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Evening star., 1936-03-17

lion dollars. The owners of the stocks
are not getting any dividends on their
money and the owners Of large
proportion Of the bonds are no longer
getting any interest on their invest
ments. This however. Is only part Of
the unfortunate story Of the railroads
in this more recent Of the financial
breakdowns to which they have been
subject with such frequency.
A number Of our other railroads
which are not in receivership or bank
ruptcy have been In such a precarious
position that they have been obliged
to come to the United States Govern
ment for relief. The Government
has in this last crisis lent the roads
in one form or another more than
half billion dollars. As they still
owe over thirty millions Of the
money lent them by the Government
following the war, there is some ques-
ton as to whether this money will
ever be wholly returned. The rail-
roads have generally followed a policy
of living from hand to mouth, that is,
they have never set aside funds to
retire their debt. They have paid
out reserves in high salaries and divi-
dends on stock to keep up the mar
ket. but they have never made ade-
ouate provision for their bonded in
debtedness. They refunded one. bond
issue with another when 1t became
due.
Millions for Shaky Job.
Along the line OF Indebtedness, and
referring back to the roads now in
receivership, take the case Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
road. The bankers reorganized this
railroad in 1928. and within seven
years that new financial structure for
this 100000, 900 railroad was or
the Junk heap, the company wa:
in bankruptcy again, and the lawyers
and financiers were back on the job
again for more fees. The last time
the bankers and lawyers charged mil
lions of dollars for their work. which
was the building of financial struc-
ture so weak that it collapsed in seven
years. What would you think of a
contractor who built a house which
collapsed in seven years? And yet
here, in high finance, in company
operating some $4,000 miles OF rail-
road, owned by tens of thousands OF
direct investors and millions of in
direct investors, these financial op-
orators build a structure which is nc
good, they charge millions for Their
Job. and as soon as 1t has TO be done
over again. many of the same mer
are back again. to do it once more
They attempted last year to get the
Interstate Commerce Commission Il
approve a proposed plan of reorgani.
Zation. which in its main features wa.
as bad as the one they put up ir
1928. so bad that experts who have
studied 1t say it also would cave in
even faster than the last one. Thl
is only an example OF the type o.
high finance operating in the rail.
road business. There are too many
others like it.
Sinking funds should be set asid
to pay of their bonded indebtedness
and the railroads should no longer b
the playthings Of spectators.
Figures seem very dry and uninter
esting, but it is only by looking a
some Of the figures relating to tn
railway industry that we can see hoy
very close Is the relation between tn
railroads and the pocketbook Of ever.
family in his country.
Consider. for example, that tn
American shipping and travelling pub
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highways that would stupefy the road
building Caesars is teeming with
busses and trucks and private auto
mobiles.
The old high-handed freebooting
days of railroading are done. It is
no longer a monopoly which can
snap its fingers at the public and at
public regulation. The forces which
have brought about the reduction OF
the industry to its. present low level
were mainly self f-infiicted through
short-sighted management an d
through the use of the roads as flnan-
cial playthings in Wall Street.
Suffer Financial Ills.
Now, when we talk Of the railroads
We are talking about the backbone
of transportation of the Nation. We
are talking Of a national industry
whose good fortunes and i'll fortunes
are national good fortunes or Ill for
tunes.
I am sorry to be obliged to say
that this industry has been excep-
tional in the steady recurrence OF
financial ills. which have marked
every stage of its hundred years Of
existence on this continent. Almost
as though it were governed by some
evil genius, by some automatic clock
work, which ever so often under
mines this essential industry. the rail-
road business has been visited every
IS or 20 years OF its life with major
financial breakdowns.
Today SO railroad companies. op-
Grating more than one-fourth of the
entire railroad mileage. are in re-
ceivership or bankruptcy. involving
over 10000 miles of road. The pub
lie owns the stocks and bonds of these
80 companies to the tune of five bill
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service of the railroads remained al
most unchanged. Although the speed
Of the service had been extended, we
rode in the same dirty noisy cars, on
the same dusty red plush seats. The
shipper still had to haul his goods
down to a freight Office which in many
cases was open only few hours a
day, and the Consignee still had to
haul his goods away from the freight
