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WANTS COTTON PUT j UNDER WAR BAN BRITONS URGE ACTION BY GOV* ERNMENT.?USED IN THE EXPLOSIVES. London, Aug. 14.?At a meeting held tonight to impress on the government the necessity of declaring cotton contraband, Sir William Ramsay the scientist, declared cotton was "the only substance required for the manufacture of munitions with which the Germans could rot supply themselves. Ho said no clvmv'al products can ta<e the placo of cott.'P in propulsive ammunition. Sir Charles Macara1, president of the Master Cotton Spinners' Association of Grc*t Britain, preside!, and h-i:* \\ lil'am sras the principal aj-ea-fr An inspired statement published in most of the newspapers this morning deprecatingN the action to make cot' ton contraband and intimating that negotiations with the United States ort this subject were proceeding lessened interest in the meeting but loth the presiding officers and speakers were insistent that immediate action should be taken. In opening the meeting Sir Charles said he had no doubt manufacturers of explosives had consumed a large part of the cotton surplus created by the war and added: Must Use Power. "We must utilize our command of the highways of the sea, both physically and diplomatically to prevent cotton reaching enemy countries, while at the same time acting fairly in the interest of neutral countries." He was sure the government had riven anxious consideration to this complicated problem and said there vas no doubt that the stocks of. cotton accumulating at Liverpool had shown an improvement was taking place, but that it was necessary that strong and well considered measures should be carried out to keep cotton from the countries with which Great Britain was at war. Sir William Ramsay, who seconded a resolution passed demanding that cotton be declared contraband, asserted that while substitutes for cotton could be used in making nitrocellulose none had what was called the "ballistic power" of cotton, and if anything else were used by tne Germans it would necessitate enlarging the chambers of their guns and altering the sights of their rifles, an expedient which not even Germany could be prepared to adopt in the course of a great war. He declared that cotton was going into Germany by devious routes. It was sold, he said to Dutch and Swedish companies under a guarantee that it would not be sold to Germany or Austria. "While technically this guarantee was. not violated, Sir Charles contended it was in reality a subterfuge, for the Dutch and Swedish consignees sold the shipments to Swiss companies who, in turn,"sold them to Great Britain's adversaries. Thousand Tons a Day. Sir Charles estimated that a thousand tons cotton is used every day f the war and he protested that it was grossly unfair to the English soldiers and their allies that Great Brit. ain should continue to supply Germany with this commodity. \ "Had cotton been stopped at the teginning of the war," he said, "we might reasonably expect to see the war nearing an end." . A letter from Lord Beresford was read at the meeting in which he said if cotton had been declared contraband last February the war now would be approaching its final scenes and added-: "Cotton is still entering Germany. She might just as well be allowed to import shells. Neutral powers should be informed that we intend to maintain our maritime rights as a belligerent. Of what use to us is the mastery of the sea unless we profit by its advantages? "We don't wish to hamper the trade of the great English speaking nation across the Atlantic. There are difficulties, but difficulties were created to be faced." The solution of the problem proposed by Lord Beresford would be for the British government to buy up the entire American cotton crop and resell afterwards, even if at a loss. WILD FLOWERS OF THE UNITED STATES Companionship with the wild flowers that bloom by the doorway and wayside from earlv snrinc until tumn through all our states is encouraged by a study of these flowers recently prepared for the National Geographic Society, in order that Americans may develop as deep an interest and as complete an understanding for the lavishly expended beauties of their flora, as the Frenchman and the German have for theirs The study was prepared for the society in the spirit of the student of botanical personalities; not only the scientist, but the aritist and the lover of flowers speaks. A review of this study has been prepared by the society for the press, and is given here in the hope that it may lead manv to t look with new eyes at nature's moods around them. Among the stateliest and proudest of t^e members of America's flower family none excels the larger blue flag, which also wears the names of blue iris and fleur-de-lis. Ruskin calls it the flower of chivalry, which has a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart. Longfellow