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The Monroe Journal, Tuesday, March Z 1920
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FORCEMENT OF TRAFFIC iaVS
Siul Accident in lUlcigli Cauum
Writer Think W Mut IV v br
other l"Uii l Invent Such Vxm-
ill.v I lie "Mitel Miles mi Hour
Make it if u '". h Hotter Rule.
(BY OBSERVER!
A few das ago a little three-year-
olJ K it was run over while trying
li cros a street in Raleigh and kill
ed. Two negroes wie dtiwng a big
truck and didn't w her in lime. The
regular duver of the truck was show
iug a new hand how to drive and
they were turning a corner at a good
slued. When the brake were put
on the wheel skidded thirty-fire
feet. The two lo are in Jail charg
ed with murder. The father of the
little girl ha written a very sensi
ble piece tor the panels in which he
say that the punishment of the boys
cannot help him any now but that
the thing to do is to find a way to
protect the lives of other children and
even of adult on the streets. He
hinks that a stricter enforcement of
the traffic law would do good. But
be say something far more signi
ficant than that. Here It is:
You know and I know that there
are nianv owners 01 auionioones.
some of them our friends, who regard
It as somewhat of a Joke to be 'pull
ed for speeding.' It's only a minor
matter to be caught by the trarnc
officer on the wrong side of the
street, and purely a matter of greater
cunning to get by a street car when
t is stopped for the discharge of pas
sengers . .Never uo tney inmg 01
themselves ns potential murderers.
I don't know how the thing is
to be done. Hut I have an earnest
conviction that the stringent enforce
ment of even the minor regulations.
through the police department and
the court, with the employment of
more policemen if this is necessary.
will be effective in reducing the num
ber of more serious accident. I am
erlain that wiih the growing num
ber of automobile in Raleigh, ant
the increasing number of Inevperl-
nced drivers, the situation is not go
ne to improve, ami you when you
least expect it. may he the victim,
just a I was."
Perhaps a stricter enforcement of
he law would have some good ef
fect, but I doubt if it ran have much.
The danger exist everywhere, even
upon the country roads, and no one
can conceive of enough policemen
and traffic spies to catch all these
people. The laws themselves must
be chanted and based upon different
dea. A said by the Raleigh fa-
her whose little girl wa killed, the
lung seems a small matter to the
average driver, and there is some
thing about getting into an automo
bile and dashing along that makes
men forget themselves.' There is
hardly a rttUen of any kind, good,
bad or indifferent, who doe not vio
late the law every lime he gets In
a car. There is a general conspiracy
to get ahead of the law and the of
ficer and to catch every violator of
the law until the spirit of the thing
change would Just about require n
pecial officer on the running board
f every machine with a stop watch
and a speedometer In hi hand. Man
ifestly this is out of the question.
It is a good illustration or the say
ing that you can't enforce a law lin
es tiublir sentiment supports it.
Public sentiment now support the
traffic law In the eyes of the average
man only against some other fellow
tint has gotten in his way. We have
nil got to search our own hearts in
this matter. The other Hay 1 was
riding into a city in a hired car. The
conversation was going on and no one
was Having any attention to the driv
er, who wa hurryig to make his
noint and get bark. A motorcycle
officer dashed up in front and signed
the driver down and told him he was
violating the speed law. It was in
the suburbs and on a clear road. The
driver was forced to pay five dollars
which the officer pocketed. We all
felt It was a shame because It was our
car. If It had been another we should
probably have laughed. The driver
muttered that he wouia get even
some time.
Now this was wrong of course and
all of us would have resented the im
putation that we were law breakers
To my mind this shows that we have
yet arrived at the proper solution of
the matter in basing the laws merely
upon the act of the man or hoy who
happens to be driving the car, nor
have we established any sensible laws
yet. Somehow more responsibility
has got to be fixed upon the owner
of the car before it leave the
premises. Then there will have to
be a licensing of drivers as well as
of cars. Reasonable requirements
should be made before any one should
be allowed to drive a far except an
der Instructions, and when an unit
eenred driver Is found driving he
should be punished seriously, not for
breaking the speed limit, but for driv
ing a ear without license. Then, too.
when a car Is driven unlawfully the
owner should be required to prove
that it was against his will and or
ders that it was so driven. Every
little town must sooner or later deal
with the trouble and we had at well
give up the ii.ta of trying to control
It by employing enough pollc-men to
watch all the streets and roidi. Not
only should drivers ve licensed but
when they are convicted of breaking
the law they should lose their license
of a lime, be put on probation ns it
were, until they were willing to keep
the law. If the driver who wanted
to get even had been disqualified for
dilving for a mon.h for his urii of
ftnse and six mortlw for hla r.'onJ
hi would have lw hi !rh by break
in the law and the.cror? woi l l hat
hutised lot.g befoie Irving it ngaln
Tlie burden raj k'K to he ivit both
upon the owner and the driver of
I the car and not upon a lone police
man here or there who In most cases
knows that If he atrests speeders he
will not be upheld by the courts, es
pecially if he happens to arrest the
rong person.
