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THOUGHTS FOR OUR TIME

' BY HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL McGUIGAN

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Revolutionary War, the Civil W the: First and Second World Wars and the Korean conflict: 1,227,914 killed and 40,500,000 injured. EVERY 15 MINUTES

The tragedy may be put in ano- ther graphic way: In the United States there is a road death every 15 minutes, and three road ca- second. That is, every day 96 people who rise from bed healthy do not live to see the morrow because of auto- mobile accidents.

Actuaries working on the Aus- tratian statistics have warned the peop's of ‘hat country that im any average young family of five, r’ whem the father would be 3, ‘3:2 mother 30, with children -* 7, 5 and an infant, one of the

» 's doomed to become a road nt victim! 4

F.om the economic standpoint it hes been estimated that road accidents cost the United States approximately two billion dollars each year, a sum that might

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serve as yearly wages for some 400,000 workers. It is easy to see how important it ig that everyone endeavor to limit, to the greatest of his pow- er, the number of these accidents, | The situation would doubtless be greatly eased if everyone were keenly aware of his moral obli- gatnons as a driver. This is es- pecially so if we realize that most accidents are caused by carelessness. Excessive speed is the number- one killer every year. Inattention on the part of drivers follows rey of eo aets ¢ . Ppassen- gers and other road users, fol- Supt. Joseph Marshall Belie, 51, lowed by intoxication on th e/| a native of Kenora, Ont., has been part of drivers and mechanical| promoted to acting commissioner defects in motor vehicles. Analy-| in the RCMP. He joined the force sis reveals that the driver or} ;.

im 1928 and has seen service in all someone else is responsible for bins western provinces. In Decem- 9% per cent of traffic deaths. —_| her, 1958, he assumed his present

There is a morality governing | position as director of security automobile driving just as there is| and intelligence at. for any human ect. The problem | here. (CP Photo) is not so much ne : moral principles on this point, as of getting people to apply, te mot- ROLLO BAY or driving, moral principles) ol which ere quite eimple and well} Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Chaisson known im other contexts, but| and Mr. Freddie Chaisson, Brigh-|. which people never think of ap-|ton, Mass., are spending e few plying in this one. days with relatives and friends}. A car is, from one point of|in Rollo Bay. view, a potentially dangerous and| Mr. Reginald Peters who is a lethal weapon. The same princip-| patient at the Provincial Sani- les apply te carelessness ia its |torium ig spending the week-end use as apply to carelessness with | at his in Souris West. a shotgun. But, for some reason,| His many friends regret to people do not seem to apply to/learn that Mr. Henry Chaisson, the one case principles which| Rollo Bay is not enjoying good they readily recognice as -valid| health and is receiving medical for the other. care at his home. ; The moral principles involved} Mr. and Mrs. Terence Doucett here are simple and straightfor-| Brighton, Mass., are on a short ward and follow directly from | visit to their respective parents, the natural law and from the/Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Doucette, fifth commandment, We are/and Mr.-and Mrs. Henry Chais- gravely bound to respect the life| son, Rollo Bay. and. bodiig integrity ef ourselves; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mullally and of our neighbor. and family, Souris West, motor- us G ed to Wood Island on Sunday, To kill an innocent human be- ' s : ; - |dence, no one is hit. A person ee ee ica vat badly |who drives a car in a grossly over one does serious wrong, not reckless manner is in a closely merely when he intentionally | P@7@llel_ situation. ‘causes death or bodily injury, but also when he does so unin- : tentionally, if the damage is caus- I; ‘ed by. negligence on his part l There is, however, another i \ princivle which is not always ad- Hilt verted to. It is that a person who HK 2 is guilty of gross negligence in the | ness, your “stock driving of a car doés something i loss through gravely wrong whether an acci-! HH dent results or not. A person who | HH is quilty of gross negligence in Hill al duty to drive with reasonable Hilt care. If he grossly neglects that Wifi duty then he is guilty of serious;| | il wrong, and other things being | Ih equal, the only difference which | Nii the actual occurrence of an ac- } | cident would make is that he| Hl — theréby contract a further i mo: obligation to repair the} i] . davenaih tee tins Gone ‘6 pereen ox i | @ CHARLOTTETOWN reise. il @ MONTAGUE A person who fires a shot into | @ crowd does not escape grave)

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