AS TRAINMEN SEE ALCOHOL.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 251, 18 May 1916, Page 4

AS TRAINMEN SEE ALCOHOL.

(From the Railroad Trainmen, official organ of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.) Railroad men throughout the United State’s have rece.ved a document dedicated to “the* well being of the general public.” It is from the pen of a “safety first” advocate. It is a New Year’s pledge, circulated by the Frisco system. Summarized it is as follow s: — “Alcohol: It is bad company and unsafe to be with. It throws switches wrong; it reads orders wrong; sends orders wrong. It receives orders wrong; it calls red white; it never calls white red. It makes caution orders without effect; it makes slow Hags without colour. “It makes one meeting point another; it makes wakeful men sleepy. “It m.ikes duties dangerous, hot boxes cold, rough journals smooth. It makes pilots and footboards death traps. It makes good men bad men; it in. ikes two limbs one and it makes widows and orphans. It is against safety; unsafety is its name. “Statistics show that it has killed more people than all the wars of the world since the dawn of history. “It has been said and proven that it sank the Titanic.”