The Anti-Noise campaign will• make headway in proportion as its
crusaders show themselves alive to practical considerations. Motor-cars, of course, will be shot at, and with some reason. Noisy exhausts ought to be penalized whenever and wherever encoun- tered. • The motor-cyclist who careers along with a rattle like a machine-gun ought to be sent to penal servitude or something like it. And motor-horns ought to be used as little as possible.- But to- suggest their abolition on the ground that they- cause more accidents than they prevent is simple folly. Is a fast car to overtake a slow one without giving any notice of its intention ? Is an absent-minded pedestrian to be given no warning of the approach of a silently-gliding vehicle ? Has anyone in his senses proposed the abolition of bicycle-bells ?
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