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Show Fifteen Out of the Hundred The number of automobile accidents continues to increase over the country causing a terrible ter-rible toll in human life and suffering. suf-fering. Highway officials in various var-ious states are experimenting with various proposals and devices to make highway traveling safer. So far the plan of requiring driver's driv-er's licenses with the penalty of revoking these licenses for cause seems to be the best suggested. A Connecticut official, after careful study, says that 85 out o: every 100 drivers obey highway xegulations and keep out' of trouble and that all the injuries and accidents are caused by tne other 15. Concerning the guilty 15 Commissioner Stoeckle says 2 are criminals, 1 is mentally deficient, de-ficient, 2 are just too stupid tcr respond to the necessities of traffic, traf-fic, while the other 10 are normal beings with a highway complex that causes them to act foolishly and recklessly. The license system alms at tne gradual elimination of these drivers driv-ers who are unfit to be trusted. In Massachusetts an analysis of a hundred fatal accidents revealed reveal-ed the fact that nearly half of the drivers nad been already involved in-volved in some traffic violation. These drivers should have been stopped before tney killed some-' some-' body. |