Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1916 — Eternal Vigilance Necessary. [ARTICLE]

Eternal Vigilance Necessary.

All the major railroads have giventheir employees lectures on the principles of safety, have filled the service periodicals with instructions, and have utilized the motion-picture to present memorable object-lessons in the results of carelessness. Yet every new accident demonstrates that, for employees and passengers alike, eternal vigilance is the price of safety. A few months ago, for example, a collision at Rockledge, Tenn., resulted in the killing of 12 men and the serious injury to 35; It was due to the failure of a power-operated signal, put out of order through the energizing df a magnet by a foreign current.