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Jenerson. We cannot expect him. to fill the chair, but We can expect his behavior to become it. Let no snob say^ it is no more than expected of a haberdasher—a railsplitter sat in that chair with dignity; and no man's business nor profession determines whether or not he is a gentleman.
We joked aside the wise-crack of the President about “too many Byrds in the Senate.” To those of us who think there are “too few" rather than “too many,” the President’s poor attempt at humor fell flat. We find our Senior Senator a conscientious statesman who is striving to serve our best interests and protect our State and nation. We place our hopes and faith in him, and we find no reason to see him placed in a position lacking the dignity and seriousness of purpose he has always shown.
164 School*age Children
Traffic Victims in 1949
“If our present rate of highway killing continues, our schools will see 200 empty seats before the session ends,” was the statement this week of Col. C. W. Woodson, Jr., as more than 600,000 Virginia school children settled down- far the 1950-51 grind.
Col. Woodson pointed out that 1949 saw 164 young people in Virginia of high school age an4 below die in traffic accidents and that the rate at which our 1950 deaths are soaring will undoubtedly raise this figure substantially unless every driver realizes that one of those empty seats might .yell belong to his child and acts accordingly.
Colonel Woodson continued in urging slower speeds and extreme caution in school zones, in the vicinities of playgrounds and along the routes used by children traveling to and from school. He stated also that, even at the conservative speed of 35 miles per hour, the average motorist requires 101 feet to stop his car after he has seen danger. This, said Col. Woodson, can be far too little when a child darts across the street or highway unexpectedly.
Calling attention to the fact that the last school session saw several children killed as they; were leaving school buses, Col.' Woodson said that almost invariably the driver of the fatal car claimed that he could not see the halted bus because other vehicles were stopped behind it. “If you see a string of cars stopped in the road,” he continued, “presume that they’rq stopped for a bus and
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