The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1950, Page 7

FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950 THESE DAYS --BY¥-» GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY OUR RAILROADS The American railroads used to e thé great pride and joy of the ountry, just as our post office t. Those days when wonderful. as something to marvel good old 50 the thin, in competition with 1 trailers and airplanes, Yet, no matter how you look at they remain our most import- knt means of communi n and ey ought not to be imperiled by \ | cent years. | gulation ;and over-taxation. s precisely what has_been happening to the railroads in re- | Martin W. Clement, chairman of the board of the Pennsylvania Railroad, made the point: “If it was important in the past to protect the piblic and the rail- |roads by regulation, it is equally ! important now to protect them| from regulation. Regulation is| gradually ceasing to be what 1t was intended to be. It is becoming a ‘super management’ (a form of ! centralized state operation, if you | please) enforcing its own business | judgment—or political judgment— | upon railroad rates and practices, | | RADIO LOG ! RINTX Alaska Broadcasting Co. CBS — NBC DIAL 1460—JUNEAU FRIDAY EVENING 6:15—Strange Advenhure. - 6:00—News. | 6:20—Sport Scene. | G:SO—Bl]lbOB:‘d of Air, | 6:45—Local News. 7:00—Ave Maria Hour | 7:30—ARTHUR GODFREY-CBS 8:00—Forecasts. 8:05—Music for Listening. | 8:30—ARCHIE ANDREWS-NBC. gradually undermining the capaclty | |of the railroads to provide the; quality of transportation under just and reasonable . rates that ‘man-! agerial initiative, unhampered, can provide.” | 1 FITZGERALD l(”efigcg'{KE Y Bpurbon : s & IH‘\; GENUINE OLD STYLE SOUR MASH KENTUCKY It is not only that the I. C. C.| y super-manages the en-| vad system of the country, from railroad manage- | all possibility of flexibility | and initiative, but the gavrrnmenti | is actually subsidizing the principal | | setitors of ‘the railroads, while | ax the railroads to finance own apparently inevitable | socialization. Any railroad man | will admit that between regulation | {and subsidization, the railroads are | approaching the point where “gov- | | ernment ownership is being mm‘ut‘ | bra | tire | remc ment STRAIGHT {to seem inevitable.” | 10:15—Look at Books-ABC, « BOURBON Clement, referring to this, said: ! 10:30—Kids on KINY. WHISKEY [ “The air lines should exist with- | 11:00—CHRISTOPHER LONDON- | BONDED !ouz subsidy. Now they enjoy tax- NBC. 100 PROOF )bum, tax-free airports, tax-main-| 13:30—Listener’s Digest-ABC. tained airways, and- a big mail 11:45—Harmony Time. | subsidy-~many mxlupns a.year, “m]\ 11:55—Forecast. | connection with this mail sy\hsxdy 12:00—Hit Tunes. 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Saturday Merning and Afternood Sign On. 7:00—Sunrise Surprise. 7:05—Locel Weather . 7:30—News Summary. 8:00—Morning Thought. 8:15—News Headlines. 8:25—Weather report. 9:00—:Music for the Missus. 9:50—Weather report. 9:35—Songs by Eddie Arnold. 9:45—Dusty Records. 10:00—News. 10:05—Just Jaza. | subsidize the government and the | | succeeded . |Soviet Russia. It is when an econ- PAINT WITH WW ‘; 1:30—Christian Science. 1:45—UNIVERSITY EXPLORER- CBS. 2:00—DATZ WITH MUSIC-CBS. 3:30—UP FOR PAROLE-CBS. 4:00—Music. 4:15—Children’s Chapel. 4:30—JOE DI MAGGIO-NBC. 5:00—DIMENSION “X”-NBC. 5:30—Viking Varieties. All programs subject to change due to conditions beyond our com- “rol. i United States mail—enough to pay the air mail subsidy. i “The railroads, in other words, government subsidizes our compe- tition. Then, under subsidy, ofr competitors charge less for their service and the railroads lose busi- ness.” If it could be said that tne rafl- | roads have become obsolescent asi a form of transportation, the prob- lem would simpy be that newer | forms have replaced older forms; that more eificient methods have less efficient methods. It would be like the automobile re- lacing the horse and buggy. That is not true, for while the motor vehicle and the airplane have their important place in our economy, they, by no means, have replaced rail transportation either of per- sons or goods. If the railroad sys- tem were permitted to deteriorate, ‘he loss to the country would bYe heyond imagination. This is one of many problerhs which arises from a mixed economy. There are simplicities in capitalism when competition is rife and even 1uthless; there are simplicities in total socialism such as exists ir ¢my is in the “grey” stage, where there is the appearance of private management with increasing and expanding government regulation, and the possibility of government ownership _through excessive tax- | ation, that a confusing paralysis sets in. It is precisely such a paralysis that limits initiative in the railroads. The “grey” mind—which abhors those who see things in absolutes— often fails to realize that confusion | is a waste, particularly in the field of economics. The British are learning thtt fast, for their own'economy is not making the strides they had anti- cipated under socialism. For in- stance, the main reason for British uncertainty or even opposition to the Schuman Franco-German coal and steel pool is that they fear that they will never be able to compete, under their controlled ec- onomy, with a free économy which can come into being in a Franco- German economic umion. Regulation is essential in many areas of our socfal and political life, but regulation can expand it- self into control, then into state management. It is the . expanding period that is the most confusing and the most wasteful. SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSENS INVITATION TO BID The Alaska Department of Health, Juneau, Alaska, announces the in- vitation to bid for furnishing eye- glases with cases, f.0.b. any point within the Territory of Alaska. Interested bidders may obtain specifications and bid forms at room 1203, Territorial Building, Juneau, Alaska. Sealed bids will be received until 4:00 p.m., July 1, 1950, and then publicly opened. C. EARL ALBRECHT, M.D. Commissioner of Health. First publication, June 16, 1850. Last publication, June 30, 1950. © THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ——— ettt . oH, MY DARLING d3 5. MY OPRLING & i CLEYDN A ?0"\‘@6 % & ?INKNEY-GRIMES LAST DAY OF TRAINING PROVIDES A DISPLAY OF HIS LETHAL LEFT HAND. IN FIVE ROUNDS HE HAS ACTUALLY KAYOED THREE SPARRING MATES AND ALL WITH THE LEFT. School is out, Corky, and Im ready to go to 'work. WITH HIS LITTLE “JIM DANDY VENTRILOQUIST'S AID” IN HIS MOUTH, FLINTHEART RETURNS. ~ MR. PINKNEY-GRIMES WILL s a poor time to ask fora I CAN'T STAND MUCH MORE OF THIS HAM! ME JUMPY! BESIDES, HE'S DANGEROUS TO HAVE ENTHAR HAIN'T FER A MAYOR - PAGE SEVEN IMAGINE A GROWN-UP WOMAN RINGING DOORBELLS AND, RUNNING ! JUS' KEEP_VYER SEAT, LOOPY ! TRY NOT TO WORRY /, X TWO LAST ROUNDS BEFORE WINDIN'-HUP TRAININ': . 'E WILL BOX BARRY GARGOON OF SUSSEX. 1 60 15 BANQUET FINALLY READY, EH # OF COURSE, YOU WiLL AND IN'THE TOWN... 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