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Show Education of Public to Reduce the Death Toll by Avoidable Accidents By DR. F. D. LAWSON, Society for Prevention of Accidents. As e of this society regard it, education and also an awakening of the moral sense of responsibility throughout the United States are the only means by which the immense toll of dead and injured by avoidable avoid-able accidents, which take place yearly, ran be reduced. The dead from automobile accidents in this country in VJZQ r9 given as 15,000 and the accidents from the some cause as 500 000 in round numbers. It is for the purpose of checking the auditions which made such a record possible and from every other source that this society has been organized. J There can be no qtiostion that life can be made safer if the public will only g,ve lis moral and physical support to a movement which is intended to ben,-t everyone. The slaughter which occurs every year by aeciuent ,n the United Staks is poSib!e of reduction to a compurativeN small percentage, but this can only bo accomplished if the public itseif will aid. ! What we have in view is to educate the public mind to a point where everyone instinctively will do whatever raay be pebble to .void . 4ent to tfrmelve or tbe.ir fellow beinjs. I 'l |