Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1917 — MEN DESERVING OF HONOR [ARTICLE]

MEN DESERVING OF HONOR

Skillful ahd Fearless Are Those Wha Jit. in the Engine Cabs ot ths Locomotives. '7"/' ’ “You writer felfsws like to talk about thel heroes of the engine cab.” wty-t the firerhan, as we near the freight yards of B—. “The hoy who is pulling that greasy old Baldwin comes nearer being a hero than Jimmie or any of thereat of the passenger bunch.’ - There is nothing cryptic in bis meanIng. He means that the freight engineer, pulling a less carefully maintained piece of motive power, to which has been added not only its ffi'il working capacity of ears, but*as many-ex-tra as an energetic and ha? d-pressed trainmaster may add. up to the risk point of an engine failure and consequent complete breakdown Offt upon the main line, must keep out of the way of the gleaming green and gold and brass contraption that has the right of way from the very moment she start's out from the terminal. Yet 1t is the freight puller and his train that i» earning the money that mW be used to pay the deficit on the limited that whirls by him so contemptuously. For that proud and showy thing has never been a money-earner—and never will be. Across this broad America there are 70,(XX) Freemans—sitting at the throttle sides of the big locomotives, steam and electric, pulling freights and passengers, little trains and long. With each of them rides Responsibility. Each of them knows that. Yet they do not think of danger. They scorn the word “hero.” merely like to think of themselves as men capable of handling a big job in a big way. They represent the railroads of America —an organization that has the most sensitive and well-trained labor of any business in the world. The man In the engine cab is a man of whom any American citizen may well be proud.—Magazine Beetion of the Washington Star.