Show FOOL CHAUFFEURS We We b believe the cit city ought to do o wh t some soui e other cities have done permit done permit no one to run an l automobile without a l license cense The rhe great trouble with cb chauffeurs is that many of then the have no judgment They rhey have no self reliance in danger i they tey cannot keep their wits about them When 1 a chauffeur dashes around a a. co corner ner at the rate of forty miles an hour in the residence district distrct of th the ci city without any precautions lest th there re be he children playing in n the street it sh shows that he simply is more than half an idiot and do does doe not i know any better When he is cool in the garage he ho could tell you OU exactly wh what t levers t to push in order to stop the machine in order to guide it to run iun it it- forward and backward ard but let him be bc confronted by an accident and h he has n no more sense than a baby Then a good many of them t t arc color blind and cannot tell a green light from a a. red light They rIley almost almot all of them have hac the 1 I bump of self esteem abnormally developed and J- J when they get a machine running forty miles an tn hour they imagine they are great groat e engineers Not one of them ther could get a situation on any railroad I 1 because a railroad engineer has to be examined his sight especially is tested and a nu number of precautions precautions pre pre pre- cautions are tak taken n b before fore he is given charge of a locomotive But al alIt aty the c time a locomotive is held to its trao trac track by its rails and if anyone will keep off the thc tracks there is no danger of his being harmed A great many young boys boy are running automobiles a a gr great at many young oung men are running running running run run- ning automobiles and there is no restriction on n I them them thein No one knows whether they are loaded to tot 1 t t the e guards with beer or whisky or not and nd Yer very many of them with three schooners of beer bear j. j 4 aboard are re like lile the impetuous c cowboy who com comes s to t town with his mustang crazy to show people h ho can can ride The difference is that the mustang mus mustang thus mus- tang ha has a little s sense nse and the cowboy has a little sense while the chauffeur A i i that condition has no sense at all aU No one me ne would permit a child of 10 years ears to start out on the streets with a loaded pun gun nn but Jut they do permit without hindrance a child 20 y years ar ars of age to start out with ith something mu much h more fatal than a gun because we suspect in the r. i United l States s there have been qu quite te a thousand people or more kilI killed d by automobiles in the last lasty I v y year more than her have been by guns Chad Chani- I r r feurs f urs ought to be licensed If that cannot b be done then they ther ought ht to be restricted to certain streets so Sf th that t people wh n th they y go into those streets tha thal may mayl l now I that t they ey take tak their lives ives in their hands and and J fluit at the they n never nver ver should venture on those streets without first b bidding goodbye e to their families and making their wills |