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Show H '3HF, AUTOMATIC STOP. B Regret is expressed by the Railway Age Gazette that B "5ve system of automatic train stops is not being adopted B ttaure rapidly. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois is said B raThave operated it very successfully. The excuse given B :5s that it would be expensive, that new issues of stock B axial bonds would be required, and that the railroads are B icuit allowed to have rates that make it possible to sell B v?nnties on a favorable basis. fl The public is keenly anxious to have all possible safety B appliances installed. Yet it recognizes that these things B wsfc a lot of money that must be paid for in rates. B I ""Wfrether the public would be willing to allow sufficient B "sraJce advances to allow a general installation of automatic B ) '-sto devices is possiblv open to question. B i The chances are that with present high prices for B evtjTything, we must get along with old fashioned methods B fwa lime longer. After all, the ceaseless cultivation of B ae quality of human vigilance will bring results in the B s?cm l-un. The accident record on the railroads in past B Tjrexrs vas due only in part to lack of equipment. It is B atws quite as much to a certain temperamental careless- B -3232SS Tunning through American life. H "No railroad operation can be put on a sound basis B vxrcept by a persistent policy of encouraging vigilance B Umv not taking chances. The operating heads must get A weight down out of their stuffed office chairs, and among V "5Kir men in the railroad yards and engine cabs, and talk H iSarcty First to them. B Then the spirit of discipline must be maintained. B Tihisre must he some firmness and decision, and men tem- B Ureramentally unfitted for railroading must be allowed to B o Into other fields, where they will do less harm. As H H2ve years go on, the railroads should set aside each year B 3mne sums for new safety appliances, which ought to in- B oRintle automatic stop devices, but meanwhile discipline B sE3s3t:clucntion are quite as important and much less costly. H o . |