Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1924, Page 3

THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1924 HARD T0 SOLVE OUR STREET RAILWAY PROBLEM JUSTLY How Shall We Distribute Equitably the Cost of Car- rying Long-Haul Traffic at| a Loss? l ¥HEODORE W. NOYES. Tditorial Correspondence of The Star. | V'Ihix article ix reprint Bear of May 19- 1. Ahvious modifi day.] from The | +ax with slight | fons pertinent to- ; A In tackling the street railway prob- | lem we all to be potently de-| structive; of ~.s sufficiently and | efticiently iv iverybody | Knows to do it; nobody| makes ¢ to do it One of us denounces irffereasc flat pital other exp foliy of between rates seem none constr how mnot how de of s iniquitous of fare ction partiei- the vicious ny*discrimina- | of fare for the| onstrates rat h the C Paves: ar ahd futile fion two r that rider of ation of the nger. Anotk t that the | uld. under a | pay more passenzer. He it as viciously discrimina- unjust to the suburbanite| ful to the public or com- re. checking wholesome opment and tending to 1 congestion and develop e electric light user is fuse to pay in high elec- ic light rates to relieve either the aul or short-haul passenger, or stockholders from the menace of cceivership. The local taxpayer is encouraged to say it is none of his bu and Uncle Sam is invited to wash his hands of all res Without municipal ownersh rallway, we are told, will & 1o an i receivership, and | municipal rship, non-self-governing is worse, we are a receivership. Co-Operate in Upbuilding. stead of ur d we not ously in operation is question transfer syste short-haul and as hu munity we bility 1 i warned out of finan the compa re res spect to whi agement o alienated what public The real problem to be solved is that of reconstructing after the war the atreet railway rapid-transit system of the Dintrict of Columbia so that it shall function effectively for the development of the Greater Wash- ington, rendering good service a rasonable rates over the whole Dis- trict. Lo render ad. quate service the rai ARTHUR TRRIN knows the sides of New York life that make first page headlines. He told someof the“inside” in “His Children’s Children,” but he goes farther in “TheNeedle’sEye,” his new novel in osmopolitan May On sa|e_’ SPECIAL NOTICES. A SPECTAL COMMT TION OF POTOMAC Jndge, No. 5. I A A, M., will be held Mon- | das, April 14, 7:30 p.m., fo confer the F. C. on. tésolution for ase’ of . LOAD OF FUR- | ‘adeiphia, Wilmins. | Too. 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Chairman republicdn ked the preference porary chairman INC him John T. national President with the has Adams of committee icate his respect to the tem- of the convention It iy recognized that a temporary chairman often becomes the perma- nent chairman by act of the conven- the effort is made to choose | man acceptable to all e party. enator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas- chusetts, the leader of the repub- lican majority in the upper house of | Congress, was made permanent chair- man of the 1920 convention. but while | he would be logically entitled to the place this time by his lensth of service, the feel would be unwise to bring New En tand too much into the picture s0 is factions of —_— deteriorated from the . mus s resto- | ble to ¥ equipment sglect and overuse c restored; to accomplish t ration the railway must be borrow moncy on fayorable terms: to make good the railway's credit it must he doing a paying (even if only slightly paying) business. No one wiil lend it money on endurablo terms if it is compelled to do business at a loss. In this respect the community fare and the railway int and become identic: That the city m = smely into 2 heaithier, tive and n prosperous capital, it is cessary a rapid-transit system of transp a1l extend in eve direction irbs, relieving urban cor climinating or minimizing i Long-Haul In the begin raany transit extensions hole community, elves profitable into the Tun Crafiic Carricd at a Loss. and sometimes for suburban rapid- o beneficlal to lhel are not in them- | The carrying of the | aul suburban passenger is ata to be met by somebody, as. for . by the urban street railway to which the suburban roads serve by the city short-haul pa. by the community as a whole xpayers or b me combination | years 1oss, In the case of Washington this| lo: | has in the past been borne mainly and primari y the Washington { Railway and Electric Company, which | combined into one system two urhan‘ and a dozen or more un- | s, mainly suburban. The | en strengthened to en- | n in the public interes i enjoyment of large, | sibly excessive, electric light prof- | and by the savings which resulted | ayment of low wages to s, the company, in ef pr company b dure this d {by fect, shifted it: light users and poorly paid employes. But the workmen's wages have, since the early of the company, been increased several hundred per| cent, over 100 per cent in the last few | Vears, and the electric lisht rates and { profits have been cut dowsn. The rail-| road stockholders are © longer able | under existing conditions to bear alone this community burden. In the com- | pulsory attem they have ceased to earn dividend so far as the common | stock is concerned, and are even men- aced with indirect’ confiscation of the cipal of their investment receivership or cumpu‘:sur: xx\4‘r,l;4‘:‘mnn i able atory terms, ;z\:gm'lq.m‘ and _con s men nd women, rgely “r".shln%- tonians, who constitute the \“‘J Illl’lb.v. ton Railway and Electric Company stockholders. No One Wishes a Losing flmlml: Gobody will rush to assume thej pu'\nfi?