Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 1, 1919, Page 4

. e ) i i £, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1919, RAILWAY RATES 70 BE ADVANCED “~Puiblic Freasury Will Be Relieved of Burden of Meeting Deficits ) in Earnings. ——e EDITORS’ POLL IN CONGRESS. Heavy Vote for Return of Roads Arouses Interest at the Na- tional Capital. ‘Washington.—The national poll on the railroad question by 6,000 news- paper editors throughout the country has aroused great interest at the na- tional capital. With 83 per cent. of the editors giving it as their impartial opinion that the public favors an early return of the railroads to their own- ers and only 11 per cent. favoring Gov- ernment ownership or operation, the ly for the legislation to make it pos- sible to restore the roads to private management before the end of the year. In Congress there is a general agree- ment that the following steps will have to be taken before the roads are re- turned to their owners: 1. An #dvance in rates to meet the ‘greatly Increased cost of labor and materials in order that the Public ‘Treasury may be relieved of the bur- den of meeting monthly deficits and the roads made self-supporting. The Director General of Rallronds states that the increase in rates thus far is about 25 per cent. as compared with an increase in operating costs of from 50 to 90 per cent. 2. Greater nationalization of' public eontrol of transportation—a single . public control in the Federal Govern- ment in place of 49 masters in the dif- ferent States, with conflicting laws . and regulations. ’ 5 3. Legalization of consolidations and * common use of lines and facilities whenever in the public interest. 4. Assurance through an act of Con- gress that in the future the Govern- ment will approve of rates for freight and passengers that will not only be fair to the public, but fair to the roads, and that will yield a sufficient income on capital to attract the $750,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 of new capital need- ed every year for the expansion of rail- road facllitles. How the States voted in the nation- al poll of editors on the question of the return of the railroads to private 4 " management is shown by the following chart. Th{t! the railroad question is a non-partisan issue is plain from a study of the table: @ PVORING RETURN_OF ROADS TO OWNERS 5 BODRTRUL ‘O BAICED o Rty v NERS umn, — CONN. 1| TENN. FLORIDA "|[IOWA N.Y. DEL. MA'SS. N.JER. S.CAR. IND. MICH. TEXAS GA. OREGON W.VA. N.CAR. UTAH ERMO ADA OHIO VA. ALA. PENN. WASH. KY. MAINE MISS. MONT ILL. KAN. aSSOUN S. DAK. MINN. OKA. NEB. CAL. LA ARI. N.MEX. wis CoL. MD. R.I IDA. ARK. N.DAK. TOTAL N il > 75 i) i SIMPLY €0ULD NOT FORGET Macaulay’'s Memory Ceuld 6nly_ Be Described as Marvelous—John Bright a Cless §econd. -~ Talking of quickness in repartee a story of Sydney Smith was cited I had not yet heard. “Do tell, me, Mr. Smith,” exclaimed s rather gushing young lady, “what is dogmatism?* “My dear young lady,” he replied, “dogmatism is only puppyism grown older.” I remember at breakfast one day at my father’s, Lord Macaulay.began te repeat some trashy old historical bal- lads, and so went on verse after verse until my father exclaimed, “Why, Macaulay, how can you have com- mitted all that rubbish to memory? What utter waste of time!” - “Com- mitted to memory!” cried Macaulay, “I only wish I could forget it. -I sim- ply glanced over those verses when standing at a bookstall one day.” IfI remember rightly, he said at the same time that if the first four books of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” were de- stroyed, he could reproduce them word for word. . . . . Mr. Bright and Mr.: Longfellow met each other for the,first time at our .| breakfast table and were mightily de- lighted with each other. Again the conversation turned upon memory, and |: John Bright asked Mr. Longfellow whether he could identify and claim every line of poetry he had ever writ- ten. Mr. Longfellow thought he could not. Then he in turn put the question —would Mr. Bright be able to identify every one of the speeches he had made? “Yes,” ‘said Mr. Bright, “not every passage, perhaps, taken by itself, but given a certain amount of the context I undoubtedly could” — From “The Notebook of a Spinster Lady.” LITTLE CHANGED BY TIME Dwellers in Mountains of Tyrol Live in Much the Same Way as Did Their Ancestors. The mountains of Tyrol shelter one of the few remaining unspoiled peas- ant people of Europe—a people that wears a native costume, remembers its folk legends and follows customs cen- turies old. The mountain Tyrolese are robust, hard-working folk. Life in the moun- tains demands work from every mem- ber of ®he household from daybreak until after dark. Then, on winter nights, the Tyrolese peasants play. Danciir is a favorite amusement after ! day’s work, and this is all the m surprising because the dances of T re more strenuous than those of Russia or Poland. .Te swing your Becida Stage Line Leaves Schroeder’s Cor. 1:30 p. m. for Be- cida and State Park. Return 8 a. m., daily except Sunday. C. W. TROG l | Try Palace Cafe for the best meals in town “SOMETHING DIFFERENT” Open day and night 812 Minnesota avenue Phone 291-W STAHL-JACOBS A Furniture Renovators All work guaranteed. Work called for and de- livered. General Repair - Shop Phone 488 311 6th St. UR observance of all the polite nicities of the oc- casion forms a strong appeal. Our establishment is thoroughly equipped. We work out each problem in a man- ner that meets with the :approv- al of mankind. ! . pariner up to.thé ceiling, and Te fall -| voptik to hel, i g R down and spring up sagain without us- ing the hands for support are among the “steps” of a gpod dancer's repeg: toire. ! While the dancing couple excitedly swing and caper, the others sing and play the zither, the favorite Tyrolese musical instrument. Original songs are In high favor, and also the old folk songs of princes and peasants, shepherdesses and huntsmen. The peasants sing lustily and well. 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