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quickly reminded me of the “hoss id buggy” days of which so much being spread from Washington oently. Such a disposition pre--iled among autoists in Iowa on rmer visits here.Stopping Troublesome.It isn’t because that feeling or de-•e to be of assistance to a hitch* ker has waned but there are so any new cars being driven that ivers do not like to stop suddenly len travelling 60 or 70 miles an ur because of the wear and tear l tires and brakes.There is a national crusade spon-red by the American Automobile ►sociation to rid the highways of tch-hikers altogether and many her influences are being exerted to evail upon motorists to abandon e practice of picking up strangers.Those who go out on the open ad now-a-days and rely upon iling cars to help them towards eir destination comprise a class of tneir situation pleasantly in tms state. One thing is sure no hitchhiker today will try to further impose upon anyone good enough to pick them up by asking for means or lodgings. That element has quit the highways, too.It won’t be long, in the writer’s humble opinion, before the word hitch-hike” will be rated as obsolete in cross word puzzles and the future generations may wonder what sort of people thier ancestors w'ere anyway. Perhaps it will be as easy in a year or two to stop at some flying field and try to bum a plane ride^-a thing which I did from Kansas City to St. Louis once —and successfully, too.Eliminating the false impression that there is danger in picking up a hitch-hiker under present conditions I claim that when a person steps into an automobile witfT a stranger, he or she, too, is running a risk Perhaps the car may have been stolen, the driver mav be an
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Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa, US
Sat, Aug 03, 1935
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