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Show ! I "WE MISS YOU, DADDY" The following editorial was printed, in the Rockville, Connecticut, Journal, about a year ago. Thereafter, to the editor's surprise, it was reprinted by most of the other papers of the state, and used by highway safety officials, insurance companies, accident prevention organizations, motorists' publications and by others who are fighting the great war against the toll of automobile deaths. Here it is and any motorist will surely think twice about taking chances after reading it: "Tuesday morning there was a fatal accident on the Minterburn hill and when the medical examiner wns going through the pockets of the dead man .... a telegram was found. It was not very long, just the ordinary ten-word length, but it was a message that would make any father happy . It read. WE MISS YOU DADDY. WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME? "That was all. It was a message sent by one of the children of the man who was killed. He had received the message and was homeward bound. The clothes were minus money but in his pocket he carried that message. "Those who have little children, and those who were once little children, can think of the great blow to the child when the father did return home DEAD. "Daddy" will be missed by those children in the long years ahead. No longer will they have his support, his earnings, earn-ings, and more important, his companionship. "If ever there was a reason for people driving- more carefully on the road, it is that they might get in an accident and deprive their own child or some other child of their 'Daddy.' "More might be written, but just let us repeat those words: 'We miss you, Daddy. When are you coming home?" o |