The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-04-19
Published in the Interests of the Motoring Public
Stop! Look! Listen!

highway hazards and perils? If nos
you are not doing your duty to your
self or to our neighbcr motorist.
1t is said some animals do not
set their eyes open for a certain
NUMBER OF days after birth. 1t Is
certainly different with the human
family. Some of us never get our
eyes open, but stumble and fail ana
0 along all the days of our lives.
1 feel that we engineers have as
much right to ignore our orders and
messages with reference 10 meet
Ing points and slow orders over bad
tracks as the motor car driver has
10 ignore safety signs along the
highway. What would you think
or an engineer who would deliber.
ately u past a red light?
Then what would do think of
the motorist who not only ignores
a red lantern In the road. but who
as often as not gets out OF his car
or truck and picks that lantern nm
ana carries it on away with him?
That dirty, sneakfng trick has been
done frequently by motorists, ac~
cording too information given me
by the Hoosier Motor club and bv
Warren Humford. superintendent Of
Highways for Marion County.
Il think that now spring automo-
bile sales are opening up, IL should
be the duty of every automobile
salesman TO instii1 in the
or new cars a full line of safety
first rules. 1 would be a good thing
for every editor to print safety
rules and warnings. not only once,
but repeatedly. Even the puipifs
might well thunder against fool
hardness and recklessness on the
highways by motor car drivers.
Statistics show that unless there
is a let-up soon. We may fnd that
there Is a railroad crossing fatalft
In this country every thirty min
utes.
DO you know that you are apt
to be the next victim, within the
thirty minutes?
Il am not a crank against auto.
mobile drivers. ] am simply tryinf
TO get you lined up on safety first.
Then you would stop some of the
thrills and ehiils and headaches
we locomotive engineers suf-
fer daily.
And rot would not be aid away
In the cold. cold ground or else
ignore safety signs along the
lowering betvixt life and death in
sone hospital.
since writing my previous ar
on foolhardy driving at rail-
rrnS<fne &c 7 have ax-1~~--
incidents which give me
creeps every time | think of
Them. Just the other night / was
rolling in top speed and ounded
warnings for a very open
grade crossing. From my side OF
he a the road looked clear but
lust as we were almost on top of
crossing, I saw a big automo-
,ile shot across the track ahead of
is. coming almost right out from
Inder my pilot. My headlight was
'isible to that driver for more than
| milo and my warning whistle
have been heard for several
niles plainly saw the face OF
he driver in the car as he breexed
lcross Just a hairs breath ahead of
he Grim Reaper. Had hit him
would nave been dead instantly.
And. / suppose ! might have been
Of nnans1aughter.
Recently a man hired by a w
hip to take children back and forth
o a school In a hack, row up on
he track at Clark's Hill after I had
for the crossing n a1so
lad whistled for the station. We
we're in plain sight, with nothing To
the view, and to my best
this man had not moved
more than ten feet from the track
l whizzed by him. A small
Foy in the rear OF the hack put up
lis hand gleefully and waved at me. =
Can o imagine how my heart
vas paIpitating? He did not know
ear deaths door he had been.
here were thirty or more young
ters in that car. A second, and all
1ight have been hurled into eter-
ity. What a daughter of inno-
entsi The cold chills creep over
lie every time ! think Of this. And
very few days you read in the pa
ers where some other hack driver