MOTORING MANNERS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 12 March 1931, Page 11

MOTORING MANNERS.

XO. .TH*. UttXOB OIJ.THB fBBSB, - ( i . - Misfortune . while' driving lately along county, roads—?jo laite, in fa-fct, aB this ? affemoOlt-rto experience a succession > of incivility on tbe part of of the motoring, fraternity. -Tit pi , large' majority of offenders have, been ;'ti\xi and service-car drivers, though I do not for a moment suggest 'that all -uniformed motorists' are equally guilty ~\or that' as a class _they, arO 'lilnnefs' aboye others" "in-this regardi u Sp-far. ag some pf these,drivers are "however,' their slight re-gdrdfor-the courtesies of; the road is , notorious. With » coolness bordering, on indolence, • ana an utter: disregard of the rights or oncomings traffic, -or the risks of collision, they" deliberately t encroach«' on .■''ihe'other fellow's"' lialf of' the road, yip'bjii'ently with* tbfe-object,of demonstrating r io ,thsir passengers __ their other car ■ by- some inconsiderable frac-' .tion /of an inch" • Or- ,P er kaps .take aiti impish'delight in" pushing the apptoaching motorist tothe very brink v of .-the 'ditch.' Such,; at least, was "the I was forced to by the < inbf ' two motorists, this rafternoon/;in -one- instance, while-tra-versing 'a narrow t courtly 'lane, and in -Another-while emerging front a- narrow bridge over Saltwater Creek* Bow were drivers ''plyiilgrfor'hire'.*- * Apart caltogetber-from the danger in- ( volyed * in v ,suchfoql ish. conduct,- one isi 'to wonder,whether itis 'but one r iQQr», token? of -t)|ie r.passipg of. the r age of cliivalry.' Whpre- good rare not inborn and * inbred- it'is perhaps - hopeless expect -much *fronl Van education therein—the real gentleman is "born,,. not'. .nxade.V . >Yet unless ouir highways ~are to.be overturn by hordes of 1 barbarians, something will ' surely "have 'to Jbe' doiie iri this direc-* tion. traffic irjspectpra, wi&n tfcw baye » little. morp leisure to patrol the mpin, highways. could assist? in. - the -,tutoria!rprocess> their * lesWs, to by 1 salutary penalf >tiee for tionrobseiraube by"their pupils ' tfie rules'. of comjuon, -ordinary' politeness,-—Yours, r etc., - . & - <■' \ WAYFA£EB> ] v . ft- y * **'' •* { >, T ' i"*,' '£ ' f ' w " 'I t / * *7. , f y ,<' V"