-w;en-m burden which has| proved so disastrous to th_ese stock- holders, neither the Capital Trac- tion Company nor the municipality through the taxpayers, nor through municipal or government ownership. In 1918, in opposing the purchase and owners of the local street Tailways by the municipality, I called attention to the difficulty of fixing a for the compulsory purchase of railwa: which would be fair to both taxpayer and stockholders. I 3! he present owners of the Wash- ington Strect railways are the men, Women and children who own street railway stock. They are l?rg_ely Washingtonians. Of the 2,002 Capital Traction stockholde 1,551 reside !n he District, and 1,775 of the 2,350 Washington Railway and ngclru: stockholders are residents of Wash- ington. Some are large owners; many are small owners. They ha paid all sorts of prices for their stock. A few still remain who bought as a gamble at low prices in the period of no dividends, experiment, failure and pessimism. Most of the present owners have bought after the losses and anxiety of the pioneer and ex- perimental period had been endured And some returns in dividends were in evidence or immediate prospect. Many, influenced by a confidence, pg{v ects of the propérty, have paid excessive prices for exchange-manipulated and inflated stock. Confiscation of Franchise Values. +If the Washington taxpayers will the street railways from the Washington stockholders who now Will they give back to the rany who have paid inflated prices or inflated stock the money which they have invested? Or will they dis- regard entirely the money paid in by the present owners and confiscate the future franchise values (which the stockholders thought they owned), by paying only the amount necessary to replace the existing equipment and plant? i “Why should Washingtonians as | taxpayers either cheat Washington- | jans as stock owners or cheat them. selves? i “If the taxpayers reimburse the | stockholders, including those who | have paid artificially inflated prices, | they will be foolish. If they do not | roimburse the stockholders and con- | fiscate the future franchise value that | entered into the stockholder’s invest- ment when he bought, the transaction will be in essence dishonest, If in buying one must be either a fool or a knave, one should not buy.” The same difficulty that arises in connection with the compulsory sale of both roads to the municipality is met when the purchase, compulsory | fale or confiscation by inveluntary merger of one road for the benefit of the community, another road, or anybody else whatever is proposed. Distribute Burden Equitably ! Our problem today is to distribute equitably the burden of bearing this | municipal obligation among all upon whom any share of it in fairness falls, Under these circumstances what ought each of the several groups of ‘Washingtonians concerned do in the public interest? Those who have profited by the wine policy of earrying long-hanl | passengers at a loss in order that the | capital might expand over the whele | District and become the greater | Washington are (1) some of the ! Washington Raflway and Electric | Company stockholders, (2) the long- | haul passengers, and (3) the taxpay- pay m. Frank Libbey Co. it worx \ 6th and New York Ave, MWy ing community as a whole—the gen- eral publ LTo Be Comtinuedd Interest Centers on Attitude of 1' ! ballot 1o y _since the probable nominee from Massachusetts. Longworth Being Mentioned. Representative Longworth of Ohlo, the leader of the House, is being mentioned, as is also Senator Borah of Idaho, Senator Willis of Ohio, former Senator Beveridge of Indiana, and former Gov. Lowden of Illinois. As for vice presidential candidates, there is an abundance of them, but the chances are that before the con- vention meets the party leaders will have selected 2 man based upon the preferonce of the President himself. The objective of the republicars in this connection is to draw the mid- dle west and west closer to the east naming for Vice President a man o is strong with the western farm- Judge Kenyon of lowa, former ov. Lowden, Senator Lenrodt of Wis- consin and Senator Cappér of Kansas are among the names discussed The platform is to be worked out ahead of time, so that it will conform to the wishes of the man ho 0ing to run on it. Plans ar ready ng made for the conduct of the mpaign. John T. Adams had al- ready indicated before the death of President Harding that he wished to retire this June, and he has not changed his mind Bascom mp, private secretary to President Cool- idge, been suggested as his suc- cessor particularly Dbe use of Mr.