Show PSYCHOLOGY THAT BLAMES BAD DRIVING DR IV IN G.- G. ee r witchell Scores I Accident Prone Theory 1 e e ON CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR IS DEBUNKED By Bv H. H I. I PHILLIPS ON ROAD MENACES A speaker at a convention of psychiatrists psychiatrists psychiatrists declares that accident accident- prone auto drivers are people who at the wheel of a car behave just justas as they have bave behaved from child child- hood It is the folks who have been inconsiderate Intolerant of authorIty authority authority author author- ity and generally social anti-social from infancy up who drive carelessly he says I If a mans man's personal life lite is marked by caution and tion his driving will be marked by it If Il his life lito Is marked by contrary characteristics his driving will be beso beso beso so marked the speaker insisted Elmer Twitchell the eminent student of human behavior disa disa- grees And hotly The delicatessen II dealers have a name for it he said today Any theory that auto auto- I isis behave the way they do because because because be be- cause they threw their rattle at the nurse in Infancy resented the schoolteachers schoolteacher's a aut authority u t h o 0 r i t y and robbed birds' birds nests is the bunk The plain inescapable fact is that human buman being finds the minute a himself at the wheel of an auto he becomes a different personality A fellow who takes off his old hat bat In elevators helps ladies across streets and writes books on politeness will chase his fellow man up an alley yell at school children and cuss out pedestrians for getting in his flivver way once he is in a The kindliest gentleman in the community known for his warm smile takes on the instincts instincts instincts in in- of a gorilla the minute he finds himself himsel tooling the sedan down Main street I will lay you 50 to 1 that the psychiatrist who made that speech at the convention is a refined well well- bred gent whose heart bleeds for his fellowman when afoot but who leers at red lights barks at fellow creatures and snaps at policemen when hurrying through town in theold the theold theold old boiler Its one of the mysteries of life liCe and it has nothing to do with c childhood Ii h I II I d h o 0 o 0 d generally speaking I can stand on any street in America and point out college professors lawyers school principals gardenia growers lecturers on good manners and men of Chester- Chester backgrounds roaring by and snarling at slow gaited pedestrians with the ferocity displayed by gangsters fugitives fugitives fugi fugi- tives lives from chain gangs and all allaround allaround allaround around heels Im no exception mores more's the pity On my feet I am sweet as they come I am a model of 01 good behavior in any company I open doors for ladies show the aged every consideration and try to o be gracious on a broad scale B But t its it's a quick switch from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde when I take the wheel of the old And so do you and and you you and you Theres There's something something something some some- thing about an automobile that changes human buman character Early childhood tende tendencies n neye CI eye i Here are some intereSting h his histories tor i e s on accident drivers offered as SUbjects for r study I CASE J Jeptha eptha truck driver Mr Finc drives a 15 t ton recklessly ignoring all speed takes turns at 60 per hour and never been known to heed a a light Report As a baby J was allowed to pound o on high with bottle mother had u ri nine dren then and was too busy t to r re tz his early instinct to spear liv live S fish with fork e early schooling g f under teachers who failed to I all other pupils home and Just iut i on Jeptha t l CASE 2 Geoffrey Geoffrey 4 truck operator and chronic through dense traffic Geoffrey h ha a batting average of cf one bad i i. i is dent per month but always se se seto sees to get out of it through of authorities He particularly coasting downhill through j zones Report His inclinations j jall all due to a n selfish mother t used to wheel Geoffrey aroud a baby carriage unequipped j brakes and horn The father c cread e read Emily Post t CASE 3 Cropper college freshman j fc unnecessarily curbed if il asked aske to less than 55 per hour in city and 70 In suburbs loves loves' drive hands no across city p pj pT grounds Report From age of ot i months to year and a half hail he s v allowed to scream at nurse fro froage age of 3 to 5 instinct to pour 1 porridge on oa the cat uncurbed 7 ther bought him a velocipede t early and failed to read him bin th la laws ws on rules of road each ri cl EJ before putting him bim to bed CASE 4 Mrs Arabella stone 29 This woman bach baw without signals makes U U-tumi impulse never bothers to hi hi haT brakes tightened and free forgets to put on lights at rig cl |