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Show The Yearly Slaughter In spite of warnings and pleadings by the press and various safety organizations, organi-zations, the unending slaughter of human beings in highway accidents shows no indication of being diminished. diminish-ed. Figures compiled by the American Road Builders' Association, made public last week, show that during the year 1927 in the United States there were 26.818 killed and 798,700 seriously in-iured in-iured on the streets and highways of the country. The number killed was greater than that enrolled in the entire Regular Army of the United States in 1897. Suppose that during that year every officer and soldier had been killed. The tragedy would have shocked the nation. Yet little attention is paid to an even greater tragedy in 1927. Suppose Sup-pose that every man. woman and child in the city of Boston were either killed or seriously injured. It would be a less disaster than befell the country as a whole from highway accidents alone last year, and so far as can be judged less than will occur this year and each year in the future. While many accidents are seemingly unavoidable the great majority rf them are due to plain carelessness or fool-hardmess. fool-hardmess. And it seems impossible to keep a fool away from a steering wheel |