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Show THE SECOND MILLION The ink is hardly dry on the widely-published announcement announce-ment that "Victim X" is dead. Hardly dry, either, are the tears of his or her saddened family, for "Victim X" was the unknown man, woman or child who recently became a shocking national symbol of hideous recklessness on our country's streets and highways. Bad enough is the realization that in the 176 years of our nation's life a miUion sons had to die gallantly in battle to preserve pre-serve the freedoms and privileges we so rightly cherish. Far ' worse and strictly dishonorable is the appalling announcement or at least permanent revocation of all motoring privileges, including in-cluding ownership of a car, should be the penalty. Finally, let us look squarely at our own selves and grimly say: "Yes, you too!" Sure, this is tough language! But it is mild compared to getting get-ting splattered to death or maimed for life by some fool at the wheel. Of this you may be sure unless we write tough, talk tough, get tough and stay tough, an awful lot of us are due for a mighty brief and not at all sweet life. We will either stop horror on the highway or it will stop us any minute. that in only a third of that time we have permitted another million citizens to be battered and crushed to death in traffic accidents, needlessly and many times criminally. But frightful to the point of reeling unbelief is the cold knowledge that at the present rate we are speeding speed-ing to a second million such victims vic-tims within a mere 25 years. It must not happen! It will not happen if every citizen ,as a matter of sheer necessity for self-preservation, does his or her part promptly, consistently and courageously. Let us demand that our lawmakers lawmak-ers give us laws with teeth that will stop the speeding, drunken, reckless drivers. Let us demand de-mand that our police departments depart-ments enforce the law sternly and impartially and give them enough men to do the job. Let us tell our judges that we will no longer tolerate "slap-on-the-wrist" sentences when prison |