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En route, if an engineman's watch is lost or broken, he can, under regu' lations, commandeer the fireman's watch until the end of the journey. Similarly, if the conductor's watch fails or disappears, he can take the brakeman's timepiece.
Enginemen, conductors, firemen, brakemen, engine foremen, yardmasters, signal maintenance employees and all other employees in the track and traffic departments who maintain traf' fic on a main line are required to own watches subject to all ICC regulations.
Trainmasters, superintendents and traffic supervisors are the railroad's "time detectives." They can, and do, examine watches at will, and may im' pose demerits if any of the many regulations governing the ownership and care of a timepiece have not been complied with.
Centrahzed traffic control makes reliance on a man and his watch less specific than was the case in the days when traffic was governed by train orders, but there still is the possibility of power failure or other emergencies which could shift the load back to personnel, a responsibility which is too great from the standpoint of lives and property to permit any error in time.
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Time? Time? What is Time? It's that stuff between paydays. ▲
A worker in a tin factory caught his coat in a revolving wheel and whizzed around in it until the foreman managed to cut off the machine. As the machine stopped, the foreman rushed up to the worker and pleaded.
"Speak to me, speak to me!" To which the half-conscious worker replied,
"Why should I? I passed you ten times and you never spoke to me."
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THE importance of time is em' phasised in division railroad of' fices where there is at least one stand' ard mercury clock in every room and hallway. Each is checked daily with a report from the U. S. Naval Observa' tory and is marked with a prominently displayed card which indicates whether it is correct or whether there is a variation of even one second in its accuracy. Each daily time-check requires three minutes.
The Santa Fe maintains central rec' ords on the watches of all employees, and if a man fails to have his watch checked at least once during each two years, he is subject to penalty.
Even the man who directs the mechanical and electrical wizard which is the centralized traffic control board in a railroad division office sits in a room with a standard clock on the wall and a watch lying face up on the desk in front of him.
And of the thousands of miles of railroad where traffic still is moved under train orders, the little black indicators that travel around the faces of watches and clocks are the hands that mean the difference between Hfe and death, safety and disaster.
The reason some women are so magnetic is because their clothes are charged.
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the heavens will be at half past eleven tonight. He can make no such prediction about his young daughter.
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It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.