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^ DOINGS OF THE VAN L /C!OM OH VAN , HAVe"S;) '\oJ rcNoW w [ ?(Wff.?p pool, v J (*oun. OR p>ve < ?1 arocmd WOV/ A?r'juir THB TA.NCJ "\ \ TIMS W H6A . ifcfc TO TAKJC f-4^s ?T S rwii T^oppoRTU-/^ Sf^ CM wiTV rio^l TO \ /j>. ^A. OP HAT THB <M?+++*+++++v:-.prives (he * STOP. LOOK AND I.ISTKN + amount of the * of the railroa I* I lit* Uhu^cm* to Automobiles at *5* poriuun^ut fa (initio Cussing*. * oonvenience a (4^+++-,+?v+*++4?>W.+++'J'++ L 1 "i,1-! To the Public: Southern Rail The automobile has greatly In- such improve: creased the comfort and convenience ',s ability, it of life and it has been an important that, in the la faetor in the improvement of conn- paid by the c try highways and so has contributed every dollar to the progress of civilization of our from the pub! time, but, just as the railroad did damages of al ,when it revolutionized commerce, same amount the automobile has Introduced new the stockhold* social complications ami new risks, hundredths ol moral as well as physical. lar of revenu The American people are said to Ppr nanent be characteristically reckless of hu- other improve man life, and perhaps in nothing Is were necessi this statement more justified at the capital, there moment than in relation to the use mands on tl of automobiles?not even the rail- public has so , roads. My particular interest in the would be the question is. where my public respon ; agement alwa sibilitv lies, in the combination of the revenues the two?in the accidents which oc- ments as on cur to automobiles and their occu- j possible. Tin pants where highways cross railways interest as w< at grade; and this is a question of operation bet\ juffleient importance to warrant the j railroads to ] , attention of every thinking man In 1 ?f these trag? { the South. The following table With a deei T shows the appalling record of such i bility of man; ^ f accidents on lines operated by' and pledging ^ Southern Railway Company in the j everything in Number of Fatal Pe Accidents. Injuries. Ir Alabama 10 0 Georgia 6 2 North Carolina 27 6 . # South Carolina 14 2 Tennessee 5 0 Virginia 7 7 Total 69 12 South during the year ended June it punishes tl 30, 1915: sonable and Without seeking to avoid Just re- functions for sponsibilit> 'or what the officers or punishes the employes of the railroad (To or omit, I appeal to t but recalling that a railroad em- aUOh co-opera ployee whose carelessness causes an ; b~..iOU8 an(j <j accident is. in the public interest.) subject to discipline which affects his Practlca"y a11 livelihood, it is probably fair, to say j in most cases that a large proportion of these ac- j avoided by tl cidents happened solely through the acting upon t carelessness of the drivers of auto- atop, look a Uiuuiit-s, or iDeir iac* 01 experience j crossings. V In dealing with vehicles at high , the crossing s speed. There are among them also J iar scaedules well authenticated cases of deliberate j contempt of d assumption of risk by the drivers of | of us when u automobiles frooj pure love of ex-, ford to sacrit citement and speed, evidenced by | and his pridt racing with trains and seeking the. practical assi thrill of a narrow escape. Our en- j the other han ginemen report such occurrences I pierce and o dally. If fortunately they are with- j q0 not permi out fatal consequences In the great its trains at majority of cases, they are always' |f that was paid for by a heavy strain on the J cheaper for nerves of^all concerned, particularly than to pay those of the locomotive engineer, I clear, howevc who maintains speed from duty and, that one or t not for fun. It l& not too much to j shall stop if claim for the locomotive engineers a , protection of larger equipment of experience and erty is to be a greater Jiabit of precaution than self interest, the average automobile driver. As j driver yield a class the locomotive engineers are : matter of co sober, steady and conservative men J railroad is o of long experience In meeting and bile! avoiding risks, for theirs Is a dan- The Ideal c gerous occupation. Their every ef- plished only fort of character, of Instruction and ings of rallro of Interest is to avoid an accident, this respect ? Most of the accidents to automobiles pany is doins ?t railway.grade crossing* could be and a8 much avoided*if there was