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Show MOTORISTS WARNED OF GIVING STRANGERS LIFTS. A general warning to motorists against giving hitch-hikers and pedestrians pedes-trians "lifts," has been voiced by the legal department of the American Motorists' Association. "The primary argument against such practice," it is pointed out by the Association, "is that the motorist, motor-ist, in most states, assumes a financial finan-cial responsibility for the safety of the passenger. The fact that the passenger pas-senger is being transported without compensation does not change his legal le-gal liability. "Another argument is that ofttimcs the motorist becomes a victim of his guest by assault ana robbery. The kind-hearted motorist has much to lose and nothing to gain by such practice," prac-tice," the A. M. A.'s warning declares. |