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Show Navigating In a Fog A Pacific coast skipper was punished the other day because, be-cause, in a fog, he-kept ahead at standard speed and ran onto a sandbank. Faulty shore signals, the unlucky captain said, caused his mi.shap. The skipper-was right and his censors wrong. In a fog, on crowded waters, with many ships plying regular pourses, it , is safer for everyone if they maintain courses and speeds'imder'all conditions. Then, every skipper knows where every other. ship is. . ff one slows down and two stop and three take different routes in a fog, only confusion results. A great deal of our: present business confusion and industrial in-dustrial wreck is caused 'because, in our present fog, people haven't maintained their usual courses and speeds. ' And because, on top of that, the signals we have been getting from national leaders have been anything but accurate accu-rate and helpful. ' - If tomorrow all of-us were to start out, working and spending and planning and going ahead as we did three-years ago, we'd' brinjr the business ship into harbor safely and speedily. . . , - Timidity, in a fog. is dangerous, either for ships or men. You can't dodge a fog by lying idle in the middle of it The only way to get out of it, is to get out of it. : ' |