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Those leaping, shifting, fugitive things called jaywalkers, who twist their way through traffic, will become an extinct species if the rules of the new traffic code just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield.
Rules outlawing jaywalking are odious because they clog the machinery of nature by meddling with the struggle for existence. Hereunto the human race has advanced in wheel-dodging by leaps and bounds. It seems before the new traffic code was adopted, that within another generation the citizen would as deftly sidestep an automobile as he now does a bill collector. But if the race is to be protected, presumably, by such laws, it no one is to be allowed to test his resourcefulness in the face of formidable mechanical foes, if, in a word, jaywalking is to become a lost, because illegal, art, agility in the human species is in danger of becoming a valueless and obsolete characteristic.
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