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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORIViflTRIBUNE Iveryone la Southern' Oregon Reads Thm Mail Tnbunt" Publiined Daily ExceDt Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO 27-2 North Fir St Pfaon 2-g.41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Ed J tor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Acl of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance; Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sundav Only On year $4-20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 aiiy and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per coot All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press-FuIl Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative; WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY IN6 Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vnncouvw B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1947 (Monday) Letter resignation by Council man Thomas G. Bradley will be considered by the council to night. Frum Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Rumors will be plentiful the coming year. The best rumor last year was the rumor there would be no more runtors. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1937 (Wednesday) Fred Heath Jr., who declined to be a candidate for reelection as councilman last November, attended his last meeting on the council last night. State Senator George Dunn of Ashland expects to leave for the state legislature this week end. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 6. 1927 (Thursday) Robert Boyle, former secre tary of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, accepts appointment as field representa tive of U.S. Chamber of Com merce. New mill and plant of the Owen-Oregon company, now un der construction, will not be in operation until April, according to James Owen, general mana ger. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 6. 1917 (Saturday) The Medynski plan spells bankruptcy for Medford, states W. S. Croweil. founder of the Medford branch of the First Na tional bank. H. O. Nordwick files as elev enth hour candidate for mayor of Medford. ' What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; sev en or eight is excellent; tlve or sin Is food. 1. Was the first printing press in Tennessee (1793) set up at Kno.wille or Memphis? 2. Did the ancient Egyptians us- wine? 3. Was Jezebel, wife of King Ahab of Israel, a Jewess? 4. Was Jamestown (Va.) the first settlement made by the English in America? 5. In the nursery rhyme did a boy or girl sit down beside Little Miss Muffet? 6. Which capital of a state in the U.S. begins with an F 7 7. Are "prophecy" and prophesy both nouns? 8. Is a ladybird a bird, fish, or beetle? 9. Was helium discovered first on the earth or in the moon? 10. -Bury the Great Duke... To the . . . mourning of a great nation." Tennyson. The "Great Duke" was W n? Answers: 1. Memphis. 2. Yes. 3. No. 4. No. S. No. A spider. 6. Frankfort (Ky.). 7. No. Proph esy Is a verb. 8. Beetle. 9. No. The Sun. 10. Wellington. Red China, Yugoslavia Sign Trade Agreement Tokvo U.PJ Communist China and Yugoslavia have signed a trade protocol for 1957 which calls for a boost in their trade of 40 per cent. Radio Pei ping reported Saturday. The protocol signed Friday ex tends the trade and payments agreement concluded in Febru ary. 1-956 in Belgrade. The new pact calls for trade amounting to more than S20 million in each direction, Radio Peiping said. A Rough Road Ahead We can see no point in kidding ourselves. As the New Year starts it looks like a rocky-road for Uncle Sam at home and abroad. At home it is chiefly the negro question. Whether the filibuster is outlawed or endorsed, it's a ten-to-one shot it will be endorsed, the country will remain along much-the same lines as it was be fore the Civil War which, incidently the South is still spiritually fighting. Geographically the United States is the UNITED States, one and inseparable but politically it isn't. It is divided hetween those who believe in and sup port the Constitution of the United States and those who don't. And those who don't generally speaking, live below the old Mason and Dixon line. HTHE unreconstructed rebels don't admit, of course, ' they are outlaws. But they are. The law of the land is determined by the Constitution of the United States, and not as it may be interpreted by any individual or group of individuals north or south, but by the Su preme Court of the United States. And the U.S. Supreme Court has spoken ! A STUDENT from Mars might conclude that ended it, for he had as a result of his researches, undoubt edly assumed the people of America were enlightened and law-abiding. But he would be mistaken as far as the Deep South, the negro and "White Supremacy" are con cerned. For down there they just