Show disciplining our emotions necessary the second highway safety campaign article sponsored by the utah state press association was crowded out of our paper last week because of other news since it is to continue throughout the balance of the year there will be plenty of opportunity to feature some of the fine material provided for consideration much of which will apply to rural sections as well as to more congested areas one of these timely articles follows the statement by safety specialists that the majority of traffic accidents can be traced to emotional disturbances on the part of drivers is not particularly surprising when we think of our days when everything goes wrong we stub a toe getting out of bed cut ourselves es shaving slip on the soap growl at the coffee and snarl at the wife then we slam into the car race the motor strip the gears graze the garage doors and are off in a fog from the flooded carburetor we may be a 4 star driver other days but today were a menace to all and sundry and a natural for a bad accident all this is human nature of course but that mean that nothing can be done about it if drivers are willing to make a sincere effort for the sake of safety disciplining ones emotions is always hard but its nowhere nearly so hard as the physical and mental suffering that follows an accident what is is called for figuratively speaking is a safe driver personality to be donned the moment the motorist gets into the car and kept on until he gets out specifically it means being so safety conscious for or danger conscious that when he puts his hands on the wheel he automatically puts aside irritations and worries and lets a completely new set of reflexes take over that impossible it can be done it saves lives driving is a full time job it demands not only automatic skills but alertness and nd plenty of emotional control with thousands more cars on the road than ever before deaths and injuries w will i I 1 I 1 increase proportionately unless motorists will take the trouble to discipline their emotions in the cause of safe driving |