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Show THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND MANGLED BODIES! The Insurance Field, under the title, "A Spectacular Opening," editorially edi-torially suggested what would be a good, but impossible, way of bringing bring-ing home to the public the horror of our mounting automobile fatalities. "What a tremendous and astounding astound-ing spectacle it would be," said the Field, "to pack together 35,000 men, women and children on some great level field and then turn loose an army of automobile trucks, tractors and passenger cars to run upon and among thrm until the last sign of life was crushed and mangled out of dl! "During the year, 35,000 or more men, women and children will be killed after that manner but in relays. If we had- to face it all at one time, the world would stand aghast at the horror of it. But it is done, done on an increasing scale, every year, in driblets.' What terrible driblets!" The 35,000 mangled bodies is not a pleasant thing to think about but it is a thought that should be brought vividly before the public. If we kill thousands of people, one at a time, it is fundamentally no different than if it were done all at' once. Carelessness, Careless-ness, incompetence, recklessness, drunkenness at the wheel these are greater destroyers of lives than is war! |