pronounces it "a flower born in the purple, to joy and pleasance." It blooms in the wet, rich marsh and meadow, from May to July, and finds its home from Newfoundland and Montana to Florida and Arkansas. The flag flower must; look to the insect world entirely for < its propagation, particJarly to the * bees as its pollen-carriers. So it puts forth a flower that is blue tinted for its experience has taught it that a bee can be wooed with blue better than with any other color. The iris was long centuries ago adopted by Louis VII, the gallant young crusader, as the emblem of his house. It becomes thereby the flower of Louis', which was corrupted into Fleur-de-lis.' The iris, or blue flag, is really meant when one speaks of the lily of France. The iris is a plant that insures its life. In its large 1 rootstock it lays up endowment insurance in the days of plenty, so that when the earth is chill, cold and inhospitable its savings will provide against need. The great bindweed, a first cousin to the morning glory, is a hobo among flowers. It has traveled up and down the lanes of world trade for centuries, until it has come to claim most of the northern hemisphere for its abiding place. It loves wayside hedges and thickets, where it climbs over everything in its fight for the survival of the fittest; but it knows no joy greater'than getting into a cornfield, where it can use the stalks as a nature-built trellis for its wanderings. It flowers from June until September. It keeps solid hours, getting to bed when the sun goes down except on moonlight nights when it keeps open house for the benefit of certain moths that are its ncnnrinl friends. The wild pink, or cathfly, a dweller j on dry gravelly or sandy soil, giving ; color to many lonesome places from j April to June with its delicate pink j petals, is among those flowers who ; believe in taking no chances when it i cnmes to the question of fertilization. The wild pinks have developed two j sets of stamens, one above the other, so that if one misses the transfer of j its pollen, the other is likely to sup-1 ply the resulting deficiency. The wild i pink finds its cupboard of sweets a | fair mark for many tiny insects that j [ are large enough to drain its cup of j nectar and yet too small to bear away | the flower's pollen to some distant ! mate. So it has provided an effec- I tive lock and key to its pantry. This j lock and. key is a gummy, viscid fluid ! that the pink secretes and spreads j around the sticky stem below trie j flower. No fly that ever alighted upon a piece of man-made fly paper was more certainly and surely brought to an untimely end than the ant that essays to sip the nectar of the wild pink. Thus we can see that the fly paper idea is not man's invention at all, but an idea borrowed from a flower. Fighting her way across the American continent, black-eyed susan has proven the master of the allied forces of man and nature. In the competition of life she has been able to make a home wherever she sets her foot, and neither the rivalries of the field nor the laws and labors of man have beei^able to hold her in check. Blackeyed susan loves dry fields and open, sunny places. Its flowering season is long, from May until September. It is one of the few vagrants that has traveled from the West to the East. In years gone by much clover seed was shipped out of the West, and black-eyed susan hoboed her way along with it. Most of the weeds of the field have followed the star of empire, from the East to the West; but black-eyed susan has reversed the progress and she has now secured a fooothold in and is fighting for the conquest of the fields of Europe. Among the truly "wild" flowers, two that ask of man only to be let alone in their native fastnessss, are the mayflower, or trailing arbutus, and the twin berry, or partridge berry, the last named a member of the madder family and a distant relative of the coffee tree. The mayflower is wildest and shyest of all. No more is the eagle at home in the farm yard or the cardinal in the cage than the : mayflower in the garden. As the imprisoned. cardinal pines away and dies when the gilded bars of a bird cage separate it from its liberty, so the mayflower sickens and withers away in the garden. The moth mullein for many a year has been a rural moth ball. It is a member of the figwort family. A.mong its relatives are the great mullein, the blue toad-flax, the small snap-dragon, the turtle-head, the beard-tongue, the monkey-flower, the louse-wort and the cow-wheat. The countrv-dwelline housewife uses its leaves in packing away woolen gar- ( ments of winter to keep out the tiny ( cloth moths of summer It is alfo believed to be a bane to cockroaches. , The showy lady's slipper, a shy ' member of the orchid family, flowering from June to September, never , seeks the haunts of man, but tries to remove itself as far from their comings and goings as it can, and