Show FAST PAST AND SAFE S A F EBy B By TO TOMMY DIY MILTON u t Carelessness kills not speed says sa the worlds world's fastest auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile driver What you ou and r I and and all aU the rest of ofus ofus ofus us who dr drive e automobiles trip up on onis onis onis is the idea that fast driving js is s dan dan- dan dangerous I US driving g L Lets Let's t get t this this down downin downin downin in our books and books and into our heads It isn't speed so much as ns reckless reckless- recklessness recklessness recklessness ness that kills When America Amelica the first nation that took to wheels real real- really really really ly learns how 19 learns drive drive learns the inside of driving well driving well we'll all aU know s an axiom that it is not necessarily n the fast driver but the selfish reck reck- reckless reckless less Jess or i ignorant nor nt driver that is a kilter killer Of course there is a limit to speed at t or miles an hour an any rac- rac racing racing rac racing ing driver can handle his car on a decent track even if he does docs have a out out low at or miles an hour horn horn-he's hes he's almost helpless But Im I'm writ writ- writing writing writing ing about ordinary street and road driving Our learly automobile kill kill- killings kill killings ings are absurd our automobile ac- ac accidents accidents ac accidents are inexcusable Five ears cars out Jut of evry eny hundred are in accident every year Drive a car twenty years ears say the casualty insurance men and youre you're bound to be hurt Ever Every day in the year ear clustered around two fifty-two graves in America bereaved men women and children gather and look do down upon the cas- cas caskets caskets cas caskets of two fifty-two Americans who have been een killed by some o of the automobiles in the toe land Dont Don't you rou get a thrill of pride over u the scientists who aho ho fight and conquer dise disease se You and I have cheered them while the they fought down the death rate of and croup from 21 per in 1910 to less les than 14 per in 1925 To see scarlet fever drop in its killing ver power from 12 per every cery year ear to less than 4 makes us of medical science wc Butr-wc But wc But wo auto auto- automobilists automobilists auto today are arc killing 15 out of every of our fellows And ly six years ears ago we were killing only 11 out of every Automobile killings have increased as much as 20 per cent in one year ear while our science of medicine has been striving to cut down death by disease in terms of small fractions While great safety safet first campaigns cam cam- campaigns campaigns have cut down the perils of accidents in factories and mines the killings on our highways have bave moretha more moretha moretha tha tripled in percentage The race racetracks racetracks racetracks tracks are safer than some of ou our streets Theres There's no coming on-coming traffic traffic traffic fic there I feel safer Roads and streets today arc are about as deadly as sawmills 1 s mines and factories Im lm an automobilist who wants to belong to the non-killers non So are you ou 4 The first thing to remember is that the man who keep his car in order is a potential killer Worn front tires render an auto auto- automo automobile automobile mo mobile ile as dangerous as a amad a mad dog outs outs Blow records show kill not only the driver but others Heres Here's a driver dri- dri dri driver ver yer with a loose steering wheel he helias has to whit it halfway around to get results That man man in that cur car is he deadly he ought to know s he-s dead dead- deadly deadly ead- ead ly The da day will come cone after we are fully ully e educated in driving when he will know it You and I who do not keep our brakes in order are arc killers Brains galore have been expended by automobile engineers engineers- to make our brakes safe Cars have been built in other days with brakes that were bound to become covered with grease rease and thus rendered useless but they are built huilt that way no longer Be He Careful of Your Brakes It is difficult of course to get under your car and adjust your our brakes Perhaps some automobile maker some da day will build a car in sucha such a away way that brakes can be adjusted through the Thor Hoor boards Until then hen the men who want to tode de erve being thrown into jail as are a are re le less killer must go to he pains of getting under his carnO carnu car carnu nu nO adjusting his brakes regardless rf f the tr trouble uble it costs There Ther is a rule regarding brakes set by engineers that you ought to know It is Your brakes ought to hold your car on an any hill hm your our car r carcan carcan can climb Graded hills ought not notto notto notto to be steeper than a rise of one foot in every sixteen feet of roadway but if there arc are steeper hills on your automobile routes you ou ought to test Your your brakes ra es on on n them What's What's more more buy buy a 11 car that that you youcan you youcan youcan can brake on the engine ine without hurting engine parts Automobile engineers s1 says s that most cars are made these days so that braking on the engine docs does no injury Con Con- Continue Continue Continue the ignition while youre you're oure en gine braking and uld throttle the en- en