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Show Among those Present Approximately 13,000 persons, enough to populate a small city, who would otherwise have died in auto accidents during 1938, will probably live to welcome the New Year next January thanks, largely, to the tireless effort of such agencies as the National Institute for Traffic Safety. The National Safety Council. The Automotive Safety Foundation, Founda-tion, thousands of newspaper editors, and the casualty insurance in-surance industry. The men and women who are directly responsible for saving these 13,000 human lives will receive little or no cognition for their tireless services. Their only solace swill be found in dry statistics. They will not even receive the gratitude they so justly deserve from those whose very lives they have saved, because providence never labels its victims in advance. In the first six months of 1938, highway fatalities decreased de-creased 22 per cent compared to 1937. And as the New1 iYork Times has observed: "Such progress is especially ir.v nf the nroblem." The VUCCllUg i fivn V - ; United States has what has been described as "the most enormous transportation system in the world, with 3,000.-.000 3,000.-.000 miles of rights of way. 30,000,000 pieces of rolling1 stock and an average of 80,000,000 passengers daily." There are two things that you can and should do to promote safety on our highways. Observe every safety precaution your self and encourage others to do the same. Incidentally, next January if you are fortunate enough to be among those present, you might send up a silent prayer of thanks to the nation's traffic safety workers you just possibly are one of the lucky thirteen thousand. |