Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1917 — RAILROAD MEN ARE PRAISED [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD MEN ARE PRAISED

Pick of Industrial Workers of Country Have Developed Natural’.' Resourcefulness. You-seldoin see a sullen face among railroad' men. You seldom meet with one who thinks confusedly, and never with one who goes about his work sleepily. The railroads have had the pick of industrial workers of the country and they have developed natural resourcefulness into second nature, independence into that fine flower which understands the worth and necessity of obedience, says Washington Star. In sending 12,000 railroad men ,t 0 France as the first contingent for service overseas, Washington will not merely meet pressing requirement in France, but also have a representation warranted to make the .impression we • desire to form. In imagination, we can see those strong, capable, dean-skin-ned, clear-eyed men landing, see them take to their tasks with a vim, making French and English railroad workers hump to keep up with them. It was a wise selection of manhood material.