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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 7 (October 1, 1935)

Life's ugliest joke as seen in the united states

Life's ugliest joke as seen in the united states.

Being of a cheerful turn of mind, we have tried to leave to insurance companies the sombre task of charting life's overwhelming hazards. One particular hazard, however, has increased so steadily that we can hardly be held a spoilsport for calling the attention of 1935's parents to the fact that their children, according to the latest estimates, stand one chance in three of meeting death or serious injury from that deathlike convenience, the motor car. Take a room containing three children: one of them is destined to be killed or badly hurt by a car before he has completed his normal life span. Statistically, the motor car is life's ugliest joke; its toll makes war seem like a spring outing.—“The New Yorker.”

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