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Show RAILROAD MEW ARE SEWT MESSAGE BY 1100 To every. employe of tho United Stales Railroad Administration is being be-ing sent a post card from Director General McAdoo bearing a message from an address by the He v. J. F. Wolnmann of Philadelphia. The message mes-sage reads: "Take the case of a railroad conductor con-ductor or engineer. Suppose a man has to lake a train of coaches from New York to Washington, leaving Ncw York say at 6 a. m. Anyone can readily see that his task may be contemplated con-templated in two entirely different frames of mind. "Ho can say as the bell rings and rouses him in what seems the dead of night, 'Hang it all. it's lime to get up again; nothing but tho same old grind; I hate railroading, anvwav; I think I'll quit; this isn't a job it's a lifetime sentence.' "Or he can do something else. He can press a bullon somewhere inside in-side himself and in a flash see the whole situation big beforo him, pulsating pul-sating and tense in its human Interest. He can see the great 'system with which ho is connected; its multiplex life. Ho can see tho huge overarched over-arched shed with its breathing trains; he can see his own engine or train, and as he contemplates what has already al-ready begun to shape Itself in his mind as an opportunity a smile can be, seen breaking out on his lively face It is his engine, his train; he can see the three hundred souls, more or less, waiting to be taken to Washington, eacli with a lively interest, how and with what fraught God only knows; and its up to him to take the big human hu-man thing to jkVashiugton! Once more he smiles, and, thanking God ho has a share in human things, in the work that needs to be done, lie presses his hat down on his head and 'beats it.'" |