Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1930-02-14 | Page 4 | Think this Over

Think This Over It is a serious reflection upon the common sense of the American people peo-ple that they fuss and lume over relatively unimportant matters, while almost ignoring the one real national menace death by motor accidents. Automobile accidents resulted in more than 30.000 deaths in the United Uni-ted States las year, an increase of nearly 13 per cent over 1928. If :he present indifference to this terrible ter-rible slaughter connnues, 1930 will: see a still greater number of victims. J We get excited over prohibition e.nd the tariff, we work ourselves into a frensry over politics; we are impressed with the rantings of professional pro-fessional reformers and do-gooders: vre lavish sympathy on the murder-! er who justly pays for his debt on the "hot seat;" we are greatly perturbed per-turbed over the stock market and a thousand 'and one other relatively trvial matters agitate us greatly. But if we ever think of the 30,000 killed and 800.000 injured in automobile auto-mobile accidents each year, we only shrug cur shoulders and say, "Isn't it too bad?"