Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-28

| something drastic must be done
about our traffic situation. And
this applies to the nation as a
whole, small towns and big cities
alike.
Would we tolerate any other
| feature of our life that took 20, =
| 900 lives a year? Tha. is traf-
| hcs toll.
Better licensing systems, more
and better trained police, wider
highways and uniform traffic con-
troll rules are needed, badly. But
even more we need a realization
, by each driver of his response
bility.
The truly careful driver ocA
casionally has an accident. But
not often.
He isn't responsible for very
many of the 10000 a year.
The majority of states have az
yet failed to enact automobile
drivers license laws.
Properly administered, these
laws are highly beneficial. They
| provide the only means yet de-
vised to keep careless or incompe-
tent drivers off the streets. And
they do not bother any legitimate
motorist.
Eventually every state will have
one. Let US hope it is soon.
Martin Durkin, Chicago muir
derer, is reported ready to give
himself up provided he is given
a fair and impartial trial.
By this does he mean a trial
where defense attorneys will be
permitted to interpose every de-
lay known to the legal profess
sion2 Or, perhaps, a trial where
the state will courteously agree
not to combat any plea of tenn
porary, partial, sporadic or inter
mittent insanity that the defense
might raise?
Taking it by and large, the de-
PENDANT in a criminal trail in
America gets a fair trial and then
some. Durkin needn't worry. No
! other country in the world is as
lenient with its criminals, after ar
rest and before sentence, as we
are.
And now the Communist party
in America plans to begin teach
ing Communism to all who care
to listen.
That's fair enough. This is a
free country.
There'll be no danger of the
! doctrine spreading very far -
unless, of course, some govern
ment or state official is ass enough
to order a few more raids. If
the long-whiskered gentlemen are
left strictly alone. however, no.
body needs to worry.
There seems to be a great deal
of discussion of the prohibition
law right now. Those who OPP
pose it are citing all kinds of fig
ures to prove that 1T cant be
enforced"
Admittedly, the figures are la
mentable. But why say the Law
can't be enforced? Has it evel
been triedp
Before we say that, let's have
a period of real. honest, enforce
ment, We haven't had it yet
Maybe it would work, after all.
The most prcatical thing tina
almost any person can do to ge
ahead is to start savings accoun
and then fed it regularly. Blu
to make saving really attractiv,
and profitable the savings accoun
should be made to pay. One o
the best incentives for saving lie
in the fact that money accumulat
ed in the savings account can b
turned into investments. farm O
town mortgages. home ownership
bonds or stocks of steady, prof,
able, established businesses.
an individual deposits $50
month in a savings bank for
period of thirty years and red,
posts the interest earned, he wi
have at the end of that time $2o
1882. In the savings accou,
n his money at three per cent wi
s have earned $Il,lI3.52. |
i however, he combines systemat
s saving with careful investing an
r reinvesting at E per cent, that SIS
n month will grow in thirty yeal
II to nearly $4,000. A savings az
s count will enable any person t
e take advantage of the miraculou
e accommodating power Of money, tn
IS one force that has made NOR
IS people financially independer
j. than any other.