Show THE AUTOMOBILE SCORCHER The automobile scorcher continues to pursue his rapid course up and down Brigham str street et h he COntInues s to be regardless of the rights of pedestrians and 00 drivers of h vehicles It If a word of friendly does not suffice to stop this practice then the arm or ef the law should Int intervene Dri Drivers vera vers of automobiles s have bave exactly the same rights as drivers of other vehicles neither more nor less A man does not becOme possessed of extraordinary Ue es because he sIts behInd the steer steering lug ing wheel of a machine capable of running thirty forty or fifty mU s an h hOu ur The Th t temptation to drive an ut l bile bUe at a raPid rate Is we must con confess conteas teas fess All but irresistible An automobile th that t Is tra traveling Ung at the rate maintained by th the ge horse seems to be crawling We would not restrict automobiles to the speed of the aver average average age road horse They are entitled to better speed because in capable hands they are f far t mOre easily handled than thana a horse An automobile moving at the rate of twenty nty mUes an hour can be stopped within a of less 15 than twenty feet teet A horse gOing at that rate cou d not be stopped in three thre times the distance named If there is now no ordinance regu th the sp ed or Of autOmobiles ut there should be one and th that t at th the earliest possible moment They should not be permitted to at the rate of mor more than fifteen and certainly not more than twenty miles S an hOur within the city limits And th the ordinance should also COntain a provisiOn r an 1 of automobile bU r as asto to their No one should De be permitted to drive an autom bUe who thoroughly demonstrate his fit fitness fitness ness to do so soIs S SIs Is it necessary for us to w wait lt until somebody is killed or seriously hUrt by byan byan an automobile before action is taken Would it not b be better to act now |