| Show SAFETY FIRST recently the papers have been publishing lishing tile the accounts of 0 a distressingly large number of automobile accidents in which human life has been sacrificed or seriously menaced and practically in each case the fault was with the driver of tile the car in ill failing to keep ever before him the admonition safety first for instance a party in it an au an to mobile came to a railroad crossing and a car was vas approaching instead of stOPP stopping flIg tile the driver stepped ou on the teed feed valve to shoot the auto across the track but instead the engine went dead when the machine came astride the rails and the electric car was too close for the motorman to bring it to a stop and avoid a collision so ali there re was a tragedy fatal injury was done I 1 one member of the party others were more or less seriously hurt and nd the I 1 i I 1 automobile was reduced to aln tiling wood then we read of drivers speeding up along thoroughfares abere where traffic is heavy a strout scout in front of the speeding car and pa to avoid crashing into the persa i the driver turns his car into a pole at the side of the road and is all but fatally injured while his machine is smashed in other cases the walking party is knocked down run over and killed these accounts are arc almost daily read in the papers and they seem to be increasing rather than diminishing mini shing too little thought is paid to the tact fact that a speeding vehicle of any kind must have a given space in which to be brought successfully to a stop atop and some auto drivers will in meeting or passing other automobiles just swerve out barely enough to pass without hit ting the other machine and then compliment themselves on their expert driving its all wrong and will finally result in it disaster safety first be the thOu thought glit uppermost in it tile the minds of auto drivers as well as steam aud and electric engine drivers ilu man life is too precious to be sacrificed because of the insane whim of some crank who insists on playing with death |
