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-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 8, «*7
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Star Program
State ports with Wilmington favored
" m proportion with its resources, to In
dude public terminals, tobacco rtor.g.
warehouses, ship repair
by sites lor heavy industry and *-1°°'
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
. needs lor years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re
' ' sources through better markets and food
processing, pulp wood production and
factories. __
Emphasis on the region s recrea.lon
advantages and improvement ol resort
accommodations.
Improvement or Southeastern North
•arolina s larm-to-market and primary
:oads. with a paved highway from Top
-,ail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City's In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
us tries
' proper utilization ol Bluethenthal air
■t for expanding air service,
development of Southeastern North
.rolina’s healtn facilities, especially m
unties lacking hospitals, and inclua
a a Negro Health center.
Encouragement ol the growth ol com
nercial fishing.
Consolidation ol City and County gov
1 err.ments.
GOOD MORNING
Blessings ever watt on virtuous deeds,
, and though alate, a sure reward succeeds.
—Congreve.__
Think Back, Judge
When Judge Winfield Scott Smith
ook occasion to condemn parking
meters in Wilmington he overstepped
Jie proprieties of his office. This is
' id in kindness, and in the hope that
\e judge, who sometimes discusses
iatters from the bench in no way re
lating to the functions of that court,
will not again transgress in a similar
manner.
Mr. Smith, whom we regard nigmy
as citizen and magistrate, was in this
ease at fault in his reasoning. He de
clared that if parking meters were
abandoned there would be more park
ing places at downtown curbs.
' If the judge’s memory will serve
him right he will recall that before the
meters were installed parking space at
downtown curbs was at a premium
from early morning until after the the
aters closed at night. This was due
to the fact that car owners who work
ed downtown drove into the curb space
nearest their place of employment and
left their cars there until they were
ready to go home. And when they
ttent home early theater patrons im
mediately took their places at the curb.
Since the meters were installed, with
their limitation on parking time, shop
pers and other persons having business
downtown (but not for all day) have
usually found space'for parking within
easy walking distance of their destina
tion. Thus parking accommodations
have been more readily obtainable by
greater numbers of motorists than be
fore the meters came.
Some complaint has been heard
from time to time that out-of-town mo
torists were being tagged by the police
and required to go to headquarters and
pay a fine or else be taken into court,
where costs are added to the fine. The
fact is that the police are instructed
to place on the windshield of visitors’
cars courtesy cards explaining the traf
fic and parking rules and urging the
motorists to cooperate with the city in
its attempt to serve the motoring pub
lic with er,-"’1ete fairness.
It is not tne intention that any visi
tors’ car shall be tagged, when the car
can be identiffed as coming from.be
yond the city. There may be some
'( exceptions, but the purpose of the police
is to afford the visitor every consider
ation possible. And the rr '-Up
the® to do this.
The Budget Adopted
There are several significant facts
that must be considered in connection
with the new city budget and the tax
rate finally adopted by the Council yes
terday. They were cited by Mayor E. L.
White in the statement he read at the
Council session, which was attended
by a large number of business men and
representatives of the Real Estate
Board.
Among them Mr. White listed the
constant increasing cost of operation,
the rise in prices of supplies, materials
and maintenance obligations, and the
shrinkage in revenue, notably the reve
nue anticipated from ABC stores.
Chief significance, however, lodges
in the failure of the Council last year
to fix the budget sufficiently high and
raise the tax rate enough to meet all
requirements of the city government,
so that there would have been no need
to employ the surplus fund and the
capital reserve fund in meeting the
City’s obligations during the 1946-47
fiscal year. If this had been done the
1947-48 budget and tax rate would not
have had to be raised, the first to
$1,503, 232 and the second to $1.80.
Shrinking revenues, advancing costs,
and the failure of the last Council to
make provision for foreseeable increas
ed obligations, therefore, made it im
perative that the present Council adopt
a budget that would permit the City
to maintain its economic equilibrium,
its efficiency in operation, and prevent
a default in its obligations.
A city in default would be a city
without hope.
When the Real Estate Board, through
its president, Mr. Frederick Willetts,
'Sr., presented recommendations at yes
terday’s session, for reducing the bud
get, it overlooked the fact that the City
had already made a careful examination
of each separate item presented by
every department, and pared it to the
lowest cost compatable with efficient
operation. For this reason, several of
the Board’s recommendations, partic
ularly those proposing further consoli
dation of departments, were shown to
be impracticable, both by Mayor White
and by speakers from the council cham
ber floor.
