Show Why Gamble WI With ith Death 10 Six Sir persons persona were killed on a grade crossing at Wellborn Fla Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day daY tL young woman her mother her mother law and her two little daughters aged six and three years respectively The sixth member of th the party was a friend the wife of the Wellborn postmaster Somebody was was careless Somebody took a chance The grade crossing was a warning to be cautious cautious to to obey the command painted on a sign to Stop look and listen That would have assured safety for the party of six in the automobile But Dut it was easier to take a change chance It ment the saving of h a quarter of ofa a n minute It meant avoiding the necessity of stopping and starting end it meant meant death death The thousands of grade crossing horrors that occur annually in the United States indict the public of ot indifference that is 13 ab of carelessness that is criminal An automobile has no chance when it disputes a crossing with a flying train weighing hundreds of tons It will be hurled from the track a massof mass massof massof of tangled wreckage and only as a result of a miracle can any of its occupants escape death I Why gamble with fate at the grade glade crossing I Why dare death for the sake often of often often ten or fifteen seconds saved even if the journey is important Why take it for granted that you Mr or Mrs or Miss Car Driver arc luckier than thousands were who have died at grade crossings Gamble if you will but dont don't gamble gam- gam ble tie with human lives ll When you reach a grade crossing be sure you youcan youcan youcan can get across before you start a- a cross W. W R. R U. U P. P General Safety Agent lot |