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EDITORIAL
Thursday, December 20, H2
SHOKr or losg drive
Are You Tliiiiking About
Wlmt You Are Doing?
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Thirty to 35 per cent of all U.S. traf
fic accidents Involve only one car and
fcccur off the highway when drivers Tun
into trees or ditches or other hazards.
Some hazards, such as trees, lamp
posts, ditches, traffic signs, and bridge
abutments, lend themselves to correc
tions. Raising the mounting flight of traf
fic signs to 5 feet would practically elim
inate one danger. Other safety techniques
include replacing dangerous guard rails
with gentle gradients wherever possible,
and mounting Illuminated speed signals
over the center of the road to warn
drivers of Unusual road conditions.
Other hazards, such as steep embank
ments in mountainous territory or trees
in toark area cannot be eliminated, but
where they can be "minimized, as on the
Interstate Highway system, it is estimat
ed that off the road accidents rates -can
be out by 80 per cent.
ALTHOUGH THE United States has
two-thirds of the world's motor vehicles
and accounts for three-fourths of the to
tal milage, it has only one-third of the
yearly traffic fatalities. Mile for mile,
American drivers have a Tecord six times
as good as the rest of the world. It is
estimated that bigh school driver train
ing alone has saved more than 6,000 lives
and prevented nearly 200,000 accidents
in the 24 year period from 1936 to 1960.
Though America's driving record is
better than the worlds, this does not take
into account the fact that America has
the finest highways, roads and streets in
the world. We also have more traffic
regulations than many countries and we
place more emphasis on traffic safety.
Our driving record should be even bet
ter than it is:
-In 60 years of vehicle use, 1,300,
000 Americans were killed in traffic
accidents including pedestrian acci
dents; in 185 years of United States
existence and eight major military con
flicts, a total of military deaths from
ALL causes were 1,128,000.
Fifty per cent of all teenage deaths
are now CAUSED BY TRAFFIC ACCI
DENTS. Over "750 Americans are killed
each year as a result of ars striking
or swerving to avoid objects thrown
on highways by litter bugs.
ACCIDENTS COST THE AMERI
CAN PEOPLE $100 BILLION FROM
1950 to 1960.
-These annual economic costs of
traffic accidents would have provided
'(1) 295,000 families with new $20,000
homes AND (2) the 3,068 counties in
continental U.S.A. with a new $2 million
hospital each !
THESE ARE just a few of the fig-
ures and statistics that people, insurance
companies, the National Safety Council
and others have provided 'us with in an
attempt to make the American driver
THINK and let this 'nation's fine system
of roads, safety devices and concern for
mass suicide save his life.
This year the mental lapse that seems
to eome with years of driving experience
has broke out in Nebraska as it never
has before. As an example, a state troop
er recently clocked a 19 year old youth
i(50 per -cent of all teenage deaths are
caused by traffic accidents) speeding
down the highway at '93 m.p.h'! Although
it was broad daylight, the ar's bead
lights "were brightly burning in -cooperation
with a current "Lights On For
Safetv" campaign.
IT IS A lack of education on the re
sults of careless driving? We doubt it.
No subject even world war has ac
cumulated a greater total number of
inches of type in 'newspapers and maga
zines and time on radio and TV than ac
cident prevention, Thock treatment has
been used. An O iaha television station
earlier this week aired a show which was
recommended "Not for Children." It had
nothing to do with sex, but with 'the mass
slaughter of fellow humans on 'Omaha and
state highways. It was shocking even
gruesome in its accident scenes but
it was effective.
It is a lack of education concerning
the functioning of an automobile and traf
fic regulations? This can be blamed to
an extent. Testing for driver's license
could be deepened and held regularly for
renewal of license. In Russia, a person
must pass a written examination on the
theory of combustion engines. He must
prove his knowledge of car mechanics by
taking an auto apart and re-assemble it.
Then he must take a test on the 'usual
rules of the road and all Soviet regula
tions governing the operation of automo
biles. If the Russian passes, then he 'is
allowed to take his FIRST driving lesson.
