Looking Back

100 years ago

Dec. 4, 1914

In these days of freak legislation, fanatical laws and attempts to regulate habits and personal affairs by legal rulers, it is refreshing to come across a new idea in city ordinances which, hurting no one, sets as a means of serving lives and reducing the number of accidents.

Portland, Ore. is the city which is to be complimented upon writing into its code of law which has made the place unique in one respect. There are 300,000 people in Portland and there are countless automobiles. Yet in the last nine months there has not been one person injured, much less kil...