Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1929, Page 54

URGED BY KEEFE " 'BRIDGES AT CAIRO, ILL., T0 CONNECT 3 STATES Ohio River Span and Another Across| “dm to Be at “Iouop- ; Circus' Stunts: of Kind Resul’ of Little in- Ttauedy, ‘Says Motor Assooiatton Official. ovtthud mfi o mt\ll!.'rhenuJ x:’:iogh mfl decmh-mmou- “No one can deny that speed tests inf anmm&x’eduuemnll precision and power of a machine, they cease to be of any value gnd must in- evitably. result in fl‘lfi! "I! such testsever have value it lles in the de ent of new ideas’ which e manufacture ol ‘better motor cars or in the con- struction of better highways. . The au- industries, being ries of such m conduct {hem -nd iprove motor ln such enurprllu will con- ‘With umu pure der such. and would then be !mpoled. d be no-valid criticism of xomn} to Be Gained. “Nothing can ever be gained mlmm unskilled and ine drivers to push powerful but unwieldy machines over a mrse with the swift- nul of & bullet; The racing 15" dangerous enough withous adding to lmllness ,ll largely a fallacy,” start on g me m-usooo.mmm umdafih mmm mm Toutes converge here, making it ;rymwntha&lu.m.u':wml Dl Wi 'the compietion f Mwwm hea motor traffic. " :[LAWS WILL NOT CUT DEATHS, BOWEN SAYS ot Self-Government Principle Is Seen as Best Cure for Growing Problem. Special Dispatch to The Star. - BAL' 30—~Laws will never decrease the numbef of deaths and injuries caused by automobile acci- dents, accort to Clarence Bowen, vmlsnnt superintendent of an automo- | bile insurance company. | The sense of personal responsibility and proper consideration for the other fellow will do more to reduce accidents ;l;nn all the laws that can be enacted, declared. “It has been often stated as a pro- found thought that man learns by ex- rience. If man learned by experience, said Mr. Bowen. ‘The tragedy of it all is that man re- peats the same error and’ calls it expe- rience . If man learned by experience, then certainly the constantly mounting the | number of deaths through lutomohug ‘ested. What accidents would be arr e | travesty on man's inulll:ence I.srevelled in;: the control of drivers trainad by ex- |, ence for such trials.” "gn motordom_regrets the death ‘of Lee Bible several days ago and that of Frank Lockhart a year ago at Daytona Beach, Fla., Mr. Keefe said. “It was lanal';‘:t -lmbl;ln: m!:om:;hmme sudden fame lures e carried him to his death,” he stated. “The triplex was an un- wieldy machine. Its 30-cylinder motor and 1,500 horepower were capable of dev!lopln( a speed in excess of 200 miles per hour. A year ago it shot over the Florida sands to a world record, motwithstanding its crude construction. Necessity of Accidents. : ‘“"’;&e“ e Yo elorts 1o de- are to be e effol - ve science. It might also said that speed tests are a neces- accompaniment to progress in that lcum:e But such tests are rous, and if they are conceded to be neces- nry, that is only another reason why y should be conducted under the lmflut tions and in machines g:loud by drivers '.homuxh!y qualified forehand. Under any other circum ‘become uun help to the automotive mdus- wNeuher highways nor motor cars are constructed to carry M?W - 'rs at speed in excess of r. When it is negessary to tnvel from one place to another at such speeds at the by an examination of these figures! “The question of eliminating nvold:ble automobile accidents is one that volves many complex factors. If we r:- duce these factors to a common denom- inator, the answer becomes a compara- tively simple one.” If there can be aroused in each one of us a keen sense of personal responsibility and consider- ation for the other fellow at all times, the curve of deaths through automo- biles will be a rapidly descending one. “There are at work in this country many groups of earnest men and women and large numbers of safety councils, all working toward the common goal of au- tomobile accident prevention. These various groups are unquestionably dolnu good work, and their influence is f along many lines. We have no crmcum to make of this work. What we do criti- cise, however, is the character of a large part of the litature on the subject ot automobile accident prevention. “In pur judgment a large amount of this literature attacks the the wrong angle. There demand for laws and yet more laws. ‘These laws treat only the symptoms of the disease and not the disease itself. one cannot be made righteous by legis- lation, and neither can laws inculcate personal responsibility or consideration of others. roblem from a constant “If deaths and injuries through auto- moblie accidents are reduced in the coming years, it will come about not because of .laws, but because we will have !etrneu Theseus’ lesson to the Athenta; to be free and to govern all its im Steering Wheel Target of Caustic Attacks DETROIT —Ell’ly rejudlm inst the “horseless” u.rr& ed not only at the veh\cle u : closed body type, mos! whole but also .t its. various units. One| 1900 had not even a top; E‘m that came in for caustic criticism | boasted only a canopy. The fender & the early days was the innovation of | today was & “mudguard” in 1900, and 2 suerlnz ‘wheel in the place of the ‘with “tiller.” “That ‘foreign freak’ the wheel” was one comment. It was asserted that t.he wheel was inconvenient and complicated and could not oompu'e with the tiller. Lacking modernity in “knuckles,” “ h‘ll u.rinn' and other labor-absorbing devices, the wheel of 900 may have merited some of the criticism. Standing s ht up from the floor board, it' required some effort to swing the front wheels in the desired direction. Interesting Contrast. Some of the skepticism as. to the future of the automobile industry \‘.hlt was heard freely in its early days may have mmemhlnvkwc!me sundnrd equlpment that made up the The specifications of i o e vehicle an Tt | R -hown n thn 1929 automol l.hon. consisted of a metal frame on, seat. . ‘The bare chassis of the present day automobile show found no the earliest of the public motor industry’s output. itizen is invited ta ask he ‘can_think of, teo toda all - XLashion.. avors DE SOTO for its distinction THE riwre distinetion of De Soto Six is unique in the field of low- price sixes. 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