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Show HALF OF THE ROAD . And then there is tho road hog. He Isn't any sweeter n soul than Is tho hog at the end of the car setit, or at the end of the aisle, or at the door cf tlie cleator. But he can make a man swear harder by exercising his noglshness. An Osdon citizen recently drove with an auto Into this city from a town seventy-five miles away, nnd :epurted that ho had overtaken flfty-ono teams in that drive, on county roads, and only two of them had made oven tho slightest effort to yield half- tho toad when nsked to do so by tho toot of tho musical horn. Tho rest Just feigned n deafness deaf-ness which did not exist (or an lndifferenco which wnif perfectly sincere; and somo of them went to the trouble to look around and tell tho honker to go iheie his gasoline wouldn't last n minute. Of courso it doesn't do nny good to write editorials edi-torials in tho hope of converting the road hog, for ho doesn't read cdltorinls or much ot anything else. For example, ho doesn't read tho law. He doesn't oven know that Ignorance of tho law is nd defense for tho lawless. But that Is tho truth, And the law allows a vehtclo overtaking Just n$ much of 'the highway as the overtaken Is entitle, to. Every eamster without n load will almost Inf. . variable give half tho road to nny vehicle he mects( Ho knows that either horses or buzz wagon can force ltlm to do so. But he holds all tho trumps in thi case of those overtaking him. And If he doesn't want to give half tho road, ns the law allows, al-lows, ho can't well bo compelled to do so. And jet ho should. Kind friends should ad-viso ad-viso him that tho auto driver Isn't h public enemy, nor even a very bad fellow. Ho simply uses that mcthou of getting from plnce to place; nnd where tho road is narrow. It Is nlco for tho teamster to. respond lo tho honk of tho horn by turning gently but firmly to the right, and letting tho buzz wagon go gnlivnnllng on its way. It doesn't take long, hnd it makes all the world look a little brighter to the auto drlvrr and it might oven stir some human Kcntlments In tho breast of tho road hog, If he made n practice of It. Ogden Examiner. |