A Broader Outlook.

There is no branch of railway knowledge which it would not be beneficial for any railway officer (of any branch) to possess and there seems to be room for a correspondence course running parallel with the present ones, subject to no examinations, but dealing with the economic side of a railroad and its relation to the life of the community. The way in which modern transport in all its branches is woven into the fabric of our economic life should be brought home to every man whose living comes from railroading. As the railway correspondence course shows a man his place in the railway scheme, so would a suitable course in Economics show him the place of the railway in the scheme of economic life, giving him poise and judgment and enabling him to understand and logically represent to others the railway viewpoint. From the railway comes the bread and butter of the staff and they would be the better for an understanding of its functions. The interest created by such a study would be very absorbing, for besides the pleasure gained by knowledge of the inter-relation of transport with the general functioning of production and commerce, the romance inseparably attached in the human mind to a railroad adds much to the fascination of this formidable-looking subject.