“JAY WALKERS”
THE VOICE IN THE LONDON STREETS (From a Special Correspondent) (By Air Mail); London, Aug. 20. A young typist dressed in white walked briskly down a London Street one morning this week. She crossed the road. Suddenly a voice, apparently from (Ue skies, reverberated across the street:“Will the young lady in white please watch the traffic lights?” The girl, blonde and pretty, turned in her tracks and scampered to the kerb, and another day in the Metropolitan police campaign to reduce the pedestrian traffic toil had got off to a flying start. Police announcers seated in curs carrying amplifiers seem to have the most amusing jobs in London. Politely but firmly, sometimes with just the right dash of irony, they lie in wait to shock the careless pedestrian into a proper regard for his own safety. And the onlooker seeing the victim covered with surprise, shame, and embarrassment, not only enjoys the joke but learns the safety lesson without knowing it.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12133, 22 September 1936, Page 3
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