Show I I Human Life Is Cheap I e 0 SINCE S INCE the beginning of history human life has been held more cheaply than anything anything anything any any- thing els else in the world It is so so held today A large percentage of the human race has always met death through the criminality ignorance or carelessness of fellow men Could the minds of all men be directed to the preservation of hum human n life what a difference difference dif dif- difference dif dif- ference it would make No more wars nomore no nomore more murders no m more re prevent preventable be deaths I through autom automobile bile accidents no more lives i lost in fires started through carelessness carelessness- carelessness I how changed would be the front pages of I Ir our r daily newspapers I To mention only three causes of violent death the best authorities estimate that in inthe inthe L the United States each year are murdered mur mur- dered jered are killed in automobile accidents accidents accidents acci acci- dents and are burned to death The total number of persons killed in accidents now v reaches more than a year While giving our attention to a multitude of other reforms and nd isms would it not be well to to- devote more serious thought and action to towards to- to to- to toJ J ards wards reducing this appalling and II unnecessary j waste of human lif life I I The average marriage of f our generation produces three children University of Wisconsin Vis Wis Vis learns this in a survey of native-born native families in the middle West Its expert comments comments com corn ments that this number of children is about one child short of what they should have in order to replace themselves Many of the he offspring of course never reach maturity but die in babyhood or youth People from Europe ar are inh inheriting America However that's nothing nothing- new The settlers came from overseas |