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Show NATION-WIDE PROPAGANDA STARTED TOJBlTf The United States council of national nation-al defense, through its highways transport trans-port committee, is Just now inaugurating inaugurat-ing a nationwide campaign for the purpose pur-pose of bringing about the adoption, so I far as porsihje. of suggested uniform trarfie regulations and directions, that the alarming number of accidents occurring oc-curring daily on the highwavs be decreased. de-creased. It is the belief of the highways transport trans-port committee that through this movement life and limb may be conserved con-served and economic results of an impressive im-pressive character attained. The courts have estimated the value of a life at 510.000. in the city of Washington, ;.s an instance, the death toll as last officially of-ficially announced was at the rate of 82 per year. These figures speak for themselves The need, therefore, for .uniformity throughout the country In such regulations regula-tions and directions to the end that the number of accidents, resulting primarily primar-ily irom the increasing number of power pow-er driven vehicles on the highways, may be decreased would seem to be apparent. ap-parent. These suggested regulations and di rections represent, the council of national na-tional defense believes, the best and jmost disinterested thought on the subject sub-ject of highway accidents and their j cause and remedies possible to be had. Prepared originally by William P. ! Eno, a world authority on police traf-I traf-I fic, these regulations and directions have since been submitted for constructive con-structive criticisms to secretaries of state, Htate highway commissioners and engineers, judges and lawyers, publicists who have given close study to this question, traffic authorities in some of the larger cities, the American Automobile association, the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, the Highway Industries association, the National Highway Traffic association associa-tion and to scores of individuals competent com-petent to pass upon this question. The council of national defense will be glad to give the public the benefit of lessons les-sons learned in this campaign, which affects every city and village throughout through-out the country. Inquiries as to th'e progress of the campaign should be addressed to the highways transport on |