Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon

Description:	Top: A collection of gambling equipment such as a slot machine, playing card, and roulette wheel. Bottom: A warning not to gamble with driving safety. Two skeletons in suits calculate the odds of a particular car being involved in a fatal accident. A man writes a sign listing the National Safety Councils estimates of the number of accidents that will take place during Memorial Day weekend, 1949. A man standing next to a car watches the skeletons and the sign-writing man. A woman and two children sit in the car. Poppy Day. Death (Personification) Image Access WideTEK 25 If one must gamble--. A. A. Show 2. Win $5. Pool. Lottery 751 971245. What will you bet this one will be? What odds lets see! How many killed last year Memorial Day holiday? 640 last Fourth Holiday. 1948 Fourth est. 235 killed 640. 1949 estimates of National Safety Council for triple Memorial Day holiday will be killed in auto accidents. Estimate that at least 35,000,000 autos will be on the move in the nation. --But dont gamble with your auto driving. Poppy Day. In memoriam 1949.
Origin:	2014
Created By:	Karl Kae Knecht
Source:	http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/2772
Collection:	Karl K. Knecht Collection
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Subjects:	Traffic Holidays Public Service Announcements Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons Caricatures and cartoons -- United States

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