St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-07-02
I'm Woman's World.


in business and regarded as sane, de-
liberately directing his chauffeur TO
carry his own wife and children and
invited guests at such Wanton, reck-
less and criminal speed as to endan-
ger not only their own lives but also
to imperil the lives Of every pedes-
trian and driver OF horses who may
happen to be crossing the way. And
vet such accidents are of almost daily
occurrence. The speed mania seems
to have become a prevalent disease
not d microbe or germ disease-but
a malady made up Of simple selfish.
ness and reckless hoggishness. A
man buys a machine geared to The
capacity of a gpeed Of fifty miles o.
more an hour, and, of course, he
wants 10 show it, and sooner or later
he will show it. He does not PAP
for such capacity of speed unless biz
means to use it. The coWardly at.
tempt to lay the responsibility upor
the chaufFeur's pleasure driving
will not do. The owners do not buy
high-geared machines for the pleas
ure Of their servants. As a matter
Of fact, a great many of the owners
Of high-geared automobiles arr guilty
Of manslaughter when they start,
They buy high-geared machines and
pay great prices for the purpose Of
speed, and they indulge that speed
in violation of law, knowingly and
recklessly and wantonly. At avery
boulevard and bridge and crossing
they push ahead OF carriages, as.
Stunning the right to cross ahead OF
other vehicles at high speed. They
pause for no one. They toot their
impertinent horns al al the travelling
public in city and in country, and
menace human life and limb on every
corner.
OF course there are many excep-
tions. Many automobiliats deplore
the awful recklessnesa that has be.
spattered bouleYards with blood and
rendered helpless for all their lives
the victims oYergun and crippled.
It should be said in justice to many
automobiiists that after running over
people they have stopped and render
cd quick assistance and have furnish
ed flowers for the funerals Of their
victims, although in q great many
instances it appears that the greatest
utility which high-speed gearing ac-
complishes is getting away from the
corpse before the machine numbers
can be detected. In q recent case in
New York the victim was carried on
the fender Of the auto quite d dis
lance before he fell dead upon the
street, and The driver hurried out Of
sight, as ID usually the case. The
court sentenced him to the psniten-
tiary on q charge OF manslaughter,
which is probably the only conviction
of the kind up to this date, notwith-
standing the fact that il most ID
stahcss q 9 2 owners ana the
guilty.
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aIlvsr q . morse mould speea u
shEouga tne ssfeets % 9 pace OF nI.
zen mes 81 our On even az haif
Tug pace snae sae aasonoolles usual
y la1' olaceI ana eYeFy eitlzen
"ould Lusn 70 caech tne animal.
announcer selange snlng recently
poInssa Y ~ 9 trial Jndge-you
ssluom near ol ah a0sotno0le surg
~ . COW oF steam roiler. "
ehsh she speeoefs tske notlce; OF
= women ana children little no
! : y saken' lney are Felled upon
~ yieIu ehe anu highways 20
we aasos.
70 sns country, up 90 WITHIN re-
eshG Jays women haDl5aally drove 60
soan 20 90 shelf shopping; Today
you seioon see 2 woman driving on
sae highways 2 ear OF autofl1o.
plles. PsIhsps 9 70 9 tnonsand Oh
our popaiagloh mas an auto. Inc
oeheF nine nunafea ana nihety-1iae
muse stay as = % ehe country OF
aoege 70 save enelr iiVes 10 cities.
Nny sao1la elts aalV fiods OF
human llle pc pala 90 sfe Follicking,
Waneo greed o. IeW--ah minutes