March 8, 1929 WILMF-TTE LIFE 45 SAFEn LESSONS LEGAL IN SCHOOLS OF 7 STATES ·Laws Passed Requiring Teaching on This Subject-Club Poster Wams . Children Seven states have thus far passed laws requiring that safety or traffic regulations be taught in the public s~hools, reports the accident preventiOn department of the Chicago Motor club. In New Jersey each teacher must devote thirty minutes every two weeks to instruction on ways and means of preventing and avoiding accidents. The law requires the commissioner of education to publish a booklet on accident prevention and to place it at the disposal of teachers. In North Carolina each teacher is require~ to bring to the attention of the puptls once each week a digest of the traffic laws of that state. Ohio teachers must give thirty minutes' instruction on accident prevention each · month, and the same provision is found in Virginia statutes. Pennsytv·a nia has a law providing that training in "safety first" methods be given. In many states without laws on the subject of traffic safety education such instruction is a part of the curri~ulum. "You will never be · old enough to play in the street," is the warning on the. March safety poster is sued by the Chtcago Motor club to approximately 2~.~ school rooms in fifty-eight counties m northern Illinois and northern In?iana. The picture portrays several chii~ren at play. in the streets, while pas.smg. automobtles place them in 111 Immment peril. T~e letter to teachers, which accompanted each poster, pointed out the results obtained through motor club safety methods in the schools of Hammond, I!1d. In t~e school year of 1?26-2~ 111 that city, ten pupils were killed .111 automobile accidents. In the follo~mg year, during which school boys patrols were organized and the lessons portrayed in safety posters were ~arnestly stressed, only one child was ktlled by motor traffic. ~his experience, according to the accident prevention department of the motor club, clearly demonstrates that the methods. n?w employed are sue· cessful. A s!milar reduction, although not so dr~stlc, was noted by the departm~nt 111 .the number of children inJUred m Chicago in 1927 and 1928. 125 HORSEPOWER , , , 85 MILES PER HOUR A STRAIGHT EIGHT that knows noeoual This new engine 1s Pierce-Arrow to the heart and core. Its design is shared by no other automobile. Its performance is ap· proached by not another eight on the ·m arket. Designed by Pierce · Arrow, built by Pierce-Arrow, perfected by Pierce-Arrow, the lines of this engine were first laid down more .than two years ago. And development has gone steadily forward since. Meanwhile the Pierce-Arrow organiza· tion has undergone great expansion. New and bigger plans of operation were adopted -new resources added. But nothing was permitted to affect a single tradition of Pierce-Arrow manufacture. The new Pierce-Arrow Straight Eight could have been conceived and created only under such conditions as have always existed in the Pierce-Arrow plant- and nowhere else in all the automobile world. No other manufacturer commands equal Pierce · Arrow trained skill- none em· ploys the costly Pierce · Arrow hand· craftsmanship- without which the new Strai~ht Eight would scarcely have been possible. Nor are these assertions meant to be competitive or boastful. They are made with the sole idea of giving credit where it is due-to those of Pierce-Arrow whose genius and craftsmanship are responsible for the masterpiece that is present in the newest and finest of all Straight Eights. Auto Insurance Rates Are Slashed in tlie East Revisions downward of automobile theft and fire insurance rates are announced by the National Underwriters' Confcre~ce.. The new rate·s applv in the terntones of the Eastern Conference and the Southern Confercncl.' the ~ates fo~ the territvri~s of the \Ve;tern . nd Pacific Coast Confcrenc~s not havmg yet been determined. The rate revision applies mainly to pa·ssen~er automobiles. . Over all the ~~tts m the East arc a rcdudion of · per cent. for the.ft insurance and 15.4 per cent for fire msurance on private. car~, with a 25 per cent flat reduction 1 .11 the fire insuraPcc rates 011 commerctal automobiles. - . CHECK OIL PRESSURE . [t ts most important to keep a check o!1 the .oil pressure gauge. If the deyice fat.ls to register when the engine Is. runnmg at a car ·speed of 15 to 25 miles ~n hour, throw out the clutch and slightly accelerate the motor. If the gauge ~till fails. to act, it is a sign of trouble m the otling system and a check-up ·should be made at once. The !rouble is likely to be from clogging m the s!raine:, oil .feed tubes, pump or the p1pe within the cylinder block. Chicago Pierce- Arrow Sales Co. 2420--22 S. Michigan Ave. Tel. Michigan 2400 Benell Motor Co. 5714 Broadway Chicago