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Show EMOTIONAL LEGISLATION Determined opposition to the enactment en-actment of compulsory automobile liability insurance legislation has been voiced by the American Automobile Auto-mobile association, representing S00 motor clubs and over a million motorists. mo-torists. Percy V. Long, a prominent San Francisco attorney, classes such insurance in-surance as "a piece of experimental legislation of an emotional character." char-acter." The fundamental aim to be attained at-tained by such legislation is reduc tion of accidents. But will insure-I insure-I anct forced upon a reckless driver J tend to make him more careful when ' he knows that an insurance company or the state will be held responsible for the damage he does? i The insurance advisory committee of the United States chamber of commerce, com-merce, after an exhaustive study of the situation, says that the final re-; re-; sponsibillty for reduction of accidents acci-dents rests squarely upon the various vari-ous communities which, with their police powers, are In a position to enforce regulatory measures. It Is child's play to 'pass the buck' for accidents on to insurance companies, com-panies, whose business it is to pay losses and not act as policemen. It is still more foolish and uncalled-for to launch the state in the automobile insurance business, on the theory that by writing cheap insurance at the expense of the taxpayer, auto-tooblle auto-tooblle accidents and careless driving driv-ing will be stopped. 4 |