The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-18
SIo40 Up!
Lose a Minute and Save
a Life; 1t Is Up to
Y0U--Right Now.

- county Is unOer surveillance
Of police and deputy sheriffs today
as The Times campaign to curb the
appalling toll of motor deaths and
injuries continued with redoubled
force.
Chief Mike Morrissey ordered
patrolmen and officers to arrest
every motorist who causes an acct
dent on city streets. He also an
nounced that speeders and autoists
who fail to heed traffic signals and
stop streets will be arrested.
Instructions of Sheriff Charles
fBuck) Sumner to his men called
for drive to stamp out accidents
that have boosted Marion county's
death toll to ONE HUNDRED
TWENTY since Jan. /.
Estimating the number of days
remaining in the year and the aver
age of one motor vehicle death
every fifty-two hours in less than
nine months, figures show that
FORTY-EIGHT MORE MEN,
WOMEN AND CHILDREN PROB
ABLY WILL DIE IN AUTO ACCI-
DENTS IN INDIANAPOLIS BE-
FORE JAN. /, 1882.
VIII you~be one of those forty
eight?
Will you be the man at the wheel
on whose shoulders will weigh the
death of one of those forty-eight?
VIII your child, mother, father,
sister, brother, or wife, be one of
those forty-eight?
Il
TINE TIMES urges EVERY auto
l. driver and EVERY pedestrian
In the city and county do his ut
most to make those figures lie.
The Times primarily launched the
campaign to LOSE A MINUTE
AND SAVE A LIFE for the safety
of school children returning to class
rooms ten days ago.
But the situation has become in
creasingly appalling. Wednesday
three lives were snuffed out by au-
tcmobiles. Two of the dead were
little girls, one a school child.
With the announcement of in
creasing educational efforts by The
Times, police, school officials and
teachers, the indianapolis Street
Railway Company, through R. B.
Davis, stated all street cars in the
city, starting Saturday, will carry
the placards in large letters:
LOSE A MINUTE AND SAVE
A LIFE. DRIVE
CAREFULLY.
These signs will be on the rear of
street cars. Whether you are a
stay-at-home or business man or
woman, a school child or an autoist,
you won't be able to dodge that
slogan of safety for the next seven
days.
TINE TIMES originally planned
4 to conduct the campaign for
only two weeks.
But with the commentator and
requests for continuance of safety
campaign The Times has decided to
continue the drive for protection Of
lives at least another week,
From the Community Fund today
came an urge that residents of the
county support the safety drive.
Writing to The Times. David Lig-
gett, executive secretary, said:
THE nations most valuable asset
is the lives of it's children.
Yet we have learned more about
speed than we have learned how
to save these lives and develop
them to their full capacity.
n
A LARGE percentage of the an
"A nual expenditures of the
Community Fund is made in behalf
Of children-and rightfully so.
Much effort is put forth each
year in Indianapolis to care for the
sick and handicapped child. All of
us could spend a little time in an
effort to protect the able-bodied
youngsters, as well.
I'VE should use utmost care in
driving.
The mounting death rate where
children have been killed by auto
mobiles is a warning to us that we
MUST use every precaution.
Every motorist should accept the
challenge to:
LOSE A MINUTE AND SAVE
A LIFE"