The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-19

nJn nav the Southern hdIi""' 80
+ronsnortation remains part VI 'no
.rornine capital of the Southern peo
10. INIT it is interesting to pursue
tho thought a step. further to rear
~a+;,, If what these disbursements Wy
+he southern Railway in the oou.n
Noon in the life and growth OF TIC
eo,,+harn neople. OF the total OF sew
entv.six millions paid Out aio'e
Southern Railway lines last year "p
nroximately forty-three million uo1le
,,o,,+ tn the army of $4,000 EMPLOYEES
end fms on the conventional basis Oh
fve To a family, directly supported
.ho,t 2e5.OeO Southern people, VI
about six and one-half times the pop
,.,o+;o,, of Chattanooga at the date OF
the last census e.r,.ad
! have spoken of our pfelei leu
stockholders, but the real prele1leu
stockholders of the Southern nan
wav System, in the matter Oh piioil.'
Of claim are the political govern
noents of the States, countess anu
cities along it's lines. Their claim
n,on railroad revenues comes aneaS
even of that of employees, ana 'ney
took s3,743,70439 in the last nscsi
year It is hard to grasp the slsnln-
canoe of figures as large as IhlS
what our tax payments really 49,
!. 70 the communities along our nneS
ran he better understood by an Illus
tratiye analysis Of our payments VI,
, account of school taxes and road anu
hr;doe taxes in the southern STATES
. In 1912. our school taxes In tnese
states amounted to something oVei
: $500 600. Or an. average OF twenty
, oieht hundred dollars for each couh
tv trayersed by our lines. AT the as,
erage annual compensation OF scnool
teachers in the Southern STATES a.
reported by the United States buieao
of Education, this would more tnal
nav for ten teachers in each county
II represents 1884 out of every $1o'
) If school taxes paid in these States
, and amounts to fifteen dollars 10
5 each school building in the States
y trayersed by our lines. Every dolla
s. Maid to the Southern Railway 10
L TRANSPORTATION charges thus 1nciuoe
a substantial contribution TO IN
maintenance Cl Lu0 oJoIOA VI F~N
education in the South.
Il PAYMENTS by the Southern Rall"a
IS system in the same year or taxes u
1t rectlv assessed for public roads an
is bridges amounted to 47,966.6S, Q
of an average Of $1,571.81 for each coul
ty along our lines. Every dollar Pal
IT tn the Southern Railway for transpo
is tation charges thus includes also
a. substantial contribution to the man
;h tenance of the public highways OF I'll
n South and is an indirect but none IL
90 less real public support of the pr
eli sressive movement for good and be
Ell ter roads.
ue have referred to the impracuc
In bility of determining the amounts
vs. interest and dividends paid to hol
ut ers of securities living along the III
ty- of the road. We know, however, tn
'rt large percentage of our populate
60 have a very real though Indirect pe
Fly sonal interest in these securities ev'
We though they may never nave seen
ut railroad bond or stock certlnca
"a There are few families in the Sou
ra' who do not hold an insurance poll
lat of some sort; either an assurance
ger life or against the risk of ire. L
The invested funds Of the great lnsuran
Ter companies are, therefore, matter
nd, vital concern to the Southern Peep
ent e~1 t. 'a~oo r'e"' ''''o are their g