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Show A GREAT SAFETY CONTEST. The National Traffic Safety con-tost, con-tost, which began the first of the year to run twelve months, is the biggest big-gest safety movement ever attempted. More than 400 muncipalities, in 43 states, are competing for the title of "America's Safest City," in seven w population groups. Two-thirds of all cities with populations between 100,-000 100,-000 and 500,000 are entered, as are 24 of the 26 cities with more than 500,-000 500,-000 population. At least half of the cities have never before conducted organized or-ganized safety campaigns. Past campaigns, cam-paigns, of local origin, have been half-hearted and produced few permanent per-manent benefits. ' . The present campaign got off to a bad start in January, which showed an increase in automobile fatalities over the same period in automobile, fatalities over the same period in 1931. A few cities notably Seattle, Dallas, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati and Minneapolis had encouraging de-- de-- creases, but in others notably Chicago, Chi-cago, San Francisco and Newark the death toll soared. It is now up to the motorists, in every community, to do their part to assure that other months make up for the black marks registered regis-tered in January. The individual citizen must make the campaign a success by his own efforts. He must school himself in safe and competent driving at all times and follow the Golden Rule of highway usage. If that is done, 1932 will see the automobile accident problem prob-lem improved. |