Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-20

thin trail of smoke drited losing itself the many
along the river bank 1t beaut
day dull ga blue clouds reflected In the water as the
late afternoon sun finished a days work.
And it was beautiful world the whose life went out
as suddenly as light candle the big train around
the
Such little incident raroadng does
delay emergency brakes SET but there
hockno passengers few the rear observation plat
form knew that anything had happened
One young man right side of that platform,
you look engine turned white for he had
lay the and the hill when the train
few past
He and a Others the youngest the train
ran back who sent formally to do
what customary
In about three minutes they could of
breath they and the railroad returned and with them
brakeman who had carried red flag to prevent end col
hsion.
They came running hurrying climbing the observation
platform and the train was oshe up
She had done exactly the thing two
weeks before.
The pale young who had it recovered his
and excited the very small boy who had
rapidly exhausted all of the comic newspapers the oberva
ton and much in need of fresh excitement He could
find pay him. except lady who evidently
does good deal of travelling this train.
She said little boy Yes, guess he dead all right
knew this train touch and not kill him. You
see, it goes pretty fast
Some one had said that train had run over the man.
but had touched him. and the little boy thought that per
haps he not dead
he dead as dead as any little that you have
crushed walking along the garden path the rail
roads fault not the fault he had blown his whistle
and the section hand-the dead section hand p
knew the whistle meant death if he stayed too the track
Custom makes danger.
This hand" had thought to cross all the
tracks and clear the flying Century He put his against
the steep bank leaving he thought suction
caused by the flying train his recssnes brought
too Employees supposed pretend ignorance of all
p,o o4oIJ4h
whom he knew The steam cylinder head just touched him
took his head clean off, though had with
knife
Here, you choose you have moraze on life
its significance and the little leaf growing
call the human falling and vanishing like any
1t is not the man, but the that counts
1t is the that built the great intelligence of
the that has just united the Atlantic Ocean
is the race millions working together that gradually
make the life of the worth while the Importance the in
dividual greater
The the real sUPERMAN the real power And each
individual section hand forgotten the dies or
great forgotten when the newspapers stop talking about
him. must find his comfort in the fact that he belongs
RACE shares in its accomplishment helps in its
probably return to this planet over and millions times
ana better planet when this dieS-and forever
s-For the serious mind Note that the flying train vp
fes modern industry and civilization No train was
excited majority did know that anything happened
train had killed BUT IT WAS NOBODY S BUSINESS
1t was not the engineer fault he had done his duty
1t not the passengers fault they did the
1t not.the railroad fault; ii laid down rules
1t nobody's FAULT; but the WAS DEAD
any INDIVIDUAL PASSENGER had killed the man that
passenger would body would have in
qued for the wife and children would rmorse
appetite blamed himself man been really to
blame
But the passengers the engineer and the rail
road ALL COMBINED killed him NO ONE felt responsible
Sc it is in industry and civilization.
Ten killed in day in 70 one respon-
sible Stockholders engineers all say, not
n''-again NO ONE TO BLAME
miserable death her garrett in a bic
city Civilization says did to blame and
it goes
We shiver with horror when individual body
owned slave beaten death.
We shrug and say I did not do it. when