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Show THE LURE OF SPEED. Speed, while one the the blessings of modern life, is also one of its greatest curse3. Applied to industry, transportation and commerce, it has advanced civilization to a point where life, while infinitely more complex, seems easier to live. Yet the benefits of speed have been attended by serious disadvantages, es-pecialyy es-pecialyy as applied to the modern au-' au-' tomobile. Statistics of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety underwriters under-writers show that 15 per cent of all automobile accident fatalities are caused by excessive speed. Last year 3.920 persons were killed and 76,500 injured in 67,080 accidents because of it. What part of all other accidents which happen daily can be attributed to speeding is open to conjecture. speed? The answer is subject to change even as conditions are. James A. Beha, general manager for the National Na-tional Bureau of Casualty and Surety underwriters, says: "Police enforcement enforce-ment authorities should consider all speeds over 45 miles an hour on public pub-lic highways as approaching the danger dan-ger point. While in some cases it is not necessary to enforce discipline for speeds faster than that, 45 miles an hour should be looked upon as a decent de-cent standard, departure from which may be considered as generally unreasonable." un-reasonable." - It is pleasing to note that automobile automo-bile manufacturers and makers of automobile au-tomobile equipment and accessories are joining forces with safety organizations organi-zations to stress "safety" rather than speed as the goal to be obtained. Modern Mo-dern conditions have changed the attitudes at-titudes of these manufacturers and for the lure of speed they are now substituting the concrete value of safety in their advertising. |