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Show tions were Bavcd without the slightest slight-est sacriflc one the part of the drivers, aside from the checking of the speed mania. Of the thousand who break the laws In this regard, there is not one, probably, who is Inspired by anything hut a mere love of speed. Thhre was no life at stake that speed cjnld saTe: there were many that speed conld and did take. It is to be hoped the same rigid enforcement en-forcement of sane motor driving will spread into every corner of the country. CHICAGO BANS SPEED. Chicago is getting ' good results from a drastic speed regulation for automobile drivers, put Into effect several days ago. Not one fatality and not a serious accident ocenred the first day of the new order, according ac-cording to reports from that dty. Considering the large number of cars In ns in a city of that size and the fact that from two to three to a dozen deaths In a day, with numerous lnjnrie'?. was the ordinary toll, the result shown under the r regime Is indeed remarkable. Many motorists who were heed-.-S9 of the warning issued by Morgan Mor-gan A. ColllnB, chief of police of Chicago, that they must slow down to 20 miles an hour or less or lie arrested, were taken into custody cus-tody and directed to drive to police stations and furnish lioniN. They were ordered into court next day. Observers, touring Chicago, carefully care-fully tested the average speed of automobiles. They placed it at twenty-throe miles o:i hour. A month eeo an idr::ti."al investigation showed the average speed was thirty miles an hour. Officials said the same rate might be applied to the days right up to the beginning of the anti-speed war. Seven' miles an hour was chopped off overnight, figures indicate, when motorists were given unmistakable to understand that if they drove too fast they would be arrested. It Is Chief Collins' opinion that when the speed rates is lowered, then too with the motor death rate le lowered. That Is why, he said, undetermined un-determined to bring down the speed rate below the maximum fixed by law, so that the death rate may not reflect a "dally slaughter" The chief, discussing the decrease in the speed with which motors passed through the streets, said he Lad observed how most motorists had slowed down. "If Just a warning and one day's rigid enforcement can accomplish this, then Chicago's streets again are comparatively safe, for the campaign cam-paign no longer Is a compaign it is a permanent fixture for Chicago. "The speed laws will be enforced from now on with ever Increasing vigor." TLe lives that have been saved In Chicago by the new speed regul, |