house. And in spite of the insignifi-
cant progress in railroading, the rates
and charges which the public has
had to meet in return for the use of
the railroads have steadily risen until
they are now generally about double
those of the earlier days. How diff
ferent is this policy of management
from that used in the automobile
industry, for example.
When Henry Ford started selling
automobiles. I am told, the first one
cost him $4,000 to produce. He
realized that the market for $4,000
machines was very, very limited, and
he went to work on the theory that
if he could get the price Of auto
mobiles low enough to stimulate many
people to buy them, his cost of pro-
ducing each machine would drop. 1t
is only because Ford and others in
that industry many times sold their
initial products below actual cost of
production that they were able to
stimulate enough people to buy them
so that today there is a revolution
in the social and economic life OF the
civilized world that was beyond the
widest dreams Of any one 35 years
ago. Millions of people drive private au-
| tomobiles thousands Of miles each year
in the United States. 1t has changed
the whole life of the Nation. An
amazing network of hard-surfaced
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lie has meyer paid the railways, even
in the worst depression years, less
than $1,000, 900 900 a year. That sum
alone is enough to give $25 cash to
every human being in the country, or
500 to each family.
Scores Of millions Of our people
are to some extent direct owners OF
railway stock or bonds. The owner
ship is in large part indirect. The
policyholders and depositors who put
their money into insurance companies
and savings banks are really invest
ing some of their money in the rail-
roads, because these two types OF
organizations have invested around
$4, SOC, 900 900 of their policyholders'
and depositors' money in railroad Sc
curities. In other words, through saw
ings banks and life insurance COM
panies, the people have invested in
the railroads an average Of around
$50 for every family in the Nation.
Millions Indirectly.
It has been estimated that there
are approximately 63,000,000 persons
i III Wy AAAC
insurance companies. And, Of course,
when you add to this number the per-
sons who have deposited money In the
savings banks and other institutions
which in turn have invested that
money in railroad securities, you must
add millions Of persons to the total.
So that in the last analysis a great
proportion of the American public has
q deep interest in the railroads. In
addition one must bear in mind that
1 ,000, 900 Of the wage earners Of the
United States are directly dependent
upon the railways for living. There
fore, any problem which affects the
railroads deeply affects the pockets of
the American travelling and shipping
public, the pockets of the American
investing and saving public, and the
pockets of the American consuming
public.
realize that figures such as those
have just given are usually recited
by industries as reasons why nothing
should be done to regulate them in
the public interest. In the last ses-
sion of Congress the utility magnates
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drenched Congress with the tears Of
their victims, the widows and orphans,
and then buried US under an ava
lanche Of wires and letters along the
same theme-So many OF US have
stake In the utilities that you shouldn't
try to do anything to them.
The only solution the railroads have
offered to date for their problem has
been q suggestion that rates should
be raised, not only their own, but
those Of their competitors, the buses
and trucks. Now IL is only right that
all forms Of transportation agencies
should be regulated in t. public in
terest. Last session we passed the
motor carrier act, and there Is now
pending q bill which would regulate
water carriers and place the regula-
ton OF all of them in the Interstate
Commerce Commission. This legisla-
ton was introduced and supported be-
cause it attempts to secure regulation
which will foster and preserve the
natural advantages Of each form OF
transportation. Certainly If these laws
arc uoCo 1dLoC tAlO AaOCo "a SAAc
buses, trucks, barges and ships 50
that the railways can get b"ck some
of their business at the expense OF
the consumers, I will not hesitate an
instance to denounce 1t.
Fares Ordered Reduced.
Less than q month ago the Inter
state Commerce Commission ordered
a reduction in passenger fares. In it,
findings the commission observed thai
per capita travel in 1888 on the rail.
roads was less than at any time since
1880. Think Of that, and then con-
slider the vast reservoir Of potentiaI
travellers, people who want to trave
but cannot because of the prohibitive
cost Empty coaches and Pullmans
and empty box cars have been rattline
back and forth across the country fol
years, and it costs just about as much
to pull an empty train as 1t does q
full one. Fruit, vegetables and farm
products have rotted and been de-
stroyed because they could not bs
profitably shipped to other places ir
the country where the demand was
eager, and purchasing power not quite
Evening star., 1936-03-17

