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NOTES OF THE DAY MOTORING LESSONS

STREET MANNERS

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FROM AMERICA

Attention has frequently been drawn to the thoughtless habit of promenaders of standing conversing

By SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL in groups in the middle of the pave- fent, to the annoyance of others. Commonsense should tell them to URING my visit to the United When you want to draw out into States I had leisure to study the traffic stream to, get away, you withdraw to the kerb or the shop side of the street and allow the In some degree the road traffle may stand there all day before stream of pedestrian traffle to flow problem and American ways of others will stop or slow sufficient

ly to enable you to move. on unhindered. The practice has dealing with it.

Most of my experience' was cou- You simply have to wait until, apparently not diminished, and the police may have to give their at fined to Florida, with a very slight for some reason or other, there is tention to this, nuisance, here as acquaintaince with conditions rula break in the traffic. elsewhere. It is interesting to ing in New York. As every State I have been held.up for a quarter .... $950 note that this net of stupidity is has its own legislature, making of an hour waiting to get out of now included among punishable its own traille laws and regulations, the gates of a golf club situnted offences in a new code of street be- these. faws and regulations, of on a busy main road.

There is no legal code of signals haviour drawn up by the Town necessity, vary in their incidence, Counch of Madrid. The fine In- but so far as I was able to discover-nothing approximating to our Highway Code. Very few posed is not heavy, only three- not greatly in their fundamentale, own

The problem as a whole is vast drivers take the trouble to make halfpence to threepence, but the more Intimation of the penaltyly greater than that in this coun- signals at all, and when they do it should have some effect. There is try. In the United States there is a shade of odds that the signal 23,000,000 motor vehicles will convey no reliable indication an amusing diversity in this code are of civic manners, and there is good. actively registered, or about one of what the giver intends to do. sense in them all. Fines are in vehicle to every six persons. You may be in the act and fact of of overtaking another car, when flicted for crassing streets clac- where than at marked crossings, huge extent and at first sight it suddenly it will turn sharp to the for cycling on pathways, far throw-seems that even this number of left, right across your

or any sort of vehicles--more than ten times the (The rule of the road is the op ing fruit skins rubbish into the street, for en- number owned in this country-posite of our own). couraging-mendacity by giving alms does not present the problem con- to beggars in the streets; and the fronting our own authorities. heaviest fine of all, five shillings, is for being drunk or singing songs with political allusions. Not that Hongkong would mind a bit of that sort of politics!

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1936.

THE VOLUNTEERS

discussion on the

CORALLING CRIME

"Acruas the border" in the West has meant escape for desperados and criminals ever since the swag. gering days of "ind men" down to the present high-powered age of automobiles bearing criminals across state boundaries in United States. It has not been necessary to flee farther than the nearest state line, an easy distance on the West's good roads. But the West has decided

the

Of

course, the country is

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courge.

The astonishing thing is that The United States has registered there seem to be few aceldents as eight motor vehicles for each a result of this desultory system, square mile of territory, whereas and it certainly says something for this country has approximately the general alertness of the Ameri- sixteen for every square mile. can driver that collisions are so But figures which stand by them- [rare.

selves are notoriously misleading. In spite of the much

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grenter

greater

voluma of motor trafle on the main roads, speed generally is much higher than it is here and driving is much safer.

The Very Idea!

A' LITTLE TALK

ON NAMES

GILLIAN, we read, is the popular name of the moment. The "G," by the way, like the human heart, can be either hard or soft:

Funny, how fashions in names change. Peron, that's a new name; bellovo it's Spanish, or something; we heard it first the other day. We at any rate, the proud mother, when asked what the kid was called, did a sort of flutter with an imaginary fan- We went, all old Castile.

Mimrys, which we met with in film circles, is another new one on ua Mimrys--it's a shade "arty"- let's hope the gel can live up to it. If she has a face like her stop- sister but, there, this isn't a sowing-boo. We thought, at first, by the way, that they'd said her name was Mimulus. The Monkey- flower. An opt description of her

mother.

Ash is a nice name, too. At least it hua nice associations-and Isn't it by their associations that namer really stand or fall? Ash doesn't spell cinders for us; it brings to mind the woodland tracts of Somer- set, where tho meadow-saffron Krow. But we haven't seen men- dow-saffron for twenty years

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UP TO ROOSEVELT Two little boys were talking about the President of the United father thinks he has done a lot of

good."

