Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-08-05

railroad boys were laying down on
their high-wage jobsi Do you remem-
Der how many Of those cars were
smashed up, burned up, or were shook
half to pieces? 1t was done by speed
ing over strange roads.
New Driver Apt TO Be Careful.
at isn't the new driver who Is
trapped by different roads; it is Just
as apt to be the old-hmer. New driv-
ers are careful; they learn around
home, hit the same roads every day
and learn 'em. When they get good
on the home roads they start OF. hit
another kind Of good road, and bingi
Smash up!
''Its just that way all over. dont
begin to claim I'm an expert in all
kinds of roads; Pm not. All I'm an
expert in is keeping out of trouble.
I've been through Berthoud pass, H.
600 feet above the sea, and more than
40 feet below the ocean down in Sal
ton sink. know enough to go slow.
That's Wit know.
Its the good road that kills. Men
don't break their necks speeding on
bad roads, They're caught on good
roads, the way 1 said. Some pave
ment is deadly dangerous when it's
dry, and some is deadly dangerous
when 1t is wet, Take concrete, for
example. There's no cleaner driving
In the world than on concrete. This
side of Buffalo, and here and there
in New York and California, you have
concrete roads. Now, when they are
hauling hay for bottom, or oranges
out of All irrigation project, there'll
be about three rods Of dirt on the con-
crete It's apt to be clay. It's just
like daubs of axle grease on rail-
road track. You hit that stuff going
right along, feel it culver, and try to
straighten up. Your steering wheels
slick around the easiest they ever did.
You forget where your straight-ahead
is, and with the rear end Of the car |
swinging ahead you hit hard pan
again, and shoot or into the chaparraL |
Or you climb the fence Of the Buffalo
county club, depending where you're
at.
Dry or Wet, Both Treaeheroua
'Dry roads are treacherous and wet
roads are treacherOus. There are
more accidents in western New York
from people coming off poor roads on
to good ones than there are on rough
country roads.
"Where you know a road is danger
Gus you 90 slow and careful. Where
you think the road is not dangerous;
but 1t is death trap, you are In peril
Of your life. I'm thinking that when
they have paved roads over the Rocky
mountains there'll be a lot Of acci-
dents because 1t seems so easy.
'pve seen more than 200 wrecked
cars beside the road. I've seen the
ruins of ten times as many at garages
the country over. Not one but what
came to an untimely end because Of
carelessness Of some kind And nine
times out of ten the carelesshess was
because the driver was going too fast
on road he didn't know You'll find
at the bottoms Of slopes In the
Rockies big, beautiful cars, all ruined
-skidded on dust, on clay that looked
solid, on sand that was roller bear
ngs, or on long peeled log gutter
cross.
mo, sir! My boy, when you get
your car, don't you drive over any
strange road at more than 20 miles
IN hour, no matter how good it is, and
you'll find lots of roads where it's
Detter to go under ten miles an hour
han to go faster than that. From the
Rockies to the Sierras / averaged sew
N miles an hour-6O miles at three
niles an hour one day And passed
wo cars before dark that left me be-
Ind in the morning. They'd busted
themselves getting there, Eli.
go slow. Let the other fellow go r
y; you'll get there first, anyhow" l