it sue- ' ceeds so well that only the flower i lover who is willing to take pains 1 can approach its dwelling place. ] Moreover, it is so persistent in its | efforts to be let alone, that it has come to have tiny glandular hairs which contain an oil that is some- ' what poisonous to the human skin, 1 and it is said that a number of cases 1 of dermatatis have followed the ef- 1 forts of flower lovers to carry it in 3 triumph out of the woods. s 1 WANT ORGANIZATION KINGDOM OF POLAND ( Vienna, Aug. 11.?The Polish fac- 1 tion in the Austrian parliament has 1 issued a manifesto calling for organi- 3 zation of a kingdom of Poland as an t integral part of the Hapsburg mon- ? archy. ] The Polish national committee, en- < dorsing the manifesto, has issued a f call to the people of Polish territory r now free from Russian domination to send delegates to a general national convention to perfect an organiza- c tion intended to work for a reunited 1 nation. I ZEMERINE HEALS CUTS, SORES, t etc. The best remedy for Eczema, e Gives relief when other remedies fail j Stops itching and heals permanently. . Recommended by prominent doctors. 50c and $1.00 at C. A. Milford & Co. . or from Zemerine Chemical Co., Orangeburg, S. C. SUNDAY SCHOOL: Lesson Vfll.?Third Quarter, For Aug. 22,1915. , THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. ? / < ] s Text of the Lesson,. II Chran. xv, 1 -tS. Memory Verses, 1, 2?Golden Text, j Jaa. iv, 8?Commentary Prepared, hy j Rev. D. M. Stearns. i la the story of Jeroboam we ba<i a , sample of all the- kings. of the ten i tribes, for there was. not a good king among them. They all walked in the $ ways of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, ?;ho I made Israel to- sin. There were a lew a ?just eight, I think?among the kings of Judah wUo> did right in the eyes of j the Lord, and Asa of today's lesson * was one of them (verses 1, 2). His father, Abijah, son of Rehoboam, reigned . r only three years (xiii, 1, 2). Th* Lord gave him and his army a victory over the army of Jeroboam bc^iuse tbey relied upon the Lord God of their fathers (xiii. 12, 18). llis words in :rlii, 12, are always helpful?"Behold, God Himself is with us for our captain." While the story of Asa is told in part of a chapter in the book of Kings (I Kings xv, S-24), it occupies three chapters in Chronicles (xiv, xv, xvi), the first two telling of liis thirty-five , years of faithfulness and blessing and tot* t-niHiKT nP fivo roars of disobe- I LAJU JUOfc IV?41?J3 V?. -- . ^ ^ dience. What a pity that such a good king with such a long reign should waste his Inter years in wandering from God! But such always is ruan , when he turns away from God. We cannot think of Asa as a lost man, though he acted so badly at the last, but he lost part of the full reward ^ which might have been his (II John 8; I Cor. iil, 11-15). Quietness and rest on every side and ^ a whole hearted seeking, the Lord God *'c mai'ked the first ten years or more of his reign <xiv, 1-7; xv, 32-15). Such rest and peace and quietness is the privilege ol' every titae believer, and of when He givcth quietness who then ?ai can make trouble whether in the case bi| of a nation or a man only (Job xxxiv, th 20). It is our privilege thus to fore- til taste the kingdom when the work of j wl righteousness shall be peace, and the effect or sen-ice of righteousness quiet- co ness and assurance forever (Isa. xxxii, w< 1, 17). The same Lord is ever saying to all, "Come unto me, * and I will be _i? ~??-? /iint, ,.i oo_Q<ii fiiid it- mi give JUU itJ&l I.UUIU n, "UUU/, cr.uu ... is written, "We who have believed do th enter into rest" (Heb. iv, 3). The great mi adversary hates peace always, and so au he stirred up the Ethiopians with an M; army of over a million to go against tic Asa, who had only about half as many lie men, but Asa cried unto the Lord his in God in the words of that ever memo- m< rable prayer of chapter xiv, 11, so brief hi| yet so comprehensive, which has help- th; ed me many a time, and will prove a an comfort and strength to all w ho appro- th prlate it. Every day and hour we should say,' ' "We rest on Thee, and in Thy name pa we go." Compare part of t;ie prayer lie of Jehoshapliat in chapter xx. 12, Cc which we may also continually appro- en priate. Although the Ethiopians were such a huge host? yet because Asa relied on the Lord He delivered them into his hand, for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong in the __ behalf of (or as ii> the margin, strongly A! to hold with) them whose heart is per- S feet (or whole) toward Him (chapter xvi, s< 8, 9). This ninth verse is and has been y! for long yflrs a continual strength and comfort to me and is working In me an increasing desire to have a whole ' 1 heart for Him. and to see no one save 8p, Jesus only. The Spirit of God brought en a message of encouragement to Asa by Azariah, whose name means the strength