Show Traffic Slaughter Continues WE'RE DOING QUITE A JOB of slaughter in Utah this WE'VE BEEN MIGHTY The year is still in the first half of and already we've managed to wipe out over lives on our streets and there have been years when it took the entire twelvemonth period to destroy so many With just a little extra carelessness during the rest of the year we can set an all-time AND IMAGINE WHAT WE can do about maiming bodies and blighting Already we've sent more than victims to the Many will never walk though outwardly will never again be without pain from cruelly bruised brain with crushed will spend the rest of their days flat on their backs and those days will drag on and on and WE'RE DOING QUITE A JOB here in BUT NOBODY SEEMS TO BE VERY excited about Safety and law enforcement officials talk about better public education and about death rates per vehicle mile some better highways don't have the or we would be doing something about one YOU TAKE OUT TIIE one our rate of increase will only be about at the Rational says AND THE SLAUGHTER goes DOESN'T PRESUME to have the answer But we suggest that as long as we go on killing people at the rate of per population each compared to a national average of only somebody ought to get excited enough to launch a crash program to find some WE DON'T THINK THEY WOULD have to look far not when it is a known fact that two-thirds of all fatal accidents involve at least one traffic Not when you can drive hundreds of miles across this state and witness all sorts of traffic violations but seldom see a highway patrolman Not when there's a widespread felling among law enforcement officers that there's no use launching a tough enforcement campaign because the courts won't respond with tough Not when of scofflaws whose licenses have been suspended or revoked go on with little fear of detection or severe ONE of won a national proved that tough law enforcement is good and- most important saved hundreds of lives by launching and dramatizing a get-tough traffic WE REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT our or our traffic enforcement officers and judges are less less less courageous than But as of right now we are smashing our way through one of the bloodiest traffic performances in our State's with no outward evidence that anyone in official position intends to do much about |