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SAM CLUB DAY ‘16

We can now clearly see how important this emo onal involvement is for making a good railway man. I
would now come to the point which I wanted to men on in the beginning. There is a certain stage at
which emo onal maturity starts awakening and that is the best me for the impingement of any
par cular type of emo onal involvement on an individual. This is just about the age and the period when
young and raw models of clay are chucked into Gymkhana for being moulded in the four forma ve years
there they are not only shaped but heat treated, coloured and designed to become good ar cles of
po ery very much in demand.

In contrast to this, young men who spent these four years elsewhere in universi es or in engineering
colleges before dri ing into the Railways, find it almost impossible to get emo onally involved with the
Railways. They are at best good railways employees; they are never the Railway itself, whereas 'Sams' are
the Railway itself. It can be seen that the difference all too important and is several hundred mes more
valuable than the cost of this shaping and moulding by the Railways.

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