"PUBLIC HIGHWAY SLAUGHTER."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18304, 11 February 1925, Page 4

"PUBLIC HIGHWAY SLAUGHTER."

THE ART OF KILLING. (raou our o\ra corbespobdent.) SAN FRANCISCO, January 12. Englishmen in their daily lives run leas than half the risk from accidents that Americans do, according to Richard E. Kmpf, supreme agent of th® Royal Arcanum, in an ciddress in Chicago. In England and "Wales the fatal accident rate in 1932 was 321 per million population, while in the United States the same year the proportion was 698 per million, he asserted. "America loses by accident 201) parsons, or the population of a email village, orery day of the year," MrKropf stated. ''Eve 17 week 1402 persons, or the population of «i fair-sized town, make up the appalling accident death toll. In 1923 fatal accident? numbered 84,000, or the population of ono of our medium-sized cities. "Automobile accidents head the list vrith 282 deaths per week. Falls of all kindfl .ire not/ for behind with 254 deaths per week. Drowning claims 134 victims a weak and 128 i»ople are killed each week in railway accidents." Under the caption of "The Art of Killing," the Detroit "Freo Press" says: "The whole number of casualties of all sorts and degrees Buffered by the American Forces in th© "World War was 302,016, considerably less than half the number of casualties on tbo highways of this country in 1224. "Wo talk about outlawing war because of )ts hideousness and the disasters it brings on humanity. What about outlawing th© murderous, devastating toll tf>F the highways, this growing evil which is the most dreadful thing in American life; which respects neither age nor ?ex, but takes especial delight iu»exacting its toll from tho childhood of the country? What are tho horrors of a temporary skit© of war, besides the steady, remorseless, increasing and apparently endless public highway fclaughtcr year in and" yogr out? .'Jo discourse about the terrors of war i* ghastly, devilish irony as long as the present terrors of th© stic-cts are tolerated."