Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-08 | Page 4 | Ban on Noisy Nuisances

i Ban on Noisy Nuisances CHIEF WEBBS WEBB'S proposal for passage 4 JT of an ordinance by the city council to prohibit pro- pro hibit indiscriminate blowing of automobile r horns in Salt Lake City is excellent There is only one excuse for an n automobile horn and that is to warn pedestrians or motorists motorists motor motor- of danger from an approaching automobile tIt wasn't designed for or any of the following uses to to which all too often it is putt put f 3 J 1 Calling public attention to toan oan an advertis- advertis 4 I L Ing parade of some sort or other othe which happens happens hap- hap pens en to be using the public streets as a free billboard i 2 Announcing to Mary that Johnnie is waiting waitt wait- wait t Xing ing outside outside and and then a few ew seconds later r shrieking raucously Bla Bla Come on hurry y Sup up I haven't got all day f 3 Screaming to high heaven like a squal squal- ing fishwife because g a traffic up tie has cost Niwo two seconds' seconds time which time which the tooter horn-tooter didn't r have havo ve any good use for anyway l' l A 4 Scaring the old lady half out of her wits J because she wasn't moving across the inter- inter intersection section quite as fast as the horn-blower horn thought she should r 5 Saying Hello to Jim on the sidewalk i while Jim and everybody else within hearing wonder who that fools fool's tooting at K You can make your own pet additions to the above list ii And while were we're about it heres here's another petS pet jet S addition to the general and nuisance campaign Why not ban use of i screaming pot poa po po- t a lice sirens on these advertising parades I Maybe the best way to get rid of them would i ibe be to make such parades obey traffic laws and andred andred t red light signals like everybody else eIse Then they wouldn't i wouldn't have have to screaming sirens sirens sirens-or or palice polke police po- po lice escorts either