Show S peed ed cause causa of ILA oad d accident auto tourist who has driven more than miles gives result of observations NO TWO GOOD ROADS ALIKE dont take strange road sat i moro more than 20 miles an hour hla his ad vice car drive twice alike in any roadway little falls N Y adehle baker claims to be a continued confirmed automobile tourist of long and varied experience ile he says lie he lias has driven ill hen upward of 50 DOO miles in III ills ha 1010 seven passenger alx sl and lii lie car looked it when ilien aichle an and ills bli family pulled out beside tile rond road just west of dinall gulf between little falla nil and to caknip in one of tile most noted of mohawk valley lalley tourist parking paik ln placed biker baker null lila its wife lac and a twelve year old foi and ten teni year earold old daughter said si id that touring agrees with them they gave gae the impression of having an all In income conle 1 my experience chui lence Is that it i lot of oe tourists dont kii know ow very ry much and dont stop to learn anything ani tiling ett lier said mid mr linker tile llie result Is they have a lot ot of hard knocks when we were coming coining into ne new york state about miles from here sicre we c turned ou off down a side road loud to camp by b lake urle erie there inns ns pit nil outfit down don by uie tile balce shiell alch clail claimed lied they had had a lot of hard luck they dished a wheel they tore up a alre aliey lost a tent cut on tile back end of the load they slept c cold 0 id nights and they were ere just about ready to quit but shucks I 1 they avont ont quit nobody ever does quit otlee once the family have gone gond to touring right the way may it ran call ile be done their dished wheel interested te ter esteil rested me ine tile tho mail claimed ho he drive dihe fast but lie skidded caught the weight of the lie car on tile right rear wheel and sinas smashed beld it till all a blim this was on a strange road out in indiana lie he said and it sure did look all right but it smashed him and it was pure luck that lie roll over dver J asked him about the kind of roud road and he tell roe me wd ald it II was pretty muddy mudd lut but had gravel on it too there you sou arel no he i sipa si nashed shed ulf up and wits will taught faught a i lesson isso n unit didiot know tile lesson lesion was the fact is 3 chere there anre more than dif different kinds of good roads in the united states ivil ic been on most kinds ill recite a few of thern them mountain mount aln contract roads stone water bound concrete roads rends oil waste roads gravel sand and clay broken down stone atone roads cut and fill crushed katone surface surf nce cinder shell bank gravel ra rl beach gravel desert two trackers and so on oil no two good roads alike no two goof good roads are alile alil e good and careful a driver us as I 1 am alit I 1 darn near roller rolled over oer out west of alt lake city last summer kuni nier skidding in tile dust dry fluffy dust du st why if id been driving 20 miles instead inshan of careful 12 miles an hour v ibid dd rolled end over oer and it wits a rood good roll road it if you aou diew how to drive it yes sir mr there la Is not n road in nil all this united states fes not the ile best widest eldest finest smoothest smoot liest roll rond 1 that treacherous if a boins not used to it I 1 dout dont menu wildly qed td hummers but just common folte foils like nic me if you dont believe it you ou study stud the lie rond road accidents you come coine upon as you aldo across the country lint half f tile Is done where tho the road tipe tape changes clio iRes where it a man leases concrete mid lilts ailts oil or where liere lie leaves knus the uund sooim for hird hard pan A car drive twice mike on any roadway from froin new york to san 11 I 1 know now because ive inneo the trip where do tourists tourist coming east bang up with trouble its when they como come off hid roads into gowl good roads you take tile the western part of new york state and people leny leaving ag the good gordol roads of ohio after cross crossing ng tile the little neck of ohio dont have halt tile that people coming ea east it 8 have when they lilt hit tile fancy now new york brand of roadways job fur for nearest garage man now its ita the same way with call folin you take a man whoa ivil ol 01 run out of nevada or eastern california desert roads over tho sierra divide into tile paved ways of california ho feels relieved iles on oil good roads fit at last lies iles been careful for 2000 miles ile ho wants to stop step on er ile I 1 jo does ile iio lilts ailts a sharp turn and bingol bingo 1 the nigh wheels