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People
wrenched
their
pennies
out
of
the
quicksands
of
their
food
and
heat
budgets
,
and
went
without
meals
in
order
to
crowd
into
movie
theaters
,
in
order
to
escape
for
a
few
hours
the
state
of
animals
reduced
to
the
single
concern
of
terror
over
their
crudest
needs
.
In
January
,
all
movie
theaters
,
night
clubs
and
bowling
alleys
were
closed
by
order
of
Wesley
Mouch
,
for
the
purpose
of
conserving
fuel
.
"
Pleasure
is
not
an
essential
of
existence
,
"
wrote
Bertram
Scudder
.
"
You
must
learn
to
take
a
philosophical
attitude
,
"
said
Dr
.
Simon
Pritchett
to
a
young
girl
student
who
broke
down
into
sudden
,
hysterical
sobs
in
the
middle
of
a
lecture
.
She
had
just
returned
from
a
volunteer
relief
expedition
to
a
settlement
on
Lake
Superior
;
she
had
seen
a
mother
holding
the
body
of
a
grown
son
who
had
died
of
hunger
.
"
There
are
no
absolutes
,
"
said
Dr
.
Pritchett
.
"
Reality
is
only
an
illusion
.
How
does
that
woman
know
that
her
son
is
dead
?
How
does
she
know
that
he
ever
existed
?
"
People
with
pleading
eyes
and
desperate
faces
crowded
into
tents
where
evangelists
cried
in
triumphant
gloating
that
man
was
unable
to
cope
with
nature
,
that
his
science
was
a
fraud
,
that
his
mind
was
a
failure
,
that
he
was
reaping
punishment
for
the
sin
of
pride
,
for
his
confidence
in
his
own
intellect
—
and
that
only
faith
in
the
power
of
mystic
secrets
could
protect
him
from
the
fissure
of
a
rail
or
from
the
blowout
of
the
last
tire
on
his
last
truck
.
Love
was
the
key
to
the
mystic
secrets
,
they
cried
,
love
and
selfless
sacrifice
to
the
needs
of
others
.
Orren
Boyle
made
a
selfless
sacrifice
to
the
needs
of
others
.
He
sold
to
the
Bureau
of
Global
Relief
,
for
shipment
to
the
People
’
s
State
of
Germany
,
ten
thousand
tons
of
structural
steel
shapes
that
had
been
intended
for
the
Atlantic
Southern
Railroad
.
"
It
was
a
difficult
decision
to
make
,
"
he
said
,
with
a
moist
,
unfocused
look
of
righteousness
,
to
the
panic
-
stricken
president
of
the
Atlantic
Southern
,
"
but
I
weighed
the
fact
that
you
’
re
a
rich
corporation
,
while
the
people
of
Germany
are
in
a
state
of
unspeakable
misery
.
So
I
acted
on
the
principle
that
need
comes
first
.
When
in
doubt
,
it
’
s
the
weak
that
must
be
considered
,
not
the
strong
.
"
The
president
of
the
Atlantic
Southern
had
heard
that
Orren
Boyle
’
s
most
valuable
friend
in
Washington
had
a
friend
in
the
Ministry
of
Supply
of
the
People
’
s
State
of
Germany
.
But
whether
this
had
been
Boyle
’
s
motive
or
whether
it
had
been
the
principle
of
sacrifice
,
no
one
could
tell
and
it
made
no
difference
:
if
Boyle
had
been
a
saint
of
the
creed
of
selflessness
,
he
would
have
had
to
do
precisely
what
he
had
done
.
This
silenced
the
president
of
the
Atlantic
Southern
;
he
dared
not
admit
that
he
cared
for
his
railroad
more
than
for
the
people
of
Germany
;
he
dared
not
argue
against
the
principle
of
sacrifice
.
The
waters
of
the
Mississippi
had
been
rising
all
through
the
month
of
January
,
swollen
by
the
storms
,
driven
by
the
wind
into
a
restless
grinding
of
current
against
current
and
against
every
obstruction
in
their
way
.
On
a
night
of
lashing
sleet
,
in
the
first
week
of
February
,
the
Mississippi
bridge
of
the
Atlantic
Southern
collapsed
under
a
passenger
train
.
The
engine
and
the
first
five
sleepers
went
down
with
the
cracking
girders
into
the
twisting
black
spirals
of
water
eighty
feet
below
.
The
rest
of
the
train
remained
on
the
first
three
spans
of
the
bridge
,
which
held
.
"
You
can
’
t
have
your
cake
and
let
your
neighbor
eat
it
,
too
,
"
said
Francisco
d
’
Anconia
.
The
fury
of
denunciations
which
the
holders
of
public
voices
unleashed
against
him
was
greater
than
their
concern
over
the
horror
at
the
river
.
It
was
whispered
that
the
chief
engineer
of
the
Atlantic
Southern
,
in
despair
over
the
company
’
s
failure
to
obtain
the
steel
he
needed
to
reinforce
the
bridge
,
had
resigned
six
months
ago
,
telling
the
company
that
the
bridge
was
unsafe
.
He
had
written
a
letter
to
the
largest
newspaper
in
New
York
,
warning
the
public
about
it
;
the
letter
had
not
been
printed
.
It
was
whispered
that
the
first
three
spans
of
the
bridge
had
held
because
they
had
been
reinforced
with
structural
shapes
of
Rearden
Metal
;
but
five
hundred
tons
of
the
Metal
was
all
that
the
railroad
had
been
able
to
obtain
under
the
Fair
Share
Law
.
