Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-23

Henderson, January %, 1886.
BEMOANS WRECKLESS DRIVING
To the Editor:
It is with great pleasure notice the
effort the Dispatch and the other OK
cellent papers of our State are putting
forth to make our highways more
safe. Your endeavor will meet with
good results as far as the readers of
the papers are concerned. Every time
the press suggest something good for
those who drive, it helps to lesson ac-
cidents. And I dare say if all read
the papers as they should our high
ways would be soon far more safe
than they can be until all read and
put into practice what they read. /
drive quite a bit, and have come TO
the conclusion that it is about ten
percent of our people are careless or
reckless drivers. And dollars to dough-
nuts they are the non readers. 1t /
think is the same ten per cent that
compose our law breaking class. That
class that drink liquor and do not
care damn for society or themselves
Your courts are G;:ed with them daily.
Same old bunch, getting 80, 60 and 80
days, which is no more than rest
ing spell for their debauchery. They
arc III our midst to stay until the
good, intelligent people realize what a
curse they are and drive them out
This set who are reckless drivers do
most harm by the speed with which
they drive. They have never learned
that car moving at sixty miles per
hour can not be stopped suddenly
without a wreck. So long as we want
to exchange life for speed just SO long
we will have killings on the road. An
other menace to life and limb on our
roads is the driver Of the big fine car,
not always but some times, they seem
to think they should have the right of
way over the smaller cars. Some year
or so ago a we'll known rich man
passed me with my family on my car
and in doing so he struck my front
bumper and bent it some. That was
done because he cut into my right of
way too quick. Had 1 been a fast
driver some of us would have been
hurt, possibly killed, had that happen
ed the court of course would have
found l was in fault or it was an I'M
avoidable accident.
7 want to state right here that the
possession Of wealth in the hands of
the few is at the bottom Of more than
half OF all our troubles. The rich man
on the highway is less afraid of a
wreck than a poor man for he knows
he can buy himself out of whatever
trouble he may get into. therefore he
IN No OoroflIl Snnon tim
not long ago, was driving from Hen
derson on route 1853, when about a
mile from town, car with one of
these living room trailerS passed me
making about forty miles per hour, [
mailing about thirty, as soon as it
passed, here came another fine car
which dashed by me and the car
ahead. and went about forty yards
and tur&ed in at fine residence. a
man got out Of the car leisurely, stop
ped and played with what seemed to
be a dog or some pet as i went out Oe
view. How that party had imperilled
| tia lives of the four people on the car
ahead and my life, for no real useful
purpose. Just such drivers as that
are seen often by those of us who are
on our highways much. ( would glad
~ have gone in and reasoned with
| this party. but knew that man who
would make such a drive as that
could not be reasoned with. SO Mr..
Editor. what are you going to do with
class? They are rich, GU nor I dare
not speak to them about how they
| drive their fine cars. They have
many poor people working for them.
,r-Gn for fhpn1 fO
/, cripple or kill us and pay for us, and
not hurt them at all. ] admit this
| last sentence is little strong, but not
SO much. for things very. much like
| it are happening IN our country daily.
| | think more Of our new law which
requires all drivers to have a permit,
than l did when it was first passed,
for ! notice a great many have had
| their permits revoked, and will not be
/ allowed to drive for some time. And
] seriously doubt if half those who
! have permits are really qualified to
drive. The automobile is a very COM
plicated machine to a layman. Any
| fool can learn to start it and stop
| it. under ordinary circumstances, but
/ conditions are not always ordinary.
and right there is trouble, q crash, the
ambulance. the doctor, and often, Oh,
SO often tho undertaken.
| Then there is another clement that
| enters into automobile driving that |
think. AS a hazard, is not to the
drunken or reckless driver. That is
the changing conditions that even q
sober person undergoes. We humans
are constantly doing things for which
we can not give a real good reason
None Of us are perfect, except a fool.
To drive successfully you must. even
at the slowest rate be on the job
every split second, and the higher the
speed the more one must concentrate
on what they are doing. That is an
other proof speed is our greatest ne
mesis.
Another fellow, use that word in
| its lowest meaning, i fear a great deal
is the expert driver. He daslles by you
/ I. t1nr,