The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-11-02
BY Sara Anne Elliott

Don't you love to ride the Illinois Central instead Of
the buses when going some place? When you step on the
train you have a feeling of safety, instead of the usual fear
on a bus. The Illinois Central tries to give each person
personal care and attention. l. wants to make you feel at
home, and to enjoy your trip. It tries to make you feel it
q pleasure instead of an ORDEAL to ride on it.
When you get on the bus, you at once feel uneasy, for
you know the bus must go fast over bumpy roads. The
III IS Ions, ttesorne and dusty, wA-~h you do no. find on
the train. In fact, the buses don't even have rest rooms,
which OF course, The Illinois Central does. Anyone trying to
defend the BUSES would say that they stop long enough for
people to go to a rest room in the cafer but people hate to go
through the cafe looking SO tired and dusty to get to the rest
room.
Then, too, trains have diners, as well as meals served in
coaches, on trays, and hot and cold drinks all served at
moderae prices. They also pass through the cars. magazines.
candies, fruits. and the latest editions of newspapers Again
the person defending the buses would say, you could stop at
a drug store, but would you want to lose that much time?
On the train while you are riding. you could be eating, or
reading.
Just about every day, when you are reading the papers,
you can find an item in it telling about a bus wreck. Bv this.
I'm not saying that there aren't any train wrecks, because
there are. The point is, train wrecks are very few, compared
with the bus wrecks.
Robert Ripley once made the settlement "A person is
more safe in a pullman berth than in his own bed"
When on a bus, you stop anywhere a passenger wants to
get on o II off, which makes the bus lose time, and that is
the main reason they have to go SO fast. The trains will
always go at a moderate rae of speed, with the passengers
safety first in their minds.
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Persons trying to defend the buses would start At nm
other point by saying, the buses have it all over the trains.
they have a cheaper price to ride on them; but do they really?
When on a bus you take your life in your own hands. The
trains have to shoulder their expense all alone, but the buses
expense can come out of the peoples taxes. That is one of
the reason why peoples lakes n S high. They have to
pay the buses expenses. The trains have to build their
own tracks,, and if something gets wrong, THEY have to fix il.
while the buses ride on the highways, the highways that
we have to pay taxes for" If anything goes wrong the
STATE fixes it. The bus companies do not turn a hand.
South of The Mason Dixon Line, there is a law known
Is the Jim Crow Law compelling the transported ion com
panies to separate the negroes from the viii es. The nE-
hois Central enforces this law by having separate coaches
Tor the negroes and whites; however, the buses crowd the
negroes and the whites together.
If you are riding on q bus at night, you have to sit up.
you lose line, and riding on the bus at night sitting up,
on the Illinois Central, you can retire on the pullman, at
you deshe.
There is also a lounge. with comfortable chairs, radio.
and magazines furnished by the Railroad. There is a club
car where hot and cod drinks and ice cream sodas r sold
Do the buses have all these comfor.s and anusements?
DO you enjoy a trip on he bus? 10 10Th os these questions.
the answer is definitely no.
All the way on the bus you can't enjoy yourself for fear
OF accidents. If you want real comfort. and security TAKE
A TIP FROM ME-TRAvEL BY THE ILLINOIS Cpg,,-
TRIAL RAILROAD.