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Show BUILD YOUR FUTURE IN UTAH VALLEY by the farmer and industrialist by hand are now accomplished by ingenious in-genious labor-saving devices. All of this of course has its advantages, advan-tages, but there is little doubt that the system is converting us into a race of switch-turning, button-pushing button-pushing automotons. The modern power-steering, power-braking, and power-shifting automobiles are the acme of mechanical perfection; but it cannot think, nor employ patience. pa-tience. An automobile can be no safer than the driver behind the wheel. In the olden days, the driving of a spirited team over the rough terrain of a country road, required requir-ed skill, strength, and eternal vigilance. vig-ilance. With the smoothing of the I highways, and the mechanical im-I im-I provement of the automobile, driving driv-ing has become so near effortless that it lulls us into a state of self-imposed self-imposed hypnosis. Therein lies our greatest danger. With the coming of winter, and its attendant fog, snow, and ice, the death and accident toll will doubless rise. Greater Utah Valley Inc, pleads for greater patience, alertness, and judgment on the part of our numerous drivers. No one can estimate the value of the life of a young father, but to his widow wid-ow and children, the loss is beyond be-yond calculation. The fatal crash near the Iron-ton Iron-ton Plant last Thanksgiving Eve, which snuffed out the lives of t.vo prominent young Provo fathers, should serve to make us all more conscious of the stark tragedy which may swiftly follow any er-or er-or of judgment or lapse of alertness alert-ness on the part of any of us. With the exercise of just a little more precaution, and a little more patience, many lives could be saved, sav-ed, and many painful and crippling accidents avoided. There is every i reason to believe that the majority of serious accidents are caused by ' the factors speed and impatience. Modern everyday life is continually contin-ually in the process of being speeded speed-ed up. Living as we do in the "age of machines," we become more and more accustomed to allowing al-lowing gadgets to do our work, and often our thinking. The housewife house-wife deposits her clothes in a machine, and swiftly and surely they are washed, rinsed and dried, with no attention or thought on her part. Likewise, many laborious and painstaking tasks formerly done |