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The success of our business de pends at last upon a sympathetic understanding of its problems by the masses of the people. — P. S. Arkwright. r Here’s a gtartling gituation ♦ A utomobile—Street Car Collisions increased 1176% from 1910 through 1928—All other kinds of accidents decreased 41% W E BELIEVE the time has come to lay the facts about this situation frankly before the public. Take the figures over a period of years on all accidents in which street cars were involved. Break the totals down into the various classifications of accidents and you find that — One kind of accident alone in creased 1176 percent from 1910 through 1928. All other kinds of accidents decreased 41 percent. Collisions between automobiles and streets cars are the accidents that have increased so greatly. In 1910 ac cidents of this sort were only 8 percent of the total accidents. In 1928 nearly 70 percent of all accidents in which street cars were involved were of this kind. Who is responsible for this condition? Is it your street railway Trainman? Look at the rest of his record and judge for your self. Forget about auto-street car collisions for a moment. Take every other kind of acci dent, large or small, in which street cars figured — collisions with horse-drawn vehicles, accidents to passengers and acci dents to pedestrians, everything from the passenger who trips over a suitcase in the aisle on up to accidents of major serious ness, and you find their total practically cut in half! Atlanta’s trainmen have made this bril liant improvement in the face of an in crease in the number of passengers carried from 55 million in 1910 to nearly 90 mil lion in 1928, and an increase in the num ber of miles the street cars traveled from 9 million in 1910 to over 13 million in 1928" This Trainman of yours can, and does, operate his street car safely! To the ex tent that it is within his power to prevent accidents, he is doing it. The figures prove it. When you sit in judgment on him —in the jury box or as you read about an ac cident in the newspaper—-don't you think that he is entitled to the benefit of the doubt?