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Show .AMERICAN PROVED HIS WORTH Chief Factor In Getting Great Britain's Brit-ain's Army to France in Time to Be Effective. Germany Isn't the only country that produces efficient men. When England Eng-land became a belligerent nation about a year ago her first great problem prob-lem was how to transport men and munitions to Southampton, the port of embarkation for France and Belgium, in the least possible time. Earl Kitchener called a conference of railroad rail-road managers and gave them 60 hours In which to be read;- to handle the" necessary traffic. One of the conferees con-ferees was Henry W. Thornton, the American who left this country two years ago to become general manager of the Great Eastern railway of England. Eng-land. He took the leading part in carrying out Kitchener's orders and In 48 hours after the conference adjourned ad-journed the railroad equipment was all ready, with steam up. This instance of American efficiency will be especially interesting to citizens citi-zens of Columbus. Sixteen years ago Mr. Thornton, then holding a comparatively compara-tively humble position with the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Railroad company, was a resident resi-dent of this city and many of us remember re-member the big, good-natured, hardworking hard-working fellow who, starting with no more chance In life than a million other American youths of his day, in 16 years has become one of the biggest railroad men anywhere. Columbus Co-lumbus (O.) Journal. |