NOVEMBER 195 - Milwaukee Road Archive

VOLUME 45
NOVEMBER 1957
A. G. Dupuis
Jl[QI,ager
NUMBER 7
Marc Green Marie Hotton
Editor .4ssj.stanl 1o Editor
UNION STATION-CHICAGO
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
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IN THIS ISSUE
The Biggest Boy in Class
By President J. P. Kiley-------- 2
Comments From Our Customers· -- - 3
President Kiley to Retire at
End of Year----------------- 4
Scholarship Student Starts
College Career - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7
Milwaukee 1004, a Memorial
to Steam - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8
Working Together-a 4-H Family - -10
Chal'les Schlom Retires -- - - - - - - - --13
Appointments-- - - -- - - -- - - - - - - - --13
Looking at the Railroad· - - - - - - - - - -14
Retirements - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16
All Around the House ---------- 18
Quiz------------------------ 21
About People of the Railroad ------22
The Biggest Boy In Class
THE other day, while trying to figure why the railroads
h:lVe some of the troubles they have, I found myself remembering
a boy I went to school with. His name was Ed,
I recall, and from about the fourth grade on into high
school he was far and away the biggest and strongest boy
in our class. Poor Ed learned from bitter experience that
his size was a genuine handicap in his relationship with
just about everybody.
Teachers expected a consistently superior performance
of him because he looked more capable of an adult job than
anyone else, and the smaller boys had a genuinely happy
time at his expense. No matter how a fracas with them
turned out, he always lost. Ed learned early that if he
squashed his annoyers, he would be accused of taking unfair
advantage of them. If he let them push him around,
he was made to look foolish.
The very worst thing of all was for him to complain to
the teacher. The other boys and girls went to her with anything
and everything tha t seemed to them to be wrong,
but not Ed. For him things were always different. The rules
didn't seem to apply.
Judging by what I hear, I believe that teachers, and
possibly the youngsters, are more understanding today
than they were then, but I'm afraid that for the railroads,
which are the "biggest boy" in their class, too, things are
just about as they have always been.
Imagine, for example, the hue and cry that would go up
from the public generally, and particularly from our competitors,
if we went to the Federal government and to state
and city authorities with our hands out for a subsidy, as
the airlines and barge lines do, or if we tried to evade the
payment of just taxes in the manner of a great many truck
operators.
Even in the matter of greater freedom in the making
of freight rates we find that simple fairn'ess is decried by
our competitors as undue advantage.
Being the biggest boy in class has its drawbacks, as everyone
in the railroad business knows. It is to be hoped that
one day-and before it is too late-greater justice will be
exercised in determining our country's policies with respect
to transportation.