engine engine en engine gine ine as low as possible Automobile makers can help us to avoid accidents to some extent For instance How do you know that you have plenty of vision in your our car Thirty five degrees of vision is not enough Fort Forty five five degrees is right say aay the car builders Do ob- ob objects objects ob objects such an pedestrians or other othet cars turn up unexpectedly on your right or 01 left so that you ou frequently have trouble in stopping your YOul car in time to avoid accident If so look over your r ur car there may be a post or the edge of a door that is serving you as blinders serve a horse No Noone Noone one knows how mall many thousands thousands thousand oo of persons have been killed killed because because car drivers were unconsciously partially blinded Car makers everywhere where to- to today today to today day arc are trying to workout work out forty five forty degree vision for or us Learn to know a sign sign of danger on the road when you see sec one In order to do this you ou must use your brains There is an inside o of driving just justa justas justas a as there is an inside of baseball There is a low down of the road that ever everyone one ought to know Heres Here's a fellow fetlow witha vitha with a spotlight on his car It isn't on the left side of the car but in the middle or perhaps even on the right side where he can easily reach it with his right hand It would be better to arrest this man mannow mannow mannow now than to arrest him after he has killed someone His spotlight at night actually invites on-coming on traffie traffic traffie fie fic to hit him Heres Here's another this killer killer this over over- overloaded overloaded overloaded loaded truck You thing a speed ma- ma maniac maniac ma maniac doing sixty miles an hour is dangerous Inside iving dr-iving driving know know- knowledge knowledge ledge shows that the speed maniac is harmless compared with this slow lumbering overloaded o truck In In the first place this truck is practically brakeless It was made to carr carry a certain weight Its brakes were made to handle a certain load An overweight of half a ton renders the brakes practically useless A driver with useless cle s brakes brales is like a man in a crowd with a bomb in his pocket What's more this great truck I especially if the drive driver sticks to the middle of the road is a death trap It forces every car that I comes up from behind to break the la by g going tA the left and coming f facing cin o co ning- ning traffic traffic 1 I IThe The fellow fetlow who passes you OU reck reck- r recklessly recklessly Ck 1 lessly from behind is a n killer lie He gets ets out of or line into the middle of the road lie He makes a bet with him him- himself himself I self that if he meets an coming on-coming on car the line will open and let himin him I to in again but suppose it doesn't The man who drives dr es or bets bets like this is a n menace Dont speed up when a car at- at attempts attempts at attempts tempts to pass you from rom behind is isone isone isone one of the primary rules of the road rond I never do The road is no place for fora fora a race Anal Analysis sis of thousands of ac- ac accidents accidents ac accidents show that trying to head off one of these passing fools is dead Tead- deadly deadly l ly Dont Don't Blame Joy Joy-I Riders Joy Alone Heres Here's a rider joy-rider You can ten tell him by his speed and perhaps by the crowd that's with him Tens of thousands of cars are arc stolen every year by riders joy and left at the curbside after aCter the ride is over Thou Thousands Thousands sands sunds are killed b by jo hun hun- hundreds hundreds hundreds by drivers of stolen cars Car thieves always drive recklessly Dont Don't blame the riders joy alone What about the man who owns the car Did he have a lock on the carof car carof carof of a sort that would make theft im- im impossible impossible im impossible possible An auto owner has no nomore nomore nomore more right to leave his car unlocked d don on the street then he would have to leave a loaded shotgun or a bomb on the sidewalk in front of his house Who let these killers have this car caris is a question that policemen will ask askin askin askin in that day when you and I and the rest of us begin to understand the inside of driving Wron Wrong thinking about pedestrians is deadly Nine chances out of ten ter tena tena a pedestrian at some sone time or 01 other is also an In GO 60 per per- percent percent percent cent of all accidents involving i pedestrians pedestrians pedestrians the driver of the car cal Is to blame Pedestrians are killed when there is n no roans loom on the road for them There must be room on the road for them In cities there must be islands of safety ty in th the streets Go here as a rule of pedestrians is far more mor effective than dont go go here It takes brains to provide for pedestrians pedestrians but they must be provided for Stop Stop for a moment to to- consid how r low seldom you see sec a traffic p policeman ce in n your town worry about pedestrians lie doesn't signal to them to come or orto orto orto to stand still They can take care of themselves he thinks They cant can't take care of themselves es the le records of killings shows s f t W Wi i ii i it Tr Traffic policemen must be