Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — ALTO PERILS [ARTICLE]

ALTO PERILS

(By Walt Mason.)

If one would drive his auto sanely, the way of safety .always choose*, the coroner would follow vainly along the course that he pursues. I lean against the barb wire fences, and watch the drivers as they pass; and some have blunted all their senses by lapping liquor from a glass; and some are i n so great a hurry they hit up 50 miles an hour—like lightning streaks along they scurry, exultant in their gas-born power. And cars are run by springalds giddy, who do not keep their eyes ahead; they slap a man who leaves a widdy, and seven orphans needing bread. And cars are run by new beginners, who jog along a mile and back, and then imagine they’d be winners of medals on the racing track. With accidents on every acre, the death list grows, and gives us pain; the coroner and undertaker are busy gathering the slain. The laws we have are surely feckless, it’s hard to see what good they are, when all the boneheads and the reckless may run amuck with motor car.