Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — A WORD TO BOTH. [ARTICLE]

A WORD TO BOTH.

Farmers and others should bear in mind that autos and motorcycles have rights on the highways as well as other wheeled vehicles, and it is their duty to give them one-half the road when meeting them- They should also remember that the law says they must turn out and allow an auto or motorcycle to pass them when the latter comes up behind them and signal that they wish to pass. No one on the highway has any right to hold back another person who wishes to drive faster than they do, and they are liable to arrest and fine when they attempt it. On the other hand, the farmer and other drivers of animal power vehicles have rights on the highways which the auto driver and motorcycle rider must respect. The law fixes the rate of speed they are allowed to run and the code of signals for their guidance—which was recently published in The Democrat —and they should make some semblance of obeying it. Most of our home auto drivers are careful when meeting teams, even though several of them apparently have never read the speed limit, and the most careless drivers we have to contend with are the tourists, of which there are scores pass through Rensselaer almost every day, attracted, by our fine roads. They appear to think they will never pass this way again, and the way some of them hit the high places out in the country is a caution. The speed limit in Rensselaer seems to be all the way from ten to* forty miles an hour, any old thing goes—or has gone, rather. Some of these days there will be some one badly hurt or killed, and then perhaps we will hear something about the law being observed to some extent.

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