Show f 0 L 1 1 TIMELY Y T TOPICS J I IRA RA RACING WITH DEATH DEATH- AT GRAD GRADE CROSSINGS when a railroad train and arid an automobile COU collide there is bound to be disaster There re Is apparently doubt ot of the facts concerting On th the Willow Willer Gr GroVe Ve accident The engineer of th h Had d given timely warning bt bi his approach h to th the grade crossIng cross ross i Ing Ing- Automobiles had to permit the tr train h ln I Ito to pass But Dut the driver er of f th the car that was ws wrecked d I pushed on He may haVe hav failed to note the blasts of the whistle or he may thay lla haVe thought that He Ite cOuld across the tracks ti in In safet In any event he be dia not pause paus and the d desperate petate cb chanC n 6 tH that t h he took t resulted in n the fatal wt cl This deplorable Incident naturally directs attention atten atten- don tion once more more to the dang danger r Or of aU grade crossings Ol Of course they ought t to fie M abolished every one of ot them So they will wilt b be event eventually ll but they ar at ard 5 still sUll numerous all an over the country and to get rid 1 of oc them In bulk would a v Vast st amount of tf money They will have hav t to go and in our o Own own on case the tile start stare sh should be tn made de within the city limits and iti lii the the- sub suburbs But the tat fatal l accidents to a automobiles are re by b n no means confined t to the the gf grade de crossing v variety d fr Mo Mot t ot of them are d due e to th the maniacal for speed pe d. d In a a. ra race rade e with death the b od f t are i r in hi favor favot of th the ti grim grini re reaper per and every driver Who Wh disregards safety and eats up distance in a mad tC rush deliberately Invites destruction n. n H He may meet his ff fate a alone ne on the highway through pure recklessness ss ss He lie may h Into an another ther vehicle thus bringing grief Into frito oth other r households as well as ts ls' ls his own o or he ho ma may match his speed against g that of an oncoming locomotiVe locomotive loco loco- m motive e confident th that t he will es escape ape even if it by a hairs hair bre breadth only I It doesn't pa pay this thIs gambling with death and every speed tl fiend nd does tha that very thing The Willow Grove sl slaughter ought t to prove a lesson to all who Insanely take chances either for tor the love of excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment or to save saT savea a iI little time Um It If It ought to but It wont WOt The reckless will continue to be reckless They c cannot nn t always be restrained be-restrained restrained ed But Dut there should be a way to to curb them at grade zade ct crossings as long longas as these nuisances are ard ans ali allOwed wed t to o exist Philadel Philadelphia phia I Inquirer r. r 4 AMERIcAS OLDEST ST RUINS A thousand nd y yrs years rs b before ore tb the pyramids were built bunt and years before th the great p palace l j Ce of ot Senna h rib was built a civilization n flourished in the theY Y V Valley U ll y of ot Mexico in America To study the sequence of ot geological at events including the lava flows and tile the recession of ot Lal Lake e Tex Texcoco oco and with a view of det determining more nearly the ex exact ct period of ot this civilization of some On y jears re r rS ago N N. II H. Darton Carton geol geologist gl t h iIa i joined the Nati National Geographic G society expedition which Is exploring an ancient temple In Inthe the th Valley Vaney of t f 1 Mexico Byron C h head ad df t f th the expedition already 11 has has' s reported rem remarkable rk ble finds among mong the lava- lava encased temple mound rinds finds ranging f from pottery I images and sculpture to parts of ot human skeletons It is believed the mound vas was built bunt on on or ne near near r the thes s shore ore of Lal Lake e Texcoco but the water line Is now twelve mites miles distant A A. A theory or Is s that the lake Jake had f receded d d d a c tab tabi distance when a sudden volcanic vol vo- canic eruption n half halt burled buried the thIS temple m mound und which r still tUl w was s' s inhabited In n the centuries fOl following further further fur fur- ther accumulations h have v covered the he l lava a bed The task of ot tho geologist he explains is to estImate estimate esti cot mate the time Um it took the top fop d deposit pos t f to form torm and to study the lake hike d deposits deposits' under nd i the l lava v It is possible possible possible pos pos- sible that the point where the lava Impinged on the lake waters may give another clue to the time of the eruption An n interesting possibility is that of finding remains of diatoms microscopic plants which lived In hi the Ocean years years' ao g Th The kind of ot diatoms found would aid in Pl placing placing- cr g th the time of the lakes lake's r rec c s I n. n These Thes ruins have alre already dy evidence of a civilization as cJ clearly arly defined as those of ot the Nile NUe f valley raU Y and Mesopotamia It is therefore highly Im Important Im- Im that the various time stages to be deter deter- min mined d. d A great field ot of stud study that of early Americans Ameri Amen cans who had no no conne connection Uon With th the old world I peoples people's e S s' m may y s soon on be opened O opened Oakland klan kland Tribune |