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Show AUTO COURTESY No state is more interested in the efforts of the American Automobile association to make travel on the highways more safe than is California. Califor-nia. There are more automobiles in California than in any other state, more miles of paved highways and a mileage per car. There are also two of the largest automobile associations asso-ciations in the world in the state, constantly engaged in the work of marketing the highways both paved and unpnthed, and in promoting the easo. comfort and safety of travel. Development of the automobile and good roads is working a great change in American life, and the Pacific coa9t and all the country lying ly-ing along the various transcontinental transcontinen-tal routes are benefitted wonderfully wonderful-ly from the increase In motoring. The American Automobile asso ciation is promoting a spirit of courtesy cour-tesy on the port of motorists as a substitute lor more and more regu lative legislation. One great trouble in America, is that we have been ed ucated to have everything regulated by law and to depend upon ti.e law . rather than upon individual action, to keep things as they should be. Under that system we are develop mg a general and very harmful disregard dis-regard for law, as well as a concur rent disregard of rights of others either legal or human. The more automobile au-tomobile travel increases, the greate: will be the need of a spirit of re gard by all motorists for the rights the convenience and the pleasure o' all other motorists, as well as pe destrlans. No possible legislation can serv as a substitute for courtesy and i spirit of regard by all motorists for the rights, the convenience and th( pleasure of all other motorists, a well as pedestrians. No possible legislation can servt as a substitute for courtesy and i spirit of consideration of the other fellow. We need to have it develop ed. Human contacts need spirituali zing all along the way, not in auto mobiling only. Indeed, if our genera' attitude all the time is not one o courtesy and consideration for oth ers, we are not at all likely to show those qualities in our motoring What we need Is an attitude of hit man contact that considers the othei fellow and not so many regulation; though the latter are made necessary neces-sary by great number of driven-who driven-who do not have that attitude o' consideration. We need education ir the principle of courteous and kind ly human contacts. a. |