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Show SAFETY ON AMERICAN, RAILROADS On the Union Pacific record for 1927, a passenger could travel 2400 times around the earth before he would be in danger of an accident; and the average railroad worker would labor for 120 years to achieve only one accident. The passenger record is the same as that of 1926; but there is a gain of 27 per cent in employe safety. Not so very long ago, one seldom saw a middle-aged trainman who had not lost at least part of a hand ; and the cemeteries were crowded with those who lost their all. Nowadays, Now-adays, railroading is safer than banking; safer than almost any other kind of important work. Railroad travel is safer than saying at home or gong to the movies. ' It has all come through intelligent private application to a job that offers a man a chance to climb by his own ability and endeavor. They make no such records on state railroads ; and on the best of those, so far behind the American Ameri-can records for safety and efficiency, the costs are prohibitive. prohibi-tive. Take away the privilege of ambition and profit ; substitute sub-stitute politics for ability; put officious red tape in place of direct personality and you get no such life-saving records as this Union Pacific story. And this is but one of many American railroad stories that differ only in micro- scopic degree. |