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Show u RECKLESS MOTORISTS. t When one complains of reckless driving of automo- Wles, many people take the easy going view that as 95 , pet' cent of motorists are cautious drivers, it is not worth h. while to take severe measures. It is probably true that , not niore than five ner cent could 1)9 called reckless. Yet five people can make things mighty uncomfortable and w perilous for the other 95. I'" The number of accidents hardening all the time is a warning. After one has benn through a smash and has been laid up and had to pay hospital bills, the thing begins I to look serious. '" rOne trouble is that in rit nlaccs the local pqlice dislike dis-like to enprce the Yrih. 'tying fearful of making enemies. It is all rii' '"- 'hieves arid' drunks who I ave no friends: .To Hie - -"!;-, againsE some socially "wnlilito 'drive 'until he has" tucked away several Wglpballs, ,is .another proposition. Yet public sentiment will support strict enforcement of the, law. The people of any neighborhood know who the speeders-are. Let them notify some official who will complain to the motor licensing authorities. These authorities au-thorities have detectives on the trail of all.alleged speeders. This done, it is easy to secure evidence. Once a-man gets the scorching habit, he keeps it up. He is not content with any beggarly 25 miles an hour, but with a whoop he opens the throttle, regardless of obstructions to view and other traffic. Fines do not influence him. Juries are too good natured to jail. him. Let him lose his operator's license a year or two, and' he will take notice, and others like him also. |