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Show BE ALIVE ON ,THE FIFTH Startling figures of the loss of life during July, 1940, by Independence day fireworks, by drcnvning and by careless driving, again serve as a warning that cannot be repeated too often for this year's celebrators. Killed 9,800; injured 900,000; cost $300,000,000 that was July, 1940. This would mean that at the crippling pace of 13 people killed every hour, July's plague swept through the United States. Every year injuries and death on the highway, death at the beaches, and avoidable accidents in Fourth celebrations mount to a staggering new total. Always the most fatal month of the year, July's accident losses have been 24 per cent higher than that of the average month. Every 12 days of the average July as many Americans are killed by accidents acci-dents as lost their lives in the Revolutionary war. Approximately Approxi-mately one of every 150 persons is injured by an accident in July. The cost of America's'traffic during the month of July last year, including holiday trips and everyday driving, was 2,790 lives. Public accidents, other than automobile traffic, reached 2,500 deaths and about 300,000 injuries. The July totals were more than twice as great as those of any winter month. One-fifth of all drownings occur in July, most of them happening at beaches where there is not sufficient suf-ficient supervision. The National Safety council has called on the United States to halt this mid-summer massacre by signing a new declaration of independence independence from annual tribute tri-bute of thousands of American lives needlessly sacrificed over the holiday and during the month. It calls on every citizen to do his or her part in this new independence from death and disaster by simply being careful and considerate of others. The council's new national safety slogan is "Be Alive on the Fifth". |