Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 118

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGT( IN, D. .. JANUARY 31, 1926— PART 17. \UTO LAWS ARE PLENTIFUL, BUT HELD NEEDING TEETH Quantity, Not Quality, Held Chief Char- acteristic of Attempts to Regulate Ever-Growing Traffic. After a year of intensive motor equally intensive accident-prevention work, the Nation is ready admit that the weakness in traftic sa is not so much the multiplicity of laws, but the amazing dearth of laws with a kick in them the ave bewilde legislative activities and motor vehicle operator or pedestrian. by excess legis lllnrn but not awed. 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