We believe that Lucky Strike Ciga'
rettes embody number of genuinely
basic improvements, and that all these
improvements combine to produce
superior cigarette-a modern ciga'
rette, a cigarette made of rich. ripe.
bodied tobaccos Light Smoke.
Evening star., 1936-03-17

For twenty-five years the research staff
of The American Tobacco Company
has worked steadily to produce
measurably finer cigarette namely,
a cigarette having minimum of vola.
tile componenfs, ,Vifh an improved rich
ness of faste-"A LIGHT SMOKE. "
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
HITS
u. 5. FOR FIRE
FATAL T05

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 2 G.N.S).
Declaring the explosion which
took five lives and injured five
others here yesterday was an
''open indictment of the Federal
Housing Authority" Supervisor
Charles T. Yeager today asserted
he was contemplating bringing
taxpayers action to compel the
city of Buffalo to rid itself Of
its slums.
Nicholas M. Grisanti, president
of the Federation of Italian So
cieties, declared he considered
the explosion a debated warn
ing" to authorities at Washing
ton. He added:
eft is terrible that this had
to happen to open the eyes OF
some officials"
The blast, caused by escaping
gas, cost the lives Of Joseph 10
Presto, 81, and his wife, Girolmo,
81; Gaetano ScorSone, A, and his
wife, Mary, "a, and Anna Scor-
some, IL.
Girl Seriously Hurt
Seriously injured, but believed
recovering is Rosa Scorsone, 3.
The little girl lay in the wreck,
age of the four7story brick tene-
ment house for over three hours
before. firemen could extricate
her, The bodies of 10 Presto and
Scorsone were not recovered for
several hours after the explosion,
which completely leveled the
building.
Others hurt in the blast were
Antoinette Scorsone, 8; Peter Scor-
some, S; Santo 10 Presto, II, and
Joseph 10 Presto, IA.
Salvatore Petronio. a bachelor
living alone on the first floor OF
the building, escaped unhurt as
three floors collapsed around him.
Public officials and taxpayer
groups were aroused today over
the tragedy.
Slums Untouched
They pointed out that the local
housing authority and the Federal
authority had purchased an empty
field in the north section of the
city with money intended for slum
clearance, and left the slum Sec
ton entirely uncared for.
Councilman Louis F. Mascara, Of
the Niagara district, in which the
explosion occurred an6 which
houses most of the city's Slums,
issued a statement blaming the
tragedy on the failure of the Ad-
ministration to act in slum clear
ance.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
ADVERTISEMENT
STOMACH UPSET

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Take one or two at bedtime for
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The Washington times., 1936-01-02
TRANSMISSION
AIDS GIRL,7

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. o.
Seven-year-old Marian Bloch, who
was critically injured in an auto
mobile accident yesterday near
Fairfax, was reported today to
be slightly improved following a
blood TRANSMISSION at the Alexan-
dria Hospital last night.
Her father, Leon Bloch, Of
White Post, Va, was treated for
decorations and bruises about the
body. The girl suffered a posi-
BILE skull fracture and head lac
erationS.
Police say the fathers car was
struck by a coal truck driven by
j. w. Mcdonald, of Romney, w.
Va. The truck driver was held
in the Fairfax County Jail in de.
fault of $4,000 bail.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
SEA D|R|G|BLES
OPPOSED BY
EXPERTS

Construction Of three giant
dirigibles for transport and mail
service to Europe is under consid-
Grafton by Federal experts, it was
learned today.
Nearing the end Of intensive
study on practicability Of lighter.
than-air craft for ocean flying.
the Presidents Advisory Commit
tee on International Civilian Avia-
ton is opposed almost unanimously
to the plan, it became known.
The proposal was submitted orig.
inally by an American firm build
ing the craft. Representatives
have made frequent visits here try
ing to convince the experts the
dirigibles would be valuable for
both defense and commerce.
Committee members believing
flying boats more feasible for
ocean service, will hold:
/. Dirigibles would require
about twice the time to cross
that airplanes would need.
2. AS no American company
Is equipped for such service,
the dirigibles necessarily would
be built by the Government.
The cost is regarded as ex-
ceSSive.
3. In view Of disasters in which
two American-built dirigibleS were
destroyed, the committee doubts
public confidence would be SUI.
ficient.
Performance Of the China Clip
per, in service between California
and Manila, is cited as evidence
that flying boats are best.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
Death Of Wire Firm
Head 10 Be Probed

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 GN.S0.
An autopsy was to be performed
here today on the body of Capt.
Siegfried Roebling, so, wealthy
Trenton IN. j. industrialist, who
died suddenly in his hotel bed
room after a New Year Eve cele-
bration.
Captain Roebling, an aviation
enthusiast and vice president of
John A. Roebling Sons Co., wire
manufacturers, flew here from
Trenton with his wife, Mrs. Ma
rion Roebling. to witness the New
Year Day football game.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
Legislator Injured
In Crash Of Plane

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 2
Q.N.S).-State Senator Ralph
Seidner was recovering today from
injuries suffered when a small
plane crashed from height of rs
feet as he piloted it off his own
field. The plane was owned by
the legislators son.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
Rabbi Metz's Topic

"Watchman What of 1882"
will be the subject Of an address
by Rabbi Solomon H. Metz at
the services Of the AdaS Israel
Synagogue, Sixth and I SITS. N. W.,
tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.
Following the sermon M. Krawitz
will conduct the open forum in
the Vestry rooms.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02

Robert c. Jones, head Of the
investment firm which bears his
name, reports a record increase
in business in 1885. An open let
ter of appreciation to its clients
notes the fact that the firm han.
died in 1885 a volume of business
in excess Of eighty-five million
dollars.
Mr.. Jones attributes the increase
The Washington times., 1936-01-02

in the business Of his firm from
year to year to their refusal to
spend about half Of the business
day discussing the pros and cons
Of the New Deal, etc.
Mr.. Jones predicts suspicious
developments in 1895 for the man
who will work hard and have faith
in his country, instead Of waiting
to see what will happen to bust.
ness, the dollar, initiation" etc.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
War Gas Survivor
Killed by Bootleg

