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Show provide unanswerable argument j for the stringent enforcement of traffic regulations and the inexorable inexor-able punishment of those guilty of endangering the lives of their fel- lowmen "Jewgj 'i , ACCIDENTS TAKE , BIG TOLL n j ! OF HUMAN LIVES j ITay be useful to tell you again that accidents have killed twice as many people in the United Unit-ed States as the war since Pearl HThbe0r National Safety Council says that accidents have reduced 350 000 war-time workers to industrial in-dustrial 4-Fs with permanent disabilities. disa-bilities. In addition 102 000 workers work-ers have been killed and 9,500,000 This 'is a terrible indictment of modern man and his carelessness. While some of the accidents were inevitable, the great majority of them could have been avoided by more intelligent action on the part of those killed and injured The figures show that 61,000 persons have been killed in traffic accidents since Pearl Harbor and that some 2,100,000 have been injured. in-jured. Certainly, there is no necessity neces-sity for the death of approximately approximate-ly 2 000 persons a month in highway high-way accidents. These casualties |