Evening star., 1931-06-27

T HE EVENING POST, yelling
ton.-The brief statement made
by the mayor concerning city
i transport finance does not af-
ford sufficient information for
detailed comment, but the general out
line given is interesting. The year
ended with a profit for the trans Of
SAC, 900 and a loss on the busses OF
| S65 900. Last year there was a tram
profit of $4,000 and a bus loss of $72,-
! 600. It will be seen, therefore that the
conversion of a profit on the combined
services into a loss is due to the set
back in tramway results. The buses
have made. headway by S7,50o-
though, on the present accounting sys-
tenn, they are still far from paving their
way-and the trans have lost ground
| by $4,000. 1t would not be fair, there
| for, to argue, as has been argued in
| the past, that it is the bus service that
is pulling the transport finances down
| this year, any more than it cid last
year.
we are pleased to see that the mayor
made no such submission. Indeed. one
remark which was made supported the
argument we have submitted-that the
present system does not permit fair
comparison Of tram and bus economy
How can the buses be expected to pay
| Che said) picking up traffic only in
/ the ragged ends of the city which
| the trans do not Serve?" There are
trans also which pick up traf1c in the
ragged ends of the city, but these tram
sections are not separated from the
whole. The ragged ends are credited
with a share of the profit from the in
ner area. In a fair system of account
| ing, similar credit should be given to
| the buses.
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German Workers
| Seek 44-Hour Week.
Cologne Gazette-The union of the
employees of the public service depart
mentS at Lubbock, as well as the union
of passenger vehicle and truck drivers,
has adopted resolution to be sub
mitted to the managements, whereby
| the weekly working time shall be re-
duced to A hours, without any reduc-
ton in pay. The time previously worked
was so hours weekly. They also ask the
employment of one new worker for
each IL workers now employed. Con-
Germs employing fewer than IL work
man will be enabled to put on an extra
man, whose wages will be paid, until
business gets better, at least, out of a
| fund created by the unions. The bene-
| fits of such new procedure, 1t Is
| pointed out, will be noticeable 1mmed1-
ately in the lesSening OF expenditures
for the unemployed.
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U. s. and Great Britain
| Set Example for Rest of World.
La Prensa, Buenos Aires.-To say
that the. industrial advance of this
country has not been attended with
cultural progress is a grave fallacy. The
| two trends are always necessarily asso-
ciated, for where there Is no desire TO
improve our mundane condition there
are no aspirations for the nobler evolu-
tions Of the life and soul.
The savages in equatorial Africa and
! the fur-clad, blubber- -devouring aborig-
| ines of Antarctica have no art or lit
erature or refinement. Their whole ex-
! istences are spent in perpetuating their
existences. They spend one day en-
deavoring only to sustain themselves
upon the next in a certain amount Of
animal comfort and suficiency. What
| a vain and purposeless achievement.
| for in the last summing-up of the de-
sirable omplishmentS Of ell these
people no disadvantage would have been
\ noted by the human race II they had
not lived at ALL
A modern nation must progress or
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