of Jehovah, which isi found in ^e lesson verses 1-7, and the exhortation In verse 7 is for us also who believe. jj0 "Be ye strong, therefore, and let not a your hands be weak, for your work ^a shall be rewarded." Salvation is never ne of works, but always to him that work- or eth not but believeth (Rom. f.v, 5); but wj we are thus saved by grace i:a order to ar( serve the Living and True God, and e(j ill true service unto Ilim stall be re- rjg warded (Lake :clv, 14; Rev. xxli, 32; jrc II John 8). I gp) We need always the exhortation of an Eph. vi, 10, "Be strong in the Lord 1 \nd in the power of His might." Asa, | cu] being thus encouraged, cleansed the an and of idols, even destroying that of gr< lis own mother, but this cleansing was wa chiefly in ifudah and Benjamin, many' jf the hlgla places still remaining in jar [srael, over which he had no control; ind yet many out of Ephraim, and Ma- n0, aasseh, and Simeon, and other tribes ' c]a fell to him in abundance when they jar saw that the Lord his God was with I gr( lim; all because he was seeking the | aV) Lord with all hL<? heart and soul ; the verses 8-lii). They also rerewed the gte iltar and offered sacrifices, and there I ex] ;vas no more war until the thirty-fifth 1 ris ;ear of his reign. But the next year pal he king of Israel came agfiinst him, ter ind, Instead of relying upon the lord, t0 le made a league with the king of cjj Syria. This brought a reproof from flr( he Lord by Hanani the seer, who re- the ninded Asa how the Lord had wrought pe, narvelously for him against the ISthi- 0f plans because he relied upon Him and ef low foolishly he had now acted by reying upon the king of Syria (xvi, 7-9). ? Asa, being out of fellowship with an, he Lord, gave place to the devil, be- up ame angry with the seer, and put him raj n prison and oppressed sorae of the jn >eople (xvi, 10). Near the dose of his acc eign he became greatly diseased in his sur 'eet, but in this also he turned away ora xom the Lord to purely human help. jy 5T0P, LOOK THE DANGER TO J GRADE CI 7^ ^ \ ao^ro\/p rue u/admima n voocnvc i rib ffrv.n i*.i iiu?-u Washington,*D. C.?The following iter bas been addressed t*> the pub: by Mr. Fairfax Harrison, president Southenl Railway Company: "The automobile* has greatly ineased the comfort and convenience life, and it has been, an important ctor in the improvement of country ghways and so has contributed to e progress of civilization of our ne, but, just as the railroad did len it revolutionized commerce, the tomobile has introduced new social mplications and now risks, moral as ill as physical. "The American people are said to characteristically reckless of hum life, and perhaps in nothing is is statement more justified at the jment than rn jelation to the use of tomobiles?not even the railroads. y particular interest in the ques ?n is, wnere my pudiic responsiDnuy is, in the combination of the two? the accidents which occur to auto)biles' and their occupants where ?hways cross railways at grade: and is is a question of sufficient importce to warrant the attention of every inking man in the South. Record For One Year "The following table shows the aplling record of such accidents on les operated by Southern Hailway impany in the South during the year ded June 30, 1915. 03 _ . 8 i II 111 ' is 21 || s?? So 3d? 55< |im-3 Pad <"Or3 labama 10 0 1 10 eorgia 6 2 10 6 orth Carolina 27 6 21 27 )uth Carolina 14 2 17 14 mnessee 5 0 8*5 Lrginla 7 2 17 Total 6!) 12 68 69 "Without seeking to avoid just rteonsibility for what the officers or lployelis of the railroad do or omit, t recalling that a railroad employee* lqse carelessness causes an accint is, in the public interest, subject discipline which affects his liveliod, it is probably fair to say that large proportion of these accidents ppened solely through the carelessss of the drivers of automobiles, their lack of experience in dealing th vehicles at high speed. There 3 among them also well authenticatn# J n aanmnf nf ucistis kjl ucuuci ate aoouui)/ui/u ui k by the drivers of automobiles im pure love of excitement and sed, evidenced by racing with trains d seeking the thrill of a narrow espe. Our enginemen report such ocrrences daily. If fortunately they i without fatal consequences in the ;at majority of cases, they are alys paid for by a heavy strain on i nerves of all concerned, particuly those of the locomotive engineer, o maintains speed from duty and t for fun. It is not too much to ,im for the locomotive engineer a ger equipment of experience and a ;ater habit of precaution than the ?rage automobile driver. As a class ] > locomotive engineers are sober, < ady and conservative men of long i perience in meeting and avoiding < ks, for theirs is a dangerous occu- i ;lon. Their every effort of charac- f , of instrjpction and of interest is 1 avoid an accident Most of the ac- ? ents to automobiles at railway i ide* crossings could be avoided if a ire was the same restraint of ex- i UnA? inH iHcndnn at th? u/HmI I the automobile ?s at the throttle ( the locomotive* t Public Vitally Interested I It does not suffice the public In t r moral sense that the fund made I of the revenues collected by the r Iroad Is usually made to respond 1 damages for con;jequences of such ( :idents. Suicide to'collect life in- s ance has never been deemed hon- y ble, whHe no one would deliberate- li sell the life of n mother or wife, a AND LISTEN AUTOMOBILES AT ROSSINGS i)N'T INVITE THIS FATE.