When Brooks Myers came bark
from his first trip to Flint. Michigan
with a string of cars driven through
the country, he said that way up
there the only speed law was "niue-
tv miles an hour make it if you
ran" and be in a darn hurry to get
out of the way. Sometimes I thiuK
this would be a better law than the
one we have because then the other
lx-rsou would know that he need not
expert anything and would look out
for himself more. There is more
danger on one of the speed streets of
Monroe and every other little townj
than there is in the congested dis
tricts of ew xort. in proportion to
the number of people involved. Jroni
the State Capitol at Raleigh a beau
tiful street well paved and long
hoot out by the A. and E. College
and the fair ground. Every hour
of the day this street is full or speed
eis going, it seems to tue, as fast
as aav make ot car ran travel. v nue
the negro truck drivers were letting
their car go twenty miles an hour on
a side street and killed the little girl
prominent and influential cit liens
were speeding on the prominent
street in their limousines as fast as
they could go. Is It any wonder that
no one respects the speed laws, es
pecially when we go to the extremes
of saying that cars shall not run
more than eight miles an hour in
some sections and fifteen in an other.
when it is almost Impossible to run
car at eight miles an hourT In
the big cities wnere me personal con
sideration does not cut so large a fig
ure it is easier to enforce the speed
laws, because the officers are mount
ed, always on duty, and are supposed
not to know any one. I was waiting
for a street car on a quiet street In
Washington last fall and a fellow
came along in a Ford at what seemed
to me to be a reasonable speed. A
oior evele con drove up beside htm,
topped him. took his seat, turned hi
own veh e e over a policeman "
Hmve the car to headnuarters. The;
owner protested but it cut no ice. He
had to explain at headquarter aim
no doubt paid the fine. He will be
rareful in the future. But we cant
do that way In the small towns and
anv laws based upon the belief that
it enn be done will be failures. e
have got to find some other way.
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Owing to the place of incalculable
mportance ine ueHSiait-i nan
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dustrial sphere of the country, the
iiing.ncv in raw paper material
which i now seriously affecting the
publishers becomes a matter of gen
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concern to Ditsiness men aim m"
chants who claim the newspaper as
heir foremost ally in trade-negoua-inn
anil hiiHiness-building. Just re
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ability to get print paper, suspended
business and the suspension Immedi
ately began to reflect itself in the
business of the retail stores, ui.e
firm iilmie estimated that during the
short period of suspension its busi
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13.1100. And til all tne ueparinieiu
stores the receipts showed a sub
stantial slowing-up. indicating mai
when the people are not aiie to ac
quaint themselves through the news
papers with what the stores are off
ering, they are not Inclined to rush
to the counters.
per month; garden truck patch and
good house furnished free or will
rent good land as the State affords; I
1200 pounds fertilizer, 300 pounds
soda per acre for cotton. The land
Is almost ready for planting. Near
town, school and church: daily
mail; public road: no chills or
boll weevils, Home Laud Co., i
Dunn. N. C.
FOR SALE Just received car No. 1
Timothy hay. .Monroe Ire & Fuel
Company. i
FOR RENT House on East Wind
sor street. M. II. Richardson or;
I'. 11. Johnson.
AMONG. THE ATTRACTIONS at!
Marshville next Saturday (Dollar.
Day I will he a demonstration of;
Lay Porta Power with a Ford cart
in lining a wood saw, crush mill, re-!
iiient mixer, churn, and crush mill. '
FOR SALE Nice Spanish Jack. 7
years old, or will exchange for oth
er stock. Flue record. W, It.
Funderburk, Route 8, Monroe.
tato plants. Book orders now for
April and May delivery. Cash must
accompany order; $2.50 a thousand
S. M. Knight, Monroe Route 1.
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FOR SALE 100 bushels Wannamak
er cotton seed at 11.50 per bushel.
Must be sold at once. W. W. Pus
ser, rnionville. Route 2.
STRAYED From my home on Route
fi. .Marshville, a dark horse, almost
black, with one small white spot on
his forehead. Notify me of where
abouts. Isaac Elijah I.ytle.
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FOR SALE OR RENT See Hilly,
Benton's residence on Denton !
Heights J. H. Myers.
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FOR SALE 700.000 to 800.000 feet '
of second growth old field pine tlm- j
ber about three tulles from Crow-
bitrk. W. It. Funderburk, Route
8, Monroe. i
We sell them
and Fisk sundries, too
COBLES CASH ; Alt AGE
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One cent a word each Insertion.
STRAYED OR STOLEN Tan and
white female setter pup about
months old. Reward for same.
S. R. Helms, at Griffins' stables.
WANTED Men to sell nursery stock
continuously. Commissions weekly.
Brown Brother Nuraerles, Ro
chester, N. Y.
STRAYED From Meadow Brook
farm, one mile from Stouti cross
roads, a red, female pig, about two
months old. Notify C. A. Helms,
Matthews 26.
ON MONDAY afterndbn, March 8, a
white boy from the country too
my dog and put him In his wagon
nn Jefferson street. ODDOslte the
Co-Ooeratlve Mercantile Co. The
man who tried to buv the dog from
the bnv. also the mall carrier, can
Identify the boy. If the parents
of the boy wish to do the right
thin nt avoid trouble they can
return the dog to house No. S00
on Jefferson street, near the cotton
platform, at once. The pup was a
mall white, untrlmmed male Bull,
with freckles on his nose and belly
Mrs. J. D. Calder.
AUCTION SALE of Farm Machinery
Having sold my stock and rented
mv farms I will sell at public auc
tlon at the shed at the Harrill
building at Marshville next Satur
day (Dollar Day), beginning at 2
p. m., the following valuable prop
erty: Tractor and two plows,
grain drills, wood aaw and engine,
cultivators, harrowa, plow stocks,
wagons, interest In reaper and
binder and manure spreader, har
rowa. cultivators, corn and cotton
planters, etc. An opportunity to
buy high priced farm Implements
at your own price. J. E. 1 nomas.
FOR RENT Two unfurnished rooms
rooms ior ugui nuuir-tipius.
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LOST Fruit tree spray pump,
turn to Mrt. J. E. Wager.
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SPECIAL Only a few cans left of
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The Variety Store, A product of
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FOR SALE A desirable lot on West
Franklin street. Mrs. Ida Pointer. I
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