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Show Speed Cause of Road Accidents don't break their necks speeding on had roads. They're caught on good roads, the way I said. Some pavement pave-ment Is deadly dangerous when It's dry, and some Is deadly dangerous when it is wet. Take concrete, for example. There's no cleaner driving in the world than on concrete. This side of Buffalo, and here and there in New York and California, you have concrete roads. Now, when they are hauling hay for a bottom, or oranges out of an irrigation project, there'll be about three rods of dirt on the concrete. con-crete. It's apt to be clay. It's just like daubs of axle grease on a railroad rail-road track. You hit that stuff going right along, feel it quiver, and try to straighten np. Your steering wheels slick around the easiest they ever did. You forget where your straight-ahead is, and with the rear end of the car swinging ahead you hit hard pan again, and shoot off into the chnparral. Or you climb the fence of the Buffalo county club, depending where you're at. Dry or Wet, Both Treacherous. "Dry roads are treacherous and wet roads are treacherous. There are more accidents in western New York from peopJe coming off poor roads onto on-to good ones than there are on rough country roads. "Where you know a road Is dangerous danger-ous you go slow and careful. Where you think the road is not dangerous, but it is a death trap, you are in peril of your life. I'm thinking that when they have paved roads over the Rockv mountains there'll be a lot of accidents acci-dents because it seems so easy. "I've seen more than 200 wrecker; cars beside the road. I've seen the ruins of ten times as many at garages the country over. Not one bnt what came to an untimely end because of carelessness of some kind. And nine times out of ten the carelessness was because the driver was going too fast on a road be didn't know. You'll find at the bottoms of slopes In the Rockies big, beautiful cars, ail ruined skidded on dust, on clay that looked solid, on sand that was roller bearings, bear-ings, or on a long peeled log gutter cross. "No, sir ! My boy, when you get your car, don't you drive over any strange road at more than 20 miles an hour,, no matter how good It is, and you'll find lots of roads where it's better to go under ten miles an hour than to go faster than that. From the Rockies to the Sierras I averaged seven sev-en miles an hour 60 miles at three miles an hour one day. And I passed ; two cars before dark that left me behind be-hind in the morning. They'd busted themselves getting there, Ell. "Go slow. Let the other fellow go by ; you'll get there first, anyhow." the little nock of Onlo don't have half the trouble that people coming east have when they hit the fancy New York brand of roadways. Job1 for Nearest Garage Man. "Now it's the same way with California. Cali-fornia. You take a man who's run out of Nevada or eastern California desert roads over the Sierra divide into the paved ways of California, he feels relieved. re-lieved. He's on good roads at last. He's been careful for 2,000 miles. He wants to step on 'er. He does. He hits a sharp turn, and bingo 1 The nigh wheels drop Into the sand, and there's a big j-ib for the garage in the nearest town. "Particularly speaking, let me say that the man who drives aspeeding over a road he has never driven before be-fore Invites death or disaster. I'm all right on my old home road. I hit up 40 lailes an hour right along If I know the road. My car'll stand It. But on a strange road, let me say, I'm one of those 15-miler boys. I didn't have to have an accident to learn that. It was just looking at the accidents and figuring on them that gave me the warning I hoeded. "Now look't ! Remember during the days when cars were delivered by the thousand over the highways, and you'd meet a fletjt of a thousand, cars all new and all bound east or south or west to a destination, because the railroad boys were laying down ou their high-wage jobs? Do j-mi remember remem-ber how many of those cars were smashed up, burned up, or were shook half to pieces? It was done by speeding speed-ing over strange roads. New Driver Apt to Be Careful. "It isn't the new driver who is trapped by different roads ; it is just as apt to be the cJd-timer. New drivers driv-ers are careful ; they learn around home, hit the same roads every day and learn 'em. When they get good on the home roads they start off, hit another kind of pood road, and blng! Smash up ! "It's just that way all over. I don't begin to claim I'm an expert in all kinds of roads; I'm not. All I'm an expert in Is keer.lng out of trouble. I've been through Berthoud pass, 11,-000 11,-000 feet above tlin ea, and more than 140 feet below the ocean down In Sal-ton Sal-ton sink. I know enough to go slow. That's what I know. "It's the good r. ad that kills. Men i Auto Tourist Who Has Driven More Than 50,000 Wiles Gives Result of Observations. NO TWO GOOQ ROADS ALIKE "Don't Take Strange Road at More Than 20 Miles an Hour," His Advice Ad-vice Car Doesn't Drive Twice Alike in Any Roadway. Little Falls, N. Y. Archie Baker claims to be a confirmed automobile tourist of long and varied experience. He says he has driven upward of 50,-1)00 50,-1)00 miles in his 1916 seven-passenger eix ; and the car looked it when Archie and his family pulled out beside the road just west of Small Gulf, between Little Falls and Herkimer, to camp In one of the most noted of Mohawk palley tourist parking places. Baker and his wife and a twelve-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter said that touring agrees with them. They gave the impression of having an fcidependent income. , "My experience is that a lot of tourists don't know very much, and don't stop to learn anything, either," said Mr. Baker. "The result is, they have a lot of hard knocks. When we were coming into New York state, about 250 miles from here, we turned off down a side road to camp by Lake Erie. There was an outfit down by the lake which claimed they had had a lot of hard luck. They dished a wheel; they tore up a tire; they lost a tent off the back end of the load ; they slept cold nights, and they were Just about ready to quit. But, shucks ! they won't quit. Nobody ever does quit once the family have gone to touring right the way it pan be done. Their dished wheel interested in-terested me. The man claimed he aidn't drive fast, but he skidded, caught the weight of the car on the right rear wheel, and smashed It all a-blim. "This was on a strange road, out in Indiana, he said, and it sure did look all right. But it smashed him, and It was pure luck that he didn't roll over. I asked him about the kind of road, and he couldn't tell me; said It was pretty muddy, but had gravel on it too. "There you are ! He smashed up and was taught a lesson, and didn't know what the lesson was. The fact Is there are more than 200 different kinds of good roads in the United States. I've been on most kinds. I'll recite a few of them mountain contract roads, stone water-bound concrete roads, oil waste roads, gravel, sand and clay, broken down stone roads, cut and fill crushed 5tone surface, cinder, shell, bank i cravel. beach gravel, desert two trackers, and so on. ! "No Two Good Roads Alike." j "No . two good roads are alike, i Good and careful a driver as I am. I 1 darn near rolled over- out west of ' Salt Lake City last summer, skid- i 1'ng In the dust dry, fluffy dust. ' Why, if I'd been driving 20 miles Instead of careful 2 miles an hour, : i.ri'd rolled end over applecart, and It was a good road, if you ( new how ' to drive it. Yes, sir. There is not ; n road in all this United Stales, not j the best, widest, finest, smoothest ; road, that isn't treacherous if a con's j not used to it. I don't mean v!ld- j tyt-d hummers, but just common folks ! like me. "if you don't believe it. you study (lie road accidents you come upon as you ride across the country. Half! the skidding is done where the road type changes, where a man leaves j '.-oiierete and hits oil surfai-e or where he leaves the waiorhound stone for hard pan. "A car doesn't drive twice alike on any roadway from New York to San Francisco. I know, because I've made the trip. Where do tourists coming east bang up with trouble? It's when they come off bad roads into good roads. You take the western part of New York state, and people leaving the good road of Ohio after cro'ng |