What complicates the American

that vastly problem is proportion of, the 23,000,000 cars in use is concentrated in and nent { road-at 50 to 60 miles an hour. Stales. One of them said:"My

Everybody drives on the open the great centres

of population, and so you get a long procession with the consequence that conges- tion in the large cities is much of cars all proceeding at a uniform worse than we can even imagine speed, with the reault that there

is no overtaking or cutting-in. cars following in stately procession You do not overtake queues of

driving nose to tail and making it dangerous to pass.

here.

Yet, hy a policy of co-operation

to stop thin between all classes of road user at a steady 25 miles an hour, abuse. It is preparing to wipe out and the authorities themselves. It uford protection to criminals, the state boundaries in so far as they is possible to drive almost any

where in America with far less of Christian Science Monitor relates.

the feeling that one

an At conferences in Sacramento and Portland, representatives of five western states have hammered out the pattern for a teletype system to link law enforcement agencies lines. across state

Extradition

police until their fugitive has proceedings, often delaying the escaped, and other points where the mechanisms of interstate inw enforcement have failed to mesh,

Ishmaelite of the road than we do here.

Of course, American main roads have fine surfaces. This makes are generally straight, wide, and

for much higher speeds than would be safe on some of our British main roads, which are nя sinuous as the trail of the serpent.

The other boy replied: "Oh, I don't know he hasn't closed tho schools yet."

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NEW DEFINITION

A teacher recently asked a pupil to describe the duties of a "ton- scrial artist."

ster after a pause, "that's a man "Please, sir," replied the young-

who takes people's tonsils out!"-

the new

For one thing, the primary con cern of the authorities is to make the ronds as safe as possible for

A TRENCH STORY all, and not to persecute and harass

In the big towns, where there is One of the "extra" navvies dig- one kind of rond user,

The laws and regulations are ad-est danger, is the dawdling driver, finding the task heavier than he much traffic congestion, the great-ging in a particularly soggy trench, ministered more in the spirit than who ambles along at 10 or 15 miles had expected, took rather longer In the letter, although in certain an hour, holding up the rest of the rest spells than his mates. directions--those that really mat traffic and selling everybody's Nothing much, however, escapes will be co-ordinated if this plan ister--the police are instantly and nerves on edge lest he should the eagle eye of a ganger. finally adopted.

properly down on the offender. suddenly do something silly. How- On making his round the ganger In this action, the West gives

I ennnot imagine, for instance, ever, he is not peculiar to America. ran his eye over the group, but said added body to the movement for

the police of any American city I was impressed by the strict- nothing and passed on. A few interstate "common fronts" against attempting to enforce an arbitrary ness, and at the same time the minutes later he returned and. the common enemy of organized

speed limit by methods which seem elasticity of the parking regulu- addressing crime. There have been similar

to have become fashionable heretions. You

worker, conferences in Chicago and New during my absence. But they except in places marked with the

can park anywhere ordered:"Op out!" Jersey. The tighter law enforce- would be instantly down on the sign: "No parking."

The man got out of the trench. "Op In," said the ganger. ment resulting from interstate driver who was scen breaking the There is no auch an offence as compacts and the co-ordination of

rules of anfety, which, after all, "obstruction" in the sense in which

The navy did so. "Op in," 'Op out," the orders state criminal codes offers a strong is what matters.

the word is interpreted here. You proceeded until the navvy pro- running mate to recent federal I believe it is true that in spite may be fined for a breach of the tested: "HI, guv'nor, what's the drives against the underworld. of the tremendous number of cars regulations, but that will be en- game? I ain't a bloomin' acrobat."

A point that should always be In use In American "built-uptirely your own fault as the for kept in view, however, when offer-areas," which there are compard bidden areas are clearly marked.

"That's all right,” he was told. ing a deserved salute to better law tively few accidents, enforcement, is that this activity This relative immunity is, park on the off-side of the road.

But in no circumstances may you strikes only at the causes of crime. Every drive for law enforcement should have as its companion penetrating forestall the development of young gramme of social amelioration, to criminals who later cause all the costly anti-crime machine.

Becondary

think, due almost entirely to the acknowledgment of the fact that every road user has duties as well ȧs rights. pro-

Major-General Borrett must have been gratified at the res- ponse made to the invitation which he issued for a friendly Volunteer Defence Corps, with the object of ascertaining whether it is possible to make service in the Corps sufficiently attractive. to induce a greater number of young men to join up. The ex- change of views produced some useful suggestions, which will no doubt be fully explored, whilst results of even greater value may be obtained if, as is likely, the members of the Corps are called together for the purpose of giving their own views on the issues raised. One proposal put forward at Mon- day's meeting, however, must be regarded as entirely out of the question-namely, conscription for service in the Corps of those of military age. This runs altogether contrary to British tradition and would not for one moment be endorsed by the Imperial Government, even if, as is most unlikely, it were seriously put forward by the authorities here. There was time, during the latter part of the Great War, when the Corps was converted into a compulsory service unit, but that was in a time of emergency, when or-TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT dinary considerations had to give way to the supreme neces- sity of taking every possible measure for the defence of the Colony. No such conditions prevail to-day, Various reasons were given at Monday's meeting as to why more young men do not join the Corps. Probably one of the chief of these is the prevalent belief that there is no great. necessity for a volun- tary force in a big naval and military station. That belief, however, cannot be said to be well grounded when we have Major-General Borrett definitely

