Show Dont Don't Let Death Take T ke Your Holiday With that slogan as a Q keynote the National Safety Council announced to today to- to today today day a n nationwide campaign to check the huge annual Christmas holiday toll The New Christmas Year holiday hall day sea sea- season spa son Is the most hazardous single period of the year according to Council statis statis- tics In Ire traffic accidents alone three times as many persons are killed during a Christmas holiday hollday period than on the same samo days of preceding two weeks Heavier travel and the festive spirit of the holiday hollday season Increase the normal nor- nor normal normal mal winter hazards such as bad weather j slippery roads and moro more hours of dark dark- ness More than national organizations city and state officials safety councils j I md and civic leaders have Joined forces with I Ithe the Council In the year-end year campaign Together they seek seck to create in the pub pub- public public pUb pUb-I lic Hc mind an awareness of the special holiday hazards and to enlist voluntary cooperation co on the part of every individual individual Individual I dual to hold accidents to a minimum this Christmas I The Council emphasized that the cam- cam camI camp I P n is the final effort of the year to tol I iod hod h td the 1947 traffic death toll ll below I the th 1916 1946 total pf of At tho the end of or I tiro first nine months of this year there was a 0 small reduction In traffic deaths 4 per cent cent from from the same period of I 1946 But the final quarter of the year j I always ays is the one with the most traffic deaths I Christmas time Is family time the I season of reunion of Joy In ones one's chil chil- children children children dren of drawing even closer the most fundamental ties that bind us together together- trUly ruly a season to be merry said Ned H. H H Dearborn president of the Council But it is a season to be wary as The tragedy of an accident becomes even moro more poignant during the Yule season It takes only a a. little forethought a ittle extra care and often orten Just a a. little extra courtesy to make certain a Christmas celebration of Joy and festl- festl vly Vi by accidents Remember Remember dont don't dont let death take your holiday I IA A |