. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . has helped us with his trenchant pen in H emphasizing the statement made on the table of contents page of each issue m that contributions are welcomed from all employes. True, we have no ^ printed forms of acknowledgment—we have been on the receiving end of H them so often that they seem to us to contain much less of real appreciation M i than a personal letter—and this we invariably send to each contributor. J Experience would suggest to most people a number of ways in which not p : only an acknowledgment but also a contribution might go astray. J How
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . has helped us with his trenchant pen in H emphasizing the statement made on the table of contents page of each issue m that contributions are welcomed from all employes. True, we have no ^ printed forms of acknowledgment—we have been on the receiving end of H them so often that they seem to us to contain much less of real appreciation M i than a personal letter—and this we invariably send to each contributor. J Experience would suggest to most people a number of ways in which not p : only an acknowledgment but also a contribution might go astray. J However, the httle sermon on Courtesy, in addition to making us d i more careful, is well worth while in itself. If the first contribution from the gifted author has the same stimulating qualities and he will send us acopy of it or tell us how we can find the original, we shall be glad not onlyto acknowledge, but also to give it public recognition in what he so properlycalls Our Magazine.—EDITOR BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYESMAGAZINE. 54. Safety First By Mrs. H. J. Slifer, in the Railway Record ^1 y iT is self-evident that men and^|1 women of affairs, in this twentieth3^S (cntur}^, are giving their atten-^ tion and approval to the things that tend towards the safe-guarding ofthe home, the church, the body politic,the industrial plant, the corporate bodies,including railway organizations; and areputting strong emphasis on the preced-ence of safet} over many other con-siderations. This doctrine of safet} is certainly oneof the strongest in the great gospel ofconservation—that word, which we usedto think belonged onl}- to forest reservesand waterwajs; but which we now applyto everything we have and hold; using,not wasting, that which is good, not onlyfor our own benefit, but for our con-temporaries, and those who come afterus. Statistics show that thousands of menwomen and children are sacrificed yearafter year, because someone blundered, ordid not know, or did not care; and we
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