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Show ONE AUTO CLUB LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN... Some Drivers Act Late for Their Accidents . . . AGAINST THE SAFE AND SANE DRIVER By H. I. PHILLIPS ALL DONE BY DAWDLERS TITATCH OUT! You're apt to get ' hit by a careful automobile operator, bub! You can never tell what those driven who are in no hurry may do next. Whammo! I knew It ... . another smashup due to one of those scourges of the highway, the cautious autoist! The Automobile Club of New York, through William J. Gottlieb, Gott-lieb, its president, Issues (with a straight or nearly so, face) a statement saying that dawdling dawd-ling drivers are a menace to safety, and urging that something some-thing be done about tbem. "While it is commonly believed be-lieved that Irresponsible, speeding, speed-ing, intoxicated or reckless drivers cause most accidents, many may be traced to those who drive cars too slowly," says the statement. "When these slow drivers move out of the right-hand lane," says Mr. Gottlieb, "they create perils for faster drivers." (Ya don't say!) "This is utterly selfish and provocative pro-vocative of accidents," he adds. (How about some traps for slow drivers?) However, "Anything to make the highways safer!" is our motto. So let's rush up the following caution cau-tion signs at once: DRIVE FASTER for SAFETY'S SAKE! KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS! IT SAVES LIVES DON'T 'DAWDLE! SCHOOL ZONE AHEAD Or perhaps a few reading "SLOWPOKES CAUSE ACCIDENTS," ACCI-DENTS," "TAKING YOUR TIME FORBIDDEN," "ARE YOU DRIVING FOR PLEASURE? PLEAS-URE? SHAME ON YOU" and "DON'T RISK LIFE AND LIMB BY PROCEEDING WITH CAUTION." Of course, it is just possible the auto club is looking for some publicity. pub-licity. Auto associations are like that. But it Is dangerous stuff these dizzy days on the highways to belittle the' slow driver and classify him with the drunk, the roadhog and the speed maniac. The dawdlers are mighty few and you never hear of one running over a child, crushing a baby carriage on a crowded sidewalk or going through a drugstore window. And who are those rough, tough, inconsiderate inconsider-ate schmoos who may be seen tearing down our crowded highways high-ways at homicidal speed in trailer trucks? Just dawdlers out for a pleasant dawdle, eh? (Note: At this point this article had to be concluded. The writer I heard a terrific crash and rushed out to see what had happened. He found a truck, a bus and two sedans full of picknickers In a tangled mass. WeH, that's what comes of caution.) Anne Notre, the Jersey gal, who won that "Hollywood Calling" Call-ing" gets among other things a trip abroad, an ermine coat, a diamond ring, a sedan, two poodles and a year's supply of dog food free . . . That stirs ye ed. "There is no need for anyone to intervene between the businessman and the government in procuring government contracts. Let me repeat, there is no need to have any broker between the businessman business-man and the government to do business." Louis Johnson. Well, we'd like to see some newspaper news-paper send a businessman to Washington about doing business with it and, record his progress trying try-ing to see the right man. "Ignorance and uncertainty on the part of the businessman as to I how he should proceed and whom he should see have been the basic causes for his succumbing to the five percenters," added Mr. Johnson. John-son. Never was a truer word spoken. spok-en. And the bureaucratic red tapers, whose chief delight is playing play-ing hard-to-find and whose motto is "Never do anything in a half hour that can be stretched over a month," would die rather than relieve re-lieve the ignorance and uncortm'n- ty. .YE GOTHAM BUGLE & BANNEB Tobacco Road reached London the other night .... British stamina continues con-tinues to get a rigid test .... Western Union reports a deficit of nearly four million .... Those "Having wonderful won-derful time; wish you were here" telegrams tele-grams must have been cut to "Arrived Okay. Toots." . . . And nobody wants a singing telegram unless ifs delivered by Ezio Pinza .... Ginger Rogers it divorcing her third husband .... Love is like that. |