Highway Safety Everybody’s Problem Dear Editor, Traffic deaths 40.000 of them over the nation last year—are pretty shocking. We all cluck dutifully over this statistic. We all agree some thing ought to be done about it. So we scold each other—in the press and over the air. We deplore the hot-rod craze and sound off on' "modern” youth as though it were somehow different, from youth of some previous period in history. We demand that our constabulary and our courts throw the book at speeders and reckless drivers in general. Then we relax and for get. After all. death-on-the-highwa.v is something that always happens to someone else up to now, at least. But a recent black-bordered full pay n Duval County (Tex.) Facts serves to emphasize that only up to now has it been somebody else, and to suggest that the Reaper has brushed us all with his black cloak. "Here are the dead for 1DA6.” is the matter-of-fact copy lead . . and following are the names of the 169 who perished by the roadside in, Duval and neighboring counties of South Texas. This brings bereavement and des truction too close for comfort or smugness. Here, are names that are known to the paper's readers Here us the final requiem for loved ones who died horribly, needlessly and close by.

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