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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15

places an onerous cost burden
on the community at large.
New York Example
In New York, for example. and
elsewhere, municipal operation
has failed to pay its own way.
The treno of labor and, other
costs has continued upward.
Where fares have been increased
the numbers of riders have de-
creased. Services. therefore,
have been curtailed to cut costs
and have further reduced the
number of riders. AS a direct
result real estate, sales and other
local taxes have been increased
to help defray the losses of public
operation of transit services.
This is only the start Of vicious
cycle.
AS transportation services grow
less adequate, business is drained
away from the downtown areas.
Shopping is done on the out
skirts of cities where stores are
more accessible and where there
is parking for private auto
mobiles. In many cities, major
companies are relocating their
businesses in suburban areas and
the shift Of population to outly-
ing districts is well known. There
can be no other effect than a
blight on downtown, vacant
stores and Offices, depressed real
estate values and added munich
pal costs.
All this is part of the uneco-
nomic spiral related closely to
traffic in the downtown areas
and to the quality of public
transportation.
AS l have said on other oc-
casions, if our buses were able
to move one mile per hour faster
on each average run, the result
would be a saving of 81 million
a year. 1t is imperative that
Washington, in the interests of
its residents and it's business
community. make public trans
portation attractive. This can
be accomplished only by articu-
lating it into a traffic flow which
creates maximum service and by
establishing a healthy basis for
private operation Of the transit
service.
These are the blunt facts of
Washington's recent past, its
present and its future in public
transportation. BY stating them
I hope I have helped serve the
community. 1t is evident that
there is no time to be lost by
public officials. civic leaders and
businessmen to try to solve
Washington transit problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15
Bling Crosby's Son
Has Broken Back

RAYMOND, Wash, Aug. is
(P).-One of crooner Bling Cros-
by's sons, Pvt. Phillip L. Crosby,
81, is in a Raymond hospital
today with a broken back.
The young soldier from FIT.
Lewis drove through a guardrail
down a 20-foot embankment into
the Willapa River bed, trying to
get back to his Army KIP duties
early yesterday.
Fortunately, the tide in Villa
pa Harbor, into which the river
flows. was out. Otherwise. au-
|thorities said, young Crosby
would have drowned.
His father Bling left a Spokane
golf tournament to fly to Ray
mond. He would allow no hos
pital pictures taken of his son.
At the New Riverview Hos
pital. it was said Phillip had
three fractured vertebrae and
minor decorations. One of the
spinal fractures was in the neck.
The other two were lower down
in the back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15
PRESIDENT CRITICIZES BOTH SIDES
ON SIGNING TRANSIT MEASURE

President Eisenhower the following statement
signing the bill to cancel the Sreecar and bus operating
franchise of the strike bound Capital Transit Co.
Due to a labor management dispute and resultant
strike the people of the city of Washington have been
without transit services for As days Neither party to the
dispute that rise to this soppage of service has dis
charged its obligation to the public.
l opposed to attempt to settle labor disputes
through legislation of the character of 2576 My approval
this bill for entirely different but it to
a cogent reason.
law creating the Capital Transit Co. than 20
years ago established direct relationship between the COM
pany and the Congress in that the Congress reserved to
itself the power of determining the termination date of the
company franchise This Congress has done in S. 2576
Moreover both the Congress and the Commissioners of the
Columbia have concluded that Capital Transit
Co. beginning several and continuing up to the
time has failed to measure up to its responsibilities
public utility in the District of Columbia.
The effective date of cancellation of the companys
franchises has been fixed by Congress
year after the date of the bills enactment and the bill
authorizes District Commissioners contract with that
company others transit services in the intervening
period.
urge that the Commissioners act with wisdom in pro-
tecting the best interests of the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15
10 Tremors Domoee
Area Near Bunduno

JAKARTA, Indonesia. Aug. IS
(P).-Ten earth tremors in "a
hours have caused heavy damage
in the small town of Sumedang,
Is miles northeast of Banding.
it was learned today.
Reports said the quakes, which
started early yesterday and
lasted until this morning, de-
stroyed or damaged about 200
houses. 1t was believed the
tremors were caused by subter-
ranean activity of Tampomas, a
small volcano nearby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15
SeurIes to Speak

