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Thursday, August 1, 1935 nn By £LAN BROWNING, Jr. IT'S GRUESOME, BUT READ IT! Every npw and then in this column we get to harping on reckless drivers and speeders, and thanks to a large insurance company, we have quoted statistics showing that the World War was child's play to the automobile when it comes to killing people. Other newspapers, too, have devoted considerable space to the subject in ways much more forceful than ours, perhaps, but statistics, regardless whether in a small weekly or a large daily, are merely statistics and fail to shock the average pePson into a full realization of what they mean. So now, thanks to Reader's your entertainment a gruesome, of what actually happens in an au-' tomobile wreck. And when you multiply this by the thousands of wrecks which occur yearly—well, it should make you stop and think. Statistics exclude the pain and horror of savage mutilation—which mean that they leave out the point. A passing look at a bad automobile wreck or the news that a fellow you had lunch with last week is in a hospital with a broken back Vill make any driver but born fool slow down at least temporarily. But what is needed is a vivid and sus stained realization that every time you step on the throttle, death gets in beside you, hopefully waiting for his chance. That single horrible ac cident you may have witnessed — say the wreck which occurred near here several weeks ago which re sulted in one death and a boy with a broken back—is no isolated hor ror. That sort of thing happens every hour of the day, everywhere in the United States. If you really felt that, perhaps the stickful of type in Monday's paper recording that a total of 29 people were killed in week-end * crashes would rate something more than a perfunctory tut-tut as you turn back to the comic page. There is a case on record where an enterprising judge now and again sentences reckless drivers to tour the accident end of the city morgue. But even a mangled body on a slab, waxily portraying the consequence of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on the scene of the accident itself. No artist working on a saf ety poster would dare depict that in full detail. FINE 5555) REPAIRING ® Two Expert e Repairmen In Charge C. W. STEELE Jeweler B. Main St. Elkin, N. C. • Tomorrow May Bring A Loss That Insurance Today Could Prevent DONT TAKE RISKS INSURE NOW! ■% Paul Gwyn Phone 258 All Lines of Insurance Representing Strang «6tock Com panies only No Mntoals. Digest, we are presenting for but nevertheless true, picture of That picture would have to in clude motion-picture and sound ef fects, too—the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting groaning of a hu man being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of at child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realis tic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole in the bloody drip that fills her eyes and runs off her chin. Minor details would include the raw ends of bones protruding through flesh in compound fractures, and the dark red, oozing surfaces where clothes and skin were flayed off at once. Those are standard, everyday se quels to the modern passion for go ing places in a hurry and taking a chance or two by the way. It's worth thinking over—and heeding! IN THE LIMELIGHT "Although as a newspaper The Tribune is sort of having to play second fiddle on announcements for political offices, it still is a source of gratification to me to learn that Elkin is bursting frequently into the limelight through the decision of its sons to run for office," Simpson an nounced Saturday morning after looking over the front page of The Greensboro Daily News. "What's happened now?" we woke ourself up to inquire, our newspa per reading being confined solely to the comic pagt. "It says here," Simpson stated, "that Mr. S. O. Maguire, of some what improved Republican stock and a former member of the state legis lature, is going to oppose Congress man Frank Hancock for his uphol stered seat in Congress." "Did you say he is going to op pose Mr. Hancock or just run for Congress on the Republican ticket?" we wanted to know. "Oppose is the word," Simpson said, "provided he gets the nomina tion. And not having a law prac tice to look after, he should stand a better chance than some others who have announoed themselves as willing to be honored by their party. Too, the time is favorable, because in the very own words of Elkin's master political prognosticator, 'Our Bob' Lovelace, the potential lieuten ant-governor of this state, the Grand Old Party is due for a smashing comeback in the 1936 election, in cluding both state and nation." "Well," we murmured as we drifted back into our favorite coma, "not being a Republican we cannot pledge Mr. Maguire our vote. But as a fellow citizen we wish him all the luck in the world in his race for office. It may be that he will need it." • * * WONDERING DEPARTMENT Someone was wondering the other day just why Elkin has only two hours of personal attention from the county health department when Mount Airy has practically a full time office? And a certain local citizen was— and is—wondering why soirteone with a little civic pride doesnt get busy and havethe Boon trail markers erected here which has beeij nursing for the past 12 years? And we have been wondering why the town doesn't have the eame per sons buHt the eye sore on the vacant lot next to The Tribune building, tear it dowm? THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA THIS AND THAT We hereby extend a -cordial wel come on the part of the glamorous Association of Diaper Changers and Floor Walkers, to Mr. Hoyt T. Ham biight, now the proud papa of a fine boy, with the hope that he will grow up to be a first baseman. Dr. J. Allen Whitaker, Surry health officer, points to the fact that there are at this writing six cases of paratyphoid fever in Surry county, and that one death has oc curred near Elkin from typhoid—a woman 70 years of age. The wom an who died, and those suffering, had not been vaccinated. Draw your own moral. According to Joe Bivins, who was in the office a few minutes ago to see the 246 Indian arrow heads found in a hole near Boonville by Dorothy Hellmig, the Red Man used fire and little drops of water to fashion his arrow tips. Mr. Bivins stated that the Indian first heated the stone red hot, then dropped drops of water on it. As each drop fell, it chipped off a piece of stone. Personally, we feel it a great pity rs PROGRAM Sf Show. A LYRIC THEATRE rF TODAY A&D* FRIDAY— TVTF YT lil/mf T 11/ A Of the Screen's ™ I W U Most Popular Actors- MONDAY AND TUESDAY TAnMnirDi Pronounced One of the Ten Best Pictures of TOGETHER! the Y ear! 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