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We think Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield put it well in a letter to postal employees, urging them to support Safe Driving Day, December 1: '
“A sickness,’* Mr. Summerfield wrote, “resulting in over 100 deaths and 5,500 people seriously ill and perhaps affected for life in one day, would be classified an epidemic of the most serious proportions!.
“Likewise,if a disaster, in one day, took over 100" lives, badly injured over 5,900 citizens, and did more than 10 million dollars, worth of property damage, our nation would be mobilised into immediate aetion. * ■* “But that is what happens durihg an average day on the highways and streets of this nation— 25,000 traffic accidents occur, 100 ^■people die, 5,500 are-injured and damage runs over 10 million dollars.
“Thst is why our President has declared December 1 as SD Day.
'“All Americans must be made awhri of this daily tragedy, this
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