Automatic Train Control Ordered

NO MORE RAILROAD WRECKS will be caused by disregard of block signals after July 1, 1924, if an order just issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission in accordance with permission given to it by the Esch-Cummins Act of 1920, becomes of effect in March, and works out as intended.

New Gliding Records

If there is any limit to the time which a man can remain in the air in a glider, it would seem to be the limit of human endurance. German aviators have apparently proved that a man in a glider under proper atmospheric conditions can keep aloft indefinitely.

Seventy lives a Day

ACCORDING to figures compiled by C. E. Robb, statistician of the National Safety Council, the daily total of deaths from automobile accidents throughout the country during the month of September averaged 70 per day, or at the rate of 25,500 per year. Seventy per cent of the victims were pedestrians run down by motorists. Of this percentage, 31.8 we... continued

Apache Trail Made Into a Road

THE Apache Trail, closed while improvements were being made that perfected it as an automobile highway, is open again. This means that the westbound traveler may once more deflect from the railroad to marvel at Roosevelt Dam and the man-made inland sea which the earth has now taken to herself as though it were her own, and not her foster child. It ... continued