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Show Approaching A New Accident Record Prom the standpoint of deaths due to automobiles, 1930 is the worst year in our history, according accord-ing to the National Safety Council which reports fatalities for the first nine months were 2 per cent above 1929. The report is based on statist' stat-ist' cs covering areas containing about half the ation's population. Recklessness and carelessness are still rules of the road with thousands thous-ands of motorists. I However, it is encouraging to note that there are a few rays of light in the accident gloom. Tremendous Tre-mendous success has been attained in reducing the number of accidents acci-dents to children by means of ;ar.tv instruction in schools. Thru-out Thru-out the nation many organization-.; are working to prevent accidents, not only, automobile, but those occurring oc-curring in homes and industries. The National Safety Council announces an-nounces thai it will hoia 25 regional region-al safety conferences m various parts of the . nation during the coming year and It Is estimated that 1,000 delegates will attend each one. Another hopeful sign is the trend toward., laws requiring drivers' dri-vers' examinations. Some of our states have such laws now and report re-port exceedingly good results. When legislatures meet again it is almost certain that m ost of them will con sider stricter" licensmg laws. Their value is demonstrated by Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania where 75,000 of 300,000 applicants ap-plicants were unable to pass the tests on the first try. . The People Must Choose Government, under the democratic demo-cratic scheme of things, exists for the sake cf its individuals. Its sole duty is to protect those individuals indi-viduals from encroaching on the rights cf each other. When government gov-ernment goes beyond this, it becomes be-comes paternalisticr The mania for reform, for regulation regu-lation and suppression of individuals individ-uals and businesses is as un-American as communism or faclsm. It repreents an alien influence which has come into American life in the past few decades. It is an affront to the spirit of our forefathers. Business has been persecuted. Individual rights have been abrogated. abro-gated. And the people of the nation na-tion suffer. Every time the government gov-ernment takes unto itself new power, pow-er, the individual loses an "inalienable" "inalien-able" right. Every time politics lays its dread hand on business, the Constitution becomes less a living document and more a useless scrap cf paper. On the one hand is our tradition of individualismon the other the new roarj which leads to communism. commun-ism. Ther is no middle course. Itis up to the people to choose their |