be t Ito t fight ht to consider pedestrians as part of or the traffic at every crossing crossing- They must tell walkers where and when to move Another fixed axiom must be that the th- th streets are not playgrounds for chil- chil children children chil children dren We must hav have zeal real rounds playgrounds somewhere for city children What would happen in America if we wc took down allour all our road signs We would probably have C killings killing a year instead of Traffic signs help immeasurably We e need needmore needmore needmore road road more signs And these signs sig-ns in pait part ought to tell drivers what they may do not not what they must not do It is the positive information that helps There o ought ht g-ht to be no rules or laws vs that automobilists cannot obey For instance there ought not to be city or town ordinances providing for speed less than 15 miles an hour Even higher hig spee speeds s might not be dangerous dang under proper control ot We must as I have said get new ideas about speed into our heads The time may come conic when we shall have gov gov- governors gov- gov governors governors on our cars that will seep speed down to 30 or 35 miles an hour hOUI but it isn't always speed that kills Its It's recklessness There arc are two main schools of thought among experts about speed sped One school thinks that speed ought to be fixed This school does not credit automobiles with brains It Doesn't Take Speed to Kill The other school and school and it is in the would ascendancy would measure responsibility responsibility responsibility not b by speed but the cal cats ca c or recklessness of a driver A car trave trave- traveling traveling traveling ling at three miles an hour can crush the life out of a child You mustn't set the driver of that car free be- be because be because cause he lie was traveling insi inside e the speed limit A driver may come out of an alley on a n main thoroughfare at a speed of six miles an hour and wilt will others and be killed himself al- al although although al although though he is within the speed limit Dont Don't get your your si signals nals too fancy Our signals must be proof fool-proof The minute you try to work vork workout out codes for languid jeweled jewele hands handsor handsor or for for- grimy grimy mitts mitt youre you're spoiling the value of signals Four motions ate are enough To turn to the left you stretch out your arm and point in that direction To turn To-turn turn to the right you pu crook your elbow upward ancy an point your finger toward the right To stop you ou hold out your hand with the palm forward To tell ten a 3 man be- be behind be behind hind you rou to pass you mave mane your hand forwardly That's and all and enough They're natural motions not The They tell the full st story ry signal out of the gesture Make it in plenty of time not not not suddenly Dont Don't flop out a lazy hand Remember youre you're trying to tell ten someone behind that theres there's danger ahead Your signal is just as important- important and just justas justas justas as saving life-saving as a railroad sema sema- semaphore semaphore semaphore signal On your minded lazy lazy days when your brain your arms and hands feel floppy and flabby dont don't drive The time will come when were we're all really reany educated in the inside of driving that armed armed floppy signalers will have their licenses and perhaps their ears taken away from them Theres There's not enough revocation of licenses or enough revoking powers in proper hands students of traffic tell me Finer or even jail is not il- il always al always wa ways s 's enough punishment for erring driving A driver must kow posit posit- posit vely vely that something unpleasant will happen to him if lies lie's at fault Here are the insurance men mell for instance They insure me on the track as well as off They know about automobile accidents as first firsthand firsthand hand They see and talk to and study people who have been in ae- ae ac accidents Do you ou know what they ad- ad advise advise ad advise vise as punishment They suggest not only that licenses be revoked but that the car at fault in an accident be impounded They dont don't draw an any line between the owner of the car and the driver An owner who permits his car to get into careless hands is in their opinion opinion equally to blame bame with the careless driver who runs it it me it isn't the incompetent driver who is the most dan dangerous rous The competent selfish driver driver selfish heartless heart heart- heartless heartless less cruel and reckless reckless-is reckless is the dang dang- danger danger er of the road The man or woman who is selfish and heartless in every every- ever everyday everyday da day life doesn't lose that character at atthe atthe atthe the drivers driver's wheel Instead he or 01 she has a killing ki weapon which out of selfishness and disregard for 01 th tha rights of others others he or Sil site may use as an instrument of oC slaughter There is heartless killing You and I do 10 not want heartless cruel drivers on our roads Proven cruel cruel- cruelty cruelty cruelty ty ought to mean revocation of li- li license license li license cense The road automobilist who in insists on standing on his technical rights is all aU kinds of a fool The |