|\ * Of course it might appear that the
lack of uniform age limit is of minor
• importance. AVhr\re it actually hurts is
i ' in its effect upon the extension of re
f' ciprocal privileges. Several years ago
a New Jersey .youth of 17, just over
• the limit of his own state, was fined
for driving in New York, where the
limit is is. The first motion on his
, behalf by the New Jersey motor ve
: hide commission was rebuffed at Al
bany. Only a fast-minute acceptance
of arbitration- by the New York com
missioner averted drastic retaliation,
which would have taken the direction
of minute enforeerpent of every letter
of the Jersey law against New York
cars, and would have amounted to a
suspension of reciprocity. The differ
ence between 17 and IS years doesn’t
amount to much: but what about, say,
Kansas with a 14-year limit and Ne
braska with none? AY hen a Nebraska
child of eight drives across the state
line, is he subject to arrest for his very
serious violation of the Kansas law, or
does the fact that he can drive legally
\ : jrt home entitle him to reciprocity? If
’ it is safe for an 8-year-old to drive a
motor car in Nebraska or a 14-.vear-old
in Kansas, it is equally safe in New
Jersey ; if it is really improper for any
body short of IS to drive in New York,
it is equally improper elsewhere.
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