Show Doctor Lawyer and business Man Cause Most Auto Mishaps BT BY ERWIN EnWIN GREEK GREER Greer College of Auto Auto- Automotive motive Engineering Chicago Chicago Chicago- Illinois Accidents are far tar moro more common among highly Intelligent motorists than among car owners of ot Inferior menta mentality Quite a statement eh But Ill I'll prove It Statistics gathered over a per period iod lod of ot years prove that a greater proportion of accidents occur to professional men doctors men doctors law law- lawthan lawyers era and n biff butter and egg men than than truck drivers ers taxi drivers and laborers Now os as an Illustration take the collision with Ith a street car It usually happens to the chap who mindedly absentmindedly pulls out from the curb without looking back or giving warning to see lee It If f any other vehicle Is approaching who ho Ten to one Its It's a doctor causes the accident Why Be- Be Because Be Because cause his mind Is occupied with something say else else say a patient ina Ina in a critical condition or a business engagement Now watch the truck driver er or laborer He Ie always alwa's glances be- be behind be behind hind before pulling out from the curb and he never rams a 8 street streetcar streetcar streetcar car from behind Why Because his mind Is free tree from other worries and he attends attend to the business of driving There Is no one who has hu yet et determined where the lower limit of Intelligence Is below that which an applicant for tor a license cannot safely be trusted 1 with Ith a motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car I All AU of us are positive that per per- persona per persons sons sona known to be suffering from certain mental Illness or Insanities ought to be denied the the right to drive although other types pes of mental Illness In no way un unfit tit the owner to drive a car All students that leave my col- col college college college lege must before must before they graduate graduate- graduate have an expert examination which Includes a thorough road test and regulations an Intricate quit on traffic regula regula- r gula- gula as 81 well as psychological tests testa of reaction time with brakes brake adequacy ade- ade adequacy ade adequacy of eyesight and hearing judgment Of o distance correctness of reaction under conditions of surprIse and so forth But In those states where the the- the now motor car driver Is given a license to drive without a thor thoro thorough thorough ough test teat of his operating ability why real real motorists are helpless For your own and safety safety and the tho safety of those who really know how ho to make drIve drive make certain certain- that you know your stuff before taking the wheel |