The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-09-27
ROADS--IV

ROADS-IV
The next President Of the United States will be elected the
road issue The next cabinet position be will be that
Secretary of transportation Department Transportation
will be of infinitely Importance the upbung business
in this country than of the departments of
sened the cabinet today with the exception the Departments
of Treasury, Agriculture and Postoffice.
We maintain today Bureau of Public Roads This is in the
Department of Agriculture and is the most important part
that Department 1t there the theory that good
roads primarily farm promotion project 1t has But
it fast becoming quite important problem for the city
for the country has vastly with the problems
which confront the Department Of Commerce than has the Bureau
Lighthouses The reshapng ports
steamship line has just announced its plans from
Caribbean shores Bridgeport Conn There the will be
loaded and aboard freight trucks which will distribute to
cities throughout New England Before the roads of New England
improved meet the auto demands that business would
have either New York Boston then been distributed
by rail- The rail loses that business New York and Boston lose
Bridgeport port and the country folks of New England
expected to lay the roadbeds for these private distributors of
freight
Quite right you may say is to benefit The
heapened goods may with quicker dispatch
But the cities themselves be concerned in this readumen
with freight trucks will develop small ports
the loss of big ports Big cities than railroads thrive
just yards abbator These economic changes
that need wise adjusting.
suggested railroads designed this
strike for the sole of forcing the government
When the verge bankruptcy it
S ready % almost anything its face.
The railroads have acted most unwsey in the past STUPIDITY
selfish shortsghed alleged business men, have brought them
where they are They are now confronted with problems which
prepared More the question of
kinds of roads, to be focusing into centralized
problem TRANSFORMATION Soon the government MUST
take it's positive hand in this problem.
Nor when it does overlook river roads We have
miles of useabe roads Railroads have main
put them ill repue Rivers first path
will be there There thousands of draw
bridges today that have not been turned for than decade
because our fallen into duse People have
grown they nonnavigabe Yet the govern
properly navgabe streams and insists that
bridges that span them shall recognize them such and be
ready open boats that The river resuscaton
near. Open the bridge The boats coming.
Many of these rivers ARE navigab much of the Here
where old Europe has European countries make
that during months of
absolutely dry They them when the water is there
nonperishabe bulk take it's time for delivery
hurry 1t won't spoil What matters if is month
kind freight cheaper by slow river haul
by rail- The problem quite much matter of craft
draft The caamaran the broad shallow barge of the
type the Upper Rhine (Which wade
will carry bulk freight and far to lessen the cost
transportation needs dsnerestd scientific
directing.
Why should not the get food with the
minimum freight haul cost? clear problem coming
eral Department of Transportation to work
In all these transportation calculations not overlook
the problems of the roads in the air. The being
The of the be defined right of way de-
ermihed the landing places plotted The are Just as
much of innovation the engine the steam en-
CINE and the steam engine the stage Light
freight today is being carried by aeropane goes by
aeroane Fast passenger service already infancy
on the roads in the sky. The light freight and
enger service is surely going there say all this
not going hurt the railroads merely exhibiting an
utter lack of prophetic vision And doesn't take