Show WARNING AGAINST KNIGHTS OF ROAD practice of picking up strangers proved by records to be harmful with tile opening of fine pleasant weather the bons eons of esiau who have holed up are agalli again afoot on tho the t 1 y s of f ti the 1 0 netlon tl 0 ac according e 0 arding to ado stilt t u 1 0 t 0 r ts t w 1 ho i 0 e si f follow 0 1 tow tile tho practice lice of picking up stran gers on tile the road these restless souls ando impatient by nn an enforced sojourn in one place for tile the months of tile the ruins rains and cold are now in a hurry to bo be going somewhere else going anywhere they are going north or south rind some east cast or west few know whither they tire ire going or how far all that tant seems to interest them la Is n change of scenery it new nev environ environment men now new to faces ces no matter on which highway one travels travel i nowadays now adaya thero there ono one will see numbers of these birds of passage trudging along the road going some where oliero anywhere somo some of them are honest workers who are seeking new jobs and lacking the ho necessary railroad or stone star fare are making the journey on foot cut but roost most are merely tramps weary williea bos bon there was a time when these latter birds of passage made a practice oll 0 jg their patronage to the exclusively when they made their long jumps they rode tho the rods or blind baggage and the side door pullman was travel do imo to these cheso gentry in recent years they have made a radical change in their methods of travel tho the increasing number of passenger automobiles and trucks has been making the highways easy for thero them now they travel by auto when they con can and that la Is just the trouble they so 0 o very frequently can and do motorists tourists ts most of whom are far more kindhearted and generous than they should be for their own good do not hesitate to stop on oil signal from these knights of the road and carry them ua its far as they desire to go regret generosity there are ninny many instances where have regretted this generosity it has haa resulted in their being found on the roadside sons sans auto sains purse and almost sons life itself police throughout the nation are full of such cases and yet human nature Is such that motorists will keep on doing the saine thing ehno after time thile heedless of the lie warning contained in newspaper accounts of theft and almost fatal assaults by members of this army of ride graft 11 ers era the wise wine motorist Is lie ho who will not lot a lift to these sentry gentry who will go on oil ills his way unmindful of the stop signal so urgently waved in ills path |