Show Up to the Individual The automobile accident problem should be approached from the stand standPOint standpoint standpoint POint that it is the individual drivers s pi sento All encouragement should be gj sen cn to moves to modernize traffic c des desand desand and to pass laws requiring the exam e c matron of vehicles and drivers drIvels drivel s These steps can save many lives lies In es to say nothing of thousands of dollars of property But at the same time we e emust must do oui out utmost to drive e home to the individual the responsibility that thatIS thatis thatis IS is when hen he takes the wheel heel of a acm cm cat and embarks upon the publIc streets and highways It has been suggested that an hon honor honor honor or code be for drivers If all ers would seriously subscribe to It the ghastly tollof toll of death would drop llop over oter night Not one fatal acci accI- acci- acci dent accident in ten is strictly una Un In nine cases someone through reckless recklessness recklessness recklessness ness carelessness or Incompetence has erred elred A l life le e snuffed out is the result A ton or t two too 0 of metal mehl moving at high speed represents a tremendous destructs e a force if it is mIshandled None ofus of us would take a chance on r puttIng a stick of d in a fire or looking down the J Jor muzzle of a gun nn and pla play mg ing with the trigger Yet dothe hundl hundreds cds of thousands of drivers driers ers YetI do I the motol motoring mg equivalents of these acts by by going at excessive speeds on narrow loads roads by b passing on cut cut- ties ies cui-ies es by hy cutting in and out in the face of oncoming traffic by driving on the wrong side of the highway ay I Public opinion must be directed with all allots its force toward to making the Individual conscious of his Ius dut duty if I the accident tollIS toll is to be materially checked I |