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Show 'THE NEVER-ENDING j I WAR. j j The American public has a war to fight every year. That war is against the accident menace in industry, the home, on the highways and elsewhere. This is not an empty parallel. Automobile Auto-mobile accidents alone actually cost more lives than war. They create as much suffering. They are even com- ' parable to war in the economic waste they entail. i On a number of fronts this war has been successful. In the industrial field, tremendous progress in accident pre-vcrt:on pre-vcrt:on has been made. The roster of important industries which operate for months at a stretch without a sin-pie sin-pie mishap of importance is constantly constant-ly growing. The life and health of workers in every produc'ng field has never been better guarded because management has been tireless in instilling in-stilling the doctrine of safety-f irt into in-to its employees. That is also true of children of school age. Thousands of young lives have been saved through courses on caution and accident prevention. The great failure has been in the field of the autombile. Most ypars have seen decisive advances in the number of deaths and injuries over the , last. Reductions, the few times they i have occurred, have been small. The . reckless and inconsiderate driver has scored victory after victory. The re-i re-i suit is that our public streets and highways have become places of carnage. car-nage. The never-ending war against accident acci-dent must be fought with increasing vigor if it is to succeed. The dangerous danger-ous driver is Public Enemy Number 1. He should be given the treatment he deserves. |