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Aufo Accident Prevention 



By V. Vaniman 



FARM Bureau members in Illinois 

 for the past three years have 

 been doing some real thinking 

 on auto accident prevention. One of 

 the reasons for this is that they ap- 

 preciate the effect on their pocket 

 books, the consequent reduced rate in 

 the cost of their automobile insur- 

 ance. A more important motive, how- 

 ever, is to be considered, namely, the 

 saving of human lives and the preven- 

 tion of human suffering. 



The fact that 29,500 persons were 

 killed in auto accidents and nearly 

 1,000,000 injured in the United States 

 in 1932, makes us realize that it is 

 high time for serious thought on the 

 subject of auto accident prevention 

 when traffic experts state that 80% 

 of the auto accidents are preventable. 



Reasonable Care — If a person should 

 take a revolver and shoot promiscu- 

 ously somebody would do something 

 about it because somebody would like- 

 ly get hit and that somebody might 

 be you. Without using reasonable care 

 in making left hand turns, passing 

 cars on curves and grades, stopping 

 on the highway, someone is likely to 

 be killed or permanently injured. 



Accident Talk— "Bad tires," "slip- 

 pery pavements," "poor light s," 

 "brakes slipped," "I thought I could 

 get by," are no longer reasonable ex- 

 cuses nor do they indicate that, rea- 

 sonable care is being used in driving 

 a car. 



Things To Think About— Crutches, 

 hospitals, inquests, cripples, nurse, 

 doctor, poor house, death, disability — 

 a!) are the result of careless driving. 



The A B C of Accident Prevention 

 — The A B C of accident prevention 

 is ALWAYS BE CAREFUL. There 

 is everything to be gained and nothing 

 to be lost. 



Fundamental Principles of Accident 

 Prevention — The biggcst thing in auto 

 accident prevention i- to really get 

 people to THINK; not only the drivers 

 but the pedestrians. The following 

 figures indicate human actions of 

 drivers that produce death: 



Driving too fast 35.31% 



On wrong side of road 12,25 



Did not have right of way 11.92 



Drove off roadway 18.84 



Improper passing, turning, 



signaling 7.69 



Miscellaneous 13.99 



Human actions of pedestrians that 

 produce death: 



Crossing between intersec- 

 tions 28.83% 



Crossing at intersections 23.52 



Walking along highway 13.81 



I. A. A. RECORD— October, 1933 



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Children playing in street 10.77 i. 



Miscellaneous 14.11 ; • 



Reverse Psychology — Reverse Psy- 

 chology has a definite part in making 

 people think. The ridiculousness of 

 the following statements indicates 

 what is meant by reverse psychology: 

 Never stop on entering a main 

 highway; there's no chance of you 

 being hit by an oncoming car. 

 : r Always pass cars on turns or 

 grades; there couldn't be a car com- 

 ing from the opposite direction, and 

 if there was they would slow down 

 and let you by. 



Never signal in making left hand 

 turns — other motorists will know 

 what you intend to do and will be 

 careful not to hit you. ..; . X\ ..' V 



Your brakes never need attention. 

 If they don't work just right it will 

 stimulate your wits as to what to 

 do when you really need them. 



If you can't stop within the dis- 

 tance you can see ahead, step on the 

 gas and knock out of the road any- 

 thing that is in your way. It will 

 keep you from growing old. : •: 



Dart in and out of traffic — there 

 is no chance of you getting hit. Be- 

 sides it will demonstrate what a 

 wonderful driver you are. .v/*'. ■• ' 

 A New Germ — The report has been 

 received that in Missouri the State 

 Board of Health is claiming credit for 

 discovering the germ of a new dis- 

 ease. The malady is termed "speed- 

 itis auto-mobilitis" and the name of 

 the offending microbe is the micrococ- 

 cus "speeditis auto-mobilitis." 



Speeditis is principally a disease of 

 young life, however older persons 

 readily acquire it. There is no doubt 

 about the result of this dreaded dis- 

 ease. A serum that can be manufac- 

 tured quite easily for the driver of the 

 automobile to overcome this dreaded 

 organism is CAUTION and COUR- 

 TESY. 



The September auto accident pre- 

 vention campaigns are getting results. 

 Mr. Richardson, manager of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Company, which has 30,000 policies in 

 force, states that the accident curve 

 for the month of September, when 

 the greatest number of auto accidents 

 occur, is straightening out. 



Heard In Union Co. 



Farm Bureau Office 



Non-member: "Mr. Bierbaum (farm 

 adviser) What does it cost to belong 

 to the Farm Bureau?" ;• , 



Mr. Bierbaum: "Mister, if you use 

 it, it won't cost you anything, and if 

 you don't it will cost you $15 a year." 



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Sangamon and Will counties, as we 

 go to press, are engaged in the final 

 series for the championship of the Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau baseball league. The 

 two teams are playing a three game 

 series for the State championship. 



Sangamon County won the first con- 

 test at Springfield on September 16th, 

 when it nosed out Will County by a 

 close score of 4 to 3. Sangamon's new 

 star hurler, J. C. Honn of Pawnee, 

 struck out 15 men and allowed only 

 two walks. Nevertheless, it was a 

 close game. Will County making six 

 hits to Sangamon's eight. 



The second game of the series is 

 scheduled to be playe 1 at Manhattan 

 on September 23rd. If a third game is 

 necessary, the two teams will flip a 

 coin to determine where and when 

 the game shall be played. 



In the semi-final play-off, Carroll 

 County eliminated Woodford in a hard- 

 fought game at Eureka on September 

 9th. "Carroll County played the best 

 defense game of any team we com- 

 peted against in the semi-finals," 

 wrote H. A. deWerff, Farm Adviser. 

 The score was 5-1. Had Woodford 

 County won, it would have been a 

 three-cornered tie for the State title 

 between Sangamon, Will and Wood- 

 ford. Lake County was defeated by 

 Sangamon the same day at Spring- 

 field. 



Middlemen Take 



Advantage of AAA. 



George N. Peek, agricultural ad- 

 ministrator, recently ahnounced that 

 steps would be taken to safeguard the 

 farm recovery program from being 

 jeopardized by unreasonable prices to 

 the consumer. 



Evidence of profiteering by whole- 

 salers, retailers as well as manufac- 

 turers has been uncovered by Dr. Fred 

 C. Howe, consumer's counsel for the 

 Administration. 



When a farmer or laborer buys a 

 pair of overalls for $1.41, Dr. Howe 

 pointed out, he makes a contribution 

 of about eight cents as a tax toward 

 the Administration's cotton campaign. 

 When a customer buys a loaf of bread 

 for eight cents about one-half cent 

 goes to the wheat farmer through 

 the processing tax. .'/v '-.••. 



Pyramiding of these taxes and mis- 

 representation of the taxes are caus- 

 ing much uneasiness in Washington. 





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