| Show t tf HESITATE ft- ft f m i. i t AND BE SAfE SAFEt SAfEN N r t 00 t STOP LOOK D AND LISTEN SHOULD BE THE SLOGAN I AND OBJECT OF MOTORISTS MOTOR MOTOR- AT R n H. H II U. GRADE GRADE CROSSINGS CROSSINGS r of o- o f Omaha October 1 1 lie who heal hesi t fates tates tes at grade crossings is sate safe 1 says Bays President Carl R. R Gray of The Union Pacific System in his month ly talk for October To hesitate t means to pause before acting Failure Fail Fail- Ore ure to do so has caused the deaths of persons in the last five J years year which Mr Gray reminds us is almost twice the number killed in the Daile of Gettysburg Railroading in America has been so highly developed that serious collisions col lis Ions and derailments derailments are now rare as compared with thirty of forty years ago Large railroad systems r sometimes go for years without a single fatal mishap to a passenger I on n their trains The face value of some accident Insurance policies automatically automatically au doubles in case of injury in a 8 stam am train accident One is safer sater therefore on a train than at home On the other hand why is travel by automobile unsafe 1 Mr Gray gives two reasons Except in a afew afew few states automobile drivers are f not examined before being licensed s and in not more than one case out of five does the driver stop and lo look k in either elther direction at grade crossings Something must be done at once f to stop this awful sacrifice of human life lile Eliminating Elimina all grade crossings crossings crossings cross cross- ings is not the remedy according to t Mr Gray who points out that there thele are such crossings in the United United United Un Un- States and at an average of it would cost to remove them and at least thirty years would be required to do the work Nork Aside from the fact that neither the railroads nor the municipalities municipalities municipalities muni muni- have the money and that the railroads could raise the mone money only by raising the rates the remedy must be applied here and now The Stop Look and Listen rule can be made effective at once without any 4 cost except the price of a afew few seconds a i s wait at the crossing to let pass the jI is train which by law law and common commonsense commonsense t. t sense has the the right right of way Two features of the grade crossing cross cross- ing accident question need sizing When a motorist ra races es with witha i a train trail and scoots over the crossing i just in front of it or if he but gives the engineer no eviden evident that i oi he intends to do so the engineer suffers suffers suf suf- i fers a severe nervous shock which frequently unnerves him Nor are the occupants of the automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles the only ones one's ones whose lives file ate Imperiled by grade crossing ac ac- Recently several trains on eastern roads have been derailed by colliding with motor vehicles and ens en- en kiD en and amI passengers have ve been d s f killed The r railroads carry on wide nation-wide cross Grose Crossings Carefully cam cam- cam I I They maintain warning I signs They require re engine men to l I sound Bound the whistle whist e and the bell at every grade crossing They provide crosing erasing bells watchmen and gates where here necessary It is only right that motorists should do their part by stopping to look in both directions and listen before belore attempting to cross I If every motorist wo would ld take the pledge to do that crossing rind not human lives would be wiped out out |