the same re- other obligatl stralnt of experience and intention deed. It may at the wheel of the. automobile am at company is, s| the throttle of the locomotive. Inx progress i It does not suffice the public in municipalities any moral sense that the fund made | tion in the pr< up of the revenues collected by the tlon of muni< railroad is usually' made to respond many dangerc in damages for conseqences of such, eliminated tt accidents. Suicide to collect life in- and more wll surance has nevcer been deemed ; thermore, on honorable, while no one would de-1 tion work of ! liberately sell the life of a mother or | pany now In wife, son or brother for /noney; on completed, in the other hand, the collection of or double tra damages out of railroad revenues, four million as a punishment frfr an avoidable ac- on such work cldent, when there can" be no real provision has compensation, is an economic waste; ditional expei # , * THE LANCASTER NE\ PONS f Nenves ^ Now "THAT "" * NOTHlH<; J / To^C^ET^ OUT AMON<? MEN)??? T ALK ' I ( *MC> LISTC.N TO > op- 'rONVERf^,<>r^'^?l^s^SHH public by exactly tho portnnt highway crossings of the damages of the ability vised line, wherever physically i>r il to .provide additional ticuble, and tins policy will bo c< cilities for the use or tinned for the future, nd safety of tin public. Given the history of our transp igressivc policy of the tation and highway systems and I way Company to make | enormous cost of adjusting them ments to tiic extent of modern conditions, the elimitiatl is of interest to note! ?f grade crossings is and in the v< ,st year a dividend was' nature of the problem must b< onipany, 3.8<> cents of gradual development with the grov of revenue collected | of population and wealth, but. mei lie went in payment of1 while, good judgment on the part 1 kinds, practically the ' all concerned can do much to anti , 3.88 cents, went to pate the benefits of the ndniittei ?rs. while only thirteen j desirable expenditure of large su f one cent of each clol- j of money. The same sober sense e could be applied on j responsibility for life on the part improvements. Such! automobile drivers which actua ements as were made most locomotive engineers, and irily charged to new ! addition the willingness of the an by increasing the de- I mobile driver in such a high inter le fund in which the ; to subordinate his time and convi vital an interest. It lence to that of the greater numl pleasure of the man- represented by a railroad train, < vs to apply as much of check a waste of life and limb ji on permanent improve- > property which is now increas dividends, if that was ' every year. ?re is, then, a basis of j To tills end I appeal confldfcn ill as of morals for co- I for the counsel of every responsi veen the public and the man and woman in the South, whe prevent the recurrence er or not he or she drives an au 'dies. mobile. Words of caution and oc p sense of the responsl- n,on sense around the family dim agement in this matter table can have more Influence t this company to do ran save n,or?* "ves at railway gri its power which is rea- crossing* than all the warning wh les ever blown by a locomotive en " need. FAIRFAX HARRISON intunai uamaKea or 1 juries. demolished. President 1 10 10 6 I .urge and Small Farms. 21 27 Farm and Fireside. *r Study of fifty-four farms in o J) 7 braska indicates that the large fai ? ? are more profitable than the sn 58 69 ones. The survey was made by U. S. D. A. In co-operation with tie public more than it state college people. consistent with the Yps- the lar*e farin is orp pro ...... , . , able than the small. which it was chartered. , More profitable for whom? ] stockholders, as It de- ltg owner he public generally fori por the nation? No. Ltlon in avoiding these For all the men working the lax ilstressing accidents. In ^'?cases they can be, and The lar?e farm ia more Proflta for its owner than the small farm are. readily and easily raufle hp ,g ab,e t<j gpt beneflts fp le automobile driver , other people's work. He can also he familiar warning to force the economics of large-sc nd listen at railway 1 operations. /hlle familiarity with ' But the best thing for the nat lign-posts and the regu- j is, as of old, "a little farm v of trains may breed tilled." anger, surely every one If the large farm could be til sing a highway can