Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-04-03
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BY Arthur Brisbane
Where Are the Passengers?
Germany's Victory.
Surprising the Greek.
The Billion Dollar Age.
] San Diego, Callf.-ofticials OF the
Santa Fe road. gathered in convention,
were told by their president. Mr..
Storey, that something Is happening
to railroad passenger business In the
United States.
In 1922 the Santa Fee carried 15.00O,-
600 passengers. In 1923 the number
had dropped to 100000.
That means d good deal to railroads,
to owners OF railroad stocks. and to
the automobile industry.
Automobiles. privately owned. and
public automobile bus lines. have made
the change.
And Mr.. Storey's figures will
change again soon, when fully
developed air travel takes 90 per cent
of long distance travel from railroad
and motor bus lines.
Do not hurry to sell your Santa Fe
or other sound railway stock, however.
Railroading now is really railroading,
not stock jobbing. And better methoda,
bigger locomotives, longer trains, bet
ter yards and thousand improvements,
including. especially. loyal co-opera-
tion by railroad union workers, have
more than made up for the drop in
passenger travel. Freight Is the thing.
now, and that depends on prosperity.
Germany lost the war, but wins In
other directions. Recently the German
Bremen, lowering the record across
the Atlantic, took the blue ribbon
from the British
Now the North German Lloyd liner
Europa has beaten the Bremen's rec
ord.
The Europa, magnificent $1,000 ton
ship. according to builders here and
In Britain, would be too expensive
for American or British lines The in
vestment of <JO.OOO.OOO could not be
profitable.
Germany. beaten. Is able to do what
the winners OF the war cannot do.
A Greek philosopher was exiled be-
cause. he said the sun was probably
We know now that the sun Is mil
lion times bigger than the earth, and
In distant space other suns are mil
lion times bigger than ours, making
them one million million times bigger
than the cosmlc grain of sand we live
on.
An Italian, Professor Bendanl,
announces discovery of the fact
that our solar system liz fifty
times bigger than astronomers
thought. What would the old Greek
have said TO ihat2
This Is the billion dollar age. The
old plain million, once reyered, Is as
unimportant as the extinct hanson
cab. %.4eA
Gen. w. w. Atterbury, president ct
the Pennsylvania railroad. foresees ex-
penditures by his company In the next
ten years amounting to ten billions
of dollars.
Ten thousand millions la n good
many dollars.
The Pennsylvania has already
spent six thousand millions.
The running time from New York
to Chicago will be cut to fourteen
hours within few years.
Trains will carry passengers auto
mobiles with them As ocean steam
ships now carry them. Radiophones
will enable travellers to talk to their
Offices and to their homes.
Lie mousse or representatives voted
to increase the national contribution
to good roads from $75,0O0OO to
$125,OO0,0O0 year for three years,
beginning next July.
This win mean, In three years. 1915.
100000 for better roads alone, good
news for all citizens, for the automo
bile industry. Its employees and fol
the unemployed.
On April 9 the Mormon church will
be one hundred years old. Plural mar
riage has gone. but the church remains
powerful, with numbers increasing, aft
er a century OF struggle and oppoal
ton. Nearly one million M0rmons vii
celebrate the day; the main celebra
ton at Salt Lake City, others all over
this and nearly all European coun
tries and In Mexico, Australia, Hawai-
and the South Sea Islands.
The late Lord Dalfour was power
full In establishing and guaranteeing
Jewish rule In Palestine. To homo
his memory, every Jewish child borI
In Rumania next week will be names
for. him. the boys Balfour. the girl
Balfourla.