don't cotten to that sort of doctrine. They did not believe Abraham Lin coln, when he said that this was a countiy "of the people, by the people and for the people," and they don't believe it now. They believe it is a country of the WHITE people, by the WHITE people and FOR the white people. CO THEY call on state rights to support their con tention just as their ancestor Southerners did a hundred years ago, and judging by some of their "White Supremacy" leaders they would rather fight and die than obey the law as defined by the Supreme Court, which declares there should be no discrimina tion against any citizen of the United States because of his race, religion or color. But, of course, there will be no fighting or dying, this' time. Judging the future by the past there won't even be any serious effort on the part of the present administration to enforce this fundamental law south of the Mason and Dixon The law will be obeyed in some spots, but it will be disobeyed in more. TN OTHER words, things in the South promise to go on after the Supreme Court decision much as they did before, with probably a gradual improve ment in the direction of racial relations, but slow very slow. OOWEVER, as the saying goes, "better late than never." That is tine, but the situation isn't a pleasant one to contemplate here at home, with a large section of the countiy refusing to obey the fundamental law and getting away with it. Equally deplorable is the effect this will have abroad, as far as Uncle Sam's claims of a free democracy are concerned. For as often stated before, the white people on this turbulent earth are in a minority, and to thus ad vertise to the world that only whites can get a square deal in the U.S.A. in spite of the Constitution and oratorical claims to the contrary, is not going to im prove our relations with other countries, particularly those of Asia, the Far and the Mid-East, where they are about as bad as they could be already, and in some localities whites barely exist In fact there is a certain, if not extremely close relationship between this division within the USA re garding racial discrimination, and the recent and really alarming deterioration of American prestige abroad. t e "THE basic cause of this is FEAR. And even more disturbing a "fear" that is un doubtedly shared and supported by the people of this country as a whole regarding foreign relations, and of the South regarding the negro. For who wants to risk violence and bloodshed in the South over the negro segregation question? And who wants to risk World War HI, over Hun gary, Israel, or the slow but sure progress of Russian penetration and infiltration in the Mid-East and along the Mediterranean? AS THIS is written, action has not been taken by the Senate on "cloture," nor, of course, has President Eisenhower delivered his address, asking presumably permission to use U.S. troops if Soviet Russia should try to do in the Mid-East, what it has already done in Hungary. That request, we hope, will be granted. For it might do some good. But the trouble is we fear, not much. For it is highly doubtful that Russia will be fool ish enough to repeat its Hungary blunder, it is even more doubtful that it will discontinue its efforts in any material way at peaceful but poisonous and ef fective political penetration. And what can be done to stop the latter? If the present administration has any answer or antidote for that process, it has not from this distance been discernible. Sunday. January B, 1957 line. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or Initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted tor publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Humane Society's Role To the Editor: In your edito rial "Wishing in 1957" you fail ed to mention a real honest-to-goodness humane society as a desirable asset to our commun ity. Some folks have the idea that the duty of a humane so ciety is to destroy unwanted animals or as a place to leave dogs while the owners are on vacation. The functions of a properly organized humane .so ciety are many and varied; humane education, a free clinic for children and the needy to have pets treated, inspection, in vestigation and sometimes pros ecution, are just a few. Has the human race any right to expect to live in a happy world so long as it aUows so much brutal and avoidable cruelty to be inflicted on the animal creation? A large pro portion of suffering is unneces sary and could be greatly re duced if each individual took his part in furthering this de sirable end. A clean civilization cannot be built on a foundation of blood, slaughter and torture. Many of the atrocities perpe trated on animals are so fright ful that sensitive persons refuse event to hear about them; such behavior is often due to coward ice or bad conscience. Because animal suffering can never be entirely wiped out there