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Show I RACING WITH DEATH. 1 uu Sunday, throughout the United States, there were eleven j automobile deaths. "'1 A Pennsylvania train struck a machine, killing five men. J An iiiterurhan car near Orion, Midi caused the death of five I persons ridinp in an auto. i'l An auto killed a pedestrian on the road near Folsom, Cal I The records of auto accidents are growing each day, with the ,1 promise that eventually the death list will be as great as the eas- J ualty list from a battlefield -I Perhaps nine-tenths of the auto accidents are due to inexcus- J able carelessness. 3 With the machines in use increasing at a rapid rate, the num- M ber of reckless drivers is growing and, as a consequence, fatalities 3 will multiply. .'3 Even on the boulevard from Ogden to Salt Lake there is a big I a element of risk even for the cautious operator of a car. Every M fourth or fifth auto passing over the hard-surfaced road is moving 3 as fast as the engines will drive the car. There i.. 110 crash so Long 4jM as everything holds together, but a blow out, a broken steering rod. . a lost bolt and death stalks along the highway. It is about time a that sane driving be forced on those who delight in speeding on Jfl the road to Salt Lake, or north oil the highway to Brigham City. jg9 A little precaution, liberally aided by speed regulation, will save ak lives. |