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Show FATAL CARELESSNESS. It is one of the most amazing facts connected with modern life that the number of deaths resulting from carelessness makes no greater impression im-pression upon the general public In spite of the daily record of grade crossing accidents, drivers continue con-tinue to take a chance, with an inevitable in-evitable percentage of fatal results. The same is true of other practices which take their grim toll of human life, Persons who are ordinarily careful in protecting their property or their health appear to throw discretion to the winds the moment they grasp the wheel of an automobile, and positively positive-ly invite disaster through failing to observe the most elementary cautions. The jaywalker is equally reckless, taking the chance of being run down for the sake of saving a few steps or a moment's time. Those who are careless care-less of other dangers help to swell the harvest of deaths. And the most lamentable fact is that no amount of warning appears to have any appreciable effect. |