"NOISE-HOGS"

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 6

"NOISE-HOGS"

Teach Them To Can The Clatter !

DOLICE action should be rigor* [ * ously taken against the type of | motorist who affrights the roads, j day and night, with too much noise — the driver who removes his 1 silencer and takes a barbaric delight m the resultant racket. | THERE is a law to deal with these ofi * fenders, whose noise is generally a j blatant showing-off of a sports model car or a new motor-cycle. But this law is not properly enforced. The police must see that It Is enforced. The greatest menace to modern civilization is the continual, nerve-racking noise that must accompany mechanical progress. The trend of civilization, accordingly, is towards the elimination of noise, as far as possible. • Yet the noise-hog of the roads proceeds with very little check, violating aH laws of civilization, peace and decency. No one can sleep or rest while he is about, and he is a menace to. every sick-bed he passes by. He must be taught manners— by un:remitting attention from the police and heavy fines when he Is caught.