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NARA SPESCH BROADCAST THURSDAY, JANUARY TWENTY-FIRST, 1937, FROM THE UNITED BTAT. TOX HARRY 8. TRUMAN OF MO We are in the midst of the most uscless, most reokless ane unnecessary denth rate from automobiles in our history. I want 1t stopped. One way to stop it is to take the crazy driver from behind the wheol of the oar. There are more than 25,000,000 sutomobiles in use in the United States. In 1935 one million, ono hundred thousend drivers were in- volved in accidents. Thirty-six thousand people were killed and 830,000 seriounly injured, and more than a million minor accidents were not reported. The proporty damage ran into ten figures. Every automobile driver should read on article published in the Readers' Digest last year, called "And Sudden Desth". It vividly describes what takos place when cara collido and when a car hits e pedestrian. There are nore innocent children killed in America every year than have been injured by the bombing of Medrid; yet the bombing of the Spanish capitel sesms atrocious to us, and 1t is. Twenty-two States in this great Union are trying bravely to stop the useless and unnecessary alaughter by automobile drivers. These States require driver's licenses with examination, and severe punishment if a porson attempts to drive who 1a not qualified. The other States allow any one who can get into a cer to drive it. In Detroit when a caroful survey of fotal automobile accidents wan made, it was found that 14% of these car fatalities were osused by ineane drivers - not drunken drivers, but inmane ones. Fourteen deaths in every hundred fatel eutômobile accidente in that great oity were caused by actually orazy men at the wheel of the death car.

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