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Show AMERICA -ALWAYS HUMAN When we read of the great work done by the railroads in relieving the Hood sufferers of the South, we are bound to conclude that all corporations corpora-tions are not "Soulless." From the beginning of tlie flood up to June 15. 3C4 special relief trains were run. 104.7SS refugees were rescu-I rescu-I ed and transported. 2.479 carloads of 1 household goods and livestock were I saved. 4.794 cars were furnished for i living accommodations, and car-! car-! loads of foodstuffs and supplies were brought in. All this was done free of charge. j In addition, tlie railroads furnished ! and paid for the labor of thousands j of their employes, transported thou-j thou-j sands of laborers from other parts of I the country to build and protect levees. I and hauled thousands of carloads of ; rock, sand and other material to j strengthen levees and shelter the homeless. This timely relief was rendered free of cost by the Southern Pacific: Illinois Ill-inois Central: Chicago. Rook Island and Pacific; St. Louis-San Francisco: Missouri Pacific: Kansas City Southern: South-ern: Texas and Pacific: and St. Louis Southwestern. The manner in which the management manage-ment of these roads faced and handled hand-led the situation, one of the greatest castast rophes in all history, is another index of the genius and ability of American railroad men. But what these railroads did is characteristic char-acteristic of Americans everywhere and on all occasions Nothing so touches and animates the hoartspnng of America as human distress, whether nt home or abroad Whether in n coviwatr or invidiial sense, America is always luima"-may luima"-may dirfcr on other things, but neu'r on our duty to succor our ncUhlvr ami aid the afflicted nt our door or beyond the seas: nnd to Amcrienns that is what makes life worth living |