Show DRIVE TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS WILL BEGIN OCT 18 Director General Hines In In Indorses Indorses r Plan to Check Injuries Injuries Injuries In In- juries on Railroads Complete details for tor staging staKing the national railroad accident prevention drive October IS 18 to 31 inclusive ave e been decided upon by the die dl- dl e genet general al of railroads railroad through A. A F Jo Duff Duffy manager of the safety section cUoQ according to announcement fr from m Washington Va D D. C. C C. C today tolla II U. A Adams regional supervisor of safety lety 1 for for the Western re red region region re- re d gion conferred with sixty seven telY officers representing the lines com comprising the Central Western Vestern re- re glon gloat at a meeting held in Denver on September 1 and 2 2 completing all de details de- de tails for the tho staging of ot this big drive hl campaign is being handled along S 'S r lines in the Northwestern Po- Po Eastern Allegheny Southe Southern South South- e ern e and Southwestern western regions There will be railroads em- em toying nearly two million men mem and approximately miles track competing for first place in int t this drive It develops that the roads In this region the Central Western Vestern in the aggregate approximately and miles mUes of track and that each is going go- go 2 ing ini- ing to be asked to individually do his utmost during a period of fourteen days to keep from being injured himself himself him him- s 's self l or 01 being the cause of ot Injuring allY any others The eyes of or the world will be upon the American railroads during this campaign for tor already favorable at attention attention at- at and earnest Inquiry has been received receive by the United States railroad administration from the British and Japanese governments regarding the success being accomplished by this In Intensified intensified in- in safety work worl Personal Injury records of railroads under te federal eral control for the first seven months of 1919 as compared with the corresponding period of 1918 1916 shows approximately 1300 fewer ewer deaths and fewer injuries on our ur railroads |