The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-07-27
MONEY ANp HUMAN .lrE.

ways show an appalling number Of
oaths and disasters directly traceabieI
70 unpardonabie methods Of haste and
carelessness. During the last year al
total d 5000 injuries were iuaictedI
ard Of these 9g4G were fatal. For
every 10000 passengers earned ana
for every thousand cars Of freight
moved some one person. employee
passenger or tre3passes has been hll-
ID or wounded.
Many OF the most appalag diaas-l
tiers is the way Of railroads wrecks.
notably recent fatal collision on INC
Erie railroad base been due - The
frequent failures Of the block signal
system to do it's work properly al
now appears. however that there is
20 excuse for collisions from a.,
cause slace there has recently been
tented new device that more t4anI
answers every possible requirement oil
each situation in this correction.
The new system was recently de-
vised and described in the Scientific
American, which shows it to be rather
Ia simple continuance which 10 design.
ed to increase rather than to dimiu
ish the vigilance OF the engineer since
every time a signal is ignored the To-
comotiye is automatically stopped, d
record Of the fact being automatically
made. and this aecord the engineer
must explain at the end OF his run.
A test Of this system has been made
on a branch line Of the Long Island
railway. which proved the efficiency OF
the apparatus beyond doubt IL
remains now only to be seen il the
system win be generally adopted, or
of The additional expenditure will be
ldeemed unnecessary.
Dr Emil Reich, prominent German
has been telling his fellow country
mon that we are a greatly maligned
people, that we are not money grab
Ihers at all, as so often described and
that while this is the country where
The greatest amount Of money Is earn
ed by the individual, it is also tho
country where the least Importance IS
attached to money.
! This is a pleasing view for for.
leigner to take Of America, but IS it a
correct one? The American does not
love money so much that he saves it
at the expense of his own pleasure.
BE he merchant or mechanic. capatil-
list or laborer, he is going to spend
what he inherits or what he earns to
have a good time He is determined
to give his children the best eduoa.
tional advantages within his means
and he dresses well and lives as lux
uriously as he can II millionaire
he is an exception rather than the
Irule when he does not give generously
of his wealth to many worthy chart
ties to institutions of learning anl
other worthy purposes. SO far, tht
eminent doctors opinion of Americans
Is alright; but one very important fact
he seems to have overlooked is that
| the American. either as an Individual
or as a corporation, is not going to
Ispend one dollar more than he is com
PEELED in order that the public may
be safeguarded
Most of the great disasters that
have occurred in America or in Ameri
can waters Of late have been due tc
the absence of proper safeguards
which presumably have been ignored
simply because they cost too much
money A theater does not have the
correct equipment a vessel is not pro
perly equipped with life savers and
a railroad Is not safe guarded all he
cause there is generally prevalent
an idea that in no connection can mon
ey be SO easily saved as in a refusal
to spend it for what there is bare
possibility might save hundreds. even
thousands of lives.
There is no doubt but that the aver
age American places a high valuation
on money even while he spends il
layishly, for he knows just exactly
the wortr Of what he is getting in re
turn What he does not value highly
is human life. that is unless he is
made to pay heavily for his careless
ness or greed being instrumental in De
Isroying it.
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