Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1920 — HAVE RULES AND OBEY THEM [ARTICLE]

HAVE RULES AND OBEY THEM

System That Will Do Away With a Tremendous Number of Avoidable Acidents. It is economical to have rules, and It is economy to obey them. A tremendous number of accidents result from the breaking of rules. Sometimes the rules are not laws, laid down in black and white and enforced by law, but they are rules, just the same. Many motor accidents come because of speeding, driving on the wrong side of the road, disobeying traffic regulations in the city streets. Many accidents by pedestrians occur because they don’t stay on the sidewalks and when they must cross the streets they don't do so at the crossings. Many fires start because cans of gasoline are stored In the linen closet, when we know it should not, according to the terms of our lease, be bought in large quantities, or kerosene is used carelessly about a fire, in spite of cautions from the fire department So it goes. Many of the ills of mankind result from a disobeying of rules. This attitude in adults is much like disobedience in ‘children—and the results are much the same, for punishment in some form is very likely to come.