The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07

Editor Times - One hundred
twenty-one lives in nine and one
half months! I wonder if any one
ever thinks the same as I do-that
most of the accidents are caused,
not because the car is out of con-
troll, but because the driver is not on
the job. BY that, I mean that his
mind is somewhere else.
Take one of the accidents just
the other night. In the account
given in the newspaper the car was
travelling between twenty and TWEEN
ty-five miles an hour. Now, we all
know that a car is not out OF con-
troll at that speed, but the accident
happened just the same. Surely,
the operator was not on the job.
In another issue of The Times an
article told about Judge Sheaffer
filming a youth $85 and revoking his
drivers license for a year. Good
work, judgel Keep it up! think
that a drunken driver is the most
dangerous kind of motorist. He not
only risks his own neck (Which
surely he does not consider much) ,
but every one anywhere near him.
If every time one of these drivers
was caught, he was given a fine
such as this youth received and in
all cases the driving license revoked,
perhaps the others would take heed
and not try to get by with mixing
liquor and gasoline.
Also, I have noticed that on a
rainy evening, or any other time, in
fact, when there are more cars on
the street than usual, there is a
cop about every thirty or forty cars.
AS a rule, about the only thing
they do is get tough and bawl the
ears off of some motorist because
he does not keep in line or some
other minor detail
The other evening I was crossing
the street where the traffic was
lined solid for a block and the Off
Ger ordered several cars out of the
car tracks. I crossed the street and
went the same direction that these
several cars were going And here
was another officer giving these
same drivers the devil for not stay
ing in line.
If you want to see something
funny, just drop around to Illinois
and Market streets some time and
watch that officer fighting the few
cars that come his way.
A MOTORIsT.
Editor Times-In answer to item
under Peoples Voice, Sept. Is, as
to what becomes of the balance of
the difference in value of groceries
doled out to poverty stricken citi-
zens, would say, ask the overpaid
clerks of the organizations that give
out the passes to the breadlines,
and the basket Of groceries.
Forty to sixty dollars a week to
women to sit in judgment on
whether you and your family are
deserving of their help. This Office
and equipment would buy coal and
groceries for a hundred families.
While large storerooms are vacant,
why should the money go to pay
the exorbitant rent they do pay?
I ask also, is this the land of the
free and the home of the brave?
Is it then true that because there
is not enough employment of the
right kind in the world for honor
able men, we are put to work on
prisoners fare to fatten purses al
ready fat, to march in the chain
gang to build roads we citizens
pay taxes for?
FELLOW CITIZEN.
Editor Times-Prohibitio What
a fake. 1t is running more homes
than any other cause. Investiga-
ton would bar all others. Men
are like some children-if they are
not allowed to have something they
will get it by hook or crook. If
they are free to get it, then they
don't care anything about it.
AS it is, they are taking their
weekly earnings, spending them on
rotgut, then go home to kill their
wives or beat them and little inno-
cent children to pulp, then call
the county trustee and family well
fare to feed and keep a roof over
their families heads, while they,