. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . port. Since 1905, whena record was made of all employes then in service, andthe form 727-N was provided for the purpose it indicates,much water has passed down the Hudson and man\men and women have entered and left the service the hundred-and-odd office employes carried on theNew York Terminal payrolls of that period about abakers dozen still stick; the others have quit, for betteror worse, with resigned or dismissed tacked onto their records. The index containing the names ofex-employes shows that since the recording began,seventeen years ago,
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . port. Since 1905, whena record was made of all employes then in service, andthe form 727-N was provided for the purpose it indicates,much water has passed down the Hudson and man\men and women have entered and left the service the hundred-and-odd office employes carried on theNew York Terminal payrolls of that period about abakers dozen still stick; the others have quit, for betteror worse, with resigned or dismissed tacked onto their records. The index containing the names ofex-employes shows that since the recording began,seventeen years ago, 2295 clerical emplojes have beenand gone—an average of 135 yearly. Many of thequitters, no doubt, left for good reasons, or reasonssufficient to themselves, but many, too, no doubt, leftfor no other reason than that they didnt like thework, which is another way of saying that they didntlike work. If brief biographies could be had of allthose two thousand-and-over ex-employes, what a bigbook it would make, and what instructive reading!. Heroes Strength will always command attention and,when applied in the right manner, of character displayed in will power or in thefaith that moves mountains, or physical strengthdenoting vigor and clean living, impress most ofus because these possessions are rare and the outstanding characters, the leaders and theswayers of masses, the great heroes of mythology andhistory have possessed these qualities. Strength is power. In times past, before gunpowderand its more refme and more deadly relatives of a laterdate were known, pnysical strength was the basic qualifi-cation of a hero. Today toughness of tendon, bulk ofbiceps and a hairy chest are at a discount as factors inarbitrating quarrels, though still much admired in thepursuit of sports. Mind and mechanics hmve elbowedthe gorilla-man into a corner. A cripple with a Colt, aboy-scout with a Remington or a perfumed boulevardierwith a rapier can stop Mr. Siki or
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