For example, the Board recommend
ed abolishment of the office of assist
ant city manager, together with the
building inspector and purchasing
agent, and that the duties of the pur
chasing agent be added to those of the
city manager, who had been granted
the right to employ an assistant because
he had already had more work than
any man could do. The other proposed
consolidations were in a similar pat
tern.
One proposal, however, is well worth
adopting. This is the abolishment of
the office of back-tax collector. This
office could well be suspended, as the
purpose for which it was established
has been accomplished.
The board’s proposals, on the whole,
achieved one good result. They impres
sed the Council with the imperative
need to practice the strictest economy
in administration. In fact, in voting for
the budget as fixed, Mayor White sug
gested the advisability of bringing in
an expert on city government to survey
the city’s situation and make such
recommendations for economies with
out detriment to the city and its ser
vices to the people.
This would be an advisable move.
Whatever savings could be effected
during the current fiscal year would
leave the city with a surplus, instead
of a deficit, and react to the benefit of
the taxpayers.
An Enviable Record
Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall
is setting a most enviable record. By
virture of his presence in Washington
the other day, during the absence of
President Truman and the other Cabi
net members eligible for the high honor,
Mr. Royall was interim President of the
United States.
This is the first time North Caro
lina has had a President since Andrew
Johnson.
It is not surprising that the Greens
boro News should publish a Washington
dispatch reporting that the Democratic
National Committee is considering his
selection as Secretary of Defense,
should Secretary Forrestal desert the
Cabinet to become President Truman’s
running mate next year.
Bevin Proposal Preposterous
Because the United States has been
so generous in the past it is expected
to be even more generous in the future.
Having made a huge loan to Great
Britain on most liberal terms, Great
Britain’s foreign minister, Mr. Ernest
Bevins, now proposes that the gold re
serve at Foot Jfaaox he distributed
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among needy nations (especially Great
Britain).
One wise British publisher has had
the courage to blame Britain’s crisis on
the United States loan. If Britain had
not been given this relief, he contends,
the London’ government would have
had to work out the nation’s salvation,
instead of coming back for more.
Whether this is the whole truth is
not for us to say. But it is an estab
lished fact that beneficencies, whether
they are called loans, doles, or outright
charity, invariably breed the desire for
more of the same among all recipients.
Mr. Bevins’ proposal is so much
poppycock. But it serves to illustrate
the above statement. It also serves
notice on the United States that the
time has come to give up the pleasant
role of Good Samaritan to the world
and conduct its business instead like a
business man conducts his, with credit
extended only on adequate security.
Else, the United States will go bank
rupt ultimately just as an. inefficient
business man does when he extends
credit promiscuously.
Bid For Cooperation
BY ANNE O'HARE McCORMICK
_ Delivered from a platform exemplifying
hemispheric solidarity, the President’s defini
tion of American policy at Petropolis had un
usual force. The idea of Pan-America, united
by formal treaty in a common defense sys
tem, makes an extraordinary impression on
the rest of the world. New, rich, uncrowded,
unscarred by wars, in spite of differences
and inequalities more cooperative than any
area of like size on the globe, this complex
of American nations looks extraordinarily
powerful viewed from Europe and Asia. When
people beyond the Atlantic and Pacific speak
of “the West,” they do not think of Europe
any more, but of these vast continental is
lands stretching from pole to pole. This, as
Mr. Truman said, is the future, the New
World.
The hemispheric bloc is not so strong and
solid as it seems, but it is stronger today
than ever before, and far more impressive
than Americans imagine. Thus when the
President of the United States speaks at the
inter-American conference in Brazil, his
words have more power behind ttfem than if
they were uttered in Washington. A foreign
policy summed up in that environment, in
that atmosphere of agreement, achieves
something like the effect of an all-American
policy.
The four pillars of this policy, Mr. Truman
stated, • are the Marshall plan (“economic
help to those who are prepared to help them
selves and each other”), the obligations un
dertaken under the United Nations Charter,
the maintenance of military strength and the
unity of the American republics against
aggression. He made it clear, in other
words, that peace would have to be built by
all the means available—our own power and
resources, unflagging efforts to make the
United Nations a going concern and agree
ment in this hemisphere. The treaty of Petrop
olis sets a precedent for regional pacts with
in the United Nations which widens the area
of cooperation and, if followed elsewhere,
would quicken and strengthen the process of
world organization.
Bu+ the pronouncement was addressed
mainly to Europe, mainly, indeed, to Russia.
