Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The rhe cry against the thc automobile joy joy seems to be about Ito He lo deserves a a. a double le penalty in the tho opinion pinion o of the Cleveland Penalty Plain Dealer The Tho rhe joy rider merits a a. double pen pen- alLy Ity In tho the first place he offends against his his' as employer In flace n the second place beis ho be hois is 3 a pu public menace Ho lie kills and nd maims nonchalantly And Amid in in addition he c tends to brin bring the automobile into popular disrepute The rhe Providence Journal thinks au au- will be bo the he first to call a halt I It t says i II Automobilists who are arc not in in sympathy sym sym- lathy pathy with joy riders' riders or speed lunacy will be the first to condemn insolent II defiance of the law which more than any other thing embitters the great reat body of the tho people indiscriminately and unfairly against all nil owners of of ma ma- chines That joy riding is unfair to a great industry is the tho view taken by bytho the tho Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City Star f It I It is wholly unfair that the expand expand- in ng employment of automobiles automobile should suffer the handicap against which it is is forced to e contend through the tho heed- heed of those who vho mako make these machines machines machines ma ma- chines a gratuitous ag agent nt of the gravest danger The public possession of the streets and anil roads must certainly imply imply im im- nit nit- ply tho the authority to prevent their perilous peril peril- ous misuse That joy riders should forfeit their licenses is is the view of the Baltimore American 1 After After it has bas been demonstrated by bv repeated recklessness that a man is is abusing the license given him Into it should be bo taken from him That and aDd a jail flail sentence in aggravated cases would make mako the public secure from reckless riders who now pursue their dangerous amusement with practical impunity A drastic remedy is what the Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia Press demands The rho rhe joy of joy riding would soon evaporate with the Uie possibility of ten years' years imprisonment in prospect The Troy Times believes that all that thai thatis is necessary is to enforce the tho laws It II says f Whatever the evils from automobile f scorching they cannot be removed by employing equally criminal methods oJ of prevention Th The remedy lies in the enactment enactment en en- and enforcement of laws recognized to 1 bo be e equitable preserving the rights of all concerned and eliminating as far as possible causes of complaints on either cither side and minimizing tho the dangers ers that certainly have come with the increase in Of or the tho same opinion is the tho Denver R Republican Re Republican Re- Re publican Strict consistent and persistent enforcement en en- of tho the ordinance regulating the use of automobiles and anI motor cycles in the streets is is all that is needed Deeded to solve Bohe the automobile and motor cycle cyl problem A Above c all hysteria should be avoided Speed is not so bad when it is safe thinks the tho Washington Star Star The day may come when motor cancan cars can can safely be be sped ped over the tho roads without without without with with- out le legal al limit but that will be bo only when all people are careful all roads road smooth and curves safely cleared o of view hiding obstructions and all chauffeurs feurs skilled and steady and faithful in in observance of the rules of the road The Tho Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Chroni cle dc evidently believe there are hoodlums hoodlum who walk as well as those who ride It Its view is that While nothing is to be said in defense defens of speed lunacy there is equally no defense defenso de de- de- de of the lunatics on the other side sid of the question who by their intemperate ate and inflammatory denunciations o of automobiles are arc creating a n state of f feeing feel fee feeling eeling eel eel- ing which is likely to produce serious results some somo day |