America's d r i v er education classes for
adults and high school students has
helped and is helping; but it, too, needs
to be rapidly expanded and deepened.
MECHANICAL FAILURES? Jo.
Driving negligence is the main cause of
'traffic accidents. Car failures are only a
very small percentage of casual factors
in accidents. If the driver could be made
as fault free as the car he is controlling,
accident rates would become minute.
While driving you probably are think
ing about where you are going, where
you have been, or even where you are.
But are you THINKING about what you
are DOING? If you are not, you will find
a 'ONE-WAY ticket in your pocket!
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Wow Anxious Are
You to GetHome?
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1 This is a toiy oi a man--an iindlvidual. He was
I not any one of great importance, xcept to 'his ifamfly
I 'who loved him .'dearly. He was -a good man an 4
worked hard 4it his job of idling farm machinery
f maybe too hard for lit was 'his job that kept toim on
I line" road 'traveling 'most 'of Ihe week. He was on 'his
way home .after a night amd day celling campaign
1 loutstate. He was tired because in this attempt to iclose
1 the deal he had not had time ito leep very imuch.
1 Now all was over and he was anxious tto get toome.
Today was his son's birthday.
I If 3 drive all night J can get 'home in time ior
Bill's 'birthday party, foe thought to himself.
A little 'too anxious
1 He pushed his -sleeve back, 'held !his wrist close
1 'to the lighted speedometer, squinted to Tead the time. A
'little .after nine. Five, ten minutes -after. (Ought to 'be
'home in half an hour.
1 if he'd 'known he !had only ten seconds to live, 'he
I might have checked the 'time more iclosely. He might
I -have done -several things differently.
1 TEN SECONDS TO IXVE. He massaged his yes
1 with thumb and middle 'finger, 'trying 'to rub out some
1 iof the sand.
1 NINE SECONDS TO UVE. He'd driven almost
f eight hours since lunch, and was 'beginning to :feel it.
EIGHT SECONDS TO UX'E. Lousy driving in the
I rain. Light from your 'headlights rjust seems to soak 'in
along with the water.
SEVEN SECONDS TO Un"E. Probably need a new
I windshield wiper blade. (Old one just spreads the wa-
ter around instead of wiping dean. 'Get one tomorrow,
or next time It rains.
SIX SECONDS TO LTE. Somebody threw a cig-
arette out of an oncoming car. The red glow dissolved
almost before it hit the pavement.
ITVE SECONDS TO IXVE. He planted his 'heels ion
the floorboard, squirmed back in the seat, trying !for
comfort.
1 FOUR SECONDS TO LTVE. At 60 miles an hour,
I a car covers 88 feet (of pavement every second. Four
I econds. 352 feet.
THREE SECONDS TO MVE. Something 'looked
I wrong, through the 'blurry windshield. A tentative dab
at the brake stiffened into desperate 'pressure as 'he
1 made out an old, unlighted, slow-moving truck ahead.
1 TWO SECONDS TO LTVE. Panic moved in. Turn to
the left. "No, car coming. Headlights 'too close. 'Can't
1 make It. Turn to the right.
ONE SECOND TO LTVE. Horror numbed everything
into slow motion. He was floating Tight into the near
I corner of the truck 'bed. He opened his mouth to scream.
NO SECONDS TO LTVE
'It's happened tto Hots of ipeople; maybe not ijust
that way, but similarly. Drive too long, eyes get tired,
that's hard to see through. 'Driving too fast. A car or
I truck ahead that you scant see. It's happened to 'lots of
folks.
I IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
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DECK THE HALLS
TTlinTi you -think 6t OiriHtnutu gifte you naturally Jfliiiik iff
'Murllioro icipurtit.tcs, HfiudiHg wllor 'in iflip-top 'box ik all .fifty
Utt.e nn(l if me annex 'Wales, sin all :fiftyoiie biuI if we
nrx IjijiIhikI in all fifty-two. Tlibs talk about annexing Wain
biuI !Ijiilintl in, iiuiidmitiill.v, milt jimt idle upmnilatiim. (Great
Hritaiti want to trade Wales to Hie SDnitefl State lot a. ewrt.