John r. Searles. jr., executive
director of the District Redevel-
opment Land Agency, will speak
on "Highlights of the Redevel-
opment Program" at a luncheon
of the Civitan Club, at 1890
pm. tomorrow in the Mayf1ower
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15

municipal operation, temporarily
at least, and perhaps. perman-
emily. In the transition, one
group has been ignored entirely
and its rights have been violated.
An editorial comment of The
Washington Evening Star on the
new law is noteworthy in this
respect:
Even in the final stages of
the emotional binge of which the
legislation is a product, the de-
sire to destroy the company and
punish its stockholders was pre-
Ddominent The legislation is
"a defeat of the principle that
the maintenance of free enter
prise in our economy, even when
Ifunctioning in the public in
ItereSt.. depends as much upon
recognition and protection of the
rights of ownership as the rights
Eof labor It's one side ap-
Iproach, its complete disregard of
problems faced by all mass
transit operations in the country,
are subject to no other inter-
probation.
$500 Hold Stock
Those stockholders are $500
in number, other than my aSso-
ciates and myself. and their cap
ital represents 70 per cent of the
money invested in Capital Tran
sit.
But even larger, in terms of
the number of people involved,
is the burden now imposed on
the people Of Washington. Tran
sit users will now be required
to pay higher fares, and the
whole population will be required
to make up an inevitable deficit.
I am firmly convinced that
public ownership is no answer
to Washington's transit problem
and that conditions have been
created which virtually close the
door to private operation, which
would be more efficient and more
American.
What management conScienti-
ously could agree to wage terms
and fares that must produce a
deficit and impair the invest
mentS of its stockholders? Pub
lie transportation is a regulated
industry and managers of pri-
waite transit companies are not
free to set prices for their serv-
ices which assure profitable
operation, fair wages, good serv-
Ice and adequate funds for
maintaining and replacing
equipment.
Washington apparently has
decided that its only alternative
lis a municipal transit system. In
such an operation. deficits are
buried in the community's gen.
eral finances. But the public still
must pay them. All that is &C
complished is that one of the
parties - private ownership - is
excluded. Past experience in
other cities has demonstrated
that this eliminates one OF the
balances. Political and economic
Ipressures are brought to bear
Establishing wages and fares. An
upward spiral is created which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15

