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Show Driving1 a Privilege Not a Right It Is high time we realized that the operation of a motor car on the public highways Is a privilege--not a right. Every automobile is a potentially lethal weapon. Properly used, it is one of man's most desirable mechanical me-chanical servant-. Improperly used It Is a terrible menace to the lives, health and property of everyone In the area it travels. Rigid training is necessary to obtain a license to pilot an air plane yet the plane travels empty airways where, generally speaking. It cannot endanger others. Locomotive Loco-motive engineers must likewise undergo un-dergo years of arduous experience, end must prove their physical and mental competence and responsibility responsi-bility before being entmrted with a train yet a train operates on tracks, and has no traffic congestion conges-tion problem!-. Still, In most states we allow anyone whether he be competent or incompetent, careless or recklss, of good habits or bad to drive a car on crowded arteries of travel, where the slightest error of Judgment may cause a death! It is an undeniable fact that a considerable percentage of the people peo-ple now driving rhould either be denied that privilege or fcrced to undergo a period of training to make them abler, safer car opera tors. Some of these people are physcally incapable of driving properly. pro-perly. Many more are mentally Incapable, In-capable, congenitally Incompetent, or reckless. And the toll is 35,000 llvs a year. We will never solve the accident problem until we adopt drivers' licensing li-censing regulations that will kep the incompetent and reckless driver dri-ver off the -public roads. No man has a "right" to drive until he can show definitely that he Is worthy of the "privilege" bestowed upon him. |