Show WE CALL FOR FOE A NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE A hew declaration of independence Tea that ia ill what we call for on this anniversary of our country's birth j A declaration of independence from accidents ac A declaration for safety and the pursuit of happiness both for us and those who may be our victims if we dp dl not observe safety's simple rules This declaration will be a pledge that no longer longerI I will we maim and kill thousands of our fellow citizens each year in accidents no longer will we e deprive our families of f all the good things which we might give them were it not for the repair and hospital bills which we in- in in yur ur as a result of our negligence and lack of thought Accidents Ac kill more than wars We are terror terror- stricken at the thought of the atom bomb but we stand unimpressed when w en we view tho worst killer of all all an an automobile driven by a careless drunk driver We love our children The thought of injury to them fills us with dread Yet we unconcernedly permit them to handle explosives in the form of fireworks and then when they hold a cracker too long or a rocket mis mis- fires ires and they receive grevious injury we are stricken with remorse and suffer the tortures t of the damned t And so it goes down the full category of accidents Accidents which in nearly all cases statistics have I proved are preventable if someone had stopped to think I if someone had used a little li more care if someone hadn't thought he was smart enough to drive even though his mind was reeling from that last drink Yes we can au y our holiday Holiday Friday y all f Us fiNe can return home from the mountain mountain the city or orI I wherever else we may go happy and rested or we may lImY come home with life blighted by tragedy because of ours or someone else's It is not enough that a few of us proclaim our determination to be safe Our world today is too in iu- iu for that We are too dependent upon each other to allow us to go our own free way secure in the knowledge that no harm will befall us because we are careful Our neighbor the best fellow in the world may without evil intent in a moment wreck our lives as well as his That is why we must have a new declaration of independence one to which we will all pledge allegiance 11 a declaration of freedom from accidents a declaration of safety |