The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30

Ills statement 1OllOWS.
 Mfr. Motorist, take look at that speedometer. The book tells you that life begins at forty. But death begins at 40 - in a motor vehicle. Approximately 10000 people were killed in 1897 by motor vehicles and over million injured"
 Death begins at forty. Do you know why? Because there's but if clause in every speeding contract. You're doing sixty-five miles an hour on an open highway, the road is clear. and you're perfectly safe. But if tire suddenly blew out, you'd feel deaths icy breath blow ing in on you. You're doing fifty five miles an hour, and everything's running smoothly. But If child should suddenly run in front of your car, death would strike once more. These are the reasons why death begins at forty.
 Perfect Control
 Speed in itself wouldn't be so terrible If you could have perfect control of motor vehicle during any rate of acceleration. But as you go faster and faster, your control of your car becomes weaker and weaker. In the first place, physicians have proven that few persons are as calrn while speeding as they are while driving along at moderate pace. Why is this, you ask? The reason is because the heart begins to pump faster, the muscles begin to tighten. Then, instead of an action on your part being completed smoothly 1t is done jerkily. Secondly, it takes a certain length of time for you to re- act to any specified condition. The faster you are going the more feet you travel before you are able to bring your automobile to a complete stop.
 When the brakes are applied while car is moving forty miles an hour or faster, the vehicle never moves in as straight a direction as it had been doing before the braking began. Nearly always the car either goes into a swerve or a violent rock ing motion. Either one of these may be enough to send you head-on into another car in the opposite traffic lane, or turn your car over.
 Then there is the expense of travelling forty miles an hour or faster. It's expensive, all right. In the first place. there's the matter of fines for speeding. The trouble with most motorists is that they don't worry about fine until they get summons. Only then does it begin to mean anything to them. It's an ex- pensive proposition to speed. Con- tinuing with the expense, you use up more gasoline when you speed than when you drive at moderate rate. The faster you go, the faster you drain your gas tank. Still further. when you apply your brakes while the car is travelling at a rapid rate of speed, your car Is subject to a violent strain. A series of such inci- dents will reduce the value and operating quality of your car. Cautious Rate
 "A fatal accident Is almost impos- sible under a speed of twenty miles an hour. There are few cases but these are few and far between and are caused only by gross negli- gence. Therefore, take it easy when your foot is on the accelerator. An- other great danger is mixing alcoho! and gasoline and this Is not so much the slowing down of reaction rates as 1t is the exhiliration and false sense of security which is brought about. Alcohol does slow the re- action time. All in all, the whole thought behind this article is to show what speed can do. There's a very old saying that states: Haste makes waste" To you motorists; don't wind up in the wastebasket.