South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-31
LOOK OUT AUTOMOBILES CHIEF KERR
HAS FOUND A LAW
JULY 81, 1917.

Thanks awfuIly! Chief Kerr and. his braves 10
enfoI DINNER the state statute books
And, while you're thanking. thank US 700. Thank us
fer bringing the police that there
such a law. and finally ridculing them into tacking
enforcement Of IT, It is an interesting commentary
on the administration of the local police department
that though this an administration pledged to the
enforcement OF all law and notwithstanding that
law law. directions seem necessary be obtained
from somewhere as to which laws all laws" and when
is administrative policy to enforce them.
An effort TO get the police enforce the DINNER
first started by News-Times reporter some
ter days ago Credit him the start. Driving
automobile I've encountered the DANCE of the bright
lights glazing incidentally suggested to
these lords public honor and safety-that while
they are yanziug up all "speeders"- have the
Of them dismissed might be well to give some
attention the glazing headlights OF course he was
forthwith looked upon as a dub, "smart-aleck" a
'meddler'. and heaven only knows what else some
thing to be to save action board
safety could wake mp suppose and. the
safety couldn't wake up until the city attorney
had given opinion, and then probably. orders
could be given until the members of the board-and
possibly the mayor-had secured DINNERS for their
own machines so as to escape arrest themselves
Now Chief Kerr is quoted saying:
The officers have been instructed to warn
All violators Of the law for the past two weeks
The excuse of the Ford owner or the driver of
any other car. who states that ne cannot dim
his lights will not hold good i'm court etc, etc"
the chief save any such interview, Monday.
ev substance. claimed. either he preyaricated.
in art or else certain his men have been prevari-
cat X week. His patrolmen have been claimils
along thai they would make arrests
for violation law was they had no orders to
do anything in .ident the DINNER law.
About the middle of the week the matter brought
:he o. city Judge Hammerschmidt. he
before the morning carried story from
police headquarters enforcement would begin that
night and the aforesaid News-Times reporter dub
etc, was go alous To- witness the violations When
the time start the city of gasoline %.
and when Tie News-Times rendered the price Of a
sufficient suppl order help "pauper mu-
nicipality" there was another "sdestep'@ something
else TWO hours later there seemed plenty Of
gasoline; the motorcycle cop roaring through the
streets HES a mailman: "on ON a raid" said head
but n raid maeralized.
that is. unless a raid "speeders'
"Speeders'. rear-lights .lost numbers seem about
the only things the automobile lire entertain the
single-lobe brain Of police departments directed
by the chief hoard safety mp present Now
that they have q bunch. we suppose we can look out
for another hobby. merely mention the thing in
passing becauss of the great eusto with which the
ehief rushes mtc print. though ne discovered
something terribly criminal tut had been very
itaran to prospective volators and was ready now to
bite the head Off from nail The automobiIus public
has been warned by the police department with
reference the Of "dimmers--it not necessary
that IL should bC-but If there be any blur on
subject the warning ought TO have gone farther
than the automobile owners i'm The city administration
Naturally the police department. is peeved; peeved
because IL has something more 10 do and something
worth while ami assuredly should DE preceded by a
brass band and much noise especially since being
driven 10 e. b. the same process may eventually
get motor boss. properly equipped TO operate the
river when there drowniuss and maybe too a pull
motor luug-motor. or something that viii operate.
with somebody around that knows how operate them
on such occasions