Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-07-17
GEORGE JACOBSON, Publisher
"APAcHEs OF THE HIGHWAY"

declares they are more dangerous
man tn Romans who put scythes OF
LAe huDS or Their chariots to NOV
d0wl ,he populace; that the maniaca
speed demons xiii more people in a
year than Muraerels do and that tbs
pubic, including the vast majority oil
automobile owners, is about ready tC
adopt drastic methods to hold them In
subjection. The Colonel goes on tc
say:
The man who drives his automobile
hard heartedly oyor DOG and can
near the poor brute yelp out its life
without turning back has the making
OF a murderer in his heart The
driver who runs full speed through a
flock OF geese or chickens and grins
when the feathers fly Is an appalling
menace to society, for no one knows
what he will do next. He ID the man
VINO DOS not stop when he runs down
a human being!
Sunday, the day of rest and recrea-
ton for the Automobiles, is the
day OF labor for the Apache of the
road. 1t is the only day in the week
when the man VINO has accumulated
enough to buy an antideiuvan car
can get the opportunity to show his
recklessness. Nobody would mind if
he only hurt himself in his display s
OF seHishn SIS, but he generally comes
out of The wreck unscathed. 1t is the
man who is observing all the rules
Of the road who is the innocent suf-
ferer.
You can tell the Apache by his face.
Most Of these road hogs look like
whopper-jawed bulldogs. His hat
or cap is tilted to one side. You
couldn't get the automobile Apache
to wear his headgear straight. You
may De fairly certain, too, that the
man who burns up the road has not
owned car long, nor does he own
more than one. I'll person TO whom
tn posse ssion OF an autmbile is
merely an incident Is seldom an
Apache of the road.
Road Apaches may be divided into
several classes. There is the type
who starts out with a bunch for joy
ride. He is the pilot His license is
the compass that points to the chain
of roadhouses where liquid JOY is on
tap at all hours. We all know him,
and have learned to give him wide
birth-if we know in time that he is
coming.
Then there Is the rich-man 's-son
brand of road Apache. Fortunately,
h s getting rarer because our young
oloods have got over the motor craze
and are devoting more time to the
tango than to road-burning. Also he
Is not 50 noticeable because there are
so many other Apaches that he, the
rich mans son, has become lost to
Snt in the ruck.
Next we have the motorcycle
Apache. His habitat is the middle of
the road, and he comes along in
strings, one behind the other. You
think the bunch has passed-three,
four, five or SIX of them-when
siz-p-p!! and another has gone by, |
missing your law-ab.ding car by an
inch or two or coming so close to
the pedcs rian that he jumps out of
a years growth
We also know the Apache who
thinks he Is privileged to race along
a turnpike at sixty miles an hour to
beat The railroad train to the next
crossing. Gates are no bar to him in
his. had career. The Other day |
saw wagon, an automobile and a
rain all racing for the same cross
ng on curve, and thought: when
SHALL we three meet again?"
Last Sunday on Long Island alone
here re nine cases where machines
had smashed through gates In order
% beat the oncoming train to the
The Long Island railroad
las had ninety-five gates smashed in
me year There is hardly a day
when | don't get a case.
Another brand Of road Apache is
he man who coasts wildly down hill /
md doesn't give the man who is
climbing the same hill the right of
way. All Automobiles know him. !
The woman Apache is hard to han
die. Because of her sex she feels
hat d ference is due her on the road
all men must take to the cutters. !
III uses the middle of the road in =
tead OF keeping on the proper side, /
o the discontinue of every car she n
q 2ets. r
But the meanest Of all Is the off
ial Apache of the road. Who hasn't T
cen him? He is the city place holder
lie thinks he owns the earth. His c
usiness is no more important than /
nybody else's, but he imagines he
lust get there mile a minute. And G
he policeman whose business it is
, see that all traffic laws are obeyed +
alutes him and yells at other people
, get out of the way! +
HIS remedy Is in a rigid enforce
lent of the law and the imposition ]
heavy fines or the annulment of G
he license in case of repetition of Y
he off nse. r
Every portion of the United States Y
cursed by speed fiends. They are
menace to pedestrians but more es- Z
ecially to the decent automobilists.
hey take advantage of lack of sur. A
eillacne in back streets and on coun- d
y roads and endanger every other fl
aveler. Q
There Is no question that they N
lould be promptly suppressed, and Ii