Show NOTHING TO BE PROUD O OF a LAKE CITY is s at the top of ono list list- list SALT S and thero there is no occasion for swelling civic pride in n the tho fact In 35 85 cities comparable in in size she Salt Lake Lalta ranks all with a death rate rato o of per hundred thousand population in in rn a statistical study tudy of automobile accident fatali fatali- ties Albany's Albanys rato rate is 11 6 Fall FaU River Eiver Mass 79 9 Grand Rapids 67 Mass 54 This is not a list of all the cities making malting far better showings showings for showings for instance Springfield Mass with a po population o of has a death rato rate from this causo of per The Tho figures used in this study were obtained from the thc division of vital of the U. U S. S c census bureau They show that this city has lia lad had I 99 deaths in tho the year three period ended October 28 1933 New York City with a population with its congested conditions condi Hons narrow streets and heavy and nd swift flow of traffic had bad an annual death rate of 17 per for tho same three year three period Boston Doston Dos Bos ton with its crooked ed streets population population population tion dense downtown traffic showed as asit it its rate Taking i a n relatively small city Evanston Evans Evans- ton ill through which there thero is isan an enormous flow of automobiles and truck traffic insight is ishad ishad ishad had as s to what may be done when a determined effort is made to reduce automobile accidents V With th the high rate of 27 de deaths per population an aroused citizenry got bus busy The result was a reduction of the rate to 42 deaths per year for each population The point to all this is simply this If Salt Lake citizens want the tIle city's elty's death rate brought within reason it can be done It means nie ms a mass demand for unceasing vigilance for common decency on the part of drivers for relentless enforcement activity energetic prosecution before the courts and full realization tion of official responsibility by judges |