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By C. M. SEAGRAVES. Safety Director 



Macon County Farm Bureau's Secre- 

 tary, Clayton Rogers, is given our hearty 

 congratulations. 25 years of car opera- 

 tion without an accident is something to 

 sit up and blink about. "Just 3 simple 

 rules are the answer," says Mr. Rogers;.. 



1. Obey traffic laws and hand signals. 



2. Avoid high speeds. 



3. Never attempt to pass another ve- 

 hicle without an assured clear distance 

 ahead. Any more records like this.' 



A new farm tractor is announced. 

 Safety features: self-starter and regular 

 "straight through" type muffler same as 

 on automobiles. 



No more broken arms and cracked 

 shins from cranking, no more head- 

 noises and dizziness from noise and ex- 

 haust fumes carrying back in the oper- 

 ator's face. Very nice going, we say! 



From New Jersey "In the face of a 

 startling increase in death from alcohol 

 accidents, Motor Vehicle Commissioner 

 Arthur W. Magee today appealed to 

 police departments to exercise closer 

 watch over road houses and cafes, esfsec- 

 ially during the early morning hours. 

 The Commissioner reports that up to 

 June 1, thirty-eight persons were killed 

 and 629 injured in accidents involving 

 drivers who had been drinking. In the 

 corresponding period of last year the 

 fatalities numbered. but seven." And 

 we here in Illinois know exactly what 

 the Commissioner is talking about. 



So does one of the world's leading 

 whisky makers who is paying for full 

 page ads to announce "We who make 

 whisky say: Drinking and Driving do 

 not mix." 



Minnesota recognizes the night driv- 

 ing hazard in a new law: Daylight sp>eed 

 limit — 60 M.P.H.; night law — 50 

 M.P.H. 



Query: Wouldn't reflector buttons 

 installed on the sides of railroad freight 

 cars give motorists a better chance to see 

 them at a safe distance .-* Good roads, 

 long trains, dark surfaced freight careT 



AUGUST. 1937 W 



unprotected crossings, make for many 

 night time collisions wherein the cars hit 

 the train. Whose move is it.' 



Warning: Last year in August, 26 

 Illinois farmers or members of their fam- 

 ilies were killed in farm accidents. The 

 causes and the fatalities: Lighting (3) ; 

 Falls (3) ; Fires (3) ; Bulls (2) ; Heat 

 (2) ; Guns (2) ; Horses (2) ; Building 

 Collapse (1) ; Cow (1) ; Dog (1) ; Elec- 

 tricity (1) ; Haying (1) ; Infection (1) ; 

 Miscellaneous (1). 



And the Basement is CooL Too 



It's a strange time to think of the 

 furnace and for that very reason it is a 

 good time to have the furnace man or 

 the plumber come out and go over your 

 heating plant .... He has time now 

 to do a leisurely job .... you are not 

 inconvenienced by doing without heat 

 during uncertain weather .... and your 

 equipment will be in tip-top shape when 

 that first snappy day arrives. It is prob- 

 able, too, that you could get the same 

 work done somewhat cheaper now than 

 you could during the rush season. 



There are few pieces of household 

 equipment so neglected as the heating 

 plant. For safety, economy, and effi- 

 ciency, chimneys must be kept clean, 

 grates, boilers, and radiators in proper 

 working order. The safe home is the 

 well maintained home. With home fa- 

 talities outnumbering highway deaths 

 last year, it seems that this item could 

 well receive more attention than it gets. 



MECHANICS WERE KEPT BUSY 'l.> -..''- 



— repairing cars rejected in the lAA Safety Lane tests at Petersburg, Menard county. 

 July 10. Woodrow Satorius, lAA, and lames Eilers. Harold Rogers. Henry Tebrugge and 

 Howard Pillsbury, Menard County Skilled Drivers, tested more than 300 autos. 



Safety Lane: Cars are safer, roads 

 are safer, but the number of traffic deaths 

 continues to increase. The results of 

 the lAA testing lane, (see picture) 

 which goes about the state giving free 

 safety tests to foral motorists, show that 

 last year out of each^ 100 cars tested, 67 

 were rejected. So far this season only 

 53 cars out of each 100 are denied the 

 safety sticker. 



Despite this favorable trend, fatal ac- 

 cidents on ■ rural State highways for the 

 first five months of the year increased 

 from 181 in 1936 to 254 in 1937 or 

 40.0%, and on rural county or town- 

 ship roads, from 26 to 54 or 107.7%, 

 Nice quiet places these country roads! 



Infirmary Notes 



Last week in Illinois rural accidents 

 occurred when: a hay fork fell on the 

 head of a LaSalle County farmer; 



A Macoupin County farmer sliced off 

 the end of a finger ip a feed grinder; 



A bull bruised and battered a young 

 man in Effingham County. His life was 

 probably saved when he managed to 

 roll under a nearby fence; 



A young man suffered a fractured shin 

 bone when a tractor kicked .... a few 

 days^-earlier the young man had seen his 

 father receive a broken leg while crank- 

 ihg the same tractor in the same manner. 



If, as has been said, prevention is 

 .the daughter of intelligence, some of us 

 must have skipped the fifth grade. 



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