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Show far in making people safe that it has a right to sue motorists who collide with its cars and trains. Lives won't save themselves at 'the crossings. The baby that might have lived, had the traffic plan enforced a safety stop, tells the story. LIVE AT THE CROSSING That all streets and roads that intersect a main highway should ' be made stop streets, is the contention of the Albany, Oregon, Herald-Democrat. It says: "If such a practice had been in force last Sunday it is very likely that the sad accident in which a, baby lost his life would not have happened." Change the picture to a main line railroad. Would the operating oper-ating officials of the railroad permit cars to enter the main line frem spurs, switches and branch lines without stopping to be sure that the track was clear? The block signals and locked, switches help explain why railroads rail-roads that carry millions of passengerrs annually, do so- almost without with-out loss of life. Another reason, of course, is that engineers don't operate locomotives lo-comotives until they know how and until their eyesight and judgment judg-ment are tested. Therq will be noi real safety in motor operation until a master traffic plan has been adopted and! enforced. If railroad systems did not enforce every precaution to overbalance over-balance the carelessness of thousands of people, they would kill thousands annually. One railroad, the Southern Pacific, ieels it has .progressed so |