. The railway library . NOT AN UNCOMMON SIGHTThe coupling of the engine at the other end of these cars would surely mean death or serious injury to one or more of these boys 206 The Railway Library. THE BOYS RUSH BLINDLY ACROSS THE TRACKS Education in the public schools to teach them, on nearing railway tracks, to stop, look, and listen,is the thing needed for this class of trespassers on the altar of indifference and inertia. Is it not time that the publicwoke up and put a stop to this merciless, deplorable, and inexcusableslaughter? Perhaps the incessant recurrence of these individual traged
. The railway library . NOT AN UNCOMMON SIGHTThe coupling of the engine at the other end of these cars would surely mean death or serious injury to one or more of these boys 206 The Railway Library. THE BOYS RUSH BLINDLY ACROSS THE TRACKS Education in the public schools to teach them, on nearing railway tracks, to stop, look, and listen,is the thing needed for this class of trespassers on the altar of indifference and inertia. Is it not time that the publicwoke up and put a stop to this merciless, deplorable, and inexcusableslaughter? Perhaps the incessant recurrence of these individual tragedies ofkilled and injured, recorded at the rate of twenty-eight a day, likethe doleful hourly striking of the town clock, is due in a measure tothe happy-go-lucky recklessness and defiance of the natural law ofprudence which is a largely prevalent trait of us Americans. By thatsame trait men will never learn by the experience of others, but^preferto learn of themselves, in the school of experience, that which no mancan teach by years of preaching. But the school of experience for therailway trespasser has proven an expensive method of learning and adeplorably ineffective one, although the pri
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