af- co-operatively and the profits dl\ Ice .enough of his time ed among all the workers, it mi s of opinion to have a not show so much superiority o urance of safety. On the small one. d, the demands of com- The man on the small fnrm m f public transportation usually choose, not between a sn t a railroad to stop all and a large one, but between a srr all highway crossings: I farm and no farm at all. possible It would bo j Knlightened statesmanship x the railroad to do so look toward the establishment of the damages. It is ' stitutions under which the owners ?r, that it is necessary ; of land divorced from its tninom * he other of the parties ' not he profitable. Then, If the la the largest measure of ! estate persists, it will be on so life and limb and prop- j basis different from the present, t secured. If not from under which the products will can not the automobile divided according to the labor, p the precedence as a sical or mental, furnished, urtesy to age. for the There is not enough land to g Ider than the automo- each of us one of these large, pro able farms. if safety will be accom- If the greater profits in extens when all grade cross- farming shall cause the land holdii >ads are separated. In of the nation to increase in size fr lonthern Railway Com- decade to decade, there are so ; something every year things in the presen* condition t as its resources and Mexico well worth the study of tli ons make possible; in- who love their country; but if be claimed that, the small farm can be made the rule peaking generally, mak- niay, out of the experience of si more rapidly than most nations as Denmark, look forw, i which have an obllga-! to the time when we shall maint >mises; but by co-opera- five hundred million people in clpalltles and railroads United States in comfort and haj >us crossings have been noss. iroughout the South. Because a thing is, we must l I be every year. Fur- always admit that it ought to bo every bit of construe 3outhern Railway Cornprogress. or recently Whenever Yoo Need a General To ivolving the relocation I ? ~ The Old Standard Grove's Tastel king of line (nearly cj,iU Tonic is equally valuable as dollars ha3 bean spent General Tonic because it contains i during the past year > well known tonic propertiesofQUIN'Il Wn ma?o I.W ise to separate all im- Builds up the Whole System. 50 ces vs. JTLV :>(), i<nr>, Perhaps Father will thin ~ r^ZiT X \ HEA* TH6Y>&^X /VK.^ ?( wc 7? t??s) A cio-N<-rt> WCAJV \ i . vno \ sioe',---^ [<io*.s&TS THIS *w-?- \ A/HKL \ *'Pg / I ,'D C<S>T iOMfe ONUN ? \ I -ASS / "TrtcvCHT 1*1 MtCHf \\ >Ay v I INTBA^Af* WITH- OANCINC. \C--<~~*-V,\ "TO V -rH^'feXPosiT'OH CXNTTEK": \ >.7 \ Jur f^nh \ I'M APAAib VMfMiT VYATCHGS rO Jf J ? L V are <*oinC o?/r OP r) A A ro- I'Iit liii'ocs. ac- ' 10111 belence. * in The total fire loss in the United * States and Canada, including forot or- lives, lias averaged $231,000,000 a X j he - r lor the last five years. Since X J to the beginning of this century we ^ [or hav< lost over $3,000, >,000 worth " . jry oi property. The pert apita Are loss - " ? n 11 the United States is $2.55 as com- h ;th pared with 84 cents in France, and K.TOMATOES 7-3 in- 20 cents in Germany. In If 14 the _ .--73 of eleven largest tires in chemical in- S^^3Lju? "4 i<-i- dustries showed a property loss of) .'-WWBQg/y-' J dly $7,500,000. As a result of this the i % r-ga ms industrial chemist has now begun ==' of to study the causes of tires in order ?T" , ? of that lie may remove the source, if ^ tPS possible, and he is studying such ma- ^W\ in torials as rubber-lined fire hose so \v\l C to- that, after a fire has once started, iZr/jtCj ) S/Jr S pSt t'-.e tight against it may be conducted pn- more efficiently. ^ an j Is Sickness a Sin? ind | If not, it's wicked to neglect ill- ? |n;? ness and means of relief. It's wick' i ed to endure liver ills, headache, in- _ digestion, constipation, when one < '?*V i dose of Po-Do-Lax gives relief. Po- \\ ble Do-Lax is Podophyllin (May Apple), <? th. without the gripe. It arouses the to- "ver> increases the (low of bile?nature's antiseptic in the bowels. Your >m- constipation and other ills disappear iter over night because Po-Do-Lax has m,i helned nature to rnnwmu th wle Get a bott,e from y?ur druggist to- E7 D day. Oet rid of your constipation r. 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