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Show 4- - Dr. James L Vance 4 1 Why is It the a long train backs before it starts? It Is not because the locomotive Is more powerful In reverse than la forward gear It Is that tho engine may get tho benefit of the slack starting. Many a time this makes the difference differ-ence between a stall and a haul. The biggest and be.vt the shops can produce pro-duce is puffing and panting there on the steel rails at tho head of the limited. It can carry a heavy train, at the rate of a mile a minute, along that gleaming track that stretches Into the dim distance. The steam gauge shows limitless pressure, but the engineer en-gineer throws the throttle only to J spin tho wheela The train cannot start. Then he backs. No malter how closely the coaches arc coupled, there is In each . coupling a little play He packs all this Into a single space. Then he throws her wide open, and we are off. The slack garc the big locomotive loco-motive the advantage It needed to get into acUon. Capitalize your slack! In every life th. re is sonic lowt motion, some latent and unused power. None of us arc so closely coupled that ther.e is no !l.i between our ability and our work Often we seem stalled. The train we are to pull Is too heavy. We have more load than power. We fume and I frel md try' to start, but ths wheels spin round and we get nowhere What Is to be done? Fallur .-tares us. Must we quit the Job and make an assignment? Must we s-nd for mother engine and increase our capl-J I tal by taking In a partner who some; j d;iv may take the business away fronu us? On neither. Back up and get the benefit of your slack. |