Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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io 01 i;> utmost Importance to every citizen. They .u efficiency, safety, and economy. place aafety second. You will note tha as "Safety first," is all rig! propaganda, it is a magnificent movement, but first of all ve must have transportation. Railroads must be operated; the advancement of all the interests of the country depend first of all upon the effioienoy of its transportation nenns. Secondly comes the subject of safety, from many points of view equally important, but still second, because we must have transportation. of economy. Last of all comes the subject They These subjects are closely correlated. interlace with each other, they cannot be separated, but the careful study of the entire subject can only be pursued in such schools as that which has here been established in the University of Illinois. It is for old men to dream dreams, it is for young men to see visions. I have walked today as in a dream, the realization of the vision of years, not only for myself but to many others here. How grateful it has been to us many of you can feel. To the younger men I, who am of those who are wearing the white roses in place of the red, will have just one word to say in closing, - Morituri Salutamus - we who are about to die, salute you* I want to say that if your vlaionn command your future life,,lf in the groat testing laboratory of life into which you are entering after you huyo finished your studies here, you do as creditable work u
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