is no reason for sitting back and doing nothing. There is no reason except indifference, greed or sadism why the burden placed upon the animal creation should not be lightened ap preciably and at once. Each one should write our Senators to get the i humane slaughter bills now pending en acted into law. At present funds are neetied by the S.P.C.A. in Los Angeles county to feed the homeless, starving pets and wildlife de prived of their homes by the Malibu fire. "Compassion in which ethics have their roots" says Albert Schweitzer, "can only achieve full scope and depth if it is not limited to man but extended to all living things." Mrs. Lola M. Teel, Jacksonville-Central Point Highway, Central Point, Ore. Stolen Dog To the Editor: This letter Is for the meanest person in Med ford: You have picked up my little black Pom-dog from the street. He had a collar and license on. I have advertised in both the paper and over the radio, offer ing a reward. , I have raised him from a pup py, and he is all I -have. Won't you please return him to his grieving mistress? I am sure he is grieving for his home, too. He is nearly seven years old, black, and his left eye is blind. Please bring him home to me, and I will get you a puppy. Why did you take mine? Georgia Fischer 903V4 West 11th st. Medford, Ore. Congressional Quiz 'Copyright. 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q A Member of Congress, a Secretary of the Army and' a chicken figured prominently in the news in February, 1954. Do you recall the circumstances? A At the height of theAr-my-McCarlhy dispute. Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.) and . other members of a subcommittee investigating Communist infilatraiion of the Army met over a chicken luncheon, to settle their dif ferences. Q Of all the appropriations voted by Congress, how big a chunk goes to the Defense De partment: (a) 75 per cent; (b) 45 per cent; (c) 60 per cent; (d) 30 per cent? A (c). Congress in 195S ap propriated $59,727,212,680 for the fiscal year which began July 1. Of this amount, the De fense Department's share was $36,161,677,000, about 60 per cent. Q In what year did Congress unify the military services in a single Department of Defense: (a) 1940; (b) 1916; (c) 1953; (d) 1947? A (d): In the National Se curity Act of 1947, Congress established the Department of Defense with a cabinet-level secretary. Under bim are three services Army, Navy and Air Force each with a secre tary of sub-Cabinet rank. CO WHAT? Well in brief we can, as stated, see only a rocky road ahead for Uncle Sam very rocky. No. I: Time much. time seems to be the only hope for true democracy in the South. No. LI: Trouble within Russia and its satellites, rather than any force from without exerted by this country, appears the only hope of a freer world and a better one, at least before the New Year becomes old and the way of all flesh, is counted out R.W.R. Editorial Comment ASHLAND STEPS OUT Nowadays nearly every com munity has an annual event for which it becomes noted over a period of time. Albany has its Timber Carnival, Eugene has its Emerald Empire Roundup as does Pendleton, with its most famous of all roundups in. Ore gon. But one of the most unique community affairs in Oregon is the Shakespearean Festival put on each summer in Ashland. It has grown in stature year by year, and tcday is internationally famous for its open air produc tions by the Bard of Avon. But as all things that grow, a time comes when it must stand still or expand. There is a move now by the sponsoring association to acquire what amounts to a complete new physical plant surrounding the outdoor amphitheater. Already plans and sketches have been made for offices, dressing rooms, and meeting rooms for sidelight activities such as' the Institute for Renaissance Studies which draws interested students from all parts of the country during the festival. The structures would be in Elizabethan archi tecture and would add a signifi- cant cultural center to southern Oregon. The cost would be about a half-million dollars and to raise the money will take a tremen dous effort. If it is accomplished, and it certainly can't be called impossi ble, it will mean that "outside" interests will have to plunk down a good share of the funds. It will remove the uniqueness that this particular Shakespear ean event has enjoyed of being entirely self - supporting. How ever, if the people of southern Oregon devote themselves to the project, as they have in the past, it no doubt will succeed. It is one of the outstanding summer events in Oregon and it is not inconceivable that other people in the state will help in this worthwhile project. Eu gene Register-Guard. FREIGHT RATE INCREASE . . . The point to be made here (in discussing proposed rate in creases for freight between east and west coasts) is that every freight rate increase hurts Pa cific Coast states worse than Eastern states, competively speaking. The long hauls make the ton-mile charges look like the national debt. It behooves Western and Pa cific Northwestern chambers of commerce and freight traffic as sociations therefore not only to seek hold-down arrangements, but to oppose vigorously any Today and By Walter SOME MIDDLE EASTERN REALITIES It would be a mistake, I think, to shape our policy in a way which forces, or appears to force, the Middle Eastern coun tries to make . ' F3 , definite choice as to who will be their pro t e c t o r, be tween the So viet Union and ourselves. 