Traffic Officers

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7105, 14 March 1933, Page 4

Traffic Officers

THE HELPFUL ATTITUDE. Out of tbo vast effort in educating the motoring public in tho ways of safety, it is natural, that some methods will not merit commendation. Such arc those which rear the wreckage of motor-cars on top of marble shafts located beside tho well-travelled highway where ail the world may see, says the National Automobile Club of America in a note to its members. "One of the newest object lessons of this character consists of the traditional death’s head with a, mechanical arm moving across as a, symbolic field of crosses. This monster is illuminated at night. "There are few traffic administrators left who believe that fear is an effective medium in teaching traffic safely. Educators generally have accepted that conclusion, in witness whereof bodily punishment has passed in the modern school. The traffic officer who doubts that he can accomplish, moro by being kindly, courteous, and helpful to motorists than by establishing a reputation for being hard and harsh is the rare exception. He becomes rarer as his attitude becomes known to his superiors. They know that a few hundred policemen cannot intimidate a hundred thousand or more motorists.”