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Show H ' THE SPEEDERS. B Some automobile men from another town got to talk- H 5ng in "u- of the garages the other night, and it was inter- H csting to get their point of view. They talked more freely H than they would have done in the presence of a newspaper H man Ci om their own town. H They were exchanging notes about the various drivers H of their home community, and some who had a special H reput t'ion for speeding. One man, according to them, H was the terror of the neighborhood. He seemed to be M utterly upset when a car came along that he could not H pass, lie would be sore for days. He was never content H 1111111 he got in front of everything in sight. H He would work some queer stunts to get by. If there H "was a line of cars ahead of him, he would never stop to M consider whether he could go by more than one. As soon M as there seemed to be half enough room on a narrow road, m along he would go. If he couldn't pass the second car, M lie would nose his way in between that car and the one m ho hful just passed. Most drivers usually would give up m their i lght of way to save an accident. But within recent M weeks the man had partly come to grief. While passing m another car at 40 miles an hour he had collided with a H tree. Though the machine was wrecked, yet by a miracle H ho had escaped. H A lnan can work that kind of thing about so long. m Then he runs up against some driver who will stick by m ins rights even if a collision does result at high speed. H It seems strange that there are in most places drivers m ivho have a reputation about like this, which is commonly m a matter of garage gossip, yet no one will complain. The m -many people who know about it realize that the man is m a menpce. Yet they dislike to make trouble and won't do H 1!v1t,hin.e so lo,ff as they are not personally injured. It m will ho impossible to stop speeding on the highways until m Hie automobile using public shows a disposition to com- H plain of people known to be speeders. H -j o |
