Show A YEAR OF TRAGEDY to a 4 greater degree than most years 1937 was a year of tragedy at homo and abroad holdom has so eo of disaster 11 swater and death douth been crowded into a period of af twelve months and most moat of the troubles which have beset the world throughout the year wore created through the folly of human man beings themselves the most horrible pages ot of the years record were written in war torn spain and china where the daughter of non combatants mon men women and childred children la is without a parallel in history and no end to that slaughter la is yet in sight eight two major disasters occurred in I 1 tho the united states tho the ohio and flood claimed somo some lives vos and tho the school explosion at now london texas in which od minor tragedies were numerous the most spec tackler being behig tho the explosion of the dirig ihlo with a loss of 30 80 illyes many airplane crashes took a heavy toll the worst in history killing 10 perona in ili utah moro more people were killed by automobiles than la in any previous loua year the total reaching close to with more than a million injured in ill tho economic field costly st riken the tend feud between rival la owr the business recession and increasing unemployment have been beeh disturbing factors factora continuing into the now new ye year not hot to mention tho the anxiety over what tho the administration and congress might do next |