REMEMBER THE OTHER FELLOW!

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23335, 29 October 1937, Page 20

REMEMBER THE OTHER FELLOW!

You have just bought a car? You. are. anxious to get out on the road with it?

You have already had lessons from a good driving instructor? Splendid! ~.■■' Let us hope that you get a lot. of pleasure from driving around. Have you fully contemplated the psychology of-this motoring? You knew we mortals are queer people. We are just like children, when we get a new car. At first we regard it as a new toy, a novelty to be enjoyed. And we certainly do enjoy it, but we must not forget the other fellow. Which other fellow? The man with a car, too, or the man who finds his pleasure on foot? I mean both. When I say the other fellow I me?n all mankind in general. Remember you are one among so many. By all maans get the best out. of this new pleasure, but. don't forget that your oleasure will be enhanced if you can garage your car for the night and feel that in no way have you inconvenienced humanity. Be courteous always.

If you are driving along a suburban street and hear a warning blast from a motorist behind you. do not try to beat him to the street crossing. ■ ■-.

We have enough commonsense rules of the road to prevent accidents nowadays. The rules are there; the accidents come from disregarding them. CONSIDER PEDESTRIANS

Give and take, quietly. When seeing someone crossing the road you may think it funny to accelerate and give him a fright. This silly prank may cause an accident, and may help to bring another regulation for you to observe in future. What you do may react like a boomerang, if you try to take a rise out of a pedestrian. Undoubtedly pedestrians are to blame for many accidents, but that fact does not justify you in holding all humanity in contempt. Remember—you hold a wheel in your hands, and your hands hold iii bond the lives, not only of the party in your car, but the lives of many on the highway too. Your charge is a sacred one. Be sober in your driving; be deliberate and concentrated always, with the utmost respect for the man without a car, or, in fact, for the man with one.

If he chooses to play the fool by cutting in, let him; he will create his own trouble. You must think of those other people all the time, of the old and infirm, of those school children, of all humanity. Please be careful.