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It is going to appear, an 8-page section each month, in
The PLAIN TRUTH, beginning the November number. I can't tell you
how enthusiastic I am about it! I feel it will be as valuable a
contribution to God's great Work as the Bible Correspondence
Course--and that is saying about as much as could possibly be said!
Then, after sufficient installments have appeared, it will be
reprinted in BOOK form. We have never yet had anything to sell,
yet we cannot give these books away free, for they are going to be
too expensive to publish. I think we shall solve the problem by
allowing someone else to sell the books for a nominal price--but
everybody can have every bit of this, FREE, and first, in The PLAIN
TRUTH. Yet I know many thousands will want this in permanent book
form, even though they must pay the cost of publishing.
Now finally, dear Co-Workers--remember LIFE IS UNCERTAIN
--BE CAREFUL when you drive a car, or even walking in your own
home! Drive within speed limits--and even more important, KEEP
ALERT every second you drive! Never pass a car on a two-way single
highway unless you can see so far ahead you KNOW you can get past
at least 6 seconds or more before you meet a car. Start to count
seconds until you meet a car about a half mile away, and you'll be
SURPRISED! A few years ago I did this, and found I was passing
cars
and getting back into my lane with only one or two seconds to
spare. This always APPEARED to be safe--until I realized I was
actually within one or two seconds of a head-on collision! Since,
I have never tried to pass a car or truck unless I can get past and
back in my lane while the other car is more than an eighth of a
mile--or a quarter mile, away. If you are doing 60, and the on-
coming car is doing 60, and he is a half mile away, you are going
to meet him in 15 seconds! Better be sure he is a mile or more
away before you try to go around a car or truck. Most people
drive TOO CLOSE to the car in front of them. This is MIGHTY
DANGEROUS! Stay back a good distance! ALWAYS SLOW DOWN as you
approach the top of a hill. Another car might be coming toward you
at high speed in the wrong lane--YOUR lane, and you couldn't see
him for the hill. Slow down at intersections. OBSERVE AND OBEY
ALL ROAD SIGNS! BE ESPECIALLY ALERT when on a four-lane or a
divided highway. In some places in some states the signs are not
adequate to make you see that you are about to narrow down to a
two-way highway. This is what cost us my son Dick's life. They
had been on a divided highway. There was only one small sign to
notify them it was becoming a two-way highway. They did not see
it! At this particular point there was another highway about the
same distance to their left as a divided highway would have been.
They did not realize they were on a narrow two-way highway, and
pulled over in the left lane to pass a small car going rather slow,
when a big Cadillac suddenly loomed up from nowhere at high speed
directly in front of them. Mr. Billingsley, driving, had only a
flash to think: "What's he doing on this highway?"--Dick shouted:
"Turn LEFT! Turn LEFT!" out onto the left shoulder--they could not
turn right because they were not far enough in front of the car
they were passing. There simply was not time enough to veer left
far enough to miss the on-coming car, but they did miss a full
head-on collision.