Some twenty years ago a United States naval officer conceived
the idea that if vessels eastbound took one ocean path and
vessels westbound another, collisions would be avoided.
Steamship lines eagerly fell in with the suggestion, and
the result is that ingoing and outgoing liners may follow
well-defined lanes of traffic. Separate paths are laid out for
vessels of high power. Slow vessels, freighters and the like,
have their special steaming zones. Since that time no collision
on the high seas between two liners has occurred.
If every man would be equally careful to keep in his own territory
moral collisions and many of life’s catastrophes would be avoided.
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