Judge — April 21, 1923 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Sell TIRES | DIRECT FROM FACTORY We want one auto owner in each Loc aity | Special Offer to Agents and low Factory Prices. ARMOUR TIRE & RUBBER CO.,Dept SOA, DAYTON.O NEW INVENTION | The Wonderful Serenola | Does more than machines costing Sve times its price, Easily carried with zou saywhers, build in Jont Uke Suitcase. Plays any reco! Low Priced—Guaranteed Agents havin; success, Making from $7 to $01 a day. Easy to take orders. | We pay you daily. Noudelivering., Nocollecting. for every day money plan. PERRY-LUDLOW CO, $- 798 Bayton, 0, High School Course in.2 Years (aa simplified H igh this AMERICAN SCHOOL _H_454 Drexel! Ave. & 58th St. A NATIONAL INSTITUTION One Family in Every Nine! Enough automobiles built last year to ena 300,000 famili nis |] | country to w car. was | record a to-day there than ever from which The selecti suited to y ments is an were complete partmen York City, you wi biased advice at nc “Nasty lookin’ brute! Why don t. y get rid o° him?” Lion Tamer—Well, I’ve got a sort of sentimental attachment for that lion You see, my wife's inside him. ‘MOTOR DEPARTMENT | by ‘writing 7H. 4 No charge it ber that The Death-dealing Automobile HE number of deaths which have been attributed to auto- mobiles in some : sr cities— sometimes running four and five a day—has serve © activity on the part of many inspectors and to renew agitation for a thorough physical, mental and driving ability test on the part of every motor vehicle ope Well and good! No machine using our public highways and capable of the speed and inertia possessed by an improperly driven automobile, should be delegated to the control of a person physicall; mentally or morally deficient. To be sure, physical perfection and mental alert- ness may combine to promote a feeling of overconfidence on the part of some opera- tors with the result that they will trust to luck and their own skill—but such a Fifthavenueritis. 2 condition does not readily admit fect moral balance, and such deficiency would be difficult to determine by test But to reduce the number of automo bile accidents to the absolute minim mental and moral examination should theoretically extend beyond the drive of the motor ~ The man or woman who is so mentally deficient absent-minded when on the st un step directly off of the curb into the pat! of an oncoming automobile, could well be rged with attempted suicide or wit! such gross negligence as to personal safet as to warrant his arrest. He knows th the streets must be used by vehicles he also knows that the entire traffic « the highway cannot come to an absolut halt the moment that he sets foot in the road, Death from such a cause solutely as much suicide as is that oc casioncd when a man steps from a high ipice or the coping of a tall building are the children morally defe« who, while exercising their special of playing in the street. of an oncoming ach other to ten-mile-an-hour auto. nist atom as to become is ab tive prerogative ignore the w vehicle and across in front of mobile, or push their companions the running boards of trucks or biles. Only recently the driver of a truck was arrested because the rear wheels of his vehicle ran over a child who, it was proved by witnesses, had been pushed into the truck by his pl front wheels had passed w yond the group of children of which the victin was a member, run D' RING the past year there were a total of slightly over 10,000 deaths occa sioned by motor vehicles. We do not know what proportion of these fatalities were due to motor trucks, but local statis- tics gathered in cities indicate t the commercial vehicle is responsible for at least f of such accidents. However, if the 12,000,000 passenger cars in use sume the blame for the entire 10,000 deaths—and in these deaths is included every of what should be termed “automobile suicide,” due to the gross case