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Show At Grade Crossings He Who Hesitates is Safe SI Si'lf-iri:siTViHion would ?i:i-m to be nature's last law. For in tin' last five years, 9,101 persons almost twice th.- nuinhi-r klll-d at the Battle of Gettysburg have sacri-(i-d tbrir liv.-s at hiKhway crossings in the United States through failure to stop, look and listen. Train operation Is safe because railway employes are carefully care-fully trai 1 Except in a few states, automobile drivers are turned loose without even an examination. Y ratlin anil street cars stop before crossing another railroad rail-road where there is no interlocking device. If it be necessary neces-sary for them, how much more necessary for the auto driver! driv-er! Fur nio.it automobiles carry loved ones and friends of the driver. Vet, Mghi out of ten automobile drivers race across rail-rend rail-rend tracks without stopping and looking in either direction. direc-tion. Many motorists disregard the watchman's stop signal. Running through and breaking crossing gates is a common occurrence. One-fifth of all train accidents involving automobiles auto-mobiles are caused by the automobile running into the side f the train. The railroads maintain warning signs and require engine-men engine-men to whistle and ring the hell for every crossing. Highways High-ways are being relocated to eliminate crossings. But railroads rail-roads are powerless to prevent injury to occupants of automobiles auto-mobiles who fail to exercise care for their own safety. It has been suggested that all grade crossings be removed. There are 2 0 .0 0 0 in the United States and at $50,000 each it would cost $12,5(10,0011,000 and take at least thirty years to remove them. This expense is about two-third'a of 'he value of all railroads of the country, as tentatively found by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and neither the railroads nor the municipalities have the money The "Stop, Look and Listen" rule can be followed now without cost. It takes a train but a few seconds to pass over a crossing. cross-ing. Surely no one would sacrifice his life and his loved ones to save a few seconds. Lives of rail passengers are imperiled by grade crossing Ticcidents. Recently several trains on eastern roads have cen derailed by striking motor vehicles, and englnemen and passengers have been killed. Grade crossing nccidents would absolutely cease if every automobile driver would stop, look and listen at every grade crossing. Won't you do it? C. R. GRAY Omaha, Nebraska, President. October 1, 1923. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM .,;fE 1 ypgVoiow 'pencil' I -uo j VrSmiktAe RED BAND Zmm jAGLE PENCIL CO. NEWYORK.U.SA.J H 1 I f inse B!? Values 1 j size elMcIier tkes ! i of w f I I ft tfG? $ and the WEf! j i -mow ready 1 I J i This U. . quality group at g 1 xsslowsst prices ever offered I i vfe j I si4 Buu U.S. Tires From I m y I I Milford Auto Company I .1 "How I Cleared the Mill of Rats," By J. Tucker, R. 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