Citizens who are in the habit of driving their automobiles on the public highway sensibly and discreetly continue to troop back to the city with complaints against those who drive theirs neither safely nor sensibly. The peril of speeding on the highways of the county is a growing evil. It must be faced and sternly dealt with some of these days by means which are yet to be suggested as sufficient to curb this practice. The hazard to life may not be so great out on these public, hard-surfaced roads, and others that are not yet hard-surfaced, as on the crowded streets of the city, but the sinister evil is there and will remain until sufficient steps are taken to break up this tendency on the part of some auto drivers. Life is equally precious in the rural as urban community.
From the editorial page of The Charlotte News, Sept. 14, 1921
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