The President expressed “bitter disappoint
ment and deep concern” over post-war devel
opments. The failure to make peace, he
warred, obliges us to contemplate a pro
longed military occupation of enemy terri
tory.
As Mr. Truman was speaking, the State
Department released a reply to the Soviet
protest against the decision to raise the level
of industry in the American and British zones
in Germany which should be regarded as an
apt illustration of the speech. For over two
years, the note said in rejecting the Russian
theses that this action violated the Potsdam
agreement, the American Government has
been trying to reach accord on matters af
fecting Germany as a whole. It is the failure
of the Soviet Government to implement the
Potsdam pledges that places a heavy finan
cial burden on the United States it does not
intend to continue.
ah-.a punus up inure snaipiy man ueiore
the new American policy of trying to reach
agreement with Russia if possible and going
ahead on our own if necessary. It shows what
Mr. Truman means when he declared that we
are prepared to carry on military occupation
indefinitely. Moscow is not yet prepared to
believe that. Soviet delaying tactics are based
in part on a desire to keep the world un
settled and in part on a conviction that Amer
icans will not sustain a long guard in Eu
rope and cannot, because of the inevitable
depression, carry out a program of economic
help to its friends.
If this turns out to be wishful thinking, the
realists in the Kremlin may decide it is easier
to get rid of us by making peace. Moscow’s
unexpected ratification of the satellite trea
ties, coinciding with the dispatch of replace
ments to Italv. might well be a move to
hasten the withdrawal of American troops
from that area. At any rate, the decision to
make the Anglo-American part of Germany
self-supporting and use Ruhr production as 'a
vital element in carrying out the Marshall
plan is a top-level decision. It will not be
rescinded.
Essential to this plan, however, is the co
operation of France. This is recognized by
most of the advisers—men like Commissioner
Robert Moses and Lewis Brown, chairman of
the board of the Johns-Msnville Company—
who have been asked by the War and State
Departments to survey the German problem
and suggest a solution. The reports prepared
by these and other observers emphasize that
the key to recovery is the Ruhr, that time is
running against us and that it is imperative
to set up a oncp some new form of manage
ment and control. Mr. Moses, for instance,
prefers a long-term international Authority to
the five-year trusteeship plan favored by Gen
eral Clay. Mr. Brown lays great stress on
the fact that British' coal *is as much a fac
tor in European recovery as Ruhr coal. If the
British filled their old role of supplying and
transporting coal to Western Europe, he be
lieves, half the problem would be solved.
All agree that France should be taken into
full partnership with Britain and America in
the administration of an integrated plan for
Western Europe, including Germany. This is
to say that the solidarity of the countries in
terested in the Marshall program is as es
sential to the success of Mr. Truman’ four
point policy as the solidarity of the American
republics. The significance of the speech at
Petropolis is as the first official bid for co
operation between the American system and
Western Europe.—New York Times.
Quotations
The chances of a non-revolutionary deve
lopment of our nation in the next 50 years
will be determined largely by our educational
system. — Dr. James B. Conant, president
Harvard U.
Small business is more than just a segment
of our remarkable economic machine. It is a
veritable way of life, and in this respect it
is very similiar to farming- — Kurt
Mayer, New School tot Social Research
sociologist. _ -- -
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QU&CHsy
Truman At Rio
Hindus Given !
9 BiS Cities
WASHINGTON 7 , !
top dozen cities come
newly-created Hindu TV ’h*
India, notes ' the Na^10n «
graphic Society. At • v, Ge°'
the list, the Do:r,;.. 7= *
quired the chief e7
coast ports, Calcutta and Bets"'
with 2,000.000 and 1,500 OftQ ,7
tants, respectively. ibl'
Madras, the third Targe, Jv ,
city, aleo is included. T , '7
-Hyderabad, in the stih ind(7
ent princedom of , 1
e s"me nary,
-remains for .the prt,...„ "*
least, outside both India a, a p ,
istan boundaries.
Only two cities with p0plila,
above 350,000 have gone with vi
lem Pakistan. The;, are
in tie partitioned aid embaS
Punjab, and Karachi, the
ed capital-port on th’ .
north of Bombay.
Lahore, which held nearlv ,,
quarters of a million peoole '
fore the recent riots, ranked f*
among India’s urban centers' V
normally has an imoo , • /0.. ;
industry and makes si ch nat *
wares as metal jeweli- a h
pets. c,!’
