THE CRAZE FOR SPEED
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—Why the necessity for the safety week campaign? Why has the world allowed itself to be unprotestirig in the modern mad craze for speed? It brings nothing but harm in its train. The speed craze is responsible for a colossal death roll, on the roads and in the air. In industry it is resulting in rushed work and rushed work cannot be good work. Could we say that Egypt's Pyramids, Rome's Coloseum, and Britain's Stonehenge were creations through speed? The strain of high speed conditions is affecting the people's nerves and general health; so much so, that overcrowding in hospitals and institutions is overtaxing the accommodation, even into the casualty departments that are set apart-for the speed cases. It would be well for all advocates of speed to pause whilst dodging traffic cops and pedestrians at crossings; there is one cop they cannot dodge, the undertaker. —I am, etc., > D. W. CAMPBELL.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 10
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159THE CRAZE FOR SPEED Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 10
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