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Show IT WONT WORK Motorists around Milford will learn with more than the usual interest that after a trial in several states of "no speed limit" on the highways, the experiment has proved a failure. Michigan, one of the "first of the few states that let down the bars and permitted drivers to use their own judgment on the open road, raises her hands in horror at a 15 percent increase in fatalities over last year, and is planning to return to former for-mer speed limits. The motorist, it seems, cannot be relied upon to . stick to a safe and, sane speed ; it requires a law, strictly inforced, to make him do so. With the death toll in America so far this year the highest high-est in history, it is obvious that something must be done, and done quickly, to make highways safer. With almost 1,000 killed, on Labor day alone the necessity for laws fixing rate of speed apparent. However, at the same time that new speed laws, and laws with teeth in them, are being enacted, some attention should also be given those drivers who idle along a main highway at a rate of 15 or 20 miles an hour. Hundreds of accidents occur when drivers turn out to pass these slow-moving machines, for as a rule they are not hugging hug-ging their side of the road. The need for regulating the slowpoke slow-poke is as great as the need for regulating the speeder. This year's death toll is going to be aghastly one when the figures are made public Maybe it will speed the enactment of some sort of legislation that will make human life a little bit safer in America. |