The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 30, 1915, Page 7, Image 8
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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
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THE LANCASTER NE\
PONS
f Nenves ^ Now "THAT ""
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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
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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
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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?
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