Instruction on traffic observance will be given by personal contact, by graphic and easily understandable Posters, by leaflets explaining: in simple language all traffic regulations, by lectures, by educational cinema, shows at schools and mass meetings. What the government wishes more than anything else is not only a knowledge of all rules but the desire follow them through the right kind of civiemindedness, It wants to set behind it the record it now holds for 80 few accidents in such haphazard and chaotic traMe for fewer and fewer accidents in controlled traffic.
Even a glance at traMe conditions in towns would be sufficient to understand why the Hsinking regime is so anxious to introduce better methods. Cars dash along at far too great a speed in cities where trate Ordinances are few and enforced in slipshod' manner. Ancient cars and buses with wheezy engines and rattle ing architecture, desperately in need of new brakes are usually driven by persons who take every chance there is possible on the roads. The cyclists it in and out among the cars and other vehicles on the streets some times a few inches only ahead of cer~ tain contact. Frequently they can be seen gail tearing along as hard as they can pedal on the wrong side of the street, And the pedestrians are no better. "They wait furtively on. the side when there is no traffic and then just as a car is coming along they Step plumb into its path, Or they Ret somewhere in the middle of the street and there rush forwards or backwards and then often halt directly in front of an oncoming vehicle.
What however is the most flagrant crime in trae is the way the motorists sweep past stationary trams and buses and one which is frequently responsible for broken limbs or even death, There again people getting off the trams or buses, when such perilous practices are permitted, should be taught that it is better to see what is coming before they step 0 confidenty into the path of the speeding motorcars, Eighty years ago Dairen was a iny fishing village in a district of long winding beaches covered with reeds. Po-day'it is a modern port with a Population moving quickly toward its half million and in its new state it is called upon all: the while to meet the trend of the times. To do this the city fathers have turned their attention to these various "days." But there is one which is erying aloud for notice. It is a day to end the hideous cacophony of the streets. Tt starts about five in the mommy anid con-Yinues in its fiendish din til the early hours of the next day.
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