1 1 will be tact less and it will be unwise to do this. The natural line of their policy is to avoid being aligned irrevocably with either side, and then to play one side against the other, to profit by the competi tion of the great powers for their favor. Any declaration of policy that we make ought to take fuU account of all this. As a matter of fact, the very best we can now hope for in the Middle East is that the Arab countries will remain unaligned and in a middle position. It is, therefore, not only misleading but almost certainly mischievous to keep saying that with the col lapse of the British authority in the Middle East, there is a "vac uum of power," which the Unitr ed States must fill. Whatever else the United States can do, it certainly cannot play the role that Britain used to play. Britain was once not only the paramount military power. It was also the control ling power in Egypt, and in most of the Arab states. Not only has Britain ceased to play that role. The role itself no longer exists for anyone to play. IN THINKING about the Mid dle East, there are two gener al conceptions, one of which we must choose. The first is to think of the Middle East as the stake in the great conflict between the Soviet' Union and the United a1 "" "i 1 1 fiifstlf Walter Lujomaiui Matter of Fact Y THEY SHOULD HAVE WEPT Washington On Thursday, when the new Senate met and the roll was called, there was a moment of breathless sus pense before Ohio's new Senator, un p r e d i c table Frank Laus che, voted with the Dem ocrats to org- Stewart Also a I e. Lauscne had told no-one how he would vote, and the relieved Democrats clapperd and cheered. Logically, they should have wept. For the fact is that the Dem ocrats, in control of Congress, find themselves in a genuinely desperate situation. They are in a desperate situation simply be cause President Eisenhower, ui pursuit of his stated purpose of making the Republican party the nations majority party, is getting ready to steal all their issues, and leave them naked as so many Jaybirds. The President is now working hard on two major public doc uments his state of the union speech and his second inaugural address. The tone of the state of the union speech, according to reliable reports, wm be mod ern Republicans" all the way. with heavy emphasis on such new dealish issues as social se curity, health legislation, schools, farm aid, and notably, civil rights legislation. THE theme of the inaugural address will hp "the nrice of peace," with equally heavy em phasis on the sacrifices which peace demands. Both speeches are intended to set the tone of the Administration for the years to come. Obviously, it is not a tone calculated to warm the hearty 01 ne still powerful conservative-isolationist Repub lican hard core on Capitol Hill. For the moment, the conserva tive Republicans have been maintaing a mouse-like silence, since they are still bemused by the Eisenhower triumph at the polls. But if they had organized the Senate, as they so nearly did, they would no doubt in time have given the President plenty of trouble. After all, when the Republicans were in control in the first two Eisenhower years, the President was driven to talk ing seriously of forming a third party. But bar accidents of nature. the rightwing Republicans will further increases until such in creases can be proved beyond question of doubt to be impera tive to maintenance of proper service. Oregon Journal, Port land. Tomorrow Lippmann States. If that is the way we ap proach the' problem, , whatever we offer the Arab states as mili tary protection or economic as sistance will carry with it the implication that they must make their choice between Moscow and Washington. The other way to think about the Arab countries is in terms of a balance of power within which they remain independent and un aligned. This is the approach which test reflects the realities of the military situation in the Middle East, and the true na tional interests of the Arab states. TF WE look quite realistically A at the military situation of the United States and of the U.S.S.R. in the Middle East, must we not conclude that there ex ists a stalemate in which both of us are deterred from intervening with our own military forces? The warning