Show H 1111 I The Boys I Column I t 4 p- p ANOTHER ALWAYS S EVERYTHING to be said eald Is ii said eald WREN WHEN HEN W There Is 18 always and always another word That cried caned In the throat to be uttered and heard nudges the hand to be written and That nudges read The rue last word Is ta never the last laet word and final For there are always more thoughts to think Always more breath always more Ink And the urge of utterance Is primal l Fanny DeGroot H Hastings O O O ACCIDENTS CROSSING CROSSING- OF OP fingers knocking on onwood onwood onwood wood and holding ones one's breath Is js the day-by-day day rule Utah traffic officials are ars following In the fervent hope the months ahead will be as good as the record of the first six months of this year ear This hope Is born as 61 the complete comprehensive summary of Utah's traffic tic fic accidents for the first half of 1953 prepared by the Utah Department cf of public Safety Is le available for close study The summary shows that the number of traffic accidents of all types has hae been reduced approximately ly 13 over the corresponding period of 1952 1652 from to 1386 fatalities were down 19 from the 1952 figure from to 92 while while the the most drop was the vehicle mileage rate of 66 59 deaths deathe per miles of 01 travel compared with the 1952 rate of 78 This latter figure for 1953 represents a 28 decrease despite despite despite des des- miles of pite an Increase of million travel by the public As usual most moet of the accidents occurred occurred occurred occur occur- red In urban areas and conversely most of the fatal accidents occurred in rural areas This Is because higher speeds on the open highway always Increases the severity of accidents when they do occur Urban accidents with fatalities In parenthesis were 25 while rural accidents and fatalities were 2042 67 Violation of traffic laws was wae the principal principal prin prin- cipal cause of these accidents Involving drivers 86 of them found to be beIn beIn bein In violation of law or rules of safe ing The Utah S Safety Council attributes the improved 1953 record to Improved enforcement policies of the Utah Highway Highway Highway High High- way Patrol and less tangibly to lm- lm improved un unproved proved driving habits of the public as astha the tha the result result of stimulation of safety aw awareness awareness aware aware- ness on the p part rt of the newspapers radio and other public Information media The record of the Highway Patrol for forthe forthe forthe the first half of 1953 shows a sharp increase in both arrest and warning citations citations cita cita- for moving hazardous violations Particular attention Is being concentrated concentrated concentrated concen concen- upon these violations which most moat frequently cause accidents such as aB failure fall fall- tire ure to yield way right-of-way and following too close The Safety Council also pointed to Judges and justices of the peace In supporting enforcement officers through fines and penalties discouraging the re repetition repetition re- re petition of offenses Recent studies by bythe bythe bythe the Safety Council Indicate that persistent persist persist- ent violations cause a heavy proportion of or traffic accidents and that strict and rigid controls over such drivers Is the only cure against them pedestrian Auto n accidents accounted for 20 deaths and Injuries In this type of accident 76 71 of the pedestrians I I were in violation This emphasizes again the responsibility of the pedestrian to observe the signs of oC life lite on our streets and highways In such accidents It Is always alwa's the pedestrian who loses I In commenting upon the six months summary Jay C. C Newman Commissioner of or Public Safety for Utah expressed congratulations to enforcement officers the courts courts' and the driving public I earnestly hope he said that our re record record record re- re cord for the following months will be algood asgood as al asgood good or even better We can easily do this by courteous driving by law observance observance observance ob ob- ob- ob servance and the exercise of 01 good com common mon man sense Weve We've demonstrated that we can make these Improvements over a six months stretch so lets let's continue it over another six months he concluded I O 00 O 00 O ARTICLE t SAYS tYS YS 1 EARLY E. PROMISE IISE FOUR YEARS of clinical research have save continued without question the first promise of the hormones and cortisone states Paul de Kruif weil known medical writer In the September Readers Reader's Digest The Tho article la Is condensed ed from Today's Health Despite a recent scare scare concerning the d Dangers of hormones treatment many of people who would otherwise other other- otherwise wise be crippled and r racked pain from arthritis are now going about their dally Work i because they are being treated with ACTU or cortisone de Kruif Kruit says Production ProduCtion Pro- Pro auction miracles have made the hormones hor hor- mones plentiful and have reduced their cost In In 14 1949 1940 when the beneficial results I of big injections of cortisone ne and first flut astounded the medical med world even I bigger doses were tried In some lome patients too joo heavy a dose might waterlog the theP body P dy lower proteins or the brain The same lame amount of hormones hormones hor hor- mones that would help one oue man might stir up bad tad effects in another even while mending his sick Joints Last year with the stage set let for a a. ane anew ne new hormonal age In medicine a a. medical medi- medi cal Professor blasted the hormones at a national meeting of physicians Newspapers per pers Pere published the professors professor's warnings w or serious complications attendant upon we treatment with ACTU and cortisone Those ThOle disabled b by rheumatoid arthritis iii jw were sadly hi hit Mt by the hormone Panic i mc de Kruif ruit writhe writes The more spec ta cular the effects of the first big shots of hormones the more frequent seemed the in bad aide side Many gist Went back R to good old aspirin subsequently doctors doctor found that hormone hor nor mone one doses dOles can b be gauged to individual tolerances Cortisone taken orally In stead of by Injection has haa to helped patients tit doses dose to the ups up and down downs of r th their illness h have aVe Medical findings In the past two years yearl from fco killed the bogy of f bad bac effects long n ho hormone one treatment de Kruif tow lays that today are being safely he hormones b by th the hormones Include not Only arthritis but inflammation or of ti the e eYe tv and end optic ner nerve nene e bursitis gout chronic asthma and many skin troubles The hormones however are not belt belh line medicine de do Kruit warns Before I i doctors use them they must rule out TB and land mental trouble If an arthritic has I diabetes diabetes high blood pres pressure ure heart I trouble or stomach ulcer hormones must be given with super luper care I |