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Show Death's Busy Season As the summere approaches,- with its increased tourist and other automobile auto-mobile traffic, death prepares to reap its richest harvest. From the homes of the United States must come 30,000 or more to die and a million others to be injured, some crippled for life, during the year, if last year s lerrime recoru is io uc equalled. This senseless slaughter goes on in spite of all the warnings given, and in face of the appalling waste of life held daily before our eyes. The pitiful part of this continuous continu-ous tragedy is that most of these casualties are entirely unnecessary, and might be prevented by the exercise ex-ercise of ordinary common sense. They are due either to an insane desire .for speed or an utter disregard dis-regard for the most elementary rules of safety. Many of the victims are helpless passengers, whose lives are at the mercy of criminally reckless . or incompetent in-competent drivers. Some accidents acci-dents are apparently unavoidable, of course, but in the vast majority of cases they are the .result of pure carelessness on the part of both motorists and pedestrians. And even the most careful driver is often helpless when he encounters encount-ers a fool on street or'higiiway. |