Word: automobilistes
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...matter in what business he is engaged, has constant occasion to inquire what are his rights and what are his obligations to his fellow-citizens, what are the rules which the community has established to control his action, and what will happen to him if he breaks them. The automobilist needs to know what the law requires of him. The farmer who is selling fruit or vegetables must learn how his apples must be graded. The young man who is to be married must find out what licenses he needs. Birth, death and every step between is regulated...
Although it is challenged as a menace to pedestrians and automobilists, it provides a safety zone on which pedestrians can stand in order to board surface cars. If it were removed and a safety zone marked out, the automobilist would still be forced to go around the area as they do now. It acts as "tin-policeman" of a rather unusually heavy avoirdupois. Its removal, then, would not eliminate an obstruction to traffic unless the surface cars were diverted to other streets outside the Square...
...predatory rich and as pirates, and the wild honk-honk man who whirls from the highway all who do not drive sixty-horse power machines... The punctured tire, the wayside repairs before a humerous audience, the superior man who gives advice, and all the other things of which an automobilist dreams are left untouched; perhaps we may get, a sufficient compensation in the really humorous picture of Pegasus up to date, provided with side-lights, horn, and best of all, a steering-wheel...