Show COURTESY BASIS OF SAFE CONDUCT I It Is almost axiomatic writes the manager of ot a traffic bureau that safe sate conduct on highways is founded on courtesy A million detailed tra traffic c rules cannot cover up that fact There Is no substitute for or courtesy any anywhere where least of o all on a crowded hIghway There used to be more ot or it H thIs traffic man says than the ther Is now That was wag In the day days when au- au automobiles au automobiles were new Dew and few It was natural then for drivers driven to treat each other courteously as they would do in meeting neigh neigh- neighbors neighbors bors bon on the street or touching el- el elbows el elbows bows with them at theatre or church But with the Increase of traffic pressure on space and nerves they have bave lost that old spirit of mutual accommodation It may be harder now DOW not mere mere- merely merely ly because there are so many more cars on the road but be because cause all kinds of people are driving them There may be larger proportion of boors and thug thugs behind steer steer- steering steering ing v wheels than there were In the traffic days of ot ten to fifteen years ago Yet It H Is still I still true that courtesy 1 IS the great solvent Gentlemanly and Gentlemanly and ladUke ladylike conduct I Is contagious and tends to multiply Itself on the road as asIt a asIt It does anywhere else |