Karachi was twelfth among k
dia’s city giants, barely Z
350,000 figure in 1941 'ttvil "*
activities there began’ push;,-.'*,!
toward its present booming -g
reer. It is, however. a nattr,’
gateway to the great Indus Vali«
and the interior hills and plahj
and already rates as the
la’s third port and first stop 0,
international airways. i
As a Moslem center with a la g»
Hindu population, Karachi, too, i*
a striking example of the re
ligious mixture which long v,a,
colored Indian life. In both Hindu
and Moslem territories, mosquei
and minarets of the followers "if
Mohammed everywhere share
skylines with temples and mors
ments to the numerous Hindu
gods.
Along the streets, untrimntej
beards and turbans. cas>-mar'«j
foreheads, veils, fezzes, and tri
difcional costumes are outward
signs of such divergent groups tl
Sikhs, caste Hindus, Moslems, U
touchables. and Pathan ■... ioti
from the hills.
On the Hindu side of the hm,
cosmopolitan, westernized Bor.
bay, besides its Moslem elerr.es’
includes an important group t!
Parsis. The Parsis account for
one of Bombay’s outstanding land
marks, the ’’Towers of Silence."
Overwhelmingly Hindu Calculi
where sacred cows roam tit
streets at will, also has a large
Moslem population, together with
various other sects attracted It
this teeming industrial center'!
factories and docks.
New Delhi, former capital id
British India and new government
seat of the Dominion of India,
brings with it a Moslem he. apt
from the ancient days of Mod
dynasties.
Madras, though a stronghold tf
Hindu orthodoxy, h a s a Moslem
minority estimated at nine pH
cent. Hindu Abmedabad aid An
•ritsar, too, have strong Moslem
accents in people and architec
ture.
Amritsar is the heart of the Sikh
faith and site of its most sacred
Golden Temple. Yet before the rt
cent clashes there that resulted in
mass flights of non-Sikhs and Hiir
dus, this city was ninth on India!
population list.
Comments
THAT HOUSING PROBLEM
Count the Embassy of Pakistan,
new-born nation ot India, amort|
the country’s house - hunters.
Crowded Washington has give”
the embassy staff its first Prel)'
lem. Where can it establish per
manent quarters?
Meanwhile, all corresponds
to the Embassy of Pakistan
should be addressed in care o
the Shoreham Hotel. There 11
no use to page Pakistan s am
bassador, for he hasn't been ap
pointed yet. And when he is ap
pointed, he'll be just one mor«
Washington apartment-huntei.
Durham Herald.
OPEN AT BOTH ENDS
Wright Bryan was w-..n!
about a man he knew : ; 11
an open mind." We seem to »r-°*
people who have minds open a.
both ends and with a hole iyj
middle. — Quitman Gi 1 ■'n
Press.
The independent democratic
New York Times and the inde
pendent republican New York
Herald Tribune agree that Presi
dent Truman’s visit to Brazil and
his address before the inter-Amer
icas Conference at Petropolis
were eminently worth whil.e but
there is a divergence of opinion
as to Mr. Truman’s vision of the
Americas’ part, and particularly
the part of the United States, in
shaping world policies.
The Herald Tribune finds that
the “enormous and cheering
crowds” which cheered President
Truman through the streets of
Rio, “gave gratifying evidence of
the extent to which the undra
matic little man from Missouri
has succeeded in rebuilding the
battered emotional content of the
‘good-neighbor policy.’ . . . Mr.
Truman has proved an excellent
ambassador to Latin America,
and his closing address put* a
graceful climax on a conference
which marks a useful step for
ward in the development of inter
American relations.” But it finds
that neither the Truman policy
nor the Marshall fully envisions
the crisis now girdling the earth.
‘Much of what the President
prescribes — firmness, armed
strength, support for U.N., belief
in human rights—is absolutely es
sential if we are to meet (the
crisis); but much more than these
largely negative principles will
also be required,” the Herald
Tribune comments. ‘‘The urgency
of the whole problem is greater
than the President seems to sup
pose; the vital central issue of
Russia demands something far
more constructive than the plati
tudes he is inclined to bring to
it; we cannot always wait on Eu
rope, and perhaps we cannot even
count on Latin America unless we
provide in much greater degree
the constructive leadership to
which Latin Americans and others
might respond.”
Of the hemsiphere defense
treaty, the Times says the sign
ing delegates, r«ft*senting one
third of the member nations of
the United Nations, had “set an
example of good neighborliness
and international amity. . .They
had given notice that in one-third
of the world at least peace will
be enforced by common consent
and any attempted aggression
from without will be met with a
united front.” But, turning quick
ly from this great accomplish
ment of the conference, the Times
notes. President Truman moved
on to the task that lies ahead smd
the great responsibility that rests
on the New World. . . to assume
the leadership in solving the prob
lems of the reef of the world.”
