Show the railroad t to 0 be given away bv JEAN NEWTON ago if the news diss J are to ta b be e taken seriously officials of a western railroad offered to give a welt well equipped slightly used and unprofitable hundred and fifty eight mile branch railroad to anyone who would operate it they were swamped with applications housewives stenographers ear penters preachers actresses boys business men and hoboes hobles wanted the which they could get for or nothing an inventor wanted the railroad to test out his mechanical discoveries a minister from pennsylvania a woman from council bluffs iowa who wanted to give her relatives jobs on the trains a chicago mother who desired it for nr her seven cearold son who was wag just out to be a railroad president I 1 and a stenographer who gave as her qualifications that she was young and not bad too looking kingl I 1 everybody it seemed in all walks of life with nil all sorts of backgrounds till all sorts of hopes desires and abilities with varied reasons for wanting it everybody wanted the railroad and anybody would take it for nothing what none of those these people tho thought ug tit of apparently was what they would do with it when they got it how they would make good with the gift how make it pay payl I 1 all they thought of was getting something taking what they lost sight of was the fact that everything that we acquire brings with it problems duties responsibilities and so many people as they go through life are always willing to take to acquire without a thought for the accompanying responsibility that they are taking on that it seems to me Is the cause for much of the disillusionment lusion ment that people buffer they accept eagerly possess possessions ons position don ties and when they are brought face ance to face with the price tho the obligations to which they have unwittingly committed themselves they are astonished at the strings tied to th thur afir bargain 4 i for my part I 1 make no application for the railroad that ts to be given away free 0 by the th bill 1311 loo inc |