Tip 5: Before you hitch on or steal rides on street cars, automobiles, or wagons, better make your will.
Tip 6: Keep wide awake in getting on and off cars and in crossing streets. Walk fast, but don't run. Use all the sense you have; you're likely to need it and to need it quick!
"Those six tips are not guess work either, Uncle Jack. They're boiled down from weeks of street scouting by every boy and girl in our patrol."
"Those are good, sensible tips," said his uncle. "What use are you going to make of them?"
"Well, by the time vacation's over, we will have a special School Safety Patrol drilled and ready to get down to business on this particular work among the youngsters—to get them out of the habit of hitching on, and that sort of thing. Our idea is to begin with the smaller school children; there have been a good many bad accidents to them, you see, going to and from school. Most of them have to cross the tracks; it's altogether too easy for them to get confused and run down by a street car or engine or auto."
"That's right, Bob. How are you going to stop it?"
"Why, each Scout in the School Patrol takes charge of the school children in his block for one month. It's his job to get them together at a convenient corner in the morning, then herd them across the tracks and through the crowded streets to school; to do the same thing on their way home; and to keep an eye on their games during recess, reporting any risky condition to their teachers. We've planned it so this team work will not only keep the youngsters from being run over and all that, but will also be training them to take care of themselves and keep out of danger just like any Safety Scout. How does the idea strike you?"
"Fine! It's a good, practical plan! Makes me wish I were a boy again myself. Hello, here we are—out we go!"
"I'll soon show you." Uncle Jack led the way to the elevator and they shot up, up, clear to the roof.