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Show Good Remedy Suggested for Reckless Driving A little more "living-room courtesy" lias been suggested by Edward Vcr Linden, president of a motor car corporation, cor-poration, as n remedy for careless and reckless driving. Glaring, muttering and shouting at drivers of other automobiles auto-mobiles are among the discourteous habits Ver Linden says American drivers have formed. In one"s home charming manners would greet a stranger, but on the open road everything every-thing goes. After all, isn't it true? Haven't you come home from a Sunday Sun-day drive on a crowded road with the memory of the way some fellow un-couthly un-couthly "hollered" at you when you had to swing out because that little car suddenly pulled out Into the road in front of you? And after he was so "fresh" and "smart," didn't that make you feel just a little reckless? Didn't you try to speed up a bit and try to crowd him over in the road as you went past? In the good old days a man used to be "quick on the trigger" trig-ger" when he didn't think the company com-pany was as polite toward him as it ought to be. Now the trigger finger has given place to the accelerator toe, says the Detroit Free Press. The reaction re-action Is to "step on the gas" when ever some rude person tries to wrest away the freedom of the open road. Which frequently results in accident stories for the Monday papers. |