^ ^ son or brother for money; on ttoe othei band, the collection of. damages oui of railroad revenues, as a punishment for an avoidable accident, wfteikthOT* can be no real compensation,, -is at economic waste; it.punishes the: pub lie more than it punishes, the stock holders, as it deprives t&a- public; b5 exactly the amount of the damages of the ability of the railroad to pro vide additional permanent facilities for the use or convenience and safetj of the public. Given the progressive policy of Southern Railway Company to make sucljr improvements to tlw extent of its ability.;, it is of intferesi to note that, ?in th<? last year a divi dend was paid by the Company, 3.81 cents of every doBar of revenue col lected from the public went in pay m/ent of damages of air kinds* prae tically the same amount, 3.88 cents went to the stockholders, while onlj thirteen-hundredths of one cent oi each dollar of revenue .could be ap plied on permanent improvements Such other improvements as were made were necessarily charged to new capital, thereby increasing the de mands on the fund in which foe pub lie has so tital an interest. It woulc be the pleasure of the management always to apply as mueh of the rev enues on permanent improvements as on dividends, if that, was possible There is,, then, a basis of interest as well as of morals for co-operation be tween the public and the railroads tc arevent the recurrence of these trag Wies. ^ "With a deep sense of the respon slbility of management in this mat ter and pledging this Company to dc everything in its' power which is rea sonable and consistent with the func tions for which it was chartered, I ap 1 #/>? n?AV peai iru LJie puuuu gcuciau; iui ouu co-operation in avoiding these serious and distressing accidents. In practical ly all cases they can be, and In most Caees are, readily and easily avoided by the automobile driver acting upon the familiar warning to stop, look and listen at railway crossings. While familiarity with the crossing sign' posts and the i-egular schedules ol trains may breed contempt of danger, surelv everv one of us when using a highway can afford to sacrifice enough of his time and his pride of opinion to have a practical assurance of safety. On the other hand, the demands of commerce and of public transportation do not permit a railroad to stpp all its trains at all highway crossings: if that was possible k would be cheaper for the railroad to do so than to pay the damages. It is clear, however, that it is necessary that one or the other of the parties to a crossing shall stop if the largest measure of protection of life and limb and property is to be secured. If not from self-interest, can not the automobile drivelr Field the precedence as a matter of courtesy to age, for the railroad Is slder than the automobile! Eliminating Grade Crossings 9 "The ideal of safety will be accomplished only when all grade crossings )f railroads are separated. In this espect Southern Railway Company is ioing something every year and as nuch as its resources and other oblijations make possible: Indeed, it may )e claimed that the Company is, speaking generally, making progress nore rapidly than most municipalities vhlch have an obligation in the premses: but by co-operation of munici Jtuiuea cuiu lainuftus iiieLiij uau^ciuuo :rossings have been eliminated hroughout the Sooth, and more will )e every year. Furthermore, on every >it of construction work of Southern lailway Company now in progress, or ecently completed, involving the reocation or double tracking of line nearly four million dollars has been pent on such work during the past -ear), provision has been made at arge additional expense to separate ,11 important highway crossings of the i frertiat! llire;, vetzeraner physically prtfr' < ticable,, and. this Rolicy will be contla>ued. fdr the- future.. "Given. the;, history ?f our transpor- . tation. aqd. highway systems and the enormous (ml ofi' adjusting them to modern, conditions^, the elimination o? gride crossings/!