This, we take it, is the chief
difference between the views of
the Herald Tribune and the
Times. Whereas the Herald Trib
une believes the President incap
able of grasping the implications
of the world crisis, the Times ob
viously attributes to him a clear
vision of the world situation. Else
he would hardly utter the chal
lenging call to service the last
quoted words' from the Times in
dicate it believes he has.
Further approbation of the
President's views is to be found
in the Times: “The correctness of
the President’s approach cannot
be questioned. Establishment of
hemispheric security is good, but
not enough. Mr. Truman invited
our American neighbors to go on
from that to a joint effort with us
in application of the Marshall
plan — the announced intention to
respect the rights of others and
to help themselves. Achievement
of that plan is as essential to the
other American nations as it is
to the United States. They should.
be as willing as we are to lend a
hand.”
The Richmond Times - Dispatch
finds that the Rio treaty “serves
notice on the world that imperial
ism as a national policy is out
lawed in the Western Hemisphere,
and that those nations which em
bark upon such expansion, or
serve to aid it, brand Ifcemselves
Merger Is Confusing
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
WASHINGTON — Just when it
looked like they had most of the
bugs out of the armed forces
merger, some capital hostess had
to foul up the works in great
shape.
The afternoon .it was announced
that John L. Sullivan, Kenneth C.
Royall and W. Stuart Symington,
in that order, had been named
head of the Navy, Army and Air
Force under the new Department
of National Defense, this hostess
decided to invite them all to a
party. When she started arrang
ing the seating order of her
guests, however, it dawned on her
that the order of precedence—
protocol—would be changed under
the new set-up. The three new ap
pointees wouldn’t have the rank of
cabinet members. Where should
they sit? What would be their po
sition in a receiving line?
She nervously buzzed the State
Department’s protocol office for
advice and got the polite answer
that because the merger wouldn’t
become official until the new
armed service’s boss, James For
restal, .took the oath, tney would
be unable to give an official judg
ment until then.
The frantic woman then started
calling her friends for advice. But
all she did was to leave in her
telephonic wake a sort of chain
consternation, which has since
grown into mass hostess - frustra
tion. The latest report was that
the poor woman had to call off
her party and is now resting in
a Maryland sanitarium. But it still
leaves the problem unsolved.
Up until now the order of social
precedence has been approximate
ly: the President, foreign ambas
sadors, Chief Justice, Speaker of
the House, Secretary of State,
ministers of foreign countries, As
sociate Supreme Court Justices,
cabinet members, state governors,
senators, Chief of Staff. Chief of
Naval Operations, five-star gener
als and admirals, representatives.
Charge d’Affaires and then lesser
officials. It has never been settled
as to whether ambassadors or the
Chief Justice e-o-ao. fca jtHey ibe
President with the ■ result no hos
tess asks them to the same party.
Another problem is what to do
with the new Secretary of Nation
al Defense at social functions. It
is established custom that the
newest departments should get
last social precedence. The War
Department has always had sec
ond precedence after the State De
partment in the cabinet rankings.
And it is guessed that the new
cabinet poet will command that
old spot at the festive board. But
it isn’t official.
The person in Washington most
eager to get the correct key to
the whole puzzle is Caroiyn Hag
ner Shaw. She publishes the “So
cial List of Washington,"’ a sort
of unofficial but highly-regarded
social register. Her current edi
tion is due to go to press in a
couple of days. And she wants to
have the right answer for her
readers. A guide to the crder of
precedence is part of a regular
feature in her book. Her only com
ment is:
“After talking to almost every
agency and authority in town, Irm
still completely at sea.”
Among the experts, who have
calmed to the point where they
can discuss the thing coherently,
it's agreed that it narrows down
to whether Messrs. Roy all, Sym
ington and Sullivan will sit at din
ner or stand in receiving lines on
the right or the left of Charge
d’Affaires. If. like this writer, you
didn’t know, Charge d’Affaires are
sort of vice-ambassadors. They of
ficially represent a nation when
the ambassador is ou‘ of town.
Only Mr. Royall, who is now a
cabinet member, would get social
ly demoted under the new ar
rangement. For the other two
men, this new proximity to Charge
d’Affaires is a theoretical im
provement. If the final decision
sandwiches the new positions be
tween the members of the House
of Representatives and the
Charges it will probably bring
welcome relief to both Repre
sentatives and Charges to nave
new to talk to at dinner.
ag enemies of international order.
