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/ 1 J ' i 4 Thursday, Angmt 6, 1958 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE PATROLMAN PREACHES SAFETY AND SANITY ON STATE HIGHWAYS \ (From Greenwood Index-Journal) "He can make you laugh and he can almost make you cry, and if you will just listen to him he might save your life. That’s Sgt. C. H. Bailey, pleading for safe and sane driving on the highways of South Carolina. The chubby patrolman has been trav eling this state for the past six years preaching the gospel of com mon sense, courtesy and considera tion as the best means of reducing the carnage on the traffic arteries. He has investigated 57 fatal ac cidents as a highway patrolman, and every time he helped lift a shattered body from the twisted wreckage he became more deter mined that something could be done to cut down the number of tragedies. The incident that put him out preaching the gospel, however, oc curred near Hartsville 15 years ago. There was a wreck and he was called. A woman had been fatally injured, the chaffeur was uncon scious and a little boy hurt He went to the hospital in the ambu lance with the woman, sending the others in cars. . When they carried the woman in the little boy stood and watched, and in a few minutes she died. When Sergeant Bailey came out of the hospital room, the little boy came up to him and asked, “What did you do with my mama?” ^ When the going gets rough and he begins to think, “What’s the use?” that question comes back to him and he keeps going. Sergeant Bailey told the Green wood Rotarians yesterday that he hopes a little boy never comes up to any of tljem with that question. He addressed the club in its regu- ular Tuesday session, being intro duced by Henry McKinney, chair man of the program committee. Three out of ten such accidents are fatal, he said, in nine out of ten cases somebody goes to the hospital, and in ten out of ten cases the collisions are serious, because they occur head-on. Another common violation is failure to dim lights. He urged that the other driver not turn back on bright, since that leaves two blind drivers instead of one. Failure to stop for stop signs and following too closely are two other common violations. He point ed out that at 40 miles per hour the car behind travels 44 feet before the driver can even get his foot on the brakes and another 60 feet af ter the brakes are applied. At 70 miles per hour it takes the length of a football field in which to stop the car after the signal is given by the car in front. Speeding is another major cause of highway tragedies, he said. Ser sons. He goes into a to-^n and talks to the high school in the morning, for instance, a civic club at one o’clock, the grammar school j just before the children are let out for the day and sometimes anoth er club at night. He has made 27 trips to the H-bomb plant, speaking 35 times. Since July 8 he has driven 3,375 miles into every part of the state and he is allowed now to accept some out of state invitations. Sergeant Bailey is in the division of public relations and safety edu cation. Jessie Rutledge, director of that division, books Bailey for talks. Any club or organization wanting a good down to earth talk on highway safety can obtain his services by writing Mr. Rutledge at that division at the Highway Department in Columbia. geant Bailey would not say what is •oi a proper speed, but he does know that people have more speed in their cars than they are capable of handling. The basis of traffic accidents is people who don’t know and don’t care, he says. ‘There were only two cars in Kansas City in 1904,” he related. “And you guessed it. They got to gether.” “When cars crash bodies give,” Sergeant Bailey emphasizes. His whole gospel is that the damage is to people in pain, misery and death.” Sergeant Bailey — he received this third stripe June 15—was born in Union, but his parents moved to Columbia when he was three months old. He lives there now, but has lived in the Pee Dee section a good bit since joining the patrol 16 years ago. He started radio pro grams in Florence and Sumter on safety more than a decade ago and was put on full time about six years ago. He averages from nine to 12 speeches a week, sometimes mak ing as many as 20 and in one three- year period in which he kept a rec ord he made 561 talks to practically every type of organization in South Carolina, addressing 127,616 per EDITORIAL COMMENT WHAT HAS IT ACCOMPLISHED? President Eisenhower has voiced the “solemn gratitude” of the Unit ed States to those fighting men in Korea who have laid down their lives, who have suffered long im prisonment, or who have under gone all the cruel hardships of a war fought to "keep freedom alive upon the earth.” We join him in that gratitude. We join him too, in the faith that their sacrifices have contributed mightily to human freedom. They have not fought in vain. This is the assurance which many a front-line soldier needs above all else. He knows how un easy is the present truce. He knows that this very fact means there can be no sudden withdrawal of Ameri can troops from divided Korea. He knows that a measure of continu ing sacrifice may still be demand ed of him. But what is he to think if those who wait for him at home tell him that it is all a mistake—the war, the truce, everything—and that all his efforts have been worse, than wasted? What is he to think if the armistice is called a defeat, negoti ation is called appeasement, and his United Nations allies are called unscrupulous cowards? For his sake—and for the sake of all those bewildered by the Korean picture—we would, list these con crete accomplishments of the war: 1. Aggression has been beaten back to its original starting point. 2. Communism has had,its first lesson that the free world will not stand for armed aggression. 3. The free world has had its first experience in uniting, to a de gree, in an international police ac tion under the aegis of the UN. 4. A determined enemy, after suffering enormous losses and cas ualties probably 10 times those of the UN has had to abandon its original purpose and accept the fact of miltary stalemate. 5. Though concessions were made by both sides in the long-drawn- out truce negotiations, the Com munists were forced to give way on the crucial moral issue of vol untary repatriation of prisoners. 6. Though the war was never fought by the UN for “real estate” but for a principle, such territorial advantage as there now is lies on the side of the Republic of Korea, which possesses 1,500 sqcare miles more than it did at the outbreak of the war. These and other accomplish ments, tangible and intangible, are causes for quiet satisfaction rather than jubilation. The dangers that still threaten, the problems that still loom, leave few people in a fool’s paradise of complacency. But that in itself is a measure of the long way we have come since Korea first shocked the free world to greater alertness. The fighting men in Korea have done their part. It is up to all of us to see that the truce they have won with their sacrifices is used to build the defenses of freedom high er and to explore to the full the constructive possibilities of peace— The Christian Science Monitor. Woodward Completes Basic Training Pvt. James P. Woodward, son of Mrs. Ben F. Woodward, Sr., of this city, completed basic training re cently' at the Medical Replacement Center ?t Camp Piclcett, Va. ' At MRTC, the Army’s basic training school for medical enlisted men he has received eight weeks of basic infantry training and eight weeks of medical training. Say—- “I SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE” Su v scriba To Tho Chroniclo The Paper Everybody Reads” Dr. W. W. Adams VETERINARIAN 614 Mosgrore Street Clinton. S. C. Phones: Office 958 Residence 991-W “DIE FOR ALL YOU ARE WORTH” Hugh L. Eichelberger * NEW YORK LIFE MAN ± * -m 32 Years Experience PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE INFORMATION FURNISHED FREE Member The National Association of Life Underwriter* SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE •The Paper Everybody Reads” OFFICE SUPPLIES Complete line, all the little items needed for the office CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Phone 74 CLINTON PUROL SERVICE STATION E. 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