JINGOISM OF SPEED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 2

JINGOISM OF SPEED

MR. TYNDALL PROTESTS

a stroii 0 * personal dislike of speed was expressed ov Mr. A. Tyndall, of the Main Highways Board, at tho transport conference in' Wellington, when Mr. Cousins raised the point as to whctlu-i the economic value of high speeds outweighed their costs. “There is a great deal in this as a psychological question,” said Mr. xyiidall “We are up against something very difficult. 1 dislike speed very much. I think it is economic ioolisliness and a waste of life, but it must be appreciated that tho whole world lias a sort of jingoism m speed. \\ e hear of nothing else but Bntam s supremacy in speed on land and waW and in the air, and of other nations attempts at it. England has even tie speediest trains in the world. Evu with bovs at college it is a question ol speed. The jingoism of speed is being socked and socked into us. Every boy who gets on a motor-bike is a potentia Wkillv Kilmister on even* bit of road in the country. Even the lads m the back seat, when some car goes grinding past father, yell “Step on it, Dad. Do you think lai.her is going to throw away his reputation as the family wo just''for the sake of a regulation?