Show YANKS HAVE SPEED MANIA I x 2 2 ALIENISTS ARE PERTURBED Dy Uy LESTER H II FORD What's your hurry That chiding question rarely is Ie asked In the motor car world ex- ex except ex except by I a traffic vigilante or I a driver whose hose car and person have been endangered by some other driver The average man who Is fe bent benton benton benton on buying an automobile or an airplane may ask as his hie first Question the price of the convey convey- conveyance conveyance conveyance ance offered him but the runner up query Is the power or HOw flow fast can con she Ibe go It has hIlS come corne to be a 0 cardinal passion with the American people to arrive arrivo somewhere In the short shortest est eat possible time from a II given ghen point ot of departure This passion expresses Itself most pervasively automobile circles for tor the simple reason that there thero are so 60 many automobiles It Ie wedo wo we wedo do not hear so 10 much about It In airplane traveling It Is because airplanes are still confined to the few Nerve specialists are consider consider- considerably considerably considerably ably perturbed by this latter latter day mania for tor speed They find that It tends to make men and women wrestles and aDd high strung and to reduce their capacity tor for relaxation relaxation tion The average person will w be inclined to say My to the alienist warning I should worry A better way to reach rench his Intelli Intelli- Intelligence Intelligence gence and to control its hi actions action le II leto Ito to dwell soberly on the question of safety safely to life lire limb and prop prop- property property erty city A few tew years ears ago some lome of the railroad companies companie were bitten by bythe bythe the speed germ Thus Inoculated they ran trains for a time from Chicago to New York and vice versa in eighteen hours houn and other trains to the coast In few few- fewer fewer few fewer er hours than had been done hitherto Then they acquired a amore amore amore more sensible hunch They were going too far tar In courting danger or flouting safety and they lengthened the running time ot of their last fast trains Very little Is heard th these se days daYI of speed competition by railroad trains The competition rather hu has been In the direction of reo re- reducing re reducing I the hazards ot of railroad travel The companies have In- In Installed installed In Installed stalled all sorts of safety devices partly to be sure because legal legal- legally legally ly Iy required to do so 10 but more largely of late Ido on their own Ini Ini- Ini Initiative Initiative because they believed It to tobe tobe tobe be good policy and good business Railroad boasting today Is 13 not about speed with which gerB gers gerl are lue carried from place to place but about the number of oC aggregate miles trains are run without hi havoc voc to life and pros pros- prosperity prosperity It Is a good example the rail rail- railroads railroads railroads roads are setting Sooner or la later la- la later later ter there thero will be talking primarilY In terms of oC safety safely Instead ot of speed by the tho owners oner and drivers of automobiles Hurry hasn't In Increased In- In Increased creased human happiness in the mass and It has not enhanced general prosperity It does not give a man an n advantage over the other fellow because the oth other oth- oth other other er fellow has a car also The automobile Is Ii at its Hs very best asa as asa asa a blessing when It ft is 11 used die dis- discreetly dis discreetly erectly and with due regard for forthe forthe forthe the safety first principle Trag Tragedy edy and the compulsion ot or pub pub- public public lic lie opinion will some lome day give to safety Its rightful place In to the whole or of the transportation scheme |