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Show fit to the communities participating-. It demands an accurate check of fatal accidents, and stresses the importance of adequate traffic law enforcement. It does an immense amount of good by making the public generally con scious of the responsibility every mo-twist mo-twist should feel and live up to. Last year 35,000 people lost their lives because of carelessness, incompetence incom-petence or recklessness at the wheels of automobiles. This mounting record of death and accident has just forced an increase of automobile liability insurance in-surance rates in 14 states, based on the average loss cost per car from 1927 to 1930, inclusive. Now responsible respon-sible motorists are promising themselves them-selves to do their part to lower the rate in 1932 and the National Traffic Traf-fic Safety contest will do much to keep this pledge fresh in their minds:. THE NATIONAL TRAFFIC SAFETY CONFERENCE. The National Safety council has announced that on January 1 the number of cities to enter its Traffic Safety contest had passed the 125 mark. Six of the 13 major cities those w;th more than 500,000 population-have population-have enrolled, as have 17 of the 2-1 c;ties of between 250,000 and 500.-000. 500.-000. Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles. Baltimore and Pittsburg are among the competing metropolises, and at the last report parties were working to obtain the entires of New York. Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Cleveland. When all entries are in, about one-fourth of the entire population will be directly affected by the safety drive. The contest is of inestimable benc- |