Tip 1: Make the street car stop before you step on
or off--the car can wait. But step lively!
Tip 2: Face forward in getting off. Hold the grip
iron with your left hand--it's a friend in need.
Left foot to the step, right foot to the ground,
eyes front!
Tip 3: Before leaving the car, look both ways for
automobiles, wagons, and motor cycles.
Tip 4: In passing behind a car, first peek around
to see what's coming. When carrying an umbrella,
peek around that, too.
Tip 5: Before you hitch on or steal rides on
street cars, automobiles, or wagons, better make
your will.
Tip 6: Keep wide awake in getting on and off cars
and in crossing streets. Walk fast, _but don't
run_. Use all the sense you have; you're likely to
need it and to need it quick!
"Those six tips are not guess work either, Uncle Jack. They're boiled
down from weeks of street scouting by every boy and girl in our
patrol."
"Those are good, sensible tips," said his uncle. "What use are you going
to make of them?"
"Well, by the time vacation's over, we will have a special School Safety
Patrol drilled and ready to get down to business on this particular work
among the youngsters--to get them out of the habit of hitching on, and
that sort of thing. Our idea is to begin with the smaller school
children; there have been a good many bad accidents to them, you see,
going to and from school. Most of them have to cross the tracks; it's
altogether too easy for them to get confused and run down by a street
car or engine or auto."
"That's right, Bob. How are you going to stop it?"
"Why, each Scout in the School Patrol takes charge of the school
children in his block for one month. It's his job to get them together
at a convenient corner in the morning, then herd them across the tracks
and through the crowded streets to school; to do the same thing on their
way home; and to keep an eye on their games during recess, reporting any
risky condition to their teachers. We've planned it so this team work
will not only keep the youngsters from being run over and all that, but
will also be training them to take care of themselves and keep out of
danger just like any Safety Scout. How does the idea strike you?"
"Fine! It's a good, practical plan! Makes me wish I were a boy again
myself. Hello, here we are--out we go!"
"Why, where are we?"
"I'll soon show you." Uncle Jack led the way to the elevator and they
shot up, up, clear to the roof.
"Hungry?" he asked, as a white-clad waiter showed them to a table. He
enjoyed the surprise of Bob and Betty; they had never had luncheon
downtown before. Mr. Dalton's hard-earned wages left no room for such
celebrations as this. And a roof garden--! No wonder it seemed very
strange and very grand to the Dalton twins.
They must have spent a good half-hour ordering that meal: it was fun to
study the big bill of fare and pick out delicious things which they
"never had at home." Uncle Jack seemed to find it just as much fun as
they did, and he understood pretty well how they felt as they ate and
ate, while they gazed out on the roofs of the city spread out below
them. It wasn't so _very_ many years, you see, since he had been a
youngster himself!
_Plant the Safety First idea and watch it grow._
--SURE POP
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