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Show iSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CURIOUS PEOPLE, WE UTAHNS When this newspaper reports the death of local airmen, infantrymen or naval personnel in distant Korea, not a few of us mentally ask why and question the justification for snuffing out young lives on the battlefield. In contrast, when neighbors meet death on public streets and highways close at hand, we glance at the headlines, shrug complacently, say, "Too bad", and opine, "It can't happen to me." But death will come to scores of us on Utah highways high-ways in the remainder of 1952. That toll compares all too well with the mortality in any Korean fray. Yet, while a child killed on a Utah highway is irrevocably dead as her dad shot down in battle, traffic losses needless though they obviously are provoke no indignation. No censorship hides the precise knowledge of where and how Utah's traffic victims die. Newspaper News-paper reports serve as communiques as the toll mounts but the motorist reads, forgets and speeds. Therein lies one major difficulty Utah Law enforcement en-forcement officials meet in their efforts to cut the traffic death toll. People the mass of motorists-r simply ignore the bleak records as well as laws and ordinances placed on the books for their own safety. "Translating those dry but deadly figures to make the public realize their importance is a difficult job," one Utah official said this week. He was eying thick clusters of cross-marked fatality pins on a wall map close by, and studying a closely printed "Summary of Utah Motor Vehicle Accidents." Ac-cidents." The letter is available to all the public, to church leaders, club women, motor transport users and teachers but few take time out to study its pages. |