| Show Editorials by the People THE EVENING TELEGRAM Invites Its rea readers ers to write letters about current current current cur cur- rent events for tor publication In this column There Thore Is no better bolter way for tor tho tim ex expression expression ox- ox of at public opinion Write 0 o n one side of or the tho paper paver and sign your name and give I your address If It you do not wish wh published It tt will wilt not appear In print Letters criticising In religious beliefs or airing personal grudges will bo be rejected If It you with wish man manuscript returned send self addressed ad ad- dressed stamped envelope en Salt Lake Lako City Nov 3 1913 Editor Telegram Someone who will advocate the protection protection pro pro- of the tho lives li of pedestrians who have oto ha to venture on tho streets of this cIty will ill gain tho the everlasting love and Kr gratitude ti tudo of 01 the vast major majority ty of its CI citizens The Tho automobile drivers seem to think i that they thoy own the tho thoroughfares and I to consider cr those who walk with as aa much respect aa M they would n a yellow ollow dog Tho Iho causo cauBo of or accidents in most cases i is j that the tho pedestrian cannot hear tho the approach approach- of tho the machine and not one ono driver in ten will soun sound sauna his bis horn I dont don't know what the traffic regulations ar are in regard to compiling compelling persons to make mako a of their approach ap ap- ap i but that is the only only remedy that will prevent these people from taking the livos lives of their follow fellow men men men- compel thorn thom to make mako a A pleasant noise of course courso would bemore bo be more agreeable to everyone consequently consequently conse conso- I would suggest some somo kind of an attachment that would pro produce uce a musical noi noise e The Tho joy 0 riders or night owls could could have the evening hymn Wo We Wont Won't Go Home Till Morning Morning accompanied accompanied b by a funeral march Tho young man and th tho maid might select Coming tho the and Rye a and the ladylike electrics could coulder very er nicely apply Silver Threads Amongst the Gold GoldA Gold A volume of suggestions might be bo added Wo dont don't care caro what the tho nature of the noise is but the noiseless s auto should bo be fined just fined just the same sarno as fiR aman u n uman man who carries a gun gunS Either may become a murderer Yours very seriously A PEDESTRIAN 4 Editor Evening Telegram A few years only have e elapsed lapsed since sinco there thero was w s a public agitation against tho the indiscriminate slaughter of the populace lace by trolle trolley cars and as 38 a result of the tho a agitation the street railway was compelled o to equip all cars ars with fen ron ders I have havo DO no st stati statistics tics on the number number num num- ber of lives Jives saved by bv these devices but my impression is that street car fatalities fa fa- fa are aro rarer than before the fenders fen ders were adopted If the trolley cars bad had been boen run nm at dougle dougie their usual speed and rambled all nil over the tho streets instead of confining confining contin- contin in ing themselves decorously to the tho middie middle mid mid- die dle would the the agitation for fenders not have bave arisen 1 Apparently not for there is is' is no s suggestion oven even in the encyclopedic en en- platforms of municipal candidates candidates can cnn that n a baby haby catcher would be bo bea boa a desirable attachment for the front of I each automobile Perhaps there is no device ico on tho thoI I market that that vill will rill stand adjustment to country roads as well as city streets but hut if there isn't there thero should be Unless Un Un- 16 less some bomo precaution of this character is required from motorists the street streetcar streetcar car ear fender ordinance should be repealed and explanation made mado to the company campau that its passage was only a practical l joke joko A motor fender or ordinance would nf nf- feet fact a largo large number of car owners but there are quite a few child own owners in ill Salt Snit Lako Lake to bo be considered I I. I for on one would bo he glad to hear from both hoth classes through this column of ot THE TELE TELE- GRAM GRAI MURRAY SCHICK |
