The Washington times., 1925-05-15
With the
IAlibiArtists.
"A Cross Section of the
Daily Grind in Judge
Schuldt's Court.
Read EN- and Weep,
By DONALD McDOUGAL.
By DONALD McDOUGAL.
Economy.

We see by the papers IHdL tilS
Traffic Director office Is going
to have a system for tabulating
automobile accidents, so he can
find out what makes them nap
pen. Then he can formulate regu-
lations, like the present headlight
law, for instance, to prevent them.
The work will be done by ma
chimes, that classify and count up
the records at the rate of a hun-
dred and sixty cases per minute
which sounds ominous.
OF course. a large number OF
cases will have to be analyzed
before any reliable conclusion can
be drawn, and that's why were
sorry the new code has cancelled
a very useful regulation that was
in the old one.
Under the old regulation, II you
slammed a pedestrian or smashed
a car, and there was no one around
that was conscious or not, ami IL
you hit a car and the owner or
operator isn't present, you must
give your name, etc, to ':y-
standers. If it's late at night. and
there aren't any bystanders, yol
should worry. The code doesn't
require you TO report your acci-
dent to the police under any cir.
cumstances.
That will save the tabulating
machines lot of work that
would have come to them under
the old regime, and the District
will lose the benefit Of the ex.
perience from those cases.
Looks like the new code should
be amended or something SOS to
compel colliding motorists to re-
port to the police whenever they
have an accident-in the excite
ment you might forget to ask
the bystander's name, or he
might be in California when the
case comes to trial.
Some More OF The Same
We got a letter this morning
that reads: You've got onto a
dangerous track. Look out! One
of those friends of the fellows
who owned poor and broken
down old horses; or who walked
on old creaking joints; was
obliged to drink hemlock.
Good luck to you and your. ex-
cellent work! But beware how
you undertake to defend what is
RIGHT"
We thank the writer for an en-
couraging and stimulating letter.
We like to get communications
of that sort-all except that hem
lock stuff.
That's bad medicine. for sure,
and Socrates didn't drink 1t ALL
There's lots Of 1t kicking around
yet-changed a good deal in the
course of evolution, but still run.
ming strong.
You never can tell when you're
going to splash into some of 1t
you may find it in your pay
envelope. or perhaps you'll run
across some in your empty ice
chest.
We've been drinking It for forty
years and it's started to under.
mine our constitution ,@but we've
acquired the habit now and can't
leave off.
Where we've got 1t on Socrates,
he took things too seriously. He
should have told those Athenian
diet dictators that it's cheap.
skate trick to say Have one on
me- and then tell the guest what
to order.
In the best circles you're sup
posed to pick out your own poi
son, the only exceptions being in
Greece (B. c.. 469-399) and the
United States "a. D., 1902.
If this be treason, bring on your
hemlock.
In Memoriam
We took a run up Sixteenth
street and back last night and
saw only four dazzling lights
what you'd call really bad. The
others all had their DINNERS oil,
which made driving a lot more
comfortable.
That was the second night after
the director had announced
through The Washington Times
that brought lights would not he
required any more on Sixteenth
and other electrically lighted
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