Oreat "Briuiin immk a (lisnrt idmpcrmtttly on ascount 'trf 'tint
iuiriilt trudtt. Tourwte, are alwRjrs nomine' -up to the IPkhm
"Miiiwtar or the ILord IPriy Seal or like that and mying, ?Tni
iiidt knmjkinp; your wiuntry, inind you. Iff 'vnry quaint nd
:pir!tiirpRqui;, 'fitc. what with Buckingham IPalaee Rod JWwril
and pfitlatid Yard, 8tc., iiiut liarc' your defwrt?" '(Bafrw I
'forput, lot ;me ipoint out that Scotland Brifanri pluiir
Tlntlii Milirr ibrantih, yitui immwl after "'ulty fteo&tnd -and
rT'rwi Yard 'wiio invunteHl :plain nlothes. Tlie Amarican jtiain
inlfitlipp fnrm! is callwl 'tlie TIJI after Prank iB. InnhcliE, 'Whe)
inveiitfld finpirprintn. iHofore Ir. UnchclifT's iiVBntion( rwory
ibody'fi 'finnorti wore abKolutcly platwy nmonth. This, bb yim
may imagine, ipluyed 'hub with ithe lidontification iof mewbnrn
'babies k bospitak. 'Prom 11701 until 1904 bo American parent
urn
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'pvrrr 'brouglit 'home 'thr- right Itwiby from -the Ihwpital. Thij
luitnr liecume' known w- the Hluftk Tom Expliwioii.)
Hilt 1 ditrretw. iEnfilund, I wan nuyiiiR, wuntei to trade Wales
ifoT a ilemvrt. ftwwloii wuiit to tmde Iljiplaud for'I'1runk B. Innle
cliff. The (Kimihi litt 'that Sweden ito thin day fltill -flout !hav
ifingnrprintri. .An -a imtiilt, -idmitifirtition nf HmhieR iiu Swedwh
!iionplUiln in no liapliumird that Bwe.de ilutlyTofum'ito'bring their
ilwbieK ihonic. Thnn; ure, at iprennnt, mearly a 'hutf-blllion utt
icliiintRtJ ilmbiew 'in "HwedMh itionpiUiln wimt' of ilwm wall ovar
eighty ywiw old.
Hut !I idign-h. We were fliikiim of iCMirmtman gifto which
'imtumlly put iw in 'mind of MitIImto oigurnttf. Wlmt eould
'ire more -weleome at (ClirMtniitti -time ithun TUurlliimi'rV flavor,
TSIiiTllmri)' -unit ipnok, TMurllinruV Ulitop lliox? 'What iindned
woulii lie more welcome- at any itimcof year winter or itunt
!mnr, rain or shine, might or day? Any itime, uny wswon, when
you light a "MuTllioroyoii can iilwnvw;lie-eertnhi that you will
,gnt 'the aumi! millil, lluvorfiil, conijilrttiiiy ieonifortible Bmokn.
'TliRTe are. of eouriMi,' other thing you -can give foriChrwtmaa
Iheaidw 'Murllioro cigarntten. llf, for oxaniiMii.ynu are '.Iwtkiiig
for nomnthiug to give a music ilover,;lflt me oill to your uttair
itinn a imvolutiomiry ninw idwelonnient iin ;phonirrapH. tlrs
51w.fi iphonogrupn. The !Lowfi, product (of yet.1,1 if i).tien
inirflh,iha iiittle fidnlityto the Tscordynu pu on it tiaut if,
tfav'iiwtuiiiw,'-ynu'pitt''tirdiMt,Vnu'the'tUTnmbl,'Idlannhiilr
'Uuby" 'will aenme out. Thin in an ienpciiil)y welcome gift ifur
peoiHivwlio have grown tired nf "HUmltwt'!.
lerry -ClirintniiiHito all and to all a good night.
Tlu nttlkan of Marlboro cigarettm, witw take plttttmire iin
brlifiitw ou IIim tulumn thrnuglumt thrncluutl uaai, wiU
ito join old Max In oxtatultiie gnatiim of tlw Httuuin.
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