* and in the very nature of. the. problem, must be a gradual development with the growth of! population and.wealth, hut, meanwhile,. gpod. jjidgmAt om tlav part of all con* earned can. da. much to anticipate the benefits, ofi the admittedly desirable > expenditure^ oL large sums of money. , The same sober-sense of responsibility for life on. the. pert of automobile drivers, which, actuates most locomo- v j tive engineers,, apd. in addition the willingness aLtheautomobile driver la, , such a. high, interest to subordinate his time and. convenience to that ot-1^ the greater numher represented by a ' railroad train,, can. che^k a waste ot/ life and. limb, and property wb|ph is.; now. increasing, awry year. "Tcjthia-ftnd. I. appeal confidently fop, . the: counsel, of. every responsible mam and woman, in: th* South, whether or - > not. he. or. she. drives.an automobile.. Wards, oi. caution, and common sensearound, the. family dinner table can have. more influence and can save;, more lives at railway graft crossings. than ail the warning whistles evtrr (blown by, a locomotive engineer." SOUTH, AS GRAIN SECTION EXPLOITED BY SOUTHERN* ___ ^ Atlanta,. Ga.?The superlative advantages o?. thfir South as a grain pro?h ducing section will be given great: . proaaipence in exhibits which 'South*--era. Railway; Mobile and Ohio R&& road!, Georgia. Southern and Florid^. Railway,. Virginia and Southwest eras Railway;, and. affiliated lines will make at thirty state, district and countyfairs in. the North and Middle West k dnring.- the coming fall. r An especially fine collection, of? t grains will be shown while the grassrt es and fiorage crops exhibited will: he1 i, ot very highj character. From, the* i; wheat growing section of the South*. t grain sheaves will be shown from. ;. fields yielding as high as 40 tmshels. n toj th&acre, and the oharacter. ot'othr i. er exhibits- will be in keeping;. Tito fruits and vegetables to tie shown, in 5 jars include a wide variety. r- These exhibits come frojn> varidt? : i- districts of the entire territory s'er*w f ed by Southern Railway and affiliated) * lines in Virginia, North andi South) t Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,. Florida v Mississippi, Tennessee and: Kentucky. Y They will be shown in Pennsylvaniau ? New York, Indiana, "Michigan and H* ^ Unnici nnrt ear.h exhihit will be attend* ?. ed by agents, well equipped. to, tail " , callers about the various, sections of r the South. t The first two exhibits- will be sfcenrn at fairs in Indiana. Ebr all fairs, in . the Middle West a special exhibit ! tent has been provided;, arranged so r that a large number of people can - see the exhibit at the same time. ' - Throughout many ot the states the I Southern Railway exhibit has become t well known and is looked for. ; SPLENDID RECORD 18 MADE IN HANDLING. Q<F PASSENGERS Atlanta, Ga.?More than sixteen and i a half million passengers?a number , greater than the combined population \_ of Virginia, North Carolina, South Car* olina, Georgia* Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky?were transported by WuHnv tlia vMr anrii I OUU11K71U OAll "(ft; UU4 iMQ WMV ^ VW? ?MW ed June SO. with only one fatal injury fl to a passenger while on a train and H that one was standing on a car plat> H i form ift direct Tiolation of the com* IS i pany*s roles, fl This excellent record was shown In ' H : the official figures given out indJcafe H I ing the high degree of safety that H i has been attained in the handling ol H I Southern Railway passenger trains. H In Marked contrast are figures re> H 1 cently given out by President Fairfax H t Harrison of Southern Railway, show? H ing that during the same period twelve persons riding in automobiles i were killed in accidents at public highway crossings, every one of which M VIOVQ hcpn flVV/lUCULO WUIU u?*>v ?- ? had the driver of the car observed flfl the familiar warning, "Stop, Look and Listen." jfl SOUTHERN ELIMINATING H MANY GRADE CROSSINGS H i mm Danville, Va.?In connection with the double track work which It has ^B had under way in Virginia and North '^fl Carolina during the past fiscal year on DR 102.4 miles of its Atlanta-Washington ^B line, Southern Railway has eliminated ^fl 54 out of 73 grade crossings. By th? HI building of underpasses 20 were #Um> MB inated, by overhead bridges 19, ancj flfl by changing the direction of public Bfl highways 16. The 19 which remain are so located as to make their eliml- ^9 nation physically impossible or the; involve prohibitive damages to abut- Bfl ting property. In all construction \rork involving the relocation or double' tracking ol Hb its lines the fixed policy of Southern Railway Company is to separate all Hfl important highway crossings of the MB revised lines wherever practicable. Bfl Though this policy means large addl tioftal expense, such expense is unaertaken as a permanent investment for HH Southern Railway has also co-operated with municipal and county author ities in the elimination of many dan- |H| gerous crossings on others of its lines throughout the South. It has devoted to work of this character as much as its resources and other obligations make possible and President Fairfax Harrison has announced that this pot icy will be continued. I