| Slemp's long m rity with national Committee affairs and campaign strategy. But he rendering. such valuable service to the President in his present position that Mr. Cool- idge would part with him only with reluctance 1 The name of Charles D. Hilles ol, New York is mentioned as a Dus-l iule chairman his pre- vious experience ne hai Intcrest Centers on Progressives. Mr. Coolidge will bo nominated by large vote—that much now is taken for granted—but the interest cen- n the extent to which Messre. Folletto and Hiram Johnson will ¢ to prevent the momination being nimous on the first| Already Mr. Coolidge has /| of the delcgaten ussured. | Gihers who are regular repub- ans would not wish to risk presi- dential disfavor by recording them- elves anti-Coolidge. This means than all except the delegates pledged La Follette and Johnson will swing at once to Coolidge. At present writing the combined num- ber opposed to Coolidge would not ap- pear (o be in excess of fifty, so that out of more than a thousand ‘delegates the President will have enough to make the ult seem to be the united action of L jority The managers are wondering how they make the Cleveland convention in- ting, inasmuch as the principal sinass’ will have been disposed of head of time. Speeches, no doubt. will be delivered, and it may be that Presi- | dent Coolidge will be prevailed upon to address the convention itself. It would break a precedent, but would at the ame time furnish the opportunity for the President to open the campaign be- fore the men who will actively conduct it in the succeeding months. ! with an enormous axe, seemingly for The Fun Shop Conducted by Maxson Foxhall Judell The Young Ram’s Song. 4 JORGE S, CHAPPELL. What means this tremor in my bleat? ! And why, I wonder, do my feet i Dance to'a syncopated beat Along the primrose way? Why do I long to leap and run And butt my head into the sun;: Although 1 know it can't be done, Can anybody say? Is it the sun or yonder hill Or merry music of the mill. Or blackbird’s whistle, merrier still, Or what, or which, or who? Ah me. ‘tis these and more, I fear, For 1 am young and Spring’s now here, | And all things cry, both far and near, 'Tis Ewe, my love, 'tis Ewe. i No one can predict the success of | an infant by its “first night per-| formance.” Inconsiderate. | me exceedingly. ! my My wife She is most feelings. When, for instance, I am seated in my easy chair, in the middle of an in- | teresting story, she will shovel quanti- | ties of rattling. noisy coal into Ihl“ furnace, causing a horrible grinding | sound, most unpleasant and dis- turbing. At other times when quietly amid the® cushions of the chaise longue, 1 hear her toting up great buckets of coal for presumable | use in the kitchen. Sometimes she | slips, falling down the basement stairs with hods and coal on top| of her, making a horrid clatterin that sadly disturbs my state of mind When | would doze by a sunny win- dow, or loll at case in the enjoyment of a cigar, 1 hear her smashing up boxes annoys inconsiderate of 1 wish to lie kindling wood, or beating up great, dusty rugs outside, My wife annoys me exceeding] —C. G. SHAW. Tales From Bunkerland. 1 hate golfers. They ruin my disposition. There's the civil engineering golfer. The careful, mathematical bird Who holds up seven hundred people on the course While he lies down flat on his tummy And_squints along the edge of his putter. Then he walks around the flag and takes soundings. He putts in trigonometry. ven shots on every green ome one once told him straight line Is the shortest distance between t{wo points But he doesn’t believe it; He always says that putting Is more than half the game. T'll say it is. 1 hate golfers, They ruin my disposition. DOROTHY PARKER. The Occulist. il Anna: “What impression did you young doctor when” he ves?" | art was in his work." | EDMUND J. KIEFER. Reproduction_Forbidden.) that a A Strength-giving’ Fo%dg g ForCirls SCOTTS For all malnourished con- ditions, child or adult, SCOTT’S EMULSION is the logical food-tonic. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N.J. 28-57 (Copyright, 1924.) URGES MEN TO STUDY. | Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com- | mandant of the Marine Corps, today | issued a bulletin urging every man | hnd--r his command voluntarily to| take up some study in the Marine| « Corps Institute here. 'An increased standard of educa- tion is being demanded in all walks of 1 Gen. Lejeune reminds the marines, wages are higher and competition is greater. man who has trained hands only will surely fall behind an- other who has a trained head as well.” The Marine Corps Institut i culum includes virtually every s ject that can be taught successfully through the correspondence method Enrollment in the school is not com- | ory. —_— Red Cross Holds Exhibit. Children's garments znd layette articles made from material salvaged from wartime Red Cross supplies are on exhibition at the District of Co- lumbia Chapter, American Red 16 Jackson place northwest. Under the direction of Mrs. James B. Rey- nolds, the chapter is engaged in mak- ing these garments for ochildren in Poland, Hungary and Greece and for American relief work in case of dis- | aster or other emergency. of their Shoes Easter Sunday JPS” Low Shoes for girls. living conditions are better, { ss, | Hard Stuff! 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Zonite is probably the most re- markable antiseptic that medi- cal science has ever given us. 1t surely does kill germs— without injuring the delicate throat tissues. Positively non- poisonous, hence, safe to use. Your druggist has it. New Arrivals in "HAHN SPECIAL” Shoes for Women Patent leath, Gres or_Aire- dale Suede. dale S ) Pnendc-':lemg:, black satin, T A PINDLERC 607 12th St. N.W.-M. 2704 S | Tuesday—Wednesday Bananas o Doz., 25¢ Kale 3 lbs., 12%2¢ Potatoes NEW FLORIDA }3 lbs., 25¢ Spinach 2 lbs., 15¢ Apples WINESAPS 4 lbs., 25¢ Spareribs lean and Press all and Deliver Ladies’ Suits $1.50 No One Can Decide to Save—But YOU! YOU know vou should save something LEveryone knows that. We can teli the importance of Saving for S Happiness. Your friends can set the ex- ample. You can read about it— BUT You Must Decide! Will You Save and Really Start? It Up to You Alone! 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