Draft of Speech Delivered by Senator Harry S. Truman at Independence, Missouri
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OCR Page 1 of 9SPEECH DELIVERED AT INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI,
APRIL EIGHTEENTH, 1937 by SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
It is a pleasure to be here at home tonight and I heartily
appreciate your asking me to come and say something to you about
current issues in Congress.
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 24,000,000 automobiles, and 4,000,000
motor trucks 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 SUDDENN 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
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Spanish Capital seems atrocious to us, and it is.
Twenty two States in thesgreat Union are trying bravely to
stop the useless and unnecessary slaughter by automobile drivers.
These States require drivers' lincenses 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
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