Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-20
Eyes, | Guess 1t Killed Him."
Said the Lady, and 1t Did
When the Fast Train Touches Man. That Is the End. The
Moral Is Men in the Mass Shrk Responsibility.

coored leaves of the along the river bank 1t beaut
full day dull graysh blue clouds reflected the water the
late afternoon sun finished a days work
was a beautiful world to the whose life went out
suddenly light of candle the big train around
the
Such little incident in life and raroadng
delay The emergency brakes set but there
sho-no passengers except few the observation plat
form, knew that anything had happened
One young man. the rghtha side of that platform
you engine white he had it
lay the and the HILL when the train
few past.
He half a others the youngest the train
ran bac. with the railroad man. formally to do
what is customary
minutes they could and out of
breath they and the railroad returned and with them
brakeman who had carried flag prevent rearend col
lision
platform the of-she made up the three
four minutes lost She had done exactly the thing two
weeks before.
The pale young who had it recovered his
excited except very small boy who had
rapidly exhausted all of the comic newspapers the observa
ton and much in need of fresh excitement He could
find attention to him. except lady who evidently
does good deal of travelling this train
She the little boy Yes guess right
never knew this train to touch and not kill him. You
see it goes pretty fast"
Some had said that the train had the
just him. boy thought that per
haps he was dead.
But he dead, dead any little that you
crushed walking along the garden path 1t the rail
roads fault not the engineer fault he had blown his whistle
and the section hand-the dead section hand
knew the whistle meant death he stayed the track
Custom makes danger.
This hand had thought to cross all the
tracks and clear the flying Century He put his back against
the steep bank leaving he thought suction
caused by the flying train recessne brought him
too near Employees are supposed to pretend ignorance of all
accidents But employee told story this writer
whom he knew: The steam cylinder head just touched
it took his head clean off, though had with
knife"
Here if you choose you chance to moraze on life
its significance and the little growing on tree we
call the human falling vanishing like any other leaf
1t is not the man. but the that
1t is the that built the great train intelligence of
the that has just united the Atlantic the Pacific
Ocean.
1t is the the millions working together gradually
make the life of the worth while the Importance
dividual greater.
individual section hand forgotten the he dies or
great forgotten when the newspapers stop talking about
him. must find his comfort in the fact that he belongs THE
RACE shares in its accomplishment helps its work. and will
probably return to this planet millions Of times
long the planet lives other bigger
and better planet when this des-and forever.
Ps-For the serious mind Note that the flying train typi
fes modern industry and civilization No the was
excited majority did not know that anything happened
Promptly the hour each his dinner slept we'll The
train had killed man BUT 1T WAS NOBODY S BUSINESS
1t not the engineer fault he had done his duty
was not the passengers fault they did the train
1t was not the railroad fault it laid down rules.
It was nobody's FAULT; but the WAS DEAD.
If any INDIVIDUAL PASSENGER had killed the man that
would have refused to leave the body
qued for the wife and children would have felt
appetite blamed himself had the really to
blame
But the passengers the train the engineer and the
road ALL COMBINED killed him NO ONE responsible
So it is II industry and civilization
Ten killed in a day in No one respon-
slble Stockholders all say. 4 did
it again, NO ONE TO BLAME.
miserable death her garrett in a BIG
city Civilization says i did not do it, No blame and
goes.
owned slave beaten TO death
We shrug shoulders and say, Il did not do when