Public relations
Behind many successful men today, is a hard-working propaganda mill operated by public relations people . . . capable of making a well-heeled opinion more popular- and able to do the same thing for any personality above a gorilla’s. Two decades ago these facts might have shocked the public, but since TV exposures and now that politicians admit they rarely write their own speeches, the public recognizes that all things are not what they seem. Public relations people maneuver public opinion to the advantage of their free-spending clients.
A few press agents are still on the payroll-those guys who get their noses into other people’s business, but most of these crafty boys have upped themselves to public relations counselors. On the street they’re known as bra boys for politicos . . . they cover up their busts. When a junior executive marries a wealthy widow, he frequently seeks a little fame for himself and a bit of flame for his frau’s ego. With the help of a public relations man who thinks big, entertains big, and charges big, public opinion can be pushed to the point where mediocre Joe is built up to look like a big man.
In today’s business world, whether the need is for legislation to curb competition or to cut the tape ’round a government regulation, these brisk traders know the right climate for sowing seeds of dissatisfaction, when to start a proxy fight, and no matter which side of an issue they are paid to promote-they can make it sound lily white.
Railroaders
The genial man who controls the throttle, toots his whistle at the crossroads, and waves to all his farm friends, isn’t the only engineer working for the railroad. Casey Jones’ cousins have advanced to chief engineers, division engineers, maintenance of way, signal and communication, bridge and building engineers-all railroad men with one-track minds on the business. Railroading has been revolutionized by the miracles of machinery so that many scenes along the right-of-way in Casey’s day are now just memories. Mexican section gangs are all but gone since today’s ties are moved or placed mechanically, and earth moving necessary for underpasses, overpasses or fill, is mechanically controlled.
The track worker who pumped so hard on his heavy handcar that he was too worn out to work when he got there, now putt-putts back and forth in a hurry. Kids in the country miss lots of fun in these changing times-especially shower baths under drippy water tanks where steaming engines once stopped to drink. Silver diesels that streak cargoes across the country don’t stop for the pause that refreshes. Railroading’s gone soft since those early corn-shuck mattress times-presently the chief concern revolves around feather-bedding!
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