A Victim Every 31 Minutes Public opinion must be thoroughly aroused through systematic and persistent. safety education before there will be an appreciable dimination of the great toll of life now being taken by vehicular, traffic in America's congested highways, C, M, Talbert of St. Louis, Chairman of the public safety section of the National Safety Council, declared recently at a joint meeting of traffic and transportation and claims experts: at the congress of American Electne Railway Association.
Mr, Talbert pointed out that 90 per cent. of all accidents occur in public highway; He said automobile fatalities had grown from 9 per 1,000,000 population to 100 in 1919, and an estimate of 110 for each 1,000,000 inhabitants in 1920, or, in the United States, one death every 31 minutes of the 16 commonly allotted waking hours. With this tremendous toll the fatalities were not increasing with machines in use, there having been a drop from 2,756 in 1912 to 1,282 in 1919 for each 1,000,000 automobiles.
The total of vehicular accidents increased from 245 per 1,000,000 in 1906 to 253.3 in 1919, while all other forms of accidents decreased 18 per cent.
After citing payment of claims amounting to $6,300,000, or 4} per cent. ut their gross revenue, by seven of the largest, traction' sys-toms in one year, to show how great the interest of electric railway managers should be, Mr. Talbert advocated formation of public safety committees in all communities. He urged a direct appeal to "public psychology," and declared the most fruitful ground for ultimate results was in the public and parochial schools, May residents of the Far East will regret to learn of the death of Mr. George Armstrong in Manila. He was a man of remarkably fine physique, but. he had reached a very advanced age and had recently been for some few weeks in a hospital in Manila. He was formerly in business in Hongkong, and Shanghai, but for many years past he had carried on business as a broker in Manila. guished as Field-Marshal_ Earl Haig. Lord Roberts, when he. was Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, once paid a visit to the links (it was in 1903): Sir Ian Hamilton was with him. In his "Life of Tom Morris" Dr. Tulloch tells how Lerd Roberts and Sir Ian went over the Jubilee Course; but, "unfortunately, when they visited old Tom's shop, Tom was out playing, and so a meeting between the two heroes in their respective fields did not take tlaco." But Lord Roberts was not a real golfer; it was old Tom that he went to St. Andrews to see, and he missed the man whose memory even to-day is that most revered in St. Andrews.
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