Show Strictly Personal by Sidney J. Harris Chicago Daily New Columnist is an open letter to a about who forced me off the road while cutting in sharply and passing me on a hill yesterday Dear You may think you are a good and perhaps you I'd like you to keep in mind that most of your driving due to other Anybody can whip along the road as fast and as carelessly as you were There's no trick to that the new cars are loaded with power and pickup too much I'm Just remember that it was my alertness that prevented an accident on the not And the driver who was approaching us also had to brake suddenly and swerve in order to save your life and It Is not your courage or dexterity that has kept you alive as long as but the prudence and politeness of other You have been on our good will and sense of I wish it were possible to point out to you that you kind of driving is nothing but bad manners it is not or or Suppose you ran down a crowded pushing people out of your knocking packages out of ladies' hands and kicking children into the would be so heroic or manly about of Then why do you suppose that having pounds of steel under you makes it an There's nothing to be proud of in driving fast any fool can do It's a form of cowardice to threaten other not Suppose you beat mo at the or up the What does that except that the car you bought is You didn't make it's a commercial Anybody can buy one like and anybody can drive with a maniacal disregard for So don't take any pride in your deadly A real man is considerate and polite and takes chances only when it when his honor and conscience call out for it On the most of it's easy to tell the men from the boys for the men have to save the boys from the consequences of their foolish and needless |