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Show SAFETY REST WITH THE DRIVER In commenting on the staggering- number of deaths due to traffic accidents on same of the highways in Oregon, the Portland Port-land Oregonian makes the following very practical remarks: "The automobile is not the pleasing toy so many of us appear ap-pear to consider it. Its terrific potentialities annually realized in this country are as dread as those of war. "It is the human factor that makes motoring alike perilous and safe and the best of all commonplace rules is to watch the road. "Drivers of motor vehicles whose speed limit on the highway high-way is tentatively fixed at 45 miles and hour, but who may drive at a greater speed if prudence suggests it, have no time to view the landscape or to turn their heads for a word with someone in the rear seat. ( "We do not believe the traffic problem ever will be solved that is to sny, that ever we shall be quit of it. But relief lies os surely in public education as in law." The constant increase in deaths and accidents from automobiles automo-biles from 1927 to 1930, inclusive , based on the average loss cost per car, has forced the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters to make marked increase automobile liability rates in 14 leading states. The insurance companies undoubtedly regret re-gret that such action' is necessary, more than does the average car owner. The car owner controls the situation and insurance companies com-panies are practically helpless to do aught but pay the bills. If accident increases continue as steadily upward for the next four years, automobile owners can blame no one but themselves for further increase in rates. |
