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Show jury trials that the courts would be dogged. But J experience shows that autoists don't ask fori juries. They take their medicine. And the medicine cures. A jail sentence is hard on a speeding or careless autoist, but the families and friends of street accident victims will tell you that death and injuries are distressing, too. Careful automobile auto-mobile drivers, who number fully 90 per cent of all persons at the wheel of motor vehicles, welcome wel-come law enforcement which make the streets safe for themselves and pedestrians. , A. ! Curing Speeders ' ' 4 : a,; TVETHOIT anj Cleveland claim to have found; the only lasting cure for automobile peed-, In It is a workhouse sentence f or everyone: found guilty -of jxceedln.? the limits of speed' laid down in the city ordinances. The Ohio cities1 claim that they have reduced street accidents St) per cent by this method. Surely this is a saving in life and limb not to be regarded lightly by other cities which experience .trouble from the same source. It so happened that the traffic courts of both! Detroit and Cleveland were placed under the j jurisdiction of judges who believed that jail sen-1 v tences were the proper doses for speeders at about the same time. They both have courage. Irrespective of pull, personal friendship or personages, per-sonages, these two judges have refused to let speeders go with small fines and suspended sentences. sen-tences. Women speeders get the $ame treatment J as men. Actual figures, in Detroit show 185 street, accidents for March, t922, as against 345 for March, 1921. In -Cleveland accidents dropped to $0 the first week as against 100 for the corre-j . sponding week a year. ago. It was feared that I jail terms would result in so man demands fori |