Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-20
"Yes, | Guess 1t Killed Him."
Said the Lady, and 1t Did
When the Fast Train Touches" Man, That the End The
Moral Is Men IN the Mass Shnk Responsibility.


coored leaves of the trees along 1t beau
day dull grayshue clouds reflected the water the
late afternoon finished days work.
beautiful world to the whose life went out
as suddenly light candle big train around
the curve.
Such little incident in raioadng does not
delay The emergency brakes set but there
shocno passengers except few the observation plat
form knew that anything had happened
young the right hand side Of that platform,
you look toward the engine white
lay and the hill when the train
few past
half dozen others, the youngest the tran
ran railroad man. who formally do
what is customary.
minutes they could and of
breath they and the railroad returned and with them
brakeman who had carried red fag prevent col
lision.
They came running hurrytng climbing observation
platform and the train oshe made up the three
four minutes She had done exactly the thing
weeks before
The pale young who had recovered his
excited except very small who had
rapidly exhausted all of the comic newspapers the oberva
car need of fresh excitement could
find pay attention him. except lady who evidently
does good deal of travelling this train
little boy Yes guess right
knew this train touch and not kill him You
see it goes pretty fast"
said the run over the man.
but had Just touched him. and the little boy thought that per
haps he not dead.
dead dead as any little ant that you have
crushed walking along the garden path 1t the rail
road fault the engineer fault blown whistle
and the section hand-the dead section hand
knew the whistle death stayed track
Custom makes danger
This hand had thought while to cross all the
tracks and clear the flying Century put his against
the steep bank leaving he thought suction
caused by the flying train his reCsnes brought him
Employees supposed to pretend ignorance of all
R,to sLo
whom he knew The cylinder head Just touched him and
It took his head clean off, though cut with
knife"
Here you choose you have a to moraize ON life
its significance and the little leaf growing
call the human falling and vanishing like any leaf
1t is not the man. but the that counts
1t is the that built great train the intelligence of
the that has just united the Atlantic the Pacific
Ocean.
1t is the the millions working together that gradually
make the life of the worth while the Importance
dividual greater.
The the real SUPERAN the real power And each
individual section hand forgotten the he dies or
great man. forgotten when the newspapers stop talking
him. must find his comfort the fact belongs TO THE
kACE shares IN Its accomplishment helps its work will
probably this planet millions of times
long the planet lives bigger
and better planet when this one dies-and forever
Ps-For the mind Note that the flying train typi
fes modern industry and civilization No one on the train was
excteda majority did anything had happened
Promptly the hour each ate his dinner and all slept we'll The
train had killed BUT 1T WAS NOBODY S BUSINESS
It was not the engineer fault he had done his duty
1t not the passengers fault they did train
1t not the railroad fault; it laid down rules
It nobody's FAULT; but the man WAS DEAD
If any INDIVIDUAL PASSENGER had killed the man that
passenger would have refused would have
qured for the wife and children would remore lost
appetite blamed himself had the dead really
blame.
But the the train the engineer and the rail
road ALL COMBINED killed him. NO ONE felt responsible
So it in industry and civilization.
Ten men are killed in day in mine No respon-
sbe Stockholders managers engineers all say 4 did
It'-again, NO ONE TO BLAME.
miserable starves to death in her garret big
city Civilization says, l did not do it. No blame and
it goes.
We hver with horror when read Of individual body
owned slave beaten to death
We shrug shoulders and say, Il did it. when
we read OF ten thousand wageowned slaves miseraby paid
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