LIGHTING-UP TIMES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 47, 23 August 1930, Page 15

LIGHTING-UP TIMES

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Oiic sometimes complains of the tendency in country towns to provide silent policemen and other appurtenances for the. direction of traffic where traffic, if left alone, would very much better tako care of itself. Most of these ideas are derived from America, and a groat many of them are American discards. Generally they originate in a city of some dimensions, and arc at once copied by lesser places. The i:ity soon finds them a nuisance, but wo" have heard all about them by that time, and adopt them unhesitatingly. This practice, it is good to learn, however, is not peculiar to us; and the 'Americans suffer from it themselves, witness the following in the- "New .York Times": "Regulation would seem to presuppose something to regulate, but things are not always what they seem. Many a. small town in these partly united States, for instance, has everything to be desired for the achievement of traffic regulation except the traffic. But that does not keep some towns from achieving regulation anyhow. Local pride insists upon it. Motorcycle policemen, red-and-grecn lights, and city speed limits are officialJMestablished; especially red and gifeen lights. More than anything else, they announce progress—for the town, if not for passing automobiles." The jibe at "partly united" States is an illusion to the chaotic state of affairs in regard to regulating motor traffic throughout the country, each State going a road of its own and paying little attention to what its brother across' the border is doing.. Actually, America is lucky to have even so much as a universal rnje of the road.