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Show Killing 80 Children A Week With the opening of schoob all over the United States it becomes Increasingly important that some attention be given to the death of thousands of children killed by motor vehicles 'every year. Lat year 4,100 children were killed on the highways of this nation na-tion and the record for the first 4 months of 1934 shows an increase. It is time for chambers of commerce, com-merce, automobile clubs, city administrations, ad-ministrations, school officials, women's wo-men's clubs, parent-teacher organizations organ-izations and everybody else to give some thought to this menace. Time and again The Pyramid has pointed out that if seme unknown un-known malady was stalking through the United States, killing eighty children a week, the press and every ev-ery cthr agency of information and debate would be filled with wild speculation and the people as aw hole would ho in a state of panic. However, we take automobile deaths for granted. It is the price that w? are apparently willing to pay fcr speed and the right to do as we p!eae on the public highways. high-ways. Accidents occur, investigations investiga-tions are perfunctory and nobody fver gets into Jail. It is time that this policy be abandoned and we hope that public official-; in this state will see fit to use their power and influence to make the highways high-ways here safer than they have been for some time. |