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Show DRIVERS LOOK BOTH WAYS AT CROSSINGS Many Accidents Happen Eccauss of Carelessness. There Is No Virtue In Being Careful Just Once Get the Safety Habit and It Will Stick Traina Run at All Times. Tests made nt railway crossings show that less than 10 per cent of motor drivers look both ways before crossing railroad tracks. Many accidents acci-dents have happened on double track railways, because the man at the steering wheel, after waiting to allow a train to pass, failed to see a train coming from the opposite direction and drove onto the tracks Just in time to get caught by It. Such u driver does not make good use of bis eyes, and so pays the penalty for his inattention. inat-tention. It Is not a difficult matter to drive safely across the tracks every time. There is no virtue In being careful Just once In a while. Get the safety habit, which, when once acquired, will stick like u burr. If you jive in the vicinity of a single track railroad, where only a few trains tire run, do hot allow t tie thought to enter your head that no train Is d;i? at that time. Sometimes n train runs late, and don't forget that an occasional occa-sional etra Is run over the track. The driver who sees n train coining, near enough to raise any doubt about his ability to cross ahead of It, will, if lie remember that his life Is worth a billion times more than his farm, or bank account, shut off, set the brakes, and stop right there. I'.etter to shut oil tiie gas i hiii) to run (tie risk or having hav-ing your breath shut off. Often a driver Lis a sudden whim to try to beat bis way across. If ho leiu hes i he fur shk In safety, ho waits there to see the train whizz past lilui. Out of .xxi men. women nnd children chil-dren killed or injured at railroad cro. Ings last year, there were scores upon scores of Innocent passengers, helpless to do a IIiIiil'. merely deix iidiiu; upon drivers who lulled In the duty mo plainly plain-ly Testing upon them. |