WILMINGTON, Del. Jan. 2
G.N.S.).-Frank Glowaski, World
War veteran who survived poison
gas while fighting with American
forces, died today from poison
Observation-Disclosures with part
Of his disability check he received
for having been gasSed.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
Ice Injury Fatal
To Virginian, Is

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. Capt.
Charles A. Mclean, 70, died here
of a fractured skull he suffered
when he fell on the ice Monday.
He was well known in industrial
circles here. He is survived by his
widow, five daughters and three
sons.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
Gaming Den Chief
Hunted After Raid

Police today were still search
ing for the suspected chief Of .
gambling establishment in the
1900 block Massachusetts Ave.
N. W., raided Tuesday.
At the time of the raid BY
Second precinct police, IS men
were found in the room.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02

Somewhere in Washington there
is a colored man with q police
woman's badge.
He obtained his unusual trophy
when early last night he accosted
a woman in front Of her home at
1885 Phelps Pl. N. W., and growled:
"Give me your pOcketbOOk or
I'll kill you"
The woman attempted to hide
her purse, but the footpad grabbed
1t and ran.
His victim was Mrs. Ruby
Brandt, an officer Of the Women's
Bureau of the police department.
Desires the badge, she had $18 and
papers in her purse.
The Washington times., 1936-01-02
Gets Insurance Post

Theodore W. Cook has been ap-
pointed general agent in the Dis
trict for the National Life Insur-
ance Company, it was announced
today. Mr.. Cook, who came here
in 1928, will have charge of the
District as well as Alexandria and
Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun
counties in Virginia.
The times-news., 1936-09-28
:, SECOND
GUESSING ]
By M. M. ;ouARTTEIRfBAck

that hectic first quarter. Yards
Gained from scrimmage ionly, 70.
Carolina made Is first downs
and gained 315 yards from scrim-
mage and passes. To- .. .
i has become universally popu-
lar for sports writers TO predict
winners of individual games, and
some have gone so far as TO fore
cast the actual scores, but this
snort writer for day now intends
TO 90 them all one better and pre-
dict the outcome of every Big
Five game for the remainder OF
the season, together with thell,
percentage standing at the END OF
the football year.. -. 80
Carolina has defeated wake
Forest. 1t viii also defeat David
SON State and Duke. Duke has
defeated Davidson. 1t Will also
Gefeat Wake Forest and State.
but will lose to Carolina. Wake
Forest has lost to Carolina, ana
will loose to Duke. but will win
over State and Davidson. DaVld,
SON has lost to Duke and defeated
State It will loose to Carolina
and Wake Forest. State has loSI
to davidson and will lose to Caro-
lima Duke and Wake Forest. AZ
the end of the season they VIII
- folInyys-. r....' ....
The times-news., 1936-09-28
BEGIN HERE TODAY

KavIj : Dunn, ,iVl pretty 'airPiane
stewardess, falls in love with led
Graham, veteran pilot who flies
the transtPacific route. 'D%
Ted, however, is rot interested
in romance. He is devoted to two
interests. his job in the air service
and his adopted son, Dickie, 7
wears old. Dickie and Kay become
close friends and soon the three
spend, much time together. '''.
, One right Kay and Ted have
long talk in which he explains his
views on marriage. To be success
full, he says, marriage must be
pls hhed scientifically, just as a
plane flight! Kay does not agree.
to all this, but when he asks her
to merry him she says yes. ".....
The marriage takes place and
the honeymoon is flight to the
Orient. Later with Ted away for
weeks at a time, Kay is lonely.
She tries to keep busy, caring for
her home and for Dickie. Ted is
working on an invention, when he
is in port. spends less and less
time at home.
Kay is deeply disappointed be-
cause he is unable TO be home for
Christmas. She gives a dinner
party and later goes with three
The times-news., 1936-09-28

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The times-news., 1936-09-28

XBatted Tor High III Sth.
xxBatted for Hoag in 9th.
Score by innings:
Mills River 0l0 oil O1O-4
Green River 900 0O1 O0O-1
Summary-Double plays-Jack-
son to Clark to Crisp. Station 10
to Brevard to Crisp. Two-base
hits - Station, Cannon, High.
hits-Brevard, Crisp.
Home run-Crisp. Stolen bases
Brevard. Hit by pitched
ball-by Crosland, Crisp and
Clark. Bases on balls-off Jack
son 8. Strikeouts-Hill B. Cros-
land l. Jackson ).
Runs batted in-Crisp, Clark,
Corpening 2, High. Earned runs
River none. Mills River
j. Left on bases-Green River 8,
Mills River 6. Umpire-Bannister.
Scorer-E. H. Case.