A USEFUL GUIDE
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Barney Oldfield, who never seemed to worry much about how; close he came to death in his younger days of automobile racing, is an apostle of safe driving today. And he's entirely consistent, too. ■ There were no pedestrians, grade crossings, or blind curves on the tracks on which he used to make his records, and he and the other speed specialists felt that, if they chose to risk their own lives without endangering the lives of others who had not also chosen dangerously, it was their individual right. Bftt dangftous driving on streets and highways, is something else. Play with death if you want to where everybody else concerned has voluntarily entered the same gam 6, says the former speed king, but you've Doright to force the gamble on others who have not willingly put up the stake of their, lives and limbs : * ■'':':
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 28
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148A USEFUL GUIDE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 28
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