Show i Disciplining Emotions Emotions' i iThe 1 The statement by safety specialists I that the tho majority of traffic accidents ran can be traced to emotional disturbances on the part of ot drivers is not particularly surprising when we think of our own I days when everything goes wrong W We stub a a. too toe getting out of bed cut ourselves ourselves our our- I selves shavIng slip on the soap growl grow I at the coffee and snarl at the wile wife i I Then we slam into into- the car car race thEt I motor motor strip the gears graze the garage doors and are off oft in a fog tog from the th I flooded carburetor We may be a star 4 driver other days but today were we're f R a menace to all and sundry and a 1 natural for tor a bad accident All this is human nature of ot course but that doesn't mean that nothing car carbe cats be done about it tt If drivers are willing tomake to tomake tomake make a sincere effort for tor the sake of safety Disciplining ones one's emotions III la 15 always hard but Its It's nowhere nearly so soI I hard as aa the physical and mental sufferIng suffering suffering suffer suffer- ing that follows an accident What is called for for figuratively speaking speaking speak speak- ing is a Safe Driver Personality to be donned tho moment the motorist getsin gets getsIn getsIn In the car and kept on until he gets out SpecIfically It tt means being so BO safety safety safe safe- safe ty ty conscious or danger conscious that I when he be puts his hands on the wheel he be automatically puts aside irritations and worries and lets a completely new I set of reflexes take over That Isn't ImI impossible im Im- I possible it can cal be done it saves lives Driving Is la a time full-time job It demands I not only automatic skills but alertness and plenty of emotional control With thousands more cars on the roads than thai I ever before deaths and injuries will increase uv crease proportionately unless motorists I will take the trouble to discipline their emotions in the cause of safe sate driving |