Show IS SERIOUS MENAGE MENACE automobile expert points out fool tricks which endanger lives of motorists by erwin greer president Preal dent greer col lega lege of automotive engineering the next unie time one of those tools fools who break their necks looking one way while they drive another nearly runs you down turn around and yell after him that la Is the name by which he lie Is to be known ac cording to the american automobile association why supposedly sane men will drive at top speed Is an unsolvable mystery yet the speed artist la is only one type of another type Is the mud he Is the fellow who dashes up to a mud puddle near the curb and sends mud and water all over you he likes to hear you cuss and tl ti e women scream explosion hound another then there Is the muffler explosion hound you know him the fellow with some powerful bus who rushes down the street making explosions in his muffler if you are opposite when he goes by you nearly throw a fit from fright much to the high glee of him self and to the disgust and contempt and antagonism of ever everyone jone else the graze you gink s special delight Is to come as cloae au to your carefully groomed car as he possibly can with out actually striking it often he mis calculates and the result Is that your machine immediately rese resembles his with dented mud guards and broken hub caps if you try and collect damages you find that he owes money on his car and that you are out of luck the brake burner Is another one of the clan he also has a murderous complex he ile comes on at a sizzling speed and then clap on goes his brakes like the seizure of a fit his tires scrape with loud remonstrance on the pavement his car and groans the brakes shriek all expect ing the sudden crash and then through the ali e and lofty purpose of the car builder things somehow hold together ani 1 an accident that time Is averted this method of action gets to be a habit and eventually a cotter pin pulls out and nd then usually saved usually A relative of his Is the fear fanatic who ho emerges suddenly from a side street yes een upon our boulevards approaching cars dodge and s ving from his path trying to prevent acci dents tl TI e hearts of passengers leap to their throats frightened grips are clamped on the nearest supports screams break aiom the ladles ladies and usually by astral influence that guards the fate of fools he Is saved usually he Is saved usually by the grace of the great body of honorable motorists he Is I 1 saed usually the safety zone fox Is another one he comes sailing salling down the street to ther left of a long line of automobiles waiting to cross a street intersection Intersect lon and tries to break into the line at the safety zone if he be can t get in he blocks the street cars because he Is out on the tracks and there Is al ways aya some motorist that has to let him into the line so that traffic can move again and then comes the flivver boob who tries to beat the locomotive over the crossing he Is too well known to take up in detail A total of was paid out in death claims by american insurance companies for the and tl air N victims Ic tims killed on the high ways last year in add tion to the fatalities there were non fatal injuries which makes us won der why Is a |