LETTERS: SAFETY SEATS AREN'T THAT HARD TO USE

To the editor:

Regarding the April 28 story "Child safety seat training for technicians held" that started, "Four days of classes and hands-on training to put child safety seats in cars might not be enough":

Even using Speak Out as a yardstick of intelligence, I would still protest the insult. I went to a store and checked the instructions for four different brands of child safety seats, and the instructions looked good to me. The seats are sure more complex and safer than the one I used when my first son was born in 1952, but they do not take a high school degree to properly use them -- assuming, of course, that the high school graduate had learned to read.

Let's say people are that fatuous. What is the purpose of training all these people? So that one week-end a year they can participate in gratuitous checking of child seat installations? Sounds as useful as training a lot of persons how to tell others when to use the high beams on their automobiles.

ROBERT LUCAS

Cape Girardeau