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DO YOU KNOW?
A splendid example of intelligent
solicitation is evidenced in the follow-
ing circular recently issued by the
Fri~co Employes' Club of Fayetteville,
Ark. These statements are titled,
"DO YOU KNOW", and acquaint the
prospective customer for Frisco
Service with facts which would not
ordinarily come to his attention.
The "DO YOU KNOW" facts have
been mimeographed on white paper
and a number of copies are in the
possession of each member of the
club. They make excellent talking
points in the solicitation of business,
and have proven the means of bring-
ing in many car loads of freight and
many passengers for Frisco Lines.
The group of facts are quoted be-
low :
DO YOU KNOW
The railroads of the United
States pay more than $1,000,000 a
day in taxes and $2,000,000 a day
in mahtaining their right-of-way.
THAT they are fighting for ex-
istence today. due to unfair com-
petition of the trucks, busses and
air lines, which pay little or no
taxes ?
THAT the railroads pay from 20
to 30 per cent of the tax money ex-
pended on the township schools?
THAT the Frisco Railway is the
largest taxpayer of this county?
THAT the Frisco Railway was the
beginnlng of the growth and pros-
perity of this city and every city
on ita lines?
THAT every part of the railway
equipment undergoes Government
inspection at regular intervals?
THAT for your safety and my
safety these laws have been so
enacted ?
THAT for about three or four
weeks each summer the Frisco
handles through here an average
of about seventy-flve car loads of
tomatoes per day?
THAT it would take from three
to four hundred trucks on the
hlghway daily to handle these to
market, which would congest the
highways so badly that you could
not operate your own car thereon
with any degree of safety?
THAT there are 2,000,000 rail-
way employe6 out of work in this
country today?
DO YOU KNOW what will be-
come of the railroads in the next
few years without your support
and patronage?
Wheat is thought to have been a
rild plant growing in the mountains
north of the Holy Lands.
Page 27
"Pat" Herd, Veteran Roadmaster, Banqueted
on Retirement, June 27
Abozc is a groirp pictrrre of oficiak, co-zaorkcm and friends who attcrrdcd
the banquet givetc for Pat I-lcrd, rctiritty road~rzastcr, at Joplin, night of June 27.
Mr. I-lcrd is seated oa tlrc front roza, sccovd mart from the left. J. E. Hutchison,
r-ched vice-prcsidcnt, is at his right.
S PAT HERD, old-time roadmas-
ter for Frisco Lines at Carl
- Junction, neared his retirement
date last May, he had but one wish.
That was that nothing would inter-
fere to keep him from rounding out
fifty-four years of service with Frisco
Lines.
That wish was granted and on June
27, seventy-one officials, fellow work-
ers and friends met at Maxwell's din-
ing room in Joplin to honor him upon
his retirement, which was effective
June 18, 1931.
J. 0. Armstrong, division engineer
of Ft. Scott. Kan., acted as toast-
master and led in the praise for this
veteran railroader, stressing the fact
that his faithfulness, co-operation
and long years of service had set a
goal for those who followed him.
Among the guests upon whom Mr.
Armstrong called to pay tribute to this
veteran were: F. H. Shaffer, general
manager ; J. H. Doggrell, superin-
tendent transportation; J. A. Moran,
superintendent, W. H. Bevans, super-
intendent; J. E. Hutchison, retired
vice-president, and D. E. Gelwix, divi-
sion engineer.
Section foremen friends of Mr.
Herd presented him with a radio as
a farewell gift, and other friends
gave him a comfortable arm chair and
a stool where he might enjoy a seat
beside the radio. The stool has n
compartment for the Irishnlan's pipe
and tobacco.
3Ir. Herd's own section gangs were
present at the banquet, as well as
friends and co-workers from Kansas
City, Monett, Carthage, Pittsburg,
Ft. Scott, Neodesha, Wichita and
Springfield.
Mr. Herd entved the service of
Frisco Lines June 1, 1877, at Ritchey,
Mo., working on all sections of the
old Atlantic & Pacific. He has spent
a lifetime between Rolla, Mo., and
Vinita, Okla., holding positions as
sectionman, foreman, etc., until his
appointment as roadmaster in 1892,
with territory from Paris to Brownwood
on the Texas division. He was
transferred to Carl Junction January
1. 1898, where he remained for 32
years.
When interviewed for the Frisco
.IIagazi~~e in May, 1930, Mr. Herd said
he intended to spend his retiren~ent
days on a little farm, where he could
plant a garden and have cows and
chickens and lead the simule life.
Mr. Herd's son was his clerk at Carl
Junction and will, through visits with
his father, keep him in close touch
with the railroading game.
Earl Long was appointed roadmaster
in charge of the 30th Track Division
vice Mr. Herd's retirement.
Mr. Long's headquarters will be at
Joplin, Mo.
The steer escaped from the stock
pards, tossed the policeman a rod and
broke his arm.
"That was serious," said one sober
looker-on to another.
"Huh! Not a bit of it. It was only
the toss of a copper."