Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman at the National Convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at Chicago, Illinois
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OCR Page 1 of 8SPEECH or SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN, , of Missouri, delivered at the
National Convention, of t he ternal Arder of Lagles at Chicago,
Saturday, August 14 at
TO BE RELEASED ON
We are in the midst of the most useless, most reckless
and unnecessary death rate from automobiles in our history.
I
want it stopped. One way to stop it is to take the crazy driver
from behind the wheel of the car.
There are more than 25,000,000 automobiles in use in
the United States. In 1935 one million, one hundred thousand
drivers were involved in accidents. Thirty-six thousand people
were killed and 830,000 seriously injured, and more than a million
minor accidents were not reported. The property damage ran into
ten figures. Every automobile driver should read an article
published in the Readers' Digest last year, called "And Sudden
Death." It vividly describes what takes place when cars collide
and when a car hits a pedestrian. There are more innocent children
killed in America every year than have been injured by the bombing
of Madrid; yet the bombing of the Spanish capital seems atrocious
to us, and it is.
Twenty-two States in this great Union are trying bravely
to stop the useless and unnecessary slaughter by automóbile
drivers. These States require driver's licenses with examination,
and severe punishment if a person attempts to drive who is not
qualified. The other States allow any one who can get into a car
to drive it. In Detroit when a careful survey of fatal automobile
accidents was made, it was found that 14% of these car fatalities
were caused by insane drivers - not drunken drivers, but insane
ones. Fourteen deaths in every hundred fatal automobile accidents
h and
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