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Show WARM WEATHER IBS ACCIDENTS 'In 1900. 1.3 Accidents Registered Regis-tered During Busy Season With the coming of warm weather lautOmoblle accidents showed B mnrk- l increase This Is due undoubtedly I to the more general use of cars, particularly par-ticularly in the evening. Any movement looking to a betterment better-ment of Ibis condition Is very apropos at this time. From the latest published pub-lished reports of the I nlted States census bureau there is much food for reflection. In 1900, when an nutomo-' nutomo-' I ib- was practically n curiosity, the mortality rate from 'accidents from vehicles and horses" per 100,000 popu-1 popu-1 Uon In the registration area was 1 3 (including automobile accidents), a rate which stands out with appalling and Startling emphasis to that of 1018 when It reached 9.2 from automobile accidents and injuries alone. Particular Par-ticular distressing in these statistics' shown In the last census is that 31. lj 1 er cent of the total number of deaths from automobile accidents in 191SI Hi,,,,, i were child-en under fifteen ears of aa;s Contrast this with 7.6 below that -i in rillro.nl accidents Quoting from Sam L.. F.osers director direc-tor of the census: "It 's useless to mesent further figures to show that much of the mortality from uutomo-blle uutomo-blle accidents and inluries is unneces-sury; unneces-sury; Ihe fact is one of common l:r.owlelRe; reel-less driving nnd spi ed-1 jiiif are sucli every-duy terms that ihe I child in the kindergarten understands them. It is high lime to pay attention I to this Increasing menace to our peo- pie and especially to our children. Traffic laws should be enforced No one will question Director Hos?-, era's logic hut what !s a community! to do that lacv.s an adequate police; force to properly enforce the law ! In a city similar to Washington, with a congested population of 7-1:26 to the squars mile, the statement of Its su-I su-I i rlntendent of police that there were ever 100 vacancies In the force necessary neces-sary for the proper policing of the city there is told a slory (hat should force its way hoi. e. During the period of 1918, In the fifty leading cities of the I'nited States,1 I I there Were deaths due to auto- LVRP mobile accidents, as against its-I rail- sHS r "l These figures for 1918 show an ifltll Increase in mortality from auto accl- sBl dents over 1917 of 34$ and 1002 over LHl 1914, an Increase of nearly 31 per cent sH 'In two years. There nn- no records HH j available for 1919, but It Ik safe to ns- ' sume that these figures have lncren..-d by at least 15 per cent If not more. |