lAOcb tAAAlS, AOoL 1CFCAAuC al "ooAA-
Iington's stores. traffic conges-
ton, lost earnings for Capital
Transit employees and stock
holders may we'll have exceeded
the cost of an equitable solution
which would have avoided the
present strike.
The original demands pre-
Sented to Capital Transit Com
pany by the union represented
an increase of 100000 an
nually in operating expenses. 1t
is doubtful that even a 30-cent
fare could have met this cost,
even with absolutely no return
on the invested capital. Even
the unions modified demands
would have cost the company
more than So million. Certainly
labor-the people who work for
Capital T'ranSit-are entitled to
adequate wages. But they, too.
are under responsibility 10 be
realistic in helping achieve a
balance.
Management of Capital Tran
sit began efforts last January
to obviate a strike by appealing
to the Public Utilities Commits =
sion to approve fare structure
that would have permitted a
wage increase. Capital Transit
did not ask for a 20-cent straight
fare. All that was sought was
charge of 9 cents for tokens
and the elimination Of weekly
permits. The Public Utilities
Commission did not act.
Situation Similar to 1949
Present management obtained
control of Capital Transit IN 1949
after the North American Corp.
was ordered by the Government
to diyest itself OF the company.
In some respects, the situation
then paralleled the situation that
has been created now.
North American tried for sew
eral years to sell its interest in
Capital Transit to comply with
orders from the Securities and
Exchange Commission. No one
was interested until the group
which l represent bought North
Americans stock. Under our
management. $500 shareholders
have received higher dividends
and their equity has been en-
HANGED. Capital Transit Com
pany has bought new equipment
for cash. it has retired $9,000.-
900 IN funded indebtedness, it
has become the only transit
company in any city in the
United States Of a population of
100000 or more free of funded
debt. and it has consistently won
national awards as one of rs
best-managed transit systems in
the country.
The management of Capital
Transit views its six-year record
with pride. 1t has fulfilled it's
prime responsibility to the
shareholders and the public.
Despite many opportunities in
the past six years to dispose of
our holdings at a substantial
capital gain. the group which I
represent has rejected them all
because they would not have
been in the best ong-range in
terest of the other $500 stock
holders Even in this strike sit
.uation. my associates and I
could have enhanced our per-
onal prestige and popularity had
we acceded to union demands We
knew were inimical to the other
stockholders and the public's
best interests but we did not
sacrifice them for our own public
favor.
Yet we have fulfilled our OBJ
legations completely to our en-
ployes, to the riding public. and
to the business community.
Now, the Washington transit
system is destined to become a
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Wo|fson Says New Law
Won't End 7 ronsit Woes
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
tai to the other two, no equitable
resolution of difference is pos
sible. 1t has been my consistent
principle that I represent 1900
stockholders who own Capital
Transit Co. and that my primary
responsibility is to them.
My only purpose in this state
ment is to give the District OF
Columbia a clear picture of what
has happened and of what the
future may hold. 1t seems to
me that two very important
questions remain open. What
ever increase is allowed in fares
what will be the real cost of op-
Grating the transit system to the
riders and residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia in the next
year? If operating costs are in
creased and operating revenue is
not correspondingly increased, it
is simple arithmetic that there
must be a deficit and that the
District Of Columbia must add
indirect levies on Washington'S
residents to make up the differ
ence. And what becomes of
public transportation in the Dis
trict of Columbia in the year
after next, after the terms of
the present law have expired,
and in the years to follow? That,
I think, may be the largest of
the unresolved questions Wash
ington will have to answer. To
quote the Washington Daily
News:
a.. The bill provided for the
city to have no transportation at
all at the end Of the year, in so
far as the present company is
concerned Having made pos
sible an enterprise guaranteed
in the red, the District Commits
sioners are empowered to find
another outfit dumb enough to
60 into the transit business here.
Wed better all start looking"
Revenue Needs Mentioned
If another company dumb
enough" is found. I predict that
its needs for higher fares will be
at least equal to those of Capital
Transit. 1t certainly is not my
intention to recriminate against
or castigate any individuals or
bodies but, for the sake of any
successor company and in the
interests of the District, 1 hope
that a new management will be
more successful in convincing
the Public Utilities Commission
OF the need for adequate rev.
enues to keep operations eff
clent. to meet increasing costs
and still return fair earnings to
the investors than has been
Capital Transit Company.
The District Commissioners
and the Senate District Com
mittee, in their zeal to try to
discredit the management of
Capital Transit and penalize its
stockholders. are responsible for
this situation
The root of the present shut
down has been the failure
despite the company's concilia-
tory offers, to bring the divergent
interests of community, labor
and stockholders into line. The
cost OF the present shutdown in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15
Citrus Exports Log

Spain attributes below-average
citrus exports to poor quality
this season and to competition
from other Mediterranean pro-
ducers, Madrid reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15
FOUND

TRIFOCAL EYE GLASSES, corner Of 18th
and Penna. ave. Found August Is. am
ST. 3-s400, Ext. 627.
KNITTING BAG with needlepoint piece
inelosed, Thursday, vic. New HAMPSHIRE
fARAKEET, yellow. vic. Tennessee and
Beverly Hills. Alexandria. Temple
Evening star., 1955-02-27

How about intellect? Young brains bMiA the
eOasst.y. Are there Gsy left?
Well. there's Kenneth Kooy. of Van Nuys.
Calf. pretty good architect at l8. He
designed and bluerinted a two-bedroom
house with den of such good quality and sound
economy that local contracting company
promoted it all over the state. Kenneth has
just followed it up with designs for hand
some factory building.
And for scholarly interests, there's Allan
Silliphant. age l3. of Glendale, Calf, who is
curator of his own museum of natural history.
Although it is spioed by few war souvenirs
and dubious Indian relics. it Is not just another
small boys pile of junk. The museums fine
collection of rocks. minerals, fossils. coccoons,
semi-pecious stones and dinosam bones has
attracted the interest Of serious adult scholars
and is valued at $11.OOO. About thousand
visitors per year tour Allan's museum. He's
Evening star., 1955-02-27
CONTINUED FROM Page SEVEN

