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Show HONOR THE DEAD. PROTECT THE LIVING : CHICAGO, May 29 Honor the ' dead, but protect the living! 1 The National Safety Council thus called on all drivers and pe- 1 destrians today to unite in a concerted con-certed effort to hold down what threatens to be the greatest Memorial Me-morial Day traffic toll in the nation's na-tion's history. On the basis of information now available for the first time the council predicts that 400 persons per-sons an all-time high will meet death in the holiday traffic jam unless every driver and every pedestrian accepts a personal responsibility re-sponsibility to use more skill and caution than in previous years. Last year, the Council reported, 100 persons were killed in Memorial Me-morial Day traffic, with only a one-day holiday. This year there will be a three-day holiday, since Memorial Day falls on Friday. Furthermore, the national traffic toll is running 16 per cent ahead of last year. "It is ironic." said Col. John Stil-well, Stil-well, president of the Council, "that even as America honors its dead on Memorial Day, it piles up a huge toll of dead and injur-through injur-through traffic crashes. The soldier sol-dier heroes whose graves we visit vi-sit gave their lives for a cause, but the hundreds who are killed in holiday traffic die needlessly." The Council offers this suggestion sugges-tion for holiday safety: start early, ear-ly, take it easy, play it safe! i o |