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Show Ashamed of the Record - 9 ' VV71TH record of 339 automobile killinrs VY i shce the first of the year, or an average aver-age of nearly two a day, Chicago has decided to abandon the practice f permitting speeders speed-ers and reckless drivers to report to headquarters head-quarters with arrest slips. Hereafter they will be taken Immediately to the nearest police station and required to give bond for their appearance in. court . Perhaps the Chicago record for. killings would have been lower if this policy bad been pursued from the beginning. be-ginning. ..Speeding and reckless driving are not to be classed merely as traffic violations. They are dangerous practices which are shunned by safe and sane drivers and should be considered consid-ered as serious offenses. . Reckless drivers are more than a menace to pedestrians because they make new road hazards for every auto-mobilist auto-mobilist who drives with consideration for the rules of safety. Speeding or reckless driving are rarely if ever justified. " Every driver knows better, so that offenses of-fenses are bound to be deliberate and should be made to see the error of his way. The quickest way to eliminate speeders and reckless reck-less drivers is to see that each one is punished. pun-ished. ' ' . . |