Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1914 — Discipline Foundation of Safety. [ARTICLE]

Discipline Foundation of Safety.

It is not the steel car that will produce safety, as many people seem to believe; neither will a complete system of block signals, but the public have a right to demand that on lines of heavy traffic, where fast trains are operated, there should be ample signal protection; that there should be the best equipment that can be provided and that all reasonable safeguards should be thrown around the operation of the trains. But no matter how perfect the signaling/ Bow complete the train, without discipline and the obedience of rules safety cannot be secured. Only the most competent men should be selected to operate the fast passenger trains. The best men in the service should be selected for the train crews, and the moat perfect discipline should be maintained. This is the foundation <# safety