Show Automobile Accidents a all the automobile accidents are the fault of d j NOT careless drivers There Ther is gross carelessness ss cs- cs i. i in big cities on the part of pedestrians In I these days day of rapid transit the streets are not a safe refuge f for r tho the minded absent-minded man maii with his head in the clouds or for people to stand and gossip or for children chila children chil- chil a dren to play marbles marbles' The streets arc are aro no place for anyone anyone anyone any- any one who who who-is 5 thinking of f something else Unless tho the pedestrian pedestrian 7 trian gives his undivided attention to saving saying his life he ho he must not cross the streets h I There are very many prudent drivers of of- motor cars I. I who bo observe every precaution to avoid accidents yet et who meet with c one occasionally of a n. serious nature It is because motors are mechanical and cannot be controlled eon eon- trolled as readily ns as horses Then too the speed is faster than the horse-drawn horse vehicle We Ve say it is a aI I safe speed for an automobile to cross a crowded street at twelve miles an hour yet that is a breakneck speed for a team team and horses have eyes eyes' and instincts to s save themselves cs from injury which engines and carb carburetors carburetors car- car b have not 2 But tho the automobile has hns come to stay and md the best best- I thought of the be best t minds should be e exerted to make makeI I JI it less dangerous less dangerous less deadly The Wall r Street Journal Journal Journal Jour- Jour nal estimates that there are n now nv automobiles I and motor trucks in the United States An automobile I 2 o or truck to every third family j one to every fourteen And the manufacturers that p persons predict a automobiles and trucks will be produced and sold durIf during dur- dur If ing lag 1020 j I In In a recent bulletin of the National Safet Safety council i it is announced the automobile has become the most I deadly machine machin in in America meica because the mortality reI reL reI re- re L I I ports and statistics indicate that during recent years Ie A I a automobile t obile accidents have resulted in approximately tely 1 one half tho the number of oJ deaths caused by industrial Z accidents of all sorts Borts In New York City persons were killed by b automobiles in one year i Statistics also show v that year by year the number o o of automobile deaths is increasing in almost exact ratio with the increase in number of automobiles This year car k II automobiles and trucks will be in use We T Te e would rather rath the statisticians would r compute the thousands thousands thou thou- I sands who will be killed Perhaps it 1 Mitchell hell Palmer has quit issuing bulletins o- o on how bow to reduce the high co cost t of living owing to the cost of I i high cos paper I These are tho the glorious days when w we wc would like ike to take c our trusty rusty rust r sho shotgun guI and g go out and aud perform th the 11 ti 0 pf predatory pr animal inspector r. r t WM to |