against Soviet in tervention, which Congress is to be asked to give, puts into words one side of this mutual deter rence. The other side of it is that we, too, are deterred from inter vening with our own forces. For we have to assume that the So viet Union would react to such an intervention. Because the stalemate prevents overt intervention, the field is wide open to propaganda, sub version, bribery and intrigue. When the British and French tried to intervene, they found the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. aligned against them. Under neath all the moral and political reasons avowed for this align ment, there was at bottom the Soviet-American deadlock which neither dares to see broken. THERE are, then, these two fac tors to be kept in mind. One is that the natural line of the Arab states is towards neutral ity, and that this should be re spected and encouraged. A sec ond factor is that the Soviet Union and the United States are mutually deterred from overt in tervention. A third is that in this condition of affairs, the Middle East is highly unstable. For there is no authority outside the re gion, and none within the re gion, which can establish and maintain order. We cannot, therefore, rule out the ' possibility that some time the disorder wiU be such that it is recognized as a menace to the peace of the world. If so, the time may come when we shaU iy . - ft f . Stewart Alsop lack the key committee chair-! manships, and thus the means of making real trouble for the President. Meanwhile, the Dem ocrats are in no shape to make real trouble for him either. THE Democrats, especially the Northern liberals, are just as vividly aware as the President that the Democratic status as the national majority party is at stake. They know that the coal ition put togeter by Franklin D. Roosevelt, which made the Dem ocratic party the normal ma jority for more than two dec ades, is showing every sign of cracking up. But what are they to do? Plenty of Democrats are deep ly disturbed by the Adminis tnirions's conduct of defense and foreign policy, and the Middle East crisis will certainly be loudly debated. But there is not a man on Capitol Hill who be lieves that there is real political hay to be made by attacking the President's defense and foreign policy so soon after his triumph in November. On virtually every domestic issue, the Democrats can only say "Me too, only more so," to the President's version of "modern Republicanism." This is true especiaUy of civil rights, the only issue which really raises the voters' temperatures. on which the Northern Dem ocrats had counted heavily to woo back the slipping Negro and minority vote. TN THE election, the Negro A voters used the carrot-and- stick technique on both parties. The Northern Democrats by no means enjoyed the feeling of the stick, which is why they are so eager to take credit for civil rights legislation. But the Re publicans thoroughly enjoyed the taste of the carrot, which is why so many of them joined the liberal Demorcatic attack on Senate Rule 22. Moreover, an essential part of the Eisenhower strategy for making the Republicans the ma jority party is to accelerate the shift of the minority vote to the Republicans. The Administra tion is therefore getting ready to push reaUy hard to line up Renublican votes behind the President's "moderate" civil rights program. If the push is hard enough, there is a good chance that the needed 64 votes can be mustered to break the expected Southern filibuster. But if that happens the Re publican administration will reap the lion's share of the credit with the minority voters. And where else are the Northern Democrats to turn for the kind of issue which really stirs up the voters? The fact, that- this question is so hard to answe; suggests why the forthcoming session may prove crucial to both parties and why it involves a great danger to the Democrats and a great opportunity for the Republicans. Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK Tragic note in the news: The year 1956 set a grim rec ord. The National Safety Council estimates that last year 40,200 persons died in traffic accidents. The previous record. was 39, 969 traffic deaths in 1941. DR. PAUL DUDLEY WHITE of Boston, whose daughter was injured in a near fatal acci dent in New Mexico last month, appeals this morning to his fa mous former patient, President Eisenhower, to help cut down highway deaths. He offers three suggestions: 1. A federal speed limit with restrictive penalties. 