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THE FLORA JOURNAL-RECORD^ FLORA. HXINOiS
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Careful Driving
With the enormous increase in the number of motor driven vehicles on city streets and countiy highways, the subject of Careful Driving becomes more pertinent, day by day.
The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) feels that it has a duty—self-imposed it is true—to so conduct the operations of its own fleets of motor driven vehictes. as to set an example to others.
This Company also believes that the public will be interestea in the result of its cfiforto to promote Careful Driving.
Upon this premise, ipwB-f>resent, during the next few weeks, a few phases of its safety efforts.
Perhaps no other organization in the Middle West has been afforded such an excellent oppwtu- nity to obsei-ve the need for Careful Driving as has this Company.
Several years ago, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), recognizing the need for some construct¬ ive, orgamzed rfTort to prevent avoidable accidents, inaugurated its Safety First Division. The reaulU have been more than gratifying.
To instill caution by legislation is difficult, and while definite orders, as to care in handling the Company's business, have been issued, it is our experience that the greatest good has come frorn those suggestions, sent out from time to time, which appeal to the sound judgment and unwavering laysMy of the men handling Company equipment.
In support of this contention, we point out that for the year 1924, Standard Oil Company (Indiana) motor driven vehicles crossed railroad tracks thirty one million times without an accident.
The Management of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) pointed out to its drivers the dangers and the lack of consideration for others in careless driv¬ ing. It furnished a placard reading:
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Each driver was asked to pledge himself to co¬ operate and to evidence his good intentions by dis¬ playing this placard on the rear of his machine.
That such a remarkable result was achieved, as if by common consent, is a deserved tribute to the spirit prevailing throughout the Standard Oil Com¬ pany (Indiana) organization of 28,059 men and women.
It is this spirit which has enabled the Management of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) to render such an essential service, in such a constructive way, as to have gained for the Company, the confidence, respect and esteem of the thirty million people of the Middle West.
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