The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-07-10

of road, I have been obliged to travel
most of the way in bitches. | have
been driven from the roads by auto
mobile road hogs who own the whole
road and never veer off until they
are within ten inches of the horses
noses or equal distance if they ap-
prOach from the rear.
It's surprising to- What extent the
speed mania has developed. Some
times when l can detect them, l
hustle for the ditch, even the old
horses have acquired the habit.
have known at time three or four OF
the speed maniacs have come in sue
cessiOn travelling at the rate of so to
so miles an hour. and if there hap
pens to- be a little mud on the road, l
emerge mud despatched, shell-shock-
ed and gassed or in dry weather l am
buried under an avalanche Of dust. I
would thank those auto maniacs not
to bury me alive and cheat the under
takeI, but it's of no use the blind
staggecs have effected their brain ana
they are not responsible for what
they are doing. | have enc serious
wish that the County Commissioners
would suspend all road work. What's
the use to grade up roads only for
the benefit of road hogs when nc. one
else is allawed to travel on them.
Kindly let me explain a real road
hog: how he looks. He is a hog
jOweled individual with four or five
days growth of underbrus.l covering
his face, while. the under lip is pro-
truding and hanging down like the
fender on a street car. You can see
in his face that the devil is working
him. He is either a booze fighter
/ bOotlegger or pettifcgger or a second
hand proaolnels and travels at the
/ speed of seventy-flve miles per hour
when he goes on his mUrderous pur.
suits. If he should happen to be the
last named, there is no salvation left
IN him, the sunshine in his soul has
clOuded up darker than a nigger's
ebony hue-step out of his way while
there is time.
Well, we are really not safe from
menace when we reach the streets oil
Plentywood. We got the pigeon
toed fappers and zippys to contend
with who are out riding after having
dipped their bobbed heads in a houl
barrel and smeared on a touch oil
linseed oil to make the veneer more
! permanent and hung a pair of zylC
shell-rimmed glasses on the point oil
their beak ready to make a nose dive
any moment. They are really dan
/ gerous and you can classify then
yourself as to what species they be-
! long. You have to watch out fol
your life while they are driving al
auto for they certainly won't They
are about as useful to a community
as grasshoppers less SO, for fish
bait.
And, Mr. Editor, l would like tt
inform your readers that l have made
arrangements with the Secretary Of
War to send me a twenty-five tor
caterpillar army tank. 1t will be here
in few days. When I get it I an
going to keep in the middle of the
road. l have been ihugging the ditch
long enough and l have nc doubt il
my mind but some auto fool will rur
into me. If he does, he better take
the hearse along to gather up the
remains il any are left, and let me
tell you that these automobile or traf
fic accidents are a deplcrable thing
for the nation and from what sta
tistics we can gather or read fol-
1924, $4,000 deaths and 675,OOO seri.
Gus accident have taken place. Oh
those casualties Is per cent were
children and my advice to some Of
those sporty speeders is to mend theil
ways in driving. True you have not
succeeded in killing anybody, not ev-
en- yourself, but you certainly triet
hard enough to jeopardize your owr
and everybody else's life who came
IN your way.
FRED LUNDBERG.
Unorganized Farmer