Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — Auto Racing Should Be Stopped. [ARTICLE]

Auto Racing Should Be Stopped.

It will be almost miraculous if several people are not killed in the auto races at Indianapolis tomorrow. Auto racing should be stopped by law, and also there should be wholesale arrests of the speed maniacs on our country roads. There is scarcely an owner of an auto who does not violate the speed regulation law every day he is out on the country roads. These auto races accomplish no good whatever except to fatten a few purses through the thousands of people drawn to them through hope that someone will be killed—well, jterhaps not hope exactly, for we cannot believe any person can want to see another person killed —but there is a large element of danger connected with auto racing that draws people who are dissappointed when the races are. over if no serious accidents have occurred. Auto racing serves no useful or necessary purpose and it would seem that it is about time it was stopped. The auto is here to stay, apparently, and if it were not for the speed maniacs and the reckless joy riders they would be all right in every way.