South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-02
TWO P|NCHOTs ARE
OUT FOR SENATOR
Clifford Will Be Progressive
Candidate in Pennsylvania
While Brother Amos Will Be
Out for Position in New York
BY gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. THE two
Pinchot brothers are headed for the
u. S. senate. Not only is Clifford
Pinchot TO be a candidate for sem
ator in Pennsylvania, but Amos Pin
chot is likely to figure in the Senat-
orlal race in New York.
1t is already practically decided
that Clifford will have the progressive
nomination in Pennsylvania Amos
IS quite as active and progressive in
New York, and is even more radical
than his brother. He believes in the
Osborne platform of the New Jersey
progressive party, which declared for
municipal ownership and the taxa
ton of unearned land values, while
removing the tax from labor values.
He has been fighting the George w.
Perkins faction and is strongly sup
ported by the rank file of the pro-
gressive party in New York state.
Against him there viii be a Barnes
republican candidate-prObably Root
and a democratic candidate named
by Tammany. In Pennsylvania, Gift
ford Pinchot will run against Penrose
and some democrat still unnamed.
There is every probability that Gift
vania, but the New York situation is
much more problematical.
kilograms at one cent word or
less is what the American public
reasonably expect from a publicly
owned telegraph system. The best
proof that this can be done is the
fact that it is already being done.
And it is being done now by a private
company which makes out of its bust
ness, and not by a government which
does not have to make g. profit.
The "Telepost" is the proof. The
'TelepoSt" is a little company which
does business between the cities of
Chicago and st. Louis. Its charge is
% cents for % words. The old tele-
graph companies charge 80 cents for
ten words between these cities. The
''Telepost" is making a profit from
sending messages at a cent a word. 1t
is not in business for its health Its
stockholders expect it TO pay them
dividends on their investment. How
does this company do it? It's secret
lies in using existing inventions
(Such as are in use today in the gov
ernment-owned telegraph systems of
Europe) for cheapening telegraph
service. Such inventions are not used
by the American telegraph monopoly.
The telegraph trust has millions of
dollars invested in antiquated equip
ment, which it would have to discard
If it adopted modern inventions for
cheapening service Ninety per cent
of the messages sent over its wires
go by the old-fashioned simplex syS-
tenn or one message at a time on a
single wire. In some of their bust
est offices they send four messages at
a time.
The "Telepost" sends 1000 words
a minute, much faster than words
can be spoken, and the same wire
over which the telegraph messages
go can be used at the same time for
telephone purposes. The '"Telepost"
can send more words over a single
wire than the old system can send on
6S simplex wires, or on II wires
working quadruplex. The result, of
course, is an enormous Cheapening of
service.
The American telegraph companies
charge so much for their service that
common folks do not use il at all
or at best they use it when they have
to, in case of accident or death. The
chief users of the telegraph are
gamblers-the stock exchange, the
pool room, the betting fraternity,
and so on. The general public does
not use the telegraph because the
charges are extortionate.
But should the government take
over the lines, inventions like the
''Telepost" for cheapening service
would be installed, the cost lowered
TO the user and more and more peo-
pie would be able to use the telegraph
for ordinary communications they