Show ONE SIDE OF THE QUESTION Here is something to make all of us think It may be right i or it may be wrong But we give our views as they occur to us J An authority on the subject says traffic laws a are re now used i only as a yard-stick yard by which officers make arrests that nobody i e ever ever er intends to observe all aU of the rules when starting out with th the c car car r. r I 1 There is much truth in that statement tho we recognize the great value of strict regulation of vehicular traffic in the past But when the country wakes up to the fact that fewer instead of more traffic laws are needed we will have the responsibility of s safety fety thrown on the driver were it belongs instead of upon sonic some S sign at the side orIf or in err the middle of 01 the Uie road or street If every infraction of the recognized rules of safety were to b be placed und and r the head of reckless driving and prosecuted as as s such only ONE traffic law would be needed Each case would i then stand upon its own merits rather than upon an arbitrary S pY 71 and often valueless even sometimes dangerous traffic sign In many instances such Stich as in the case of boulevard stops there is no reason whatever to stop except that it is a violation of law not to do so Su Such h procedure isn't making our roadways safe safe Instead it is confusing and actually congesting traffic On the other hand when Mr l Other Fellow depends upon a sign to stop 1 lair Mr r. r First Fellow and Mr 11 First Fellow doesn't far bettel better better bet bet- ter tel had hac r there been no sign at all aU How much bet better er would it beto be beto to place the responsibility for safety upon All AU drivers so that whatever judgment and common sense and courtesy motorists have could be exercised along practical lines Why not put the fear of God instead of fear of a motor policeman into the soul of the driver 1 There never was and th there re never can be a sign that will fit fitall fitall fitall all conditions at all times Why subject the careful driver we believe that the great majority belong in this class to a regulation regulation regula regula- tion made only for the fool Society had better get rid of the fool instead of narrowing their commerce education and pleasure pleasure pleasure plea plea- sure by a regulation mac e for his recklessness and needed only because he is what he is Of course this argument is no different from that advanced in respect to any line of human activity where honest people are bound by red tape regulation taxation and useless rot all because because be be- cause somebody is crooked or might become crocked But a little little little lit lit- tle more severity with the wilfully wrong and a little less harshness harshness harshness harsh harsh- ness against the honest and taking care-taking citizen would be a wholesome wholesome wholesome whole whole- some move on the part of those in authority Such reforms o oT 01 course can never come about with a 40 percent per percent percent cent vote at elections a 5 per cent interest in public affairs and anda a 51 pr cent violation of those laws that are just and that afford afford afford af af- af- af ford protection to the individual and to society There are solutions however to the problem of traffic Safety education ranks highest in the pst More l stringent li license license li- li cense regulations will wiIl also te tend to eliminate the reckless just justas as railroads and bus lines have practically eliminated that class of There can be no proof fool-proof automobile nor an accident proof street or highway But there can be a nearly I fool proof examination for applicants to operate And a 3 Coddling I Sympathy Proof Prosecution Of Those Who Vho Endanger Lives I and Property I |