The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-08

Property values will be greatly upset and rendered unstable if there is any lessening in the street railway service," said Anglin White, real es- tate and insurance man, 1736 South Sixteenth avenue. Property values in Birmingham are materially affect ed by car lines, and many of them are based upon the assumption that adequate service will be rendered. If the fares have to be greatly in- creased people will have to live near CT their work, and this will reduce the number of home owners One ad- vantage that Birmingham has always enjoyed is the fact that a man could live anywhere in the greater city and work wherever he happened to have a position. Higher car fare or re- duced service will greatly interfere"
 'The operation of jitneys is large ly responsible for the serious situa- ton at this time" said Fucker Agee, investment banking. 1894 Twelfth avenue. south Cities as scattered as Birmingham can't support two sy ystems of transportation, but when a jitney service is allowed to take all the cream of the business. both as to hours and short hauls. how can it be expected that a car system can run and give good service when it gets only the long and unprofitable hauls and the traffic late at night and during the dull hours?"
 ''I hold no brief for the street rail- way company, but for my own selfish interest I want to see them haul enough passengers to make expenses and give adequate service, said W. w. Tarleton, Edgewood. When they lose money the service and equipment run down, and the people are unable to get improvements. A regulation of jitneys so that they would have to run under the same conditions the cars do. and liability bond. would equalize the competition. and l be- lieve this would enable the company to run without increasing the fares, and eventually to- reduce them. As the matter stands now, all the people of the city who ride cars are being taxed to maintain duplicate service for South Highlands and few other favored neighborhoods. At present there is an unjust and unfair dis- crimination against the street rail- way company which handicaps them to the detriment of the service given the public.~
 If the car company were allowed to suspend all service for one or two days the people of Birmingham would find out how necessary car service is to the community," said Charles T. Allen. builder. of Norwood boulevard Some people talk like the operation of street cars is draw back to the city's interests and seem to think they are doing the public a service by fighting the company AS a matter of fact the principal person injured is the property owner and the man who must use a car to go to ana from his work"
 "This is a serious proposition anu demands some serious thinking, saio Paul Hughes, insurance man, lolo Fifteenth street south, and Twenty fourth street. "A subject that means as much to the future of Birmingham and to all the people as this should not be decided on prejudice. It makes no difference what a mans feelings may be toward the car company, BIT | mingham must have adequate car 1 service. A bankrupt concern tha' cant borrow any money can spend more than it takes in. and the fares according to law, must be enough 10