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By C. M. SEAGRAVES. Safety Director 



Macon County Tarm Bureau's Secre- 

 tary, Clayton Rogers, is /;iven our hearty 

 congratulations. ■?"> years of car opera- 

 tion without an accident is somethin?.; to 

 sit up and blink about. "Just 3 simple 

 rules a.re the answer," says Mr. Rogers: 



I. Obey traffic laws aird hand signals. 



I. Avoid high speeds. 



3. Never attempt to pass another ve- 

 lide without ^n/'jitz/reJ clear distance 

 aheacL/Any /fnore records like this ? 



unprotected crpssiftgs, make tor many 

 night time collisions wherein the cars hit 

 the train. ^X'hose 



ove IS It ■ 



A ntw farm tractor is announced. 

 Safety features: ielj-slatWr and regular 

 "straight through " type muffler same as 

 on automobiles. 



No more broken arms and cracked 

 shins from cranking, no more head- 

 noiscs^nd dizziness from noise and ex, 

 haust fumes carrying back in the ov/t- 

 ator's face. Very nice going. • we y^ay ! 



Warning: Last year in August, 26 

 Illinois farmers or members of their fam- 

 ilies were killedJn--fafnVac<;uI?rrts. 1 he 

 causes and the fatalities: Liglumg (*>) : 

 Falls (3): Fires (3); BuUs (2); He.it 

 (2); Guns (2); HoMesf2) ; Building 

 Collapse (1) ; Cow (1 ) ; DogHJj: I^'ec- 

 tricity ( 1 ) ; Haying ( I ) ; Infection 

 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 

 !;ood time to have_jJie—hiTnace man or 

 the plumber come out and go over your 

 hfatrBg_Hant .... he has time now 

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

 inconiwweqccd "by doing without heat 

 'cuirm* uncertatrj-Aseathcr . . and vour 

 ccjuipmcnt will be irTTtp-ui^;' shape when 

 that tirst snappy day arrives. Tr~is,prob- 

 able, too, that you could get the same 

 work done somewhat clicaper now than 

 you could liuring the rush season 



There are few pieces of h.ousehold 

 ecjuipmcnt 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 u/c hopic is tlie 

 well maintamcd home. With home fa- 

 talities outBiimbewng highway deaths 

 last year, it seems that this itcin could 

 •ccive more attention than it uets. 



. From New- Jersey In the/face of a 

 starthng increase in death /rom alcohol 

 accidents. .Motor Vehicle/Commissioner 

 Arthur\W. Magee to^y appealed to 

 police dqjartments- to exercise , closer 

 watch over road houses and cafes, .esp>ec- 

 ially during the /early morning/ hours. 

 The Commissioifler reports thitt up to 

 June 1, thirty-^ght persons were killed 

 and ^y) injured in accidents involving 

 drivers who had been drinking. Iiv'^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." 



Minne^sota recognizes the night driv- 

 ing hazard in a new law: Daylight speed 

 limit 60 M.P.H.; night law 50 



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MECHANICS WERE KEPT BUSY 



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

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

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



Query: Wouldn't reflector buttons 

 installed on the sides of railroad freight 

 cars give motorists a better chance to see 

 them ah a safe distance.-' Good roads, 

 long trains, dark surfaced freight cars. 



Safety Lane:xCars arc- safer, roads 

 are safer, but the rilimber of tratfic deaths 

 continues to increase. The results ol 

 the lAA testing lane, (see picture) 

 which goes about the state giving free 

 safety tests to rural motorists, show that 

 last year out of each 100 cars tested, 6^ 

 were rejected. So far this, season only 

 53 cars out of each 100 are denied the 

 safety sticker. • 



Despite this favorable trend, fa^al ac- 

 cidents on rural Styite highways for the 

 first five months^ /'of the year increased, 

 from 181 in 1^36 tq 25-J in 1937 or 

 40.09f, and/on rural county or town- 

 ship roads, from 26 to 54 or 107.7<7f. 

 Nice quiet places these country roacis! 



Infirmary Notes 



L.ist week in Illinois rural .iccidents 

 occurred when: a hay fork fell on the 

 head of a LaSalle County farmer; 



A Macoupin Countv farmer shed otf 

 the end of a' finger in a Iced grinder. 



A bull bruised and battered a young 

 man in Fffrngham County. His life wa.s 

 probably saved when he managed to 

 roll under a nearbv fence: 



A young man suffered a fractured shin 

 bone when a tractor kicked a tew 



days earlier the young man had seen hl^ 

 father receive a broken Lg while crank 

 ing the same tractor in the same manner 



If. as has been said, prevention is 

 the daughter of intelligence, some ot us 

 must have skipped the fifth grade 



AUGUST, 1-937 



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