| Show YOUR when you were a child what did you want to be when you grew up many a man smiles in reminiscent moments when he recalls how as a boy he was undecided whether to become the drum major at the head of the minstrel parade or the engineer atno 4 the train that made the village in the evening and chug chugged away in the mysterious gathering darkness we doubt it if there Is any american male who at some time or other in youth have this ambition to be the man at the throttle jn la the locomotive cab A boys ambition Is vagrant and changeable as the wind at times he aspires to such goals as running a candy store but periodically he comes back to his true love the railroad engineers gin gi cers job for it is a job symbolic ot of youthful ambition handling power being the center of attraction and travel to explore the alluring country beyond the horizon we smile at the boy but these three attractions of the engineers job power vanity and travel persist in our matured ambitions A queer thing ambition its a mighty rare man who no matter how bow successful wonder at times it he wouldn t have been more successful at something else at the end bad of the road when we face death we realize that it matter so much what our earthly ambitions were as long gis as we improved our spiritual natures and helped others |
