Show T Tempting g Fate ate i When one sees some of the reckless driving of motor cars that thatis iJ fe is 1 n allo-n allowed ed without protest in Salt Lake he 48 wonders why hy there there ar are are areas as few accidents though there have been more more than ihan a city this sized size should d have had k f We have seen examples of the danger of a allowing llo 1 1 oving a drunken m man n to handle the wheel of a high Powered powered automobile Rig Right Bight ht ah after r one public chauffeur had turned his car over breaking a passengers passenger's pas pas- 6 gers ger's leg lc-g he got drunk and drove his machine again and killed al a woman If public officials had done the sensible thi thing g they would not have allowed him to drive a a car after proving hi his unfitness unfit unfit- ness uess in the first place lace 1 IF IP THE CITY COMMISSIONERS Il HAD REQUIRED DRIVERS ERS EnS OF 01 AUTOMOBILES AUTOMOBILE TO SHOW V CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS AND GET A DRIVERS DRIVER'S LICENSE T THAT WOMAN fAN NOT HAVE BEEN KILLED One of these fine days we are going to read of oJ a lot of ch childr children b being killed by some reckless boy driver i Then where is the responsibility going to rest 7 i If your child sh should uld be e the vict victim J of a r reckless young driver f Will 1 you hold the latter Iatter- alone to blame or will or-will will you also blame 11 his hist is t p parents arents and d the city commissioners for making such a n tr tragedy gedy P PWE pok- pok pos pos- ot- ot ihle ble r V WE VE SAW AN EXAMPLE OF YOUTHFUL RE RECKLESSNESS 1 YESTERDAY E THAT MADE fA us SHIVER AND THEN BURN WITH ITH INDIGNATION WHILE SECOND AVENUE AT N STREET WAS LITERALLY CROWDED WITH VERY S SMALL L BOYS AND GIRLS NEAR THE NORTH CURB WE VE HEARD HEART THE SWISH OF A SPEEDING AUTOMOBILE WE SHUDDERED DERED AS WE VB TURNED SIDEWAYS HAVING JUST NOTICED NOTICED NO NO- THE LARGE NU NUMBER mER OF CHILDREN IN THE TIIE STREET THE CAR WAS VAS DRIVEN DRIVE BY A YOUNG BOY AND HE HAD AS COMPANIONS SEVERAL OTHER BOYS THE BIG BIG- MACHINE WAS VAS BEING SENT FORWARD AT A RATE OF SPEED OF-SPEED sPEED PEED THAT MADE l IT EXCEEDINGLY DANGEROUS THE CAR WASN'T V GOING UNDER THIRTY MILES AN HOUR THROUGH THAT CROWDED STREET IThe I IJ J The boy at the wheel was not nearly so much to blame as his l parents and the city government that puts no restrictions on drivers of automobiles I Nature never neer intended youngsters oun like that dr driver ver to have hav any caution or fear The spirit of daring and recklessness sways swa'S them It was a bright October afternoon the car was going down own grade and it was great fun to turn her loose Besides the driver had i au adri admiring id tg group in the car with him an and knew he would be pr praised for his daring One would almost become a Fatalist after seeing that speed speeding ed- ed ii ing g car rush down Second a avenue and not kill kiU any chi children ren It 5 seemed emed impossible unless Fate protected the little ones If the car had killed we would not have bla blamed ned the boy driver half so much as his parents who placed the car in his charge and the men responsible for our protection who fail to pla place e a minimum age limit o on drivers of automobile automobiles |