Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1931, Page 29

STRONG PLEA MADE FORU. . RAILROADS President Stephenson of A. B. | A. Urges Fairer Treatment of Transportation Systems. Rome C. Stephenson, president of the American Bankers' Association, under the title “Why Not "iTeat 'ruein Fairly?” states the case for the ral Toads and the rights of several hu dred thousand citizens who own them in the American Bankers' Association Journal. The United States and its railroads grew up togzther. The West of today had its first existence in the imaginations of the empire builders who planned and constructed the great steel network. Mr. Stephenson sug- gests that the Nation is inclined to neglect its obligations and igncre the fact that its railroads must be kept in strong and healthy condition. Twenty- | two billions in stocks and bonds rep- | resent the public's great stake in Amer- | ica's rail systems. Mr. Stephenson | asks: “Are busses and waterways, in | effect, being subsidized by the Govern- | ment to the detriment of railroads?” | He says in part: ‘ Rise in Bus Traffic. | “Data compiled by the National As- | gociation of Motor Bus _Operators shows the startling expansion that has taken place in recent years in this type of public transportation. In 1925 there were in operation over 69.000 passen- ger busses of all types. In 1929 there were over 92,000, an increase in four years of one-third on an already very substantial base. In 1925 there were a total of 478,000 miles of bus routes. In 1929 there were over 780,000 miles. In the same period 1,125,000,000 common carrier bus passengers rose to 1,855.- 000,000, an increase of 65 per cent. Intercity bus passenger miies rose from | around 4,000,000,000 to over 6,000,000~ 000, or by more than 50 per cent. Com- mon carrier bus miles rose on a similar | scale. Restricting the figures to inter- | city common carrier busses, we find that this type of transportation, distinctly | competitive with the railroads, claimed | 317,000,000 passengers for 1925 and 497,000,000 for 1929, an incrcase of 180,000,000 or nearly 57 per cent. | “In this period railroad passenger traffic dropped markedly, falling from a 36,000,000,000 passenger mileage in 1925 to 31,000,000,000 in 1929, a loss of 5,000,000,000 passenger miles or about 14 per cent. These losses in railroad passenger traffic, of course, have been due mainly to the increased personal uss of automobiles by the American public, and that is unequivocally a natural economic factor with whick the railroads cannot find fault. As to the growth of automotive passenger bus traffic, especially of the longer haul type, however, it is entirely proper to ask to what extent and under what conditions is this competitive with the Ppeople’s railroads. Motor Freight Traffic. “Data relating to highway motor truck freight traffic as a competitor | with the railroads is fragmentary. It/ is reported that at some important Middle. Western points local mlmm} shipments have Virtually disappeared. | Live stock shipping routes up to 200 and | 300 miles from some of the great cen- ters have been taken away from the railroads by the highway motor truck. Even perishables, such as butter and other dairy products, are being chipped from Wisconsin to New York in refrig- erator trucks at 20 per cent below rail rates. It is said that over 2,000 trucks a day crowd 100 miles of highway be- tween Philadelphia and New York laden with freight the 1ailroads used to carry. | “Shoes, cotton, fruits, Taw materials | and finished goods, non-perishables and | Fperishables for which great equipment cutlays have been made by the rail- Toads, are now being. carricd {0 short hau's and leng hau's of 1,000 miles or more by highway-using trucks. We see them operating sing; in fleets—and even with trains of trailers that enable them to pass beyond the less-than-car- load freight fieid and enter into car- load competition with the railroads, “Are the motor busses paying for | their righis of way or meeting any por- | tion of such a capital expenditure? Railroads Need Protection. ‘“We may say that the motor busses have not had to pay for their rights of way in any sens: that the railways paid for theirs. They have simply taken possession of public_highways buflt by public funds, both State and national. And they have extensively made those | highways vastly less comfortable, less! safe and less serviceable for private motorists and others who are con- tributing to their creation and main- tenance. “It s a fact well known to business leaders that our railroads are facing a erisis and need far greater protection.” | The home in London of the late prin- | eess royal is to be offered for sale. | Gen | Many Circus Offers Refused THE EVENING Alabama s Most Beautiful Fla. (left), and Miss May Relfe —A. P, Photo. 1SS JEWEL BAFFIN of Panama City, 3 , M of Mount Meigs, La., who were selected as two of the most beautiful coeds at the University of Alabama. TWO MORE MINES CLOSE 17,500 Pennsylvanians Out of Work—15,000 Strike. WIKESBARRE, Pa., March 30 (#) — Announcement of the closing of two collierfes, throwing 2,500 men out of work, was added last night to the troubles of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal field, harassed during the past week by the now deadlocked strike of 15,000 employes of the Glen Alden Coal _Co. Officials of the Pittston Coal Co. an- nounced that two of the five mines in the Pittston field will close Tuesday for en indefinite period. Depression in coals markets was given 8s the rea- son. Glen Alden C. officials have refused to negotiate on differences over work- | ing conditions until the men return | w0 work. | NEBRASKAN GIANT DIES by 7- Foot, 300-Pound Man. NORFOLK, Neb., March 30 's glant is dead. Boche, 70, who refused circus offers because of his strength and size, died after an of_several months. He was more than seven feet tall and weighed more than 300 pounds. 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Although details of his death were not I°arned, the bandits trequently had said they would kill him | if ransom money of $40,000 were not | | immedately forthcoming In a letter which he contrived to smuggle through his captors some wesks ago he wrote that he was failing, and | that he was “quite resigned to die.” British Asked Release. | Father Tierney, superior at St. Co- | lumban’s Mission at Kiencheng, a small | interior city southeast of Nanchang in | the South China province of Kiangsi, | was captured last November 17. British | authorities made strong representations to the Chincse government in an effort to obtain his release, but with the ban- | dits hidden in the wild mountain re- | gions of Kiangsi, all attempts of sol- diers to reach_them failed. X-Ray Can’tFind | Cause of Stomach Gas 1 had awful ble. Even X-Ray 1 was nervous a done wonders." Unlike most not act on the out BOTH stomach ing_poisons which caused "\ ‘bloatl bad sleep. 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