2. A campaign to have manu facturers limit maximum speed of cars. 3. An educational program for the public. rF THE three, the last seems to " offer the greatest long-range promise. Prohibitive Parking Signs to be Installed City -crews will install signs Monday prohibiting parking be tween 4:30 and 6 p.m. in front of the Medford post office on Sixth st., according to Vern Thorpe, public works director. The space will be made avail able for use of the drive-up mail box, Thorpe said. There will be 15-muiute park ing spaces provided on North Holly st. along the post office building side. Discontinuance of the parking facilities in front of the buil ding was authorized recently by the city council, foUowing com plaints from motorists that park ed cars caused a bad traffic sit uation. have to have some talks with the Russians about the possibility of arranging a stabilization by neu tralization in the Middle East. (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune) POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) It is entirely possible, as we can testify, for some one to sub-, mit a news item to the paper, then search diligently through several issues of the paper, not seeing it even though it is there. This happened to a woman last week, so she sent her husband down to the newsroom to in quire why the item hadn't been printed.. Well, it so happened that the person who had edited the item remembered it, went to the files, found it, and showed it in print to the husband. Some what embarrassed, ne accepted a clipping as proof that it has been published, then walked away saying: I'll sneak out the back door. Pretend I wasn't here." 1 One woman whose husband. ' one ion and a daughter are . all attorneys (guess who) com plains that with all that talent rrayed against her. "I can NEVER win an argument at homel" A columnist in the Corvallis Gazette-Times records how, now that the Christmas mailing rush is rast. a counle of letters have been delivered in that city sev eral hours before the mailing time as recorded on the post mark. Shucks, we can beat that. On the morning of Thursday, Jan. 3, we received in the mail a card from the Camp White post office with a postmark which showed it had been mailed in the p.m. of Jan. 4. That's REAL service. When we went to school, when one youngster stuck his tongue out at another, it was imply a rude gesture of disre spect. Times change. We now have it on excellent authority that in the sub-teen set, the " gesture carries with it the sig nificant meaning of "Kiss me, but don't slobber." Revolting, isn't it? A father was helping his 11- year-old daughter with her home work in geography the other day. She was to memorize the defi nitions of a series of words, one of which was derrick. She identified it correctly as a tower used in the production of petroleum. Father, who is sometimes too nosy for his own good, asked, daughter if she knew what per troleum is. "Oh, yes," she replied, "it's that stuff we rub on our chest when we have a cold." 1 W tiaA T.roivnrl m rnmmu- nication from an attractive ' young woman who figured in a recent Potluck item. She said, "After reading the item in Potluck Sunday, I decided you people must really have a tough time finding enough news to print." How right she ' is, at least sometimes. JENKINS Excessive speed, of course, is a tragic factor in highway crashes because the greater the speed the worse the crash. But with modern roads and modern cars it is exceedingly difficult to hold maximum speeds below 50 or 60 miles per hour without lit-, erally cluttering the highways with traffic police. If much lower limits are attempted, drivers will tend to disregard them when no policeman is in sight. At even, 40 or 50 mph, crashes due to poor driving can be dis astrous. THE lesson drivers need to learn is that piloting an auto mobile in modern traffic is a SKILLED job. Other than taking off and landing, the handling of an automobile in ordinary traffic in these days requires more skill than the mere handling of an airplane while it is in the air. It can be stated with reasonable accuracy that handling an auto mobile in present-day traffic re quires more skill than the mere piloting of a locomotive along the rails. - Airplane pilots and locomo tive engineers are required to go through a long period of appren ticeship and to pass rigid com petency tests before being per mitted to assume sole responsi bility for the handling of a plane or a railroad engine. But a license to drive an auto mobile can be obtained with rel atively little difficulty. The passing of tests required calls for only the most rudimentary skills. , It is hard to escape the con clusion that we need to demand much greater evidence of tech nical competence before issuing a license to drive an automobile. "VNE lesson drivers need to i : ,u.; ivztxL u is nidi ail auiuiuuuuu can be as deadly as a gun. An other lesson that needs learning . is that with careful driving at moderate speeds the elapsed time hptwppn thp nninr nf rlenartnrA- and the destination wiU be little if any greater, on the average, than with reckless speeds. That is a surprising fact that can be learned by any driver who will take the time to experiment with careful driving.