THOSE MOTOR-CAR DRIVERS!

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1917, Page 6

THOSE MOTOR-CAR DRIVERS!

To the Editor. Sir, —Those motor-ear drivers again! Sow it is the County Councillors who are bringing charges against motor-ear drivers. They say that some of them are drunk. It lias just dawned on my mind that perhaps the enomv taken into the niout-li and that steals away the 1: ■ t'iiis may be the real culprit when other users of the public highways speak o? "motor-hogs." Without saying exactly that the "motor-hogs'' aro always rtii'nk, it may, 1 think bo very fairly assumed that before men behave as badly as some of these drivers do they ha<i lost a portion of their stlf-control and right consideration for the safety and comfort of others by reason of their drinking. In future, when we see motorearn driven in a way that causes needles:; annoyance and risk to other travellers we shall say: The driver is drunk! But that is not the main point here. Who made those drivers drunk? And, Who licensed' those persons to make tlcso drivers drunk? Any boy can answer these questions. The licensed victuallers (save the mark!) is also a licens"d drunkard-maker; and he gets his license from us—the electors of New Zetland. It is time that many of us pretested against this licensing of persons—men or women—to make other men or women drunk. All wc can do is, tc ask ourselves how far we are guilty in this respect. Thoughtlessly, perhaps, but I very much fear that some of those Councillors who protest against drunken d'.ivers helped to license tl.e places that rwde them drunk—and 311 according to law. Well, Sir, "let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung''—wc struck out the top line.—l am, etc., GEO. H. MAUXDER. 9/1/17. v