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Show DRIVERS SHOULD BE COURTEOUS Give the Other Fellow His Share of the Road and Avoid Accidents With the rapid Increase of motor travel on the nation's highways, there Is a growing demand that all motorists motor-ists observe with greater care some I of the simple rules of fairness and safety. The driver who refuses to show courtesy to other cars Is growing In disfavor, and his unpopularity bids fair to increase rather than grow less One of the most despised types of discourteous drivers Is the one termed inelegantly, but quite accurately Ihe ' road hog " He Is the fellow who Insists on taking two-thirds of the, road and crowding your car off the paved road when you meet him, or who refuses to turn out so you can gel by when you overtake him. By his tactlfiS he not only takes Joy out of the lives of other motorists, but also actually endangers their safety. Passenger car drivers might well follow tho example of drivers of motor mo-tor trucks on thla point of giving the other fellow his share of the road I -' ' ry motorist who spends much time on highways frequently by motor trucks knows tbni there seems lo bo a feeling of pride among the truck-driving truck-driving fraternity In having trucks show every possible consideration to olhor cars, says tho United Slates Tiro company. It Is a much less simple matter for u big truck to pull to one Bide than It Is foi a light passenger passen-ger vehicle, yet many a motorist touring tour-ing on heavily traveled roads will remember with what cheerful alacrity some heavily loaded truck pulled to one side to lei him pass at the very first blast of the born. In searching for s reason for the almost uniform courtesy shown by truck drivers, it is not necessary to look far Nearly every motor trucK bears conspicuously the name of the f.rm which own It. That truck is n touring advertisement of the company. com-pany. Every truck driver who is proud of his company knows that no easier method could be found of vstablishlng good Will for It than by manifesting on the highway the courtesy cour-tesy and fair dealing his firm stands for. If passenger cars were similarly placarded with ihe names of th ii ownorr. some drivers who now dash along the turnpikes with little ie-gard ie-gard for other people's rlghtx or comfort, com-fort, might Join the army of those who try to please. 11 would be mighty poor advertising for some business man who depends on public favor to rush about constantly showing discourtesy dis-courtesy to other motorists. |