Lunday Houchins has been placed under a $3,000 bond pending hearing in Recorder’s Court in connection with the death of 4-year-old Willie Neal Bateman a few days ago. There has been no intimation come out that Houchins is at all to blame, but it does occur to many thinking me and women that the number of fatalities in this community the past year calls for greater care, both upon the part of drivers and non-drivers. Parents must realize that if they permit their children to play on the streets, that it will only be a matter of time until they are brought home dead or injured.
Our entire community comes nigh being guilty of criminality in not providing sidewalks along our paved streets where motor and foot traffic is heavy. So, where the public collectively has failed to provide safety, the individual must use an extra degree of care to offset public neglect. It has been a serious question in my mind how an unincorporated community like ours can ever manage its public affairs. The automobile and the auto-truck calls for the systemizing of traffic and a public conversant with traffic rules.
From the front page of the Tri-City Daily Gazette, Leaksville, N.C., Sept. 27, 1924
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