Transport: Wasco Bombar's Funeral

Into a Pittsburgh church one day last week marched Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno and 77 automobilists convicted of drunken driving. In a coffin below the pulpit lay the corpse of one Wasco Bombar, killed by a drunken driver. Ranging the 77 culprits in front pews where they could see the coffin and a big wreath they had jointly bought for it, Judge Musmanno entered the pulpit to deliver a funeral sermon. Excerpt:

"When Wasco Bombar left his home in turbulent Europe to come to the land of peaceful America, he did not realize he was coming to a place where in many ways the highways are as dangerous as a no man's land of war. He did not know every year 36,000 lose their lives on those highways. No one told him every year more than 1,000,000 are injured and crippled on our thoroughfares. Had he known all of this, he would have preferred to remain on his little farm in Poland where one lives not so excitedly but a little more securely. . . ."