Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Delivered at the National Convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Chicago, Illinois
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OCR Page 1 of 7SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN, of Missouri, delivered at the
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National Convention of the CO Fraternal Orjer of Eamies at Chicago, Saturday,
August 14, 1937, at 11:00 A. M.
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY:
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 then 25,000,000 automobiles in use in the United States.
In 1935 one million, one hundred thousand drivers were involved in acci-
dents. 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 Readerst Digest last year, called "And Sudden Death." It
vividly describes what takes place when cars collide and when a ear 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 automobile 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 ear 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 d eaths in
every hundred fatal automobile accidents in that great city were caused by
actually crazy men at the wheel of the death car.
In some States, licenses are issued but no examination is required. The
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