck, a menacing contender
for the right-cf-way* These trucks,
controled by capable, efficient drivers,
are unwieldly on the hills so it is
wise for the scooter drivers and touring
car drivers to stop and let them pass,,
Such a courtesy might take a few minutes
of your time in your noon-day scurry to
the gravel-pit or rush to town; but that
should be preferred to your NOT GETTING
THERE A® ALLt
(Editor’s Notes My two scocter
crowd daughters came in with tears in
their eyes because they have been for
bidden to drive their scooters in town
any more* So says the lawl This is
a wise decisien by the authorities be
cause an accident could not otherwise
have been averted. As they sit here de
jectedly one sighs, M0h, we can’t drive
uptil wo’re SIN.IIlEN# 0 *«if we h*d only
known that $3CO egoi'*
"Nice girls don’t hold a young man’s
hand*"
i! Correction. Nice girls have
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