The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-03-05
Crimson Highways To Eternity

midst of traffic and in every way hog
the road. If good sense, courtesy, and
politeness : were dynamite, they
wouldn't have enough of all three put
together to blow the brains out of
flea
Then there are two other groups of
drivers whose skeletons should be hung
up to dry. The least said about them
the better A drunk should never be
, permitted to drive car. Anyone
caught driving while drunk should
never again be given license. Then
we have the Holy Order of Right-of
Wayers" They'll kill, MAIN, butcher,
do anything on the flimsy excuse that
they had the Right of Way. We say the
Right to Live far outweighs the Right
of Way and when an accident can be
avoided it is cold blooded murder not
to do So But now let us take peek
at the guillotine in action!
Mr.. and Mrs Jones and their chill
dren Billie and Betty have just finished
Sunday dinner They decide to take
drive and enjoy Gods pure air and |
sunshine. Happy in their thoughts |
they start out, with Mr.. Jones, care |
full driver at the wheel. They reach the
main highway and are travelling at a
moderate rate of speed. Like flash
and without warning there is thun-
dering crash
The blood curdling sound Of crack
ling glass, grinding steel, and shrieking
spinters is pierced only by the cries
and means of the dying Wreckage is
y strewn everywhere-human wreckage.
, Mrs. Jones lies lifeless ten feet away,
! decapitated as she was hurled through
| the windshield Mr.. Jones is still at
) the wheel, that is to say, wrapped
| around It like a bloodsoaked towel.
. Billie and Betty, the JOY of their hearts.
/ are enneshed in splinters and steel,
= mutilated beyond all recognition rs
Y for the husband and wife in the other
!, car, we'll, they gathered together what
g thay could find of them. The cause
Z The other car travelling the opposite
J direction had swung out at high speed
: to pass anotnva but the gap closed
7 and in head-on crash six people trav-
;, eled the crimson highway to eternity.
! And all because of the brainless act of
one idiot. Let's look in on another
" common everyday tragedy.
u Mrs. Smith is sending Mary Lou
e age 7, to school. She fondly embraces
g her and with wave of the hand goes
!, about her household duties. Ten min
10 utes elapse There is a nervous knock
G. on the door. Opening it Mrs. Smith
: sees before her on stretcher the bat
u tered bleeding and lifeless body OF hel
Is precious Mary Lou. Paint a picture O
the agony that is tearing out the hear
Ct of that mother? No! Here is one tins
OF we Just can't take it. We have to throw
II I'D our hands but we would rathe
y throw q rope around the neck OF Ina
! dirty brute who was driving SO tas
= that he couldn't stop and actually say
is and heard his car grind out the lit
~ Of little Mary Lou You may call tina
? sort of thing by any name you please
=. sir, but we call it plain, brutal cold
blooded murder.
And every time you pass on .hlint
10 curve, hit it up on a slippery road
en- pass another car without the way belnl
en- absolutely clear, run through stol
light, drive too fast through schoo
en- zones, 60 crashing through intersec
op tons or follow the car ahead too close
IN "; yes sir every time you do any on
y, of these things you are gambling spll
'ul 1910 sa,;r,st hlo,d agony and sud
Is den death And murder!
'pt It is high time we stop this butcher
up Of human souls High time we call
by its right name-MURDERI IN COLI
I'd. BLOOD Sending reckless drivers
las Jail, furnishing hit-and-run drivers
no the limit of the law, forbidding the us
IS Of the roads to drunks, taking license
WI away from young fools until they g
MT some sense, all these will help SOM
Get And putting thumbs down on spec
en- which makes it more dangerous
lsk travel our highways than to go 'ovt
ids the TOP" at the front will help som
1s more.
'es. But what about you? Me? The re
ND Of us? We all take these same chanc'
MS. and violate the rules Of safety evel
fat day. But unless we change our tacti
urt either our names will some day /
ill found in the auto Obituary Column
rem or we'll be to blame because someot
SUI else's is there.
ing Let those of us who have some SEN
My set good example for those who on
the think they have by driving careful
TODAY, EVERY DAY, and EVERY
OF WHERE
Ugh LET'S DRIVE TO LIVE AND IL
,5,- 1--WE AND MAKE OUR STREET
ses AND HIGHWAYS HAPPY WAYS II
RIBS STEAD OF CRIMSON HIGHWAY
so TO ETERNITY.
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