Show ALL EYES ON CYCLOPS THAT T cyclopean menace on the highways the one-eyed one automobile is inspiring commendable zeal on the part pare of the police sheriffs sheriff's men and state highway patrolmen in their crusade against drivers with defective defective defective tive lights they have made a good haul that undoubtedly has made driving at night safer As winter coats the highways with ice and driving Is unusually hazardous it should be evident to all enforcement agencies that there is need for greater efforts to reduce ac accidents accidents accidents ac- ac than at any other time of the year In spite of the reduced number of vehicles being driven in ill the winter the chance of accident docs not decrease in the same saIne ratio The difficulty of making the way safe for travel afoot or instead of growing growing growing grow grow- ing less in th the face of increased attention being paid to it it by state county and local officers seems seems' to multiply Doubtless this is traceable in large degree to the increasIng increasing creasIng ing number ot of worthless cars in operation Bought cheaply carrying liability insurance in few cases ma maintenance neglected and driven all too often by individuals who risk lisk their necks and the safety of others because they have not much to lose if tf their machines are are put out of commission the rattletrap car caris caris is the gravest menace on the road It should have special attention when the next legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature undertakes revision of the traffic code Officers of all agencies are making a praiseworthy attempt to meet their difficult problem The Th reckless and the drunken driver the motorist who disregards signals the speeder and th the individuals operating machines machines machines ma ma- chines in unsafe operating condition are be being being being be- be ing hauled h in in wholes wholesale le lots There is evident doggedness in trailing I down the hit and run driver If all this activity is followed followed followed fol fol- lowed up by vigorous prosecution and equally vigorous action by courts where convictions are obtained there ought to be some hope that the appalling red record of the road will sh show w some improvement ment |