South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-07


GLIDING trips at intervals not exceeding
minutes. with schedules maintained. etc.
curing that there first be put into effect, the
jitney ordinance now before the common council
IS well deserving Of favorable consideration.
We have not heretofore been particularly fav-
orable ttney legislation regarding the Jtney bus
sort Of necessity. especially in getting lots Of
working men to and from work the street serv
ice being Inadequate. Remove the inadequacy Of
street service-that inadequacy TO come first
and the jitney should per haps be sidetracked-from
its present parking sites nd routes Of direct
petition least
The jitneys not. in judgment. anywhere
the menace TO the public that street railway
officials would make out that they We have
doubts II they take any such money from the street
company that is claimed that they do AS
rule people Lrefer a street car when they get
But for the presence of the titney the Of
their passengers would have to walk, wait in
definitely sometimes. reach their destinations. Be
sides, having donated streets without compensa
tion to the traction corporation that should be
ALFRED pernicity about the jitneys using them
is foldero We haven't oticed the traction COM
pany being overly active in repairing the pavements
that they destroy along their tracks
However. that refers to the past, and is only
basis of judgment: not proof Of continuation. The
ordinance is brought forward backed by the prom
ises of the street car management of needed i'm
prOvements in service, declaring they cannot
I afford to make these improvements unless they
can have the money now going TO the jitney
interests. Plainly enough then, the purpose of
the ordinance is to put the jitneys out Of bust
ness. how the traction company expect
to get that money. We do not object particularly.
their getting the money If will bring the
ice, and to make Of that it is agreed that the
service shall be installed first. the effectiveness of
the ordinance being contingent upon that fact. We
congratulate Gen. Manager Smith rutting for
ward and agreeing to such faith restoring terms.
Such ordinance would enable the traction
pany to market its bonds; it might also be well in
asmuch the bondholders would then be interested
IN seeing that the money went into the improve
ments that would make the jtney ordinance effec-
tivc--instead of being spent somewhere else This is
. charge OF bad fifth the part of the y
management but this management has long rec
ord Of broken promises the part OF previous man
agements to live down. The people excusable
being fooled then but they permit
themselves to De fooled over and over again. from
the the way. After all the
management OF the local traction lines is subject
the same directorate has stood prom
ises made this city. and back Of the breaking OF
those promises. many and many a time heretofore
1t IS now of getting the street service:
something that will truly supplant the jitney bus
when it is gone-which very evidently is the Fur
pose of the law: to put them business South
Bend is coming the front More frequent service
and better equipment eded the lines running
in half dozen directions The field here no
will object to the traction company saturatng it.
reaping the harvest. will give the peo-
pie what they want need. and must have The prop
oston submitted here is not a new to this
column 1t put forward away back in 1915 when
the jtneys came: when the first agitation
promoted from traction headquarters to remove the
conn etton which lack of service had invited into
existence.
With brighter future for the city before nat
urally there is a greater willingness to meet the
necessity. and b. acting first prove the good faith
that the people have a right to demand in the face
of experience. before going to the lengths that the
ordinance proposes why not? We speak for the
Jtney bug but for the requirements of the people
the people too poor TO automobiles of their own,
who ride the cars, jitneys, walk, in
order to get anywhere 1t is a transportation Lrob-
lem and should be treated such. with the people,
not the traction company considered first.
a bid for the growing overall trade a New York
store has cut mems suits from SIS to $3.50 And
claim is made that the goods being sold below
yet Draw your own conclusion.
The students and faculty that have taken oath
to wear my clothes until they fall off" will dis
probably that the proprieties will require
reservations the letter OF the Pledge.
Once movers took precautions with their pianos
and mahogany furniture. Now they spend their
caution what Is moved from the cellar.
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