Generally speaking, there are three of these levers. Adjusting stating that it is impossible to

is quite a simple matter, but the exaggerate the importance of one point which must be emphasis- the Corps in the defence scheme ed is that the adjusting screws of the Colony. Counter-attrac- must all be adjusted to exactly tions were cited na another the same extent.If-this-is-not- cause, and these undoubtedly do done the pressure exerted-on-the play a part, whilst another fac-plate is uneven. If the clutch tor is the feeling that promotion alips when this part is properly within the Corps should be adjusted the cause may be the based on examination, and not presence of oil on the plates. on mere "friend pidgin." these reasons may be added a spirit of indifference which is rather characteristic of so many young

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CLUTCH ADJUSTMENT

The clutch normally is a heavily stressed component of the car and some motorists treat it rather severely. Careful manipulation is adjustment occasionally. advisable. This part requires

quite accessible, being close to the In many cases the adjuster Is clutch pedal. In other instances, however, a cover has to be remov ed before the adjusting screws can be reached on the withdrawal levers.

Alternative causes are undue friction in the withdrawal gear or batween the pressure plate and the pegs on which it slides,

men of the present generation, coupled with the as has been suggested, some effect of anti-war propaganda means could be devised of bring which is evident almost every- Ing in Indians and Chinese who where amongst civilians, nowa- are British subjects, as well as days. Figures quoted at Mon-such foreigners as would be day's meeting do not altogether willing to take their part in co- support the idea that the Corps operating in purely local defence is unduly weak in proportion to measures. Such a stop, if the number of men of military | feasible, together with reason- age in the Colony, but it is able measures of reform within possible that there is some dis- the Corps, in such matters as the crepancy somewhere in

the selection of officers and care in statistics quoted. Further illu- seeing that too high a standard

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"Keep it up all day. You'ro fetch- ing out more with yer boots than you were with yor-shoval."

ANSWER THAT!

That is to say, the parked car must face in the direction the traffic la moving. Which is a very sound and salutary regulation.

Vlear (concluding story)-"And Nor may you stop abreast of a now, children, would you like to tions have any value at all, I am moment, one finds that one rule is do you get into your collar?"

hydrant.

ask any questions ?" It must be so, for if my observa-

Leaving the towns again for the

Bobby"Yes, sir. Please, how certain that the general standard most rigorously enforced and obey- of driving in America is very fared by everybody. That is the com- below that of the British motorist.pulsory stop before entering There is not the same give and main from a subsidiary road. take as there is between one motor. ist and another here. Say, for instance, you have parked your car by the kerb-side while you do a little shopping In a buky street.

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I have many times advocated the adoption of this regulation, and (Continued on next column)

"I have a terrible time keeping my parents in shoes. You should see how they kick them out."

OBEDIENT

Teacher (to now boy)"What's your name, my lad?"

New RoyGeorge." Teacher-"Always say 'sir' when you are speaking to your teacher. What is your name?"

New Boy (apologetically)—"Sir George,"

now that I have had further op- portunity of observing its working I am more than ever convinced that it is a good one and that it does make very greatly for safety. The reason alleged for its non- adoption here seems to be that it would be impossible to enforce obedience to the regulation. I am strongly convinced that not only would it be obeyed but that the majority of motorists would wel- come it as a real aid to safety.

One hears a great deal of neel- |dents at American level crossings, "and"1" beltévé

eve the toll is fairly high. There will always be people who will take chances, and it seems to me that most of the fault for these occurrences lies at the door of the motorists themselves.

Naturally, I disagròs with the whole idea of a railway crossing a road in the way our own cross.. ings are arranged. They are an anachronism for which there is no excuse in such a country as our own, but as the United States have! been developed I do not see how the lovel crossing is to be avoided. However, such crossings do abound, but certainly the railways, do everything posalble to warn the road user of the approach of their trains.

There are no gates, but there are flashing red lights which como into operation as soon as a train "enters the section, "and the train whistle is sounded several times for a quarter of a milo or mora before the crossing is reached. It is by, thinking, they can just get (Continued on Page 5)