THE PILOT
Friday, August 20, 1926.
THE PILOT
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ON BEING AWAY
FROM HOME
This is written in the northern
part of Pennsylvania, prompted
by the things encountered away
from home. After nmning
around in the country between
here and North Carolina the con
clusions forced are that the
things left behind are about as
good as the new things encoun
tered up this way. The strang
er who did not know the fussy
habits of mankind might think
the chief end of men is to buy
gasoline and run about, and he
would not be far wrong. For
of all the incessant running up
and down the earth that is seen
on the great highways even the
Devil in the Book of Job was an
example of staying quiet at
home. From a front porch on a
country road one evening last
week I counted 198 cars passing
in about 25 minutes. It looks
as if the whole uneasy world
wants to get to some other place
in the next three minutes, al
though the flow of traffic the
other way indicates that every
body at the same time wants to
get back.
Pennsylvania has a traffic po
lice system. The traffic could
not exist without such a sys
tem. Here are three states,
New York, Ohio and Pennsyl
vania, that together have over
three million cars on the roads
and enough to move probably
one-seventh of all the popula
tion of the United States at one
vania is seen where the passing
of narrow places or detours or
obstructed new work is met. In
our state everybody wants to
crowd into a tight place and hog
the way through. in Pennsyl
vania the man who tries to cut
in out of his turn or on the
wrong side, or who makes a
wrong play to the disadvantage
of other travelers is liable to ar
rest, and the penalty that fol
lows. So the traffic is easier and
much safer. One thing partic
ularly noticeable is the absence
of that effort to run around a
car as it is about to meet
another. It is permissible to
pass a car going the same way
only when no car is coming the
other way, and the way that rule
is observed is striking to a man
from North Carolina.
I will go back home a positive
enthusiast concerning a good
law for the creation of a state
highway police. One that will be
enforced and with a good force
of patrolmen under a good head.
Our road system is the best
one I have seen. Our roads are
better located and better engin
eered than I have seen in any of
the states from Carolina to Can
ada, and in that respect I be
lieve we lead the world. But
Pennsylvania and New York set
us an example in safety, brought
about by good road laws, rigidly
enforced by capable police,
which we can follow to great
benefit. A Pennsylvania man
tells me that it is cheaper to hire
police than to pay hospital and
funeral bills, and a New York
man says police are also cheaper
than automobile repair bills.
North Carolina is so keen in
seeing that a bad road is too
great an expense to tolerate
that I have hopes that our state
will also see that reckless and
lawless driving is also too ex
pensive. To arrange a funeral
a day from automobile accidents
in North Carolina, would pay the
hire of a lot of highway police.
The thousands of injuries to peo
ple by the accidents cost enough
to pay all the rest of the police.
time, or six times as many peo- _ ^
pie as are in all North Carolina. | And the damages to cars is big
That all this traffic could move | enough to pay double the fund
under the hap-hazard system of, that would be needed,
our state is impossible. So A highway police for North
traffic laws are rigid, and they Carolina will be not only a great
are therefore simple, and what step forward in making our
is important they are obeyed. I highways safe, but it will next
have not seen a traffic policeman to the good roads themselves be
in the two weeks since I left
home, but I can see clearly that
their presence is felt. All that
idiotic recklessness of driving
that is so common on North Car
olina roads seems up here to be
the greatest money saver of any
new thing recently established,
for state police will cut down by
hundreds of thousands of dollars
the present great outlay for fun
eral bills* hospital bills and re
held in check by the knowledge i pair bills, a thing few have
that while the police are not vis- j thought about. Automobile ac-
ible they may pop over the hill i cidents form one of the big costs
any minute, and that they stand | of automobile operation. A
no monkey business. | good state police system will cut
The whole atmosphere of the | that cost by hundreds of thous-
road is different. You do not! ands of dollars, besides saving
see that wsmart fool cut in ahead! many lives and thousands of ser-
as you are about to meet a car | ious mjuries.
from the other direction. He j am confident we have the
knows a traffic policeman may, system of roads in the un
catch him at It and arrest him j j f^^r we have one of
Drivers keep their own sides of; ^^rst systems of operat-
the road come around curv^es un-; ^nd after seeing the
der control, down hills at safe ^jety^ods followed in Pennsyl-
speed, and observe the cross, ^ew York. I can im-
road rules. You stay on the | reason why in our state
right of the road, and watch the tolerate our present
right side of your side. The left inefficient murderous system
is watched by the man going the ! ^he next legisla-
other way Slow down signs; provide a really
are v\am. Danger signals mean efficient state police, one that will
what they say. And drivers 1 enforce good road laws, stop the
ha^^ a decided respect for the; slaughter on the roads and the
traffic police, who do not argue | destj-uction of cars, and make
the case. 1 ^^ore of a pleasure and
less of a danger and dread.
And there is the whole bene
fit of the Pennsylvania traffic
police .^stem They have the ^om Tarheel says that old rocky
and everyone knows j of stumps, just back of the
^ \ I barn is now one of the best pieces of
The> have the one job and it is farm since he blew out
o ma e the road safe, and if | rocks and stumps with explosive.
they fail they lose their 30b. So j
their authority is respected, and
it is safer to drive in Pennsyl
vania with over a million cars
than in North Carolina with less
than half as many. But the
driver in PennsylvaJnia cannot
ra^ke'd'tXyMt™Kh“"lS|Flag Stone For Walks
not he gets his lesson, and the'
Farm timber is a good crop and
helps in one’s credit rating at the
bank.
result is that the driver feels
safer in Pennsylvania and he is
not in the least discommoded,
for the law, is made to make
driving safe and enjoyable, not
to hamper or vex.
One of the most striking ex
amples of the good results cf en
forced road laws in Pennsyl-
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