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Show EXAMINATION OF BRAKES IS URGED Fatalities Will Be Greatly Lowered by Careful Inspection, Is Claim. Prominent automobile, police and insurance in-surance men throughout the United States are backing a national movement for the inspection of automobile brakes. The agitation for such a movement has grown out of the success in bringing about the proper suppression of glaring headlights, which, in the opinion or those high ill the automobile world, is the lesser evil of the two. The object of this movement is to prevent the ever-increasing number of fatalities, which arc daily occurrences, especially in the larger cities, due to imperfectly adjusted and defective brakes. T. D. Pratt, executive secretary of the Motor Truck club of America, in a letter to H. P. Blanchard of the Ther-moid Ther-moid Rubber company, says: "Our experience has "shown us that 60 per cent, or more, of the automobile accidents are caused by brakes or steering steer-ing gears being in poor condition, and the larger proportion of this percentage is due to poor brakes." The plan of the brake inspection movement is to prevail on every motorist mo-torist and track owner to havo his brakes inspected by his dealer at the opening of the scas'on, and at frequent intervals thereafter. |