cence between the necessary and the, unnecessary is essential."
'A high executive of General Motors, China, Me. in an interview, informed us that he had never been in a city s0 enamoured of the moter horn as is Shanghai. It should be possible, he said, for every driver to rely upon his (or her) driving ability to avoid accident instead of relying upon a noisy horn to fulfill that} function. For every fifty toots of the horn in Shanghai, he added, there is but one abroad.
'Perhaps the following opinion of jan owner-driver in this connection expresses the average driver's attitude. When interviewed by appointment, he said that he had] Tooked into' the matter from all angles, but could not see how the use of the horn was to be avoided.
"The excessive use of motor car horns in Shanghai," he said, "is direct expression of that philosophy 30 eloquently expressed by our friend Lord Byron: Quiet to quick bosoms fs a hell." We motorists have] to get about quickly, and what can we do when a particularly silly pedestrian or an equally silly riesha Puller gets in the way but sound our horn and sound it so that it can be; heard above the din of other horns? Noise in Shanghai goes with a motor car, stops with a motor ear, is not a bit of use to a motor car, and get '2 motor car cannot go without it.
"AMI these so-called plans to stop drivers using their horns will cause] 1 lot of trouble for a while and give excessive work to everybody com
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