drop into the still sand and theres it a big jib iii for the garage in III tho nearest town speaking let me 1110 say that the man who alio drives over a read lie lias never driven before invites death or disaster ini ill aall all right on oil my old homo home road I 1 lilt hit up tit 40 miles till nn hour right along if I 1 know the roll road my carll stand it hut but on oil it strange road let me say im one of hoad thesa 15 boys I 1 have to have an all to ivain that it was just juat looking at tile accidents and figuring on them that gave we me the lie warning I 1 lip heeded eded now looft I 1 remember during the flays days when cars care were delivered by the thousand oy or the highways unit mid inece a fleet of a thousand cars fill all new and nil hound bound cast or south or west to a destination because tile the railroad boys were ivere laying down on their high wage jobs do you remember how ninny many of those cars were smashed up burned up or were shook half tople ces it was done by speeding over strange roads new driver apt to be careful it the now new driver who Is trapped by different roads it la Is just ns as apt to lo bo bf the old timer ilmer now new drivers are careful they learn around home ionic lilt the same roads every day alit and learn leni ein when they get good on oil tile home roads they start off on lilt hit another kind of good road and bangi smash up I 1 its just that way all over I 1 dont begin to clatin claim im an expert in all kinds of roads roada im not all iro im an expert in Is keeping keening out of trouble ive been through berthoud nert houd pass feet above tho ali jea iea and more than feet below the ocean can down in salton sink I 1 know enough to go slow what I 1 know its ita the good dmd that kills men dont break their necks speeding ovi on imil bud roads caught on good ronda roads the way I 1 said some pavement la Is deadly dangerous dring erous when its dry and some lome Is deadly dangerous when it la Is wor wet take concrete for example theres no cleaner driving in III tho the world than on concrete till tb side of duffalo Iluf falo tind and hero here and thero there lit in now york ond Crill fornia you havo have concrete roads now when they an hauling tiny liny for a bottom or orangel out ot of till nn irrigation Irrl Botlon project therell bo be about three rods of dirt on oil tile alio concrete its apt to 0 o bo be clay its just like daubs of axle grease on a i railroad track you lilt that stuff going right along feet feel it quiver and try to straighten up tip your steering wheel i stick slick around the easiest they over ever lid did you forget where your straight ahead 1 la and with tile alie rear end of tile car swinging s bluffing ahead abend you lilt hard pan iguls and shoot olt off into tile chaparral or you climb tile fence of the bu buffalo frill county club depending where youre at dry or wet both treacherous arci iche roua dry roads are tren treacherous charous rind wet roads ronda are anre trench treacherous erous therl are more accidents in western new from froin coming coining off poor roads onto good ones one than thero there tire are on roligh country roads where you know a road Is dangerous you go slow and careful where you think the road load Is not dangerous hut but it la Is n death trap you are in III of your life im thinking that when they have pied paved over oer tile alio llod mountains therell ile be n lot of f accidents dents because it seems g s so 0 easy en sy ive seen more alian wrecked cara beside tho the rond road ive seen 1110 ruins of ten tell times ns as many at ies the aliu country over not no t one but ennit came to till an untimely linely end deml because cit oh carelessness of come kind and ali nh limes bitnes out of ten tell the lie carelessness wr because tile driver was ns going too of fust on a road lie ho know lind nt at tile bot bottoms tolus of slopes in the big beautiful curs cars nit all skidded on oil dust on oil clay that looked solid on oil sand that was roller lear I 1 ings or on oil a long peeled log gilt putter I 1 cpr cross no sirl my boy you at fot your car dont you drive over tiny any I 1 strange road nt at more than 20 mlle nn an hour no mutter matter how good it Is it and it I 1 I 1 find lots of roads where its better to go under ten allea nn an hour than to go faster than that from the to tile the sierras Sl erral I 1 averaged seven sevell miles on an hour CO miles nt three hrco miles an hour one lay day and I 1 passed two cars before dark that left me behind in tile the morning busted themselves getting there HII go slow lot let the other fellow go by got there first farst anyhow nn hov |