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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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to overcome the tremendous friction that we have in the ever increasing size of locomotives. Lubrication of the superheater engine is quite an important factor now. We used to have pumps, you know, and we pumped oil in. We have now done away with the fivefeed lubricators, and have introduced the three-feed lubricators, and inject the oil right into the valve chamber, and of course the steam carries it down into the cylinder. Any schoolboy ought to know that, but we did not. it now. I have not seen your testing plant. I know someWe know thing about it, I have read about it and I have seen outs of it. But, young men, the testing plant may be all right. It means that it will spell efficiency in capital letters, but what of the man that is going to operate this testing plant, what of the boy that will have to do the work there? Are you studious? Are you taking it all in, are you making notes, are you questioning, just like the little boy does on the cars? what is this? He goes through the country saying, "Papa, How do trees grow?" All that kind of ques- tioning. That is all right, always ask questions, but be sure that you get the answer, be sure that you hold the answer, be sure that you use the answer. There are so many of us in life, young men, that know so much and do so little. What is the sense of my having something up here in this cranium of mine, sir, when it is not of any value
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