Show The Last Straw T THERE HERE is something refreshingly humorous in the case ease of the Washington street car operator who got fed up with his job Many ran the man mun who has felt the llio same way about things but hut for one rca rca- reason on or another never got to the point of severing severing- relations with toil Necessity is perhaps most often the dictator and sometimes a cruel r cl one Q do doubt bt in n the tho long run it is the thing that keeps most of us as ns near equilibrium as humans generally get ct Occasionally this is completely lost and nd nd then funny things happen Now in the case of th the Washington street streetcar car man it seems seem that suddenly while piloting his car through traffic the last Just straw was piled on the load 1011 he lie carried under his hat He lie decided then and there that he lie didn't like his work and that there was only one thing to bedone be bedone bedone done about it He Tie stopped his car in a crowded section and turning to his fares said To hell with this job Thereupon he lie quit He lie walked away and left the men and women aboard his chariot to get to their destinations the best way war they could could ant and that was I that hat 1 This s would be a queer world if we wc generally took ook this thid attitude toward our tasks We e have to o do a lot of or things we dont don't want to do and we ve want ant to do clo a lot of things we cant can't and still till we seem scent to get et time to do very many things that arc are agreeable to us some sonic even de tie- One important thing the street car operator overlooked we overlooked we cant can't go on simply trying tring to please ourselves We Ve must fit into the he social pattern He overlooked completely what was due his passengers from himself We Vc Yc cant can't overlook other people We Ve Ye have lUne to live among mong them in a world of give and take But nut be ie that as it may undoubtedly there was a moment of ecstasy in this workers worker's life moving inov- inov ing ng him to feel if not to say sar What That a grand and nd glorious feeling feeling- 1 |