. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . employes thatthey have little left to devote toimportant matters of operation whichshould have their undivided attention,A wise man said, *A house dividedagainst itself cannot stand. Will thepresent railroad house remain intact? You remember the fable of the Greekhero who drove the chariot across theheavens from sunrise to sunset, and howhis son, Phaeton, an impetuous youth,implored the father to let him drive oneday. He could do it, he knew. Itlooked so easy. And you rememberhow he found the task greater than hecould perform, how the steeds becameunma
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . employes thatthey have little left to devote toimportant matters of operation whichshould have their undivided attention,A wise man said, *A house dividedagainst itself cannot stand. Will thepresent railroad house remain intact? You remember the fable of the Greekhero who drove the chariot across theheavens from sunrise to sunset, and howhis son, Phaeton, an impetuous youth,implored the father to let him drive oneday. He could do it, he knew. Itlooked so easy. And you rememberhow he found the task greater than hecould perform, how the steeds becameunmanageable, and how both chariotand driver plunged headlong to theearth below. I ask you, Mr. Average Man, Mr»Representative Citizen, Mr. Man Up aTree, why not be reasonable about thismatter? Why not let men do thatwhich they are qualified to do? Insteadof handing over the railroad chariotsand the great iron horses to our favoritesons, why not leave them in the hands ofthe experienced fathers? Why not givethe reins to them who can drive?. On the Conductor Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler was talk-ing; about American honesty. For all our muck-raking writers, hesaid, I think that the American peopleare the most honest people in the an American ever subjected at hometo the petty cheats and extortions towhich he is subjected in Europe? Then, apropos of foreign honesty, told a railroad story. On a foreign railroad, he said, acommuter had a row with the the end of the row the commuterturned to a friend and said: Well, the P. D. Railroad will neversee another cent of my money after this.■ The conductor, who was departing,looked back and snarled: Whatll you do? Walk? Oh, no, said the commuter. Illstop buying tickets and pay my fare toyou. —WasJiington Star. The Optimist. Talk about optimists, said the manwith red whiskers, did you ever hear thestory about Fred Bustigo? No, said the other. Well the folks in the town where Fredlives are getting up a raffle in
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