Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1926, Page 25

VENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSD. FEBRUARY 18, 1926. e sirable drivers in New York State had - = : s 0 their licenses suspended. - The .’lllllll lbnrgh Fu & Co_’ F S" - E:'m old battle against the white plague? This is typical of the work being Lan rntur 909 i ; AUTO DEATHS NOT “ACCIDENTS” Given time, the agencies now t work | done in the intereste of safeguarding to make the streets safe for pedes- trians and the automobile safe for |ace. The evidence Is quite as startling A motoriats should he able to bring the | s the proof of the extent of the men i T ors 2 automob e e vithin reason, | ace itself. Knowing Scourge More Menacing Than Worst Maladies Seen Tedueing futaiities by antomobie to 4 | menace, however, it {8 confidently ex. point where they will be the result of | pected that more will be done to com- in Motor Mishaps—Progress Reported in Check- - |true accidontal causes and not the re-|bat It and that the fight soon will sult of folly. commence to bear fruit. ing Fatalities Caused by Mifus('d Cars. Dinbetes Parallel. W LI e Ton fooi e : Nm Lmv Prices and Deferred Payments The Metropolitan Life # indicates | (na new scourge, but statements such this when it points to the fatal re-[as those furnished by the Metropolitan ‘" BY WILLIAM ULLMAN, 1per cent of the casualties of minors it more menacing ta the | couzh. combined, are no more menac erated. The meance Is so much, nor than our most dreaded | Ing Lo child life than the automobile. |he use of automd more and no less. | There are, bowever, two sides to|automobile death ad pas i On that basis it is not so difficult to substance, is the sta rv from the’ picture of the|of diabetes. Since : ve | estimate the size of the forces of edu- forth in the st | reality onc is justified in turn- {been the most remarkable strides|cation, crution and training necessary atistical bulletin of the Mctropol 4 b1 eration of the fatali- { made by the medical profession in|to provide the correct amount of ants- ife Insurance Co.. generally - A the conquering of this fearful malady. | toxin. garded as a reiiabie and accurate in- | 'he edues : 1d pec Who can tell but what in the next |==———————————————————— o it t i e 10 years dfabete: be removed - magnitude | 5 from the - f ¥ K " had when |} 5 b uny while the disease of maividnal pulations over |, le transportation will be defi- 00 This includes figures Tor OC- | suee eheekeds YOUR NEGLECTED 925, as in former is encourazing to quote from > i Metropolitan’s bulletin with refer. COLD the heaith record for Decem Will often develop into se- : o that month qf the 1t will be N T 1 sion 2 four to one. [ some time vet before the detailed | ¢ te Jower than in Decem.| rious illness at this time of the FURNITURE SALE s covering 1925 automobila BY T . ; | r This despite the amazing | veg ” W W Compare e | tatalities and so-calied aceidents will . e e g | year. [reat your cold no ith s available for public scrutiny. but ; s ¥ s er and the enormous pro- EhE Butomonile Is ribw ABOF the consensus Is that the situation intet - ¥ seven times that taken by measles, | Will notbe as grave as it might have | "r, ‘tpe District of Columbia and g according to the insurance compi 5 e <plendidq | every State in the Union there ate bulletin. Ten years ago mensies were || The Nation hae made splendld |5y more cars registered than there more of 4 meniice than the motc 3 Stemming the automotive | \'ora ‘at thin season i veur azo. De. 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[ivacts: Lztter diseases exceeds that for automobile | 1" ot S MU noaratiliCriat At b o Ehin s 3 “accidents,” but slightly. a matter {“‘91-‘ new that It has taken several|clties are raffic studies. | FOr over of fact, the disease Of DromiscuoUS Fyears for the brains of the country | Within one fiscal year cc seventy years§ end excessive automobile fatalities is | {o organize for defense. The Nationa) | 1925, exactly 23 = " now more to be dreaded than dipth-fconference on street and highway | playgrounds _ | Father John's eria, which kills but two persons,|ufety are only in thelr Infancy, |mately 00.000 have been expended | Medicine ha s while the disease of carelessness kills | while the work of the National Au- | in { national safety [ poen known as three. tomobile Chamber of Conference in |through the National Safety Council, | g u:dpolnt stressed by the Metropoli }.munn(‘liun with the leading news- |2 large portion of which has been ap- | the greatest ocument Is the effect of this new | pupers of the country is barely get- |plied directly safeguarding those . i J ang < and ravaging disease upon childhood. | tinz under way Who. use the streets and hishwavs, |pody builder. No dangerous It is estimated that approximately 40| What are 2, 3, 4 or 10 vears of |During 1925 more than 10,000 unde- | drugs. The toll of lives tuken duction and sale of cars. 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