Show VU- VU HORSES CAUSE f MANY ANY DEATHS DEATH Says Loss of Life In Other Accidents Exceed Car Killings B By ERWIN EllWIN GREER Greer College of Aulo Aulo- motive and Electrical Trades Trade Chicago Chicago Ills We hear a lot about the awful death rate of ot the automobile but butI I there Is another side to the story etory Those were Capt E V backers backer's words Worda and his other side ot of the story tory Is very interesting Interest Interest- Interesting InterestIng ing to read Let him tell It ft The The other tide side may be be called the life lite rate Who can compute the life rate rato rat of ot the the automobile the millions or of lives that are arc saved or conserved every and year year and the tremendous lengthening of ot life lire by the tho broad broad- broadening broadening broadening ening ening- ot of experience which the automobile affords So far as the death duth rate Is concerned con con- concerned con corned It Is not halt half so formidable ble an anyway ay when you look below the tho surface HORSE KICK VICTIMS Had there been any method ot of computing the tho death rate duto due to kicking and runaway horses In tho the decade that shat Immediately preceded the tho advent ot or the motor motorcar motorcar car people would be amazed to find that that It ft Is In this automobile era The millions ot of o peaple who get killed falling lalling down stair stairs stairs- and slipping oct elf roofs roots ot of two story two buildings are not news and there there- therefore therefore therefore fore are Ue heard ot of only In the form of Inconspicuous paragraphs In dally daily newspapers In the days dan ot of the horse thero were ther-were were few dally papers and the cir cir- circulation circulation of ot those that did exist was w limited to the cities and immediate Im- Im Immediate immediate mediate suburbs COnseQuently few tew or none nono ot of the deaths of farm farmhand farmhands hands hand or the tho children that Were killed by horses horse every every day were recorded recorded The great treat growth of ot daily newspapers magazines and other informative matter hap happened ened to tobe tobe be to the ad advent vent ot of the th motor car an RECORDS Recently a Q tractor manufacture er Sr began Letan to look up these statistics statis- statis statistic tic tics lIe He found that while some some- something something thing like people had been beci killed by tractors tra tra tors In 8 a year more mon than 1700 had been kicked to li death by bv horses in the same length ot of o time At At that the tractor records record were all available while only onty a i small Email percentage of ot the death rate of ot the horse borso could bo be so- so cured Take the automobile at Its lis worst wont however and It Is Ls probably the best beat life saver ever eer Invented In Think of ot the millions of ot babies and trail frail children whose lives are ant prolonged and the ho number of o lives livet actually saved by a ride In the otherwise car on hot evenings when other other- wise they would almost In the pent up fiat flats or the shut shut- In city streets street 00 |