The hemisphere has set a great
example for a world which sorely
needs it.”
Just In Fun
HECKLED
The Scot is frequently the goat
when jokes are on tap, but not al
ways. Listen to this:
In an English political oration:
“I was born an Englishman, I
have lived an Englishman, I hope
I shall die an Englishman.’' From
the back of the hall in an unmis
takable accent, came the ques
tion, “Mon, hae ye no ambee
tion?”—Santa Fe Magazine.
—
INNOCENCE ABOARD
Checking the cash register tape
for a new salesgirl, the cashier
of a department ^lore was puz
zled by the unusually large num
ber of “no sale” recordings. He
aeked her about it. “Well,” she
explained, “every time I had a
customer to whom I didn’t make
a sale I pushed that ‘no sale’
button. Isn't that what it’s for?”.
—Wall Street Journal.
DIVERSION
The days are gone when one
could peer through any of a hun
dred knotholes at a ball game,
as all lumber of this description
ie now being put into $27,000
homes.—Portland Oregonian.
EXPOSED TO ELEMENTS
It isn’t surprising to us that
farmers lose a lot of soil thru
erosion by wind and rein. We
have noticed that they leave their
farms out in the weather all the
time—Cincinnati Enquirer.
LATEST STYLE
“Dear,” asked the little wom
an, “is my hat on straight?”
“Yes, yes,” her hueband re
plied impatiently, “it’s absolutely
straight. Now do hurry; we’re
late already.”
“I'm sorry,” the little woman
rejoined, “but I’ll have to go
back, then. This isn’t the sort of
hat that is supposed to bo worn
straight!” — Wall Street Journal.
MAKING PEOPLE BELIEVE
Telling them something they
want to hear is the easiest way
to make people believe you. _
New York World Telegram.
A VILLAGE VANTAGE
You can see more in a big city
than in a small town, but you
can’t hear so much. — Arkansas
Gazette.
Lenient Examination
, An Editorial From The Charlotte Observer
ii ine percentage reported from
Cabarrus county holds for1 the rest
of the state, the current re-exam
mation for drivers’ licenses will
reveal that one person out of eight
on the streets and highways of
this state does not know how tc
drive an automobile.
That is the percentage who are
failing to pass the examinations
in Cabarrus county for reissuance
of licenses, and we believe that
the average driver in Cabarrus
county is as skillful, courteous,
careful, and law-abiding as those
of any county in North Carolina.
It can be assumed, therefore
that the 12 per cent of incompe
tents in Cabarrus will come very
near being .the average for the
state.
Most of us who have seen driv
ers speeding where they should
slow down, failing to give them
selves time to stop in emergen
cies, letting their attention wan
der until it-was too late to size
up the traffic situation ahead of
them, and weaving from one lane
o another would have estimated
the percentage of incompetents as
much higher than 12 per cent
These examinations recall a re
cent article in the Saturday Eve
"»« **'• *» the writer
told how he was able to obtain
drivers licenses in a large num
ber of states by merely writing
o the state highway departments
*nd enclosing the fee. Very few
*wtes .required him tg make a
personal appearance v
p VJ*
credentials, or preset)* a
dence that he knew hov, j d**
an automobile or even
cycle.
With such laxity in * ' .
of drivers’ licenses. ; *
cause for wonder ' ;*!,
ways are full of pi
Knowledge of a niev ,*:••
ited to two levers a:ni ; ^
als. They know if you p 'j dj;
pedal with your foot. 1 r
one, and move this levfi
car will start. Tr.e.v r; '
that, if you push both ot
er pedals with your f
will stop. And that ,,
the limit of their c Pa> *
drivers.
' 0 6
Ask such a one ' v
herd of eighty horses, atm •“ ^
recoil in terror. Be :
goes out on the cro.vc-a ■ *d
or street with that a mow f.
er dependent on his itv,|.‘'‘',oucn
ra’tic touch, and. when
errs and two tons ot ^
power knock down a a
pole, he wakes up— i- d ;t
hospital naively wonde—’S
happened. . r8.
Let the Highway Pa . j^uiis
lax the toughness of this rt
ation. We still believe n ^
lenient if it finds only - :* arrf.
should be kept off the ?*■ -e* ,'f
if it strictly passed on..'* ^ ,*
petent drivers, half of ;id
riding buses.