Show I THE TilE ROAD TO TilE THE CEMETERY When the final and official figures figures fig fig- ures urea are tabulated It will probably be found that the automobile death eath toll in 1937 reached a new all time all time record exceeding the 1936 slaughter Daughter Daugh aughter augh- augh ter with its victims There is no reason for being surprised surprised surprised sur sur- sur- sur at the continued Increase Each year cars are made faster and more powerful powerful and and a dangerous danger danger- ous percentage of them become the property of drivers who couldn't be trusted to operate a bicycle safe safe- ly Roadways and surfaces are Improved improved Im Im- im- im proved thus offering a new tempI temptation temp temp- tation to excessive speed And the I number of accidents In which John Barleycorn Is a factor tends to rise steadily This doesn't mean that the automobile automobile auto auto- mobile accident toll cannot be re re- re It can be but be-but but it is going to taken action not words The individual Individual individual In in- responsibility of each motorist motorist mo mo- mo when he slides behind the wheel of a projectile weighing a aton aton aton ton or two and capable of doing eighty miles an hour must be beI I driven home Law must I be strengthened The fixer of traffic violations must be eliminated ed It must be realized that dr driving a car on the public highway Is a privilege not not to be abused and abused and the license laws must be more stringent Finally there must be swift and sure punishment for tor the reckless or drunken driver There are several hundred thousand thousand thousand and graves In this country that constitute mute testimony to our past laxity In controlling the auto auto- mobile Unless public demand forces a change you may fill on one of the thousands of new graves that figuratively speaking will be dug by motorists motorists' In the years to i come I |