Blame the Motorbus : An Old, Old Story, which Has Served Its Day.
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It is seldom that we have occasion to object to tile attitude of " The Daily Graphic " upon motor topics : the gentleman who directs that section of our contemporary's pages is known to be a considerate and accomplished writer, of which qualities, were any extra testimony needed, his recent identification with the Royal Automobile Club Journal furnishes additional proof. It was, therefore, with feelings akin to amazement, that we were, on Wednesday morning of last week, confronted by the " scare " poster which we have taken the trouble to reproduce. We do not suggest that " The Daily Graphic is relapsing into the methods of yellow journalism, but we do venture to appeal to its news editor, and to the news editors of all daily and evening papers, not to jump to the conclusion that every vehicular accident is necessarily in respect of a self-propelled vehicle. In the ease under immediate notice, the omnibus was of the horse-drawn type, and there is some little satisfaction to be derived from the fact that the textual references in our contemporary, as we were glad to find when we purchased a copy, did not repeat the incorrect announcement of its poster. Slips of the kind, we know, may occur in the best-conducted journals, and we do not direct attention to this particular instance in any spirit of condemnation. "The Daily Mail," on this occasion, exercised that degree of self-restraint which allowed its poster to read " Omnibus overturned," and we have no right, perhaps, to go further than to point out, to hustling reporters and their superiors in office, that the public is beginning to get a little bit tired of the motorbus canard. Cannot the combined brains of Fleet Street discover something else to flog