Show 9 1 1 Jj Safe Safe and Sane Highways r 1 iJ I 1 11 took took twenty years of good hard campaigning campaign campaign- ing to get a Fourth of July that showed rf r en a semblance of sanity sanity- The campaign p v tf now p v has be ben been n fairly well won and in the last I f few years the cannon cracker and sky rocket casualties ies have been brought from major action action action ac- ac tion to minor skirmish proportions Before the t-the safe and sane propaganda began to take h hold ld the fifth of July list of dead and injured 4 i was vas comparable to the size of the hospital v 1 ro roster ter after the Battle of the Argonne f- f Though the firecracker fatalities are now i H c counted in hundreds where once they were counted in thousands and tens o of or thousands i I tb there re is a new menace to lif life and limb which Jn inthe the last few years has threatened to equal t 1 t. t f reworks terror in its most malignant r form This is evident in th the growing passion i of f American people to take themselves out and get themselves run run over by streetcars 7 steam trains trams and automobiles P Pedestrians and motorists alike suffer this weakness for Americans now S seem em to tp call no j holiday day complete unless there is a death list Lor or the day aft after r. r The fifth of July the thirty- thirty first of M May y and the Tuesday after Labor day daya a afe f p perhaps the three blackest days on the calendar but any bright Sunday when the are good will give the Monday newspapers news news- papers that terribly trite headline Family Killed in Crossing Accident 1 1 If the American people have sense enough to listen to the preaching and follow f ih practice of the campaign against dangerously dangerously danger- danger explosive fireworks they should be intelligent in- in enough to listen to and practice the i doctrine doctrine of safety and sanity on the highways l It takes a killjoy of the worst variety to tol l t JJ p people ople that the only sure way to a avoid void on a holiday crowded highway is to stay home but what plausible solution is j J Jefe Jere- Jere efe Between the firecracker and the authe au- au the firecracker seems to be the less lessof 4 of the two evi evils s. s Three thousand 1 I injury or death from fireworks every ri t f while the automobile accounts for more HI deaths and injuries ries an an- cr If i we must m make the Glorious Fourth a al at l why hy not i make it a holiday Y from the e eJ J J ary killing i j. j |