Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1913 — Thinks Employes Careless. [ARTICLE]

Thinks Employes Careless.

All cars are now equipped with selfcouplers,’’ relates a railroad expert, talking of accidents to employes. Still 257 men were kiUed or Injured last year while adjusting couplers with their feet as the cars came together. The cars would have coupled mechanicafty; kicking was wholly unnecessary. It is these little unnecessary risks that habituate men to take all kinds of chances, and some day a passenger train goes into a siding and be is ground to pieces. All railroaders, from the Italian who repairs the roadbed to the president of the company, should have tlje fact driven into their heads and then clinched that they are the custodians of the lives of hundreds of human beings. That, it seems to me, is the first principle of railroading. Furthermore. the railroad is no place for booze fighters, poker players, dreamers or reckless lads who like to experiment with hazards. The service calls for steady, reliable and conscientious and for Intelligent men whose minds act instantly and accurately.”