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SAFETY FIRST IN
NEW YORK
IMMENSE CAMPAIGN
SUCCESSFUL
WONDERS WORKED BY SPECIAL
POLICY OF EDUCATION
(By A Special Correspondent)
[The following artide showing what has been accomplished in a week hence Italy will have got Mr. Oliver Myers, who led the
says that, a New York in the way of reducing traffic accidents is particularly in all she can afford to pay for, expedition,
Armant would be 'teresting, in view of the local Safety First campaign starting at and the only question will be though whether the attack can be a
line of fire" in the end of this month.] successful within a reasonable the event of military operations time. It will be noticed that around the Suez Canal, no obstar,
the
all the delays have been in cle has been put in the expect favour of Italy, who cannot tion's way by the British authorit complain, and as a matter offies. fact has very cleverly elected to
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New-York, where in the city. Gigantic, of the biggest and most There are giant pictures of a TEW YORK is in the middle glaring posters block your view.
child' Esuccessful campaign against policeman, holding a
death on the road which has body in his arms, and point- Above ing accusingly ahead. yet been waged by any city. make the most of the position MR. CHURCHILL STILL PAINTS by remaining within the
A year ago officials of the them, the words: Stop This
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Mr. Winston Churchill main: Traffic Safety Bureau of the Killing !!!" Baron Aloisi argue each point attains his interest in art in the Police Department decided that motorist, also holding the body midst of political preoccupations even as a palliative, tightening of a child. "What Have I
Hong Kong, Thuraday, Nov. 7. 1535 length.
Your Daily Smile!
An air
booklets on road safety.
At every important crossing Education Tried
were hung notices, screaming: Lieutenant Eckert, head of "5,860 People Killed and In
policy. Instead of compulsion the Lights Similar he would try education.
shout the figures of jay-
But that is not the whole of He contributed a picture of his of the regulations for drivers Done? is the text the tragi-comedy. In spite of country seat. Chartwell Manor, tand the imposition of physical More than 250,000 posters the furious attacks on England the exhibition of paintings of barriers to prevent pedestrians were printed and erected. Great " The Hustings made by the Italian press to country seats and manor houses, walking to suicide were useless illuminated sky-signs glowed. work up a martial spirit which which was held at the Leicester: Admittedly the city's huge over Times Square and other would come in handy in case of Galleries last month.
floating population, flooding the centres of population. With the general election a threat of war, Signor Musso- Another notable painting in the confined streets twice a day ship, with a message spelt in little more than a week ahead lini relies even now the exhibition is of Craven Hall. Ap-like burst dams, and its aver-letters of light beneath it, flew it would be unnatural.not to scrupulous legalism of our ple Tree Wick, in Yorkshire, by age burden of 1,200,000-motor by night. Empty stores on-
vehicles, made the problem Fifth Avenue and other main take an aviator's-or, as the old Government and the Fleet The Raymond Coron fashioned expression had it, a ships that carry the supplies Mr. Coxon, himself a York-one of the most thorny imagin-streets were filled with accident bird's-eye view of the fray, and the ammunition to his men shireman, states that local tradi-able. But even so the death pictures, propaganda posters, And as usual one is rather pass by a powerful feet which tion claims that Craven Hall was rate was fantastic. startled by the contrast be keeps the course open to them the original home of Dick Whit- tween our respect for the because we are not at war with tington. "majesty of the people." and their country. One need not It is a small and simple place the undignified process of con in any way disparage the for a country seat, but has a fine the Bureau, decided to reverse ed Every Year Crossing sulting the omnipotent deity. efficiency of the Italian navy.minstrels gallery- The enormous increase in the For such operations it is neces-
His campaign was launched casualties between light number of electors has made it sary to have.complete and con-1
with all the clamour of modern impossible to continue the old tinuous command of the sea.!
Radio Recruited publicity. Newspaper adver methods of direct and personal which is impossible in face of
tising, posters, skysigns, sky- Radio was recruited. Valun- bribery either in cash or kind: any serious menace. A troop-
Not So Big!
writing took the New York teer police gave over. 250 talks Aunt Hannah Ead. never seen the the up-to-date method is by ship crammed with thousands
safety measures. · Tex promising to give to all and of men could be sunk with a sea until her nephew invited her to drivers and pedestrians by the on
spend a month at his seaside home. scruff of the neck and made thousand public addresses, sundry magtüificent rewards out single shell.
them stare at the shambles of covering an audience of 35,000,- of the public purse. But only Moreover there is the Suez Sbe accepted the invitation.
