Beachcomber
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BEACHCOMBER, hiding the identity of J. B. Morton, historian and scholar,' breaks into print with an impassioned plea only on rare occasions. For example, today ...
DRIVERS of cars today apparently live in a state of permanent exasperation, and the ex- asperation increases in proportion to the power
of the car.
At the present moment, with thons and butchery on the road Increasing, a scapegoat has to be found, And the reapegoat is the
blow driver.
experience
with cars than the younger trivets who. express such contempt for them.
It is usually the slow driver who exercises a certain amount slow of courtesy.
It is a waste of time to tell the fast driver that driver has as iñuch righ to be m
the
the road as anybody else, unit is he who acknowledges that he is far less likely to be the right of villagers to reckless, then the slave of speed.
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Show-offs
The real reason why the slow driver is attacked to because he Is a nuisance to the Impatient, and to those who like to show DIT.
A popular racing driver was reported an saying recently: “Slow driving causes impatience and had temper among fast drivers." In other words, every driver, whether he wants to or not. should
the conform to standard set by Impatient, bad- tempered fast drivers,
The reply to the man who likes to take things tasy and to be in complete control of his car Is: "By taking things easy you get in my way, and that Causes Beeldents."
Cross
their own streets in safety, and
realises that he who
the inadequacy of our roads la
caution, reason for more
nol lotu,
It is not he who boust of disregarding regulations which impose restraints on him.
Free from the neurotie. com- pulsion to risk his own life and that of others, the slow driver is denounced as a menace by those who are willing to take both those risks,
Nonsense
Only a man who has lost the capacity for rational thought is convinced by the argument that he is less likely to be knocked down by a fast car than a Blow ane, and that in a collision be- tween a fast car and slow one, it was the slow car which "got in the way, and therefore
The climate of opinion in which we live supporis that outrageous attitude. Every day caused the accident.
the vested interests encourage But as more and more power- the owner of the powerful cur ful ears come on the roads the to go faster, mud, apparently, he campaign to make believe feels it a point of honour to this nonsense will be intensited. comply,
And if slow drivers disappear Over and over again that from the scene, there will al- most imbecile of all catchphrases ways be another scapegoat-the I repeated: "It is not speed pedestrian.
that causes pccidents."
If
A few weeks ago I was walk- that means anything.ing along the pavement in a means that the danger to people narrow street. A car саме trying to cross a road comes, along behind mer and wak fakt, driven elean on to the pave-
but from ears driven too but from cars driven too slowly, meat to park a few feet ahead
It also implies that it is not of me, without any warning. the fast driver who takes risks When I addressed the driver to pass other cara, who ignoren in barrack-room language, he speed limits and pedestrian told me to mind my own busi- crossings, who is at an obvious ness, and almost convinced me disadvantage
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sudden by a rhow of righteous wrath, emergency
that my carelessness in walk- Anybody who prefers walking lng along the footpath might to matering has ample oppor- have emized an accident. tunity to see what goes on.
That point of view no longer Most of the slow drivers are surprised me. elderly, and have had for more
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