The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-04-03


BY Arthur Brisbane
Where Are the Passengers2
Germany's Victory.
Surprising the Greek.
The Billion Dollar Age.
San Diego, Calif.-Officials 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 Fe carried 15,0oo,-
600 passengers. In 1923 the number
had dropped to 100000.
That means a 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 iobbing. And better methods,
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 $4,000 ton
ship, according to builders here and
in Britain, would be too expensive
for American or British lines. The in
vestment of S50,000,00O 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
bigger than all of the Greek islands.
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 cosmic grain of sand we live
OIL.
An Italian, Professor Bendani,
announces discovery of the fact
that our solar system is fifty
times bigger than astronomers
thought. What would the old Greek
have said to that?
This is the billion dollar age. The
old plain million, once revered, is as
unimportant as the extinct hanson
cab. aEi
Gen. w. w. Atterbury, president OF
the Pennsylvania railroad, foresees ex.
penditures by his company in the next
ten years amounting to ten billions
of dollars.
Ten thousand millions is a 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 a few years.
Trains will carry passengers auto
mobiles with them as ocean steam
ships now carry them. Radiophones
will enable travellers to talk to theil
Offices and to their homes.
The house of representatives voted
to increase the national contribution
to good roads from S75,000,000 Il
$125,000,000 a year for three years
beginning next July.
This will mean, in three years, 1915,
100000 for better roads alone, goo(
news for all citizens, for the automo
bile industry, its employees and fo
the unemployed.
On April 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 opposl
ton. Nearly one million Mormons will
celebrate the day: the main celebra