Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1910 — How He Lost His Job. [ARTICLE]

How He Lost His Job.

Mr. Nossitt,” said the new man, who had been engaged as a literary ?K Vise A ln th ® publiclt y department <rf the railway, “it seems to me that when we designate a man as traveling passenger agent, we are tautological, at the least.” ~7 e , ar , e what F asked the superior. Tautological. What does a traveling passenger agent do?” • "He goes around and gets people to ride over our lines, of course.” ,7®“- He sets passengers. Why call him a traveling passenger agent? Of a necessity, a passenger must be a traveling passenger.” "How’s that?” “I say a passenger must be a travelng one or he isn’t any good to us—n fact, he cannot be a passenger at all. A passenger is some one who travels. The statement that we send' out an agent to get traveling passensers is absurd On the face of it, and-—” You may convert yourself into a traveling passenger to the street, with a stopover at the cashier,: office long enough to get what is due you to date, snorted the superior, whirling back to his desk.