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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
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SUNDAY SCHOOL:
Lesson Vfll.?Third Quarter, For
Aug. 22,1915.
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THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. ?
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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
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\
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*
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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
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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
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had the driver of the car observed flfl
the familiar warning, "Stop, Look and
Listen." jfl
SOUTHERN ELIMINATING H
MANY GRADE CROSSINGS H
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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.
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