Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-03-31
SPEED COP GIVES WAUSAU A
BAD NAME; TOURISTS DETOUR

the law. This may be the course un-'
less local opinion crystalizes against
it. Instead. the sensible citizens says
it would be better for the "Speed Cop"
to drive alongside of the tourist who
is slightly exceeding the local speed
limit and say: Here friend, / am
here to enforce the law and think it
would be best for you to travel little
slower. Is there any way / can help
you to find the best road out of here 2"
Some greeting like this will leave the
tourist with favorable impression of
the community and it will mean that
he doubtless will return again.
Receives Letters
A while ago the following letter IL
Illustrative of a dozen that have been
received by w. R. Chellis, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce, was re-
ceived from Chicago doctor who had
been spending the summer up north.
Dear Sir:
ION May 3Oth, 1920, while travelling
north to my summer home in Minoc-
qua, Wisconsin, by automobile, was
arrested and fined for speeding in
Schofield. At that time / was actually
travelling is miles per hour-over the
village limit of 15 miles to be sure but
certainly not 35 miles per hour as
charged This was the first and only
time in several years OF city and
country driving that I have ever been
arrested for speeding. On a recent
trip north | find that the wholesale
arrests in Schofield still continue and
had an opportunity recently to OBJ
serve how out of state automobilists
are picked up at the foot of the hill
on the south end of the town.
Il am writing for this reasonAit
has been my custom and that of many
of my friends to make Wausau head
quarters for meals, supplies and to
stop there overn: ght on the way north.
This year | have deemed it advisable
to avoid Schofield and so have taken
another route north. missing Wausau
entirely. | find that the garagemen
and tourists throughout the northern
country are well informed as to the
tourists complaints about their treat
ment in Schofeld'and are advising all
autonObilists to avoid Wausau and to
take the east road through.
Il feel as though this matter may be
OF some interest to you
/ Very Partial, Too
This is just a sample of the letters.
Others complain of the Wausau sys-
tenn and some of the treatment ac-
corded them at Rothschild. And par
tally. too, is a matter than can we'll
be criticized. Only last fall promi-
nent persons. We're arrested by the
Wausau Speed Cop" who when he
learned their names turned deep
purple and said if they would only
turn around and run their aut tomobile
through mud two feet deep to the right
of a dummy policeman, he wouldn't
arrest them. They agreed that they
would rather appear in court than
comply with his request, whereupon
the request was withdrawn
Much is being done this year to
provide pleasant camping sites for
tourists and every effort is being made
to attract them to this route. How
ever, if speed Cops persist in en-
forcing the law to the letter without
the use of discretion-and most speed
laws allow reasonable discretion
they will discourage more than any,
thing else can increase, the use of To-
cal highways as routes to northern
wisconsin lakes.
No speed Cop" is supposed to be
a highwayman. His object is to ar
rest as few as possible and yet en-
courage observance of the law