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Show Safe Conduct on Roads Is Founded on Courtesy "It is almost axiomatic," writes the manager of a traffic bureau, "that safe conduct on highways Is founded on courtesy. "A million detailed traffic rules cannot can-not cover up that fact. There is no substitute for courtesy anywhere, least of all on a crowded highway." There used to be more of It, this traffic man says, than there is now. "That was in the days when automobiles auto-mobiles were new and few. It was natural then for drivers to treat each other courteously, as they would do in meeting neighbors on the street, or touching elbows with them at theater thea-ter or church. "But with the increase of traffic pressure on space and nerves they have lost that fine old spirit of mu-' mu-' tual accommodation. "It may be harder now not merely because there are so many more cars on the road, but because 'all kinds of people are driving them.' "There may be a larger proportion of boors and thugs behind steering wheels than there were in the primitive primi-tive traffic days of ten to fifteen years ago. Yet it is still true that courtesy is the great solvent. "Gentlemanly and ladylike conduct con-duct is contagious, and tends to multiply mul-tiply itself on the road as it does anywhere any-where else." |
