Symbol of Lost Youth

prosperity and the desire to enjoy. “The country,” Mr. Hagedorn writes, “seemed possessed by a spirit of mad, sentimental theorizing, as scheme after scheme was devised to frighten away the German terror with gestures and words on paper…. ‘Safety first!’ was the slogan that flew over the country.

The trolley car arouses strong emotions. Some deep antagonism, latent in the public mind and similar to that which still afflicts the railroads, must account for its disappearance from many cities and suburbs in which it was unquestionably the most efficient form of public transportation. But it also commanded a strange devotion, and there are many who mourn its passing as though something of themselves had been lost when the rails were pulled up and the wires cut down. For them, this is a perfect book. They will view the three hundred pictures with nostalgic pleasure, and hope that the publisher will soon give them a sequel.

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prosperity and the desire to enjoy. “The country,” Mr. Hagedorn writes, “seemed possessed by a spirit of mad, sentimental theorizing, as scheme after scheme was devised to frighten away the German terror with gestures and words on paper…. ‘Safety first!’ was the slogan that flew over the country.

The trolley car arouses strong emotions. Some deep antagonism, latent in the public mind and similar to that which still afflicts the railroads, must account for its disappearance from many cities and suburbs in which it was unquestionably the most efficient form of public transportation. But it also commanded a strange devotion, and there are many who mourn its passing as though something of themselves had been lost when the rails were pulled up and the wires cut down. For them, this is a perfect book. They will view the three hundred pictures with nostalgic pleasure, and hope that the publisher will soon give them a sequel.