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_~NME TIMES AND GUIDE â€" Tuesday, Dec. 24, 1957 â€" Page 4 ‘ s Metro police have announced that + vill prosecute children caught singing co Is unless it is for a recognized charity. : hy stop there? Why not prosecute thore sit j‘ng for charity too ? In fact why not ban ca ol singing altogether ? Tear down the holly clusters and wreaths cad burn them. Suppress all mention of Santa Claus, expunge his name from the language, rip his picture from children‘s books. i4 let the post office prosecute those using Despite all the efforts of government and public safety organizations, the accident rate is increasing.< It is increasing out of all proportion to the number of cars on the road and stems from the fact that there are many drivers be hi n d th e wheel w h o shouldn‘t be there. Accidents are re m o te and impersonal things to every driver until he is looking up into the harsh lights of the operating room or down at the lifeless face of a loved one. To the average driver, a serious automoâ€" bile accident is something that always hap:â€" pens to the other fellow yet an analysis by one of the major insurance companies progâ€" nosticates that one member of every family of five or more will be killed or maimed on the highway sometime during their lives. There are two reasons for this. First is the system of issuing licenses and second is the system of punishing violators of traffic laws. _ Let‘s face it! Licenses are just too easy to get for the unscrupulous. Driving tests conducted by the department of highways are strict and difficult, designed to plumb the driver‘s ability to cope with all traffic situations. But many of the private driving inspectors, are concerned only with the applicant‘s ability to operate the vehicle mechanically. If the applicant knows the difâ€" Generally higher automobile, insurance rates will apply across Canada in 1958. with increases ranging from "minor" to "sub. stantial," a survey of insurance eompany plans for the new year indicated today. For the past two months, companies have been studying the statistical data which has confirmed that the past year was the worst in autoâ€" mobile insurance history. Insurance Up 30% On Nation‘s Bad Car Risks Unhappy Motorists Slated For More Trouble All Canada Insurance Federaâ€"| tion, an association which does" not itself have any authority over rates, undertook the survey | of some 300 member companies! to ascertain the general pattern‘ for the coming year. And the general pattern is "up" â€" conâ€" siderably in many cases. | The survey showed that the higher price of cars â€" with the| consequent higher cost of .reâ€" pairs â€" was the major factor‘ forcing the increase in rates.| Average cost per claim has; jumped to an allâ€"time high â€", some 30 per cent ‘over that of‘ a few years ago. This has been only partially offset by the one| 1922 MAIN N. sUBSCRIPTION , RATES â€" Carrier resale rates in Weston, North York, Etobicoke and York Tow n-hh 8â€"cents per week. By mail, in areas not serviced by carrier home delivery $1.50 per six months, $3.00 per year in advance, USA subscriptions $3.30 per vear in advance Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawa sincere thanks and the Season‘s best wishes to all our patrons whose good will CRUICKSHANK MOTORS Licenses â€" Too PW‘ re entering the * we vafue so highly. we Singing A Different Tune YOUR MERCURY â€" LMNCOLN â€" METEOR DEALER ESTABLISHED 1884 44, Main Street South, Toronto 15 â€" Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers‘ Association Publisher, V. J. MeMILLAN â€" Editor, R. H. SUNTER General Manager, W. J. MITCHELL â€" Cireviation Manager, G. BRITIEN Ontario‘s Fastest Growing Newspaper Times an Burbe encouraging note in the situaâ€"| tion, the fact that the number of accidents in relation to the number of vehicles insured has dropped slightly. \ ‘an inexpensive car doesn‘t help any. It isn‘t what he is driving, | but what he may hit that counts. ‘A soâ€"called ‘cheap‘ car can still do a tremendous amount of daâ€" image to those shiny, new moâ€" dels with all their power assists. ‘But the public wants the modern cars, and so the insurance preâ€" ‘miums have got to cover the \ extra claims costs." "Longer cars, wider ‘cars, cars packed with expensive â€" and breakable ~â€" equipment m a ke each accident a more expensive proposition, a n d it just isn‘t possible to insure $4,000 or $5,000 cars at the price of $2,000 cars," the survey report said. "Unfortunately, as far as inâ€" surance to cover a motorist‘s liaâ€" bility to others is concerned, the fact that he may still be driving The report noted that other factors were involved as well â€" such as higher medical costs, TWE the mails to transport Christmas cards. Forâ€" bid the raising and importation of turkeys. Extinguish the Christmas lights that make a fairyâ€"land of our dreary suburbs â€" Christâ€" mas â€" BAH â€" Humbug ! Down with happiness, down with the yuleâ€" tide spirit in little children‘s voices, down with their shining eyes, down with festive dinners and Christmas trees and homecom ings and reunions. We‘re with the Metro policeâ€" down with it all â€" Humbug! HUMBUG ! Easy To Get terence between the brake, the clutch and the accelerator, they are well qualified by these standards. = Putting an incompetent driver behind the wheel of a threeâ€"ton projectile is like giving a loaded gun to a monkey in a crowded auditorium. In the case of punishment for infractions In the case of punishment for infractions Bd oo of the highway code, further increases in The Russians think they‘re the amounts of fines are imminent This will| clever, not be a cure nor even a deterrent. The rich \With their Sputuk and then man has a license to drive as he likes and| Muttnick, the not so rich man just becomes bitterly But our tballyhooey‘ neighb antagonistic towards the police, Were the first to lawnch a l uyurn haldanal® We think ts abvious: Dudud. What‘s to be done ? We think it‘s obvious. The incompetent and the irresponsible must not be allowed to drive. Every driver should have to toke a driv ing test â€" free of charge â€" every five years. The period should be reduced to one year for persons over 65. for persons over 65. Every driver should have a record on which every accident and every driving conâ€" viction is recorded. Too many entries should lead to the automatic suspension of the license. These sound like drastic measures but with traffic accidents taking as many lives each year as heart disease, drastic measures are needed. WESTON |higher hospital costs and higher "lost time" payments to persons injured in accidents. But the most potent factor in the sharp ll_v higher cost per claim was the repair bill which resulted when a late model car was involved in an accident. The survey drew no concluâ€" sion as to the average rate of increase â€" countryâ€"wide. It said that "because of the wide variaâ€". tions between areas, and thei wide variations between various | classifications of drivers within‘ each area, plus the effects on rate changes for drivers moving from one noâ€"accident discount into another, any attempt to quote an average would result: in a figure which undoubtedlyv. would be highly inaccurate in the great majority of cases." A. WEIR ECKENSWILLER MERRY CHRISTUAS 34 MAIN $T. N. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. 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