Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 19, 1919, Page 3

" FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER o -ROAD « BUILDING MEET DEMANDS OF TRAFFIC Construction of Freak Highways 8Should Be Stopped—Permanency Should Be Sought. J. J. Hil], in a speech in Minne- wpolis, January 23, 1910, said: “If the problem of the railroad terminals be weglected for the next five years as it has for the last ten, it will blight every form of activity by paralyzing the_whole trade.” W. C. Brown, president of the New York Central lines, said November 5, 1912: “If cars are kept in motion at the average speed of freight trains at at present time, they would make on the average four times the mileage they do now. The trouble is the cars, 1s a rule, are held lohger to load and onload thdn the time involved in the actual movement of the cars”—that is, the terminal had the railroad by the throat and was choking three-quarters of its efficiency out of it. The predic- tion of Hill was absolutely correct. 4 perlod of acute congestion in rail- road transportation had already set in and would have gone to the bitter end of paralyzing every form of activity tad. not the motor truck, which had 00, terminals, gone to the rescue. Now at this time, May 1, 1919, another thing has got the motor truck by the throat and 18 choking three-quarters of its efficlency out of it. This time it is the 'dime museum freak construction of our so-called good roads, not by tying up the motor truck as the locomotive was tied up in the terminal, but by knocke ing it and its\trailers to pleces, thus cutting short the life of the rolling stock, as well as making it move slower and with not over one-quar- ter of a load over the imperfect sur- faces, increasing the cost of motor- truck transportation way beyond what it ought to be for what the motor truck does, as well as limiting the amount it can do way down below the normal, writes Frederic J. Nash, in New York World. Had these roads ‘heen properly constructed they would ‘have gone to the stock exchanges znd ‘been bought and sold ‘there, like every other kind of transportation securi- tles. As it is, they have gone to pieces and left the bondholders, the states, counties and townships, their bonds on their hands and only a scrap heap of bad roads to show for them. These freak roads, had they been offered on the stock exchanges with only them- selves as security would not have sold for one cent on the dollar. They are 'built on the credit of the states, coun- ties and townships through which they passed. This at tko rate of two hundred millions of dollars per year. A speed of 150 miles an hour on the ‘beach at Daytona, Fla., was made last Lincoln’s birthday, a rate of speed which the locomotive has never been able to reach. Anything beyond a three-ton truck load is more than a freak highway can safely carry, while the ordinary normal load of the freight .car on its rallroad is 50 tons. If these few things could be: combined in the ‘highway—absedce of terminals, a rate of speed beyond that of the railroad, a freight-carrying tonnage equal to ‘that of the railroad, a cost of the up- keep less than that of the railroad, this would multiply our present means -of transportation seven or eight times :and give this country a prosperity dur- ing the next dozen years such as we ‘have never even dreamed of. We want _to change our form of highway, «construction over night and put our highway securities on the stock ex- changes and not our highways on the «dump :heap. Highway stocks and ‘bonds based on the value of this prop- . «rly-constructed highway will pay a higher rate of interest than the rafl- ways ever have; for it will do much more work, Good Roads In Arizona. Assisted by national and forest service appropriations, the state of Arizona and its 14 countles have start- ed upon a road improvement program.| expected to consume at least $10,- 000,000, . Bond lssue Is Answer. Few communities, except those hav- $ng large citles in them with a result- ing high valuation, can afford & mod- ern system of highways and pay as they go. The only other alternative s to issue bonds. ) FOR YOUR LIVERY CAR Day or night the year round. New Dodze and Ford Cars at your service WARD BROTHERS T T T C. R. SANBORN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Oftice: Miles Bloek House Phone 449——Office phone 6§ A. BROSE 400 Minnesota Ave. First Class Rooms in Electric Yapor Sulphur A bath for all ailments for Connection HE superb either ladies or gentlemen Pipe Man and T quality of Ladies hairdressing i 5 g our appointments and massages Tobbaconist fulfills the re- Lady attendant. Lar son & l.arS(m ’ quests of the i s 332 OPTOMETRISTS i Call at 1009 Bemidji Ave. A most exacting. 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