As soon as she arrived, her nephew the road. Radio talks, articles 1000, were delivered by other the very raw electors are now Canal, governed by an inter-took her to see the boundless and even sermons pointed the officers. a-days able to take the proffer-national treaty to which he with its white foam and crashing
moral.
Hundreds of clergymen add-~ ed paradise at face value. It appeals, while he is himself breakers and fresh, salt-laden winds.
The results were surprising-ed safety exhortations to their "There!" he said. "There, Amort is much more effective to appeal guilty of having broken at Hannah, is the Atlantic. What do Within six months death and sermons. Industry and trade
the passions and the least three treaties, to count
injury figures were reduced by joined in. Insurance companies imagination, and try to start only those directly made with you think of it
“Humph!” said Aunt Hannak. "thousands. "The most danger printed millions of booklets and into activity the herd instinct" Ethiopia. Could paradox go thought it was larger."
ous city in America" had be distributed them from door to which leads one man to vote further? because he hears that a friend Yes. Italy has accepted the "All eggs are, laid on our farm," come the safest of all United door Advertising firms gave Cinema companies is going to vote in the same invitation to the Naval Confer-ays an advertisement. This is much States cities of more than big sites:
made. safety fires which were ence, and appointed delegates. better than having old shells refilled. 500,000 population.
The campaign was intended shown as news reels to 10,000,- In this art there is no doubt The principal item for which
to last six months. Because of 1000 people. that Mr. Lloyd George is like a Italy argued at the last Con- A pessimist was holding forth on its success it was extended Posters and booklets were professional among amateurs. ference was the reduction of the shortcomings of the rising gen-Now, without opposition, it has translated into Italian, Chinese. There is enough substance in the British Fleet, and the ex-eration “Where to-day, he de- become a permanent part of German, Russian,
to
way.
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his picture of Sir Samuel Hoare pansion of the Italian quota to manded, "an you find the youngster and Mr. Eden as innocents equal that of France. It is a who will just go on smiling when New York's life.
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the persons of Signor Mussolini been, as Lord Salisbury once! and M. Laval, to turn many said, "banished to Mars?** votes, if only the voters could believe for one moment that Mr. Lloyd George himself would
YESTERDAY'S CARTOON
be able to make the same EXPLANATION OF Journey with greater security. Disraeli said "never retract. never explain, never apologise:"| and Mr. Lloyd George, did not remind his audience that if the Covenant has proved to have the word "may" too often, and "must" too seldom, he was him-
THE DODO
self Prime Minister when the THE Dodo or Simpleton Bird treaty was signed, and it was) Todo o Sopkoon larges he himself who made such exthan a turkey and was particularly tensive concessions to President Wilson on the one hand and M. plentiful on the islands of Mauritius Clemenceau on the other, that and Reunion. It was unable to fly. due to atrophied wings, and could the road was made easy for any on but slowly. The birds were determined adventurer to way- lay the unprotected traveller so abundant that people became with every advantage on the satiated with their flesh, and be side of the bandits.
zan to kill them wantonly. The dodoes used to swallow pebbles and | stones. These stones, greatly sought for as knife sharpeners,
There can be no doubt that the League system is terribly cumbrous. The theory of economic sanctions is that they contributed to their complete ex- are a substitute for war, and termination by sailors The dodo not, a preliminary to the mill has been extinct since 1681.
tary sanctions that are very
much like war itself. The im- position should therefore be
rapid and certain. If there is CONFERENCE IN
any doubt that they will bel imposed the fear does not l deter Mr. Lloyd George can certainly point to the fact that the League did not prevent the bombing of Ethiopian villages and the occupation of outlying. provinces, and that there are acts of war. Moreover it was only after a week had elap that the Committee appoin for the purpose was able certify that an act of agg sion had been committed the meantime of cou tralised a Governme Farcist had been able Call fralian, balances
CANTON
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Officials
Rumanian
and a dozen other languages, and poured into the polyglot
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