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to bring trains to a stop in the presence of imminent danger of accident? sirable? And, if so, is the use of such a device de- The man who advocates the indiscriminate use of automatic train control in the present state of the art knows little about the complexities of the subject. But surely no one can be oriticised for urging careful study of the matter. However, the big problem in regard to safety is how to get employes selected and disciplined so that they will so conduct themselves as to protect themselves and other persons. Most of our railway caaualties, even aside from those to trespassers, are due to the national vice of carelessness and recklessness. The statistics on the subject indicate that if all the railways of the United States were made as physically perfect as engineering skill and money could now make them, and no improvement were made in the human element, at least 75 per cent of all the people killed in railway accidents annually would be killed anyway. It is a remarkable fact that if there hadnot been a single accident to a train in the United States in the year ended June 30, 1918, niaety-two percent of all the people who were killed on our steam railways would have been killed anyway. That means that for every person kijbled in a train accident there are over 12 killed in other ways, as by getting struck by moving cars and engines; falling from trains; being struck at highway grade crossings, etc. It is an actual fact that the number of railway employes killed while not on duty in this country about equals the total number of 4>
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