Community civics and rural life . et; or answers the inquiries of a now and then he arrests a driver, it is because the latter disregards the rights orwelfare of others. In small or thinlysettled communitiesthere may Laws asbe no traf- signals offie police- co6Perationman; but there maybe signs at the inter-section of highways toguide travelers, orwarnings such as D angerou s Curve !or School: DriveSlowly! Such signsare usually posted bystate or local author-ities in accordance withlaw. And even wherethere are no signs, thelaws themselves aresupposed to regulate traffic. Some one h
Community civics and rural life . et; or answers the inquiries of a now and then he arrests a driver, it is because the latter disregards the rights orwelfare of others. In small or thinlysettled communitiesthere may Laws asbe no traf- signals offie police- co6Perationman; but there maybe signs at the inter-section of highways toguide travelers, orwarnings such as D angerou s Curve !or School: DriveSlowly! Such signsare usually posted bystate or local author-ities in accordance withlaw. And even wherethere are no signs, thelaws themselves aresupposed to regulate traffic. Some one has compared the lawsin our country to the signals given to a football team by thequarterback. These signals are agreed upon in advance by theteam, and tell each player not only what he himself, but alsowhat every other player, is to do, and thus team work is se-cured. And so our laws are said to be signals of cooperation,just as much as the sign Drive Slowly, or as when the trafficpoliceman holds up his hand or blows his © Underwood and Underwood. The Signal for Cooperation in aCity Street (Traffic Policeman.) 46 COMMUNITY CIVICS Laws, however, are more than signals of cooperation;they are also rules by which cooperation is secured— rulesL of the game. Wherever people are dependent rules of upon one another and work together there must the game ^e rujeg Q£ con(juct. One kind of rules consists of what we call etiquette or good manners. We havedoubtless all observed how much better an .athletic contestmoves along, or even the ordinary sports of the playground,
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