Milford chronicle., 1927-08-05

and women of that day are either
gone or are inactive. Those who
have come after them are carrying
on along new lines because the old
is too costly in labor.
What future Delaware may have
in all forms of agriculture, must de-
pend upon that class of men, who
are willing to study and apply their
knowledge to successful farming.
The old gives way to the modern,
and today there is a greater chance
for success for young men in agri-
culture than in any other form of eff
fort that is open to him, without
considerable money to start with.
There is a future for those who will
try to accomplish, but only failure
| for the folks who knock through
disparagement and lazy Incidence, or
failure to do work at the proper
time regardless of obstacles.
THE TIME is RIGHT NOW to
start protection for those who travel
by automobiles and the public gen.
orally, from death and injury
through and by accidents caused by
the men and women licensed to drive
the thousands of automobiles which
travel the highways of Delaware. 1t
is not the drunken drivers alone that
are responsible for the killing of so
many men and women on the boule-
wards of Delaware. There are daily
hundreds of very narrow escapes
from accident and possibly death, by
the careless driving of men, women
and children at the wheel control of
both autos and trucks.
When the victim is dead, or lies
crippled after the result of a fool
taking chances against safety, with
out any reason for taking such
chance, it is too late, and sympathy
is a very poor excuse for the snuff
ing out of a life. Imprisonment or
a money fine will not restore the
dead to life. That is punishment for
a crime inflicted upon innocent and
law-abiding people; but there must
be strict examinations made by
trained and well qualified persons, of
each person licensed to drive the
thousands of automobiles running as
pleasure vehicles, as well as the
thousands of trucks travelling during
the day and night on Delaware
highways.
Never mind the inconvenience to
the individual or employer, enforce
a strict examination, before granting
the license to drive cars driven for
pleasure or business. Let the kill
ings be stopped so far as possible in
Delaware, by permitting only duali-
fed persons to drive any kind Of
automobile or truck.
Within a week while driving on
the boulevard at the south edge of
Dover, an auto loaded with five or
more girls, forced the car they were
meeting, off the concrete roadway;
notwithstanding the gOad at that
point was extra width. The girl
driving was more than halfway
across the centre of the road with
20 obstruction on her northbound
course. That was one fool driver
that should not be permitted a Ii
cense in this State.
The move by the Delaware Safety
Council, which is composed of men
and women of ability and affairs in
the State of Delaware, to have strict
enforcement of the present laws car
ried out, should be supported by the
people generally. The Governor and
Secretary of State must take the in
itiatiVe in this campaign, but the
people, as well as the Delaware Safe
ty Council, are interested in this
movement; for, it is their life, their
body and their property which is
concerned. It's too late to regret
killing, when the man, woman or
child is dead. Sympathy will not
relieve the pain and agony of broken
bodies. Money will not repay for
the lost time or the property de-
stroyed. Stop this riot of fool driv-
ing and stop issuing licenses to any
person without strict examination as
to ability to drive carefully, and teH
the examiner exactly how and what
they would do in emergencies that
arise suddenly.
Speed the movement for saving
life, as well as property through
support of the movement by the Del
aware Safety Council.
A law passed by a recent session
of the legislature of Delaware pro-
vides for this enforcement, and we
call upon the Governor and Secre-
tary of State to protect the people
by carrying into effect by strict en-
forcement for the safeguarding of all
the people against that few, who
seem not to have the care or
thought for others safety, that all
who drive automobiles on the high
ways should not only have, but ex-