ON FOOT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16641, 25 January 1922, Page 4

ON FOOT.

(By WAI/r MASON.) Pedestrians arc often sinners, against vthe laws; they’re much to blame, when ’choo-choo waggons, made by tinners, collide with them and knock them lame. The motorists get roasts aplenty, and they are fined and placed in hock, when they’ve run down some eight or twenty cheap sports who don’t know’ how to walk ; who dodge around among the blisses, and laugh all traffic rules to scorn, until the moral driver cusses and ivonders why they e’er were born. Jußt now we are exhorting drivers to end the present reign of fear, so there may bo a feiv survivors when next the census men appear. And I exhort the walking voters to bear in mind the rules of Hoyle, and not run down defenceless motors, and make the blood of chauffeurs boil. When someone’s hurt the crowds assemble, attracted by tho siclc’ning thud, and straightway make tho welkin tremble, demanding some poor driver’s blood. But it may bo the hapless driver is innocent of breakity glaws; yet he is pinched and fined a stiver—perhaps a stretch in gaol ho draws. And it may be the fellow stricken has broken all the rules in sight, lias jay-walked till his course would sicken all true defenders of the right. And so, while we are loudly preaching to those who drive along the street, methinks we shouldn’t fail in teaching the w alkers hoiv to wield their feet.