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Show "Why Worry About 40,000 Killed By Automobiles?" There were 40,000 persons killed j In automobile accidents in 1937, j ac-'jordint; to a reliable estimate. The American public, and that includes the people of Sanpete valley, .have been strangely unconcerned uncon-cerned over the death rate. They seem to take it for granted that automobiles and dead pedestrians go tOKellie , and even, . if at times, the ccclipauti of automobiles get killed, the accident is usually "unavoidable." "un-avoidable." How imany people really believe tl-at this is tiie truth half the time? Not many, in our opinion. Speeding, drunkenness and reckless driving tell the story more often than not. Why wouldn't it be a good idea J-hnre--?t -iiix'o rutid iavrsWgation of these accidenisV Why wouldn't it be a good idea to find out the facts about non-fatal accidents, which might reveal careless driving driv-ing which will probably kill someone some-one the next time? Personally, we are not "writing this editorial in a selfish capacity. We have no idea of letting anybody run over us. and we hope to be able to keep our wits together when driving the old bus. It simply simp-ly isn't decreed, we hope, that our end shall be via the auto route, but there are 40,000 dead Americans Ameri-cans in one year to show that somebody is going to get killed in 1938. It's time to take steps to stop the slaughter. |