The Sheriff is Coming for Your Headlights

Sheriff C. E. Duffy, who has been looking after official business in this end of the county this week, says that within the next few days a circular letter will be issued from his office to every owner of an automobile in Benton county calling his attention to the new motor vehicle law passed by the last legislature. The sheriff says that it is his intention to rigidly enforce the law but that he wishes to give every owner ample opportunity to comply with it. By mailing out the notices Mr. Duffy expects to head off the possibility of any violator seeking to excuse himself on the grounds that he did not know the law. One of the most important sections of the law provides for the regulation of the lighting system on each car. This provision is important not only to every person who drives a car at night but also to pedestrians or teams that might be met on the highways after sundown. It is one of the most important features of the law which prevents accidents and lessens the danger to human life, for it aims to do away with those lights that so blind the person coming from another direction that he cannot see to guide his own car.