to reduce their ranks. Yet the truth is that
all our delinquent teen-agers add up to less
than five per cent of our juvenile population!
And no one can really say how many of those
IN trouble are unjustly tagged!
In one Pennsylvania city we were told of
15-year-old boy who was listening to records
in music shop He accidentally wrenched
the arm off the phonogaph. Although he had
no previous history Of vandalism. his father.
an alcoholic. refused even to appear in court
in his sons behalf The judge thought he was
doing the Lad favor by getting him out of
his degrading environment. He was sent to
corrective institution - and tabled as one
more of the delinquent five per cent!
WE ARE not one of those silver-lining experts
who shrug it off and say. Its only five per
cent. why worry We are worried. But we
must not permit our concern with juvenile
delinquency to damage the future of the other
IS per cent - the 10 million boys and girls
who are not delinquent
About them THIS WEEK has good news.
There is every reason To believe that the
us. is busy raising q really wonderful
bunch Of kids. Statistics - and we have
stacks of them - from state education alI-
thorities. US. health and educational records
and reports of sociological investigations add
up to an impressive amount of evidence that
today's youngsters are brighter. bigger. better
educated. more alert physically and mentally
and more eager to be self-reliant than any
generation of young people we have yet seen
Let's look at their good record for change:
What are some Of those DID, fashioned ASseri-
can rirt4es that todeys youth is SUPPOSED to hase
laughed of? The capacity for good. hard rork?
Look at Janet Hammer. 16 of Scales
Mound, III. She gets up before sunrise to tend
her own herd Of cattle. After breakfast, she
is off to school, six miles away. driving the
family car. She can't come home on the school
Evening star., 1955-02-27

bus. she s too busy with after school activities
She comes home in time to help cook dinner
and wash up. After dinner she studies - she
is good student. Then she sits down at her
sewing machine (which the cattle paid for)
and really goes.to work. She viii tackle any
thing from an evening gown to bathing suit
She sews all her own clothes and takes in
plenty of orders from schooimates. She has
just finished her biggest job to date - COS
TUNES for the schools cheer leaders.
In Palisades. N. Y, pretty. red-haired
schoolgirl, l6. daughter of wealthy family.
came home from her first year at finishing
school and looked around for summer job
She got a good one - at SIS per week as
housemaid for neighboring family!
Michael Logan. IA. of Chicago. runs his own
upholstery service. He has all the business he
can handle at the standard price for stripping
and rebuilding chair and sofa frames. This is
not his first enterprise. Two years ago Michael
operated a bicycle-repair shop. He sold it to
his younger sister. Grace
Psameex Lessen
w z ALL OSTCe tN8t OUT 0GytONT0CV Wtu OE ~ o
bod ,oGy il sOe lose the ability TO uOrk together
II has been truly said ihGf 90 Operations niles the
nation. But oar youngsters Gye busy leayRing
that pioneer lesson. TOO.
In Kansas City, Mo-. group of 20 girls
who wanted swimming pool put On their
blue jeans and worked FIVE days week all
summer washing automobiles. They banked
every cent of their earnings. This summer
they'll be swimming!
Last year near Louisville. KY. group of
teen-age youngsters had potentially good
football team but no money for uniforms or
equipment. To get it they started cooking hot
lunches for workers on nearby military prof.
ect. Their soups and roast beef soon had
many of their neighbors lined up outside their
kitchen. Before they quit. these youngsters
earned enough to equip their own team and
lend equipment money lat standard rates of
interest) to rival team.
Evening star., 1955-02-27
AacnaE nEnxs,aA,s

Hucklebezry Finn himself might have en-
We'd Jerry Wheeler. Is, of Houston, Texas, who
got yen to take trip He spent the winter
building an 18-foot boat. In the spring he set
sail ON a nearby river with three friends,
turned up safe and sound 200 miles away.
Fomteen-y n-year-old Jim Pezini. of San Fran
cisco, who plays hot clarinet took two class
mates (guitM and saxophone) with him and
hitchhiked to Mexico City last summer They
set up profitable jazz trio under the palm
trees.
As for the female of the species, take Beth
Snyder, Is. of Chicago. who witnessed purse
snatching. tracked the thief through down.
town crowds, caught him and ordered him to
go to the police station. He did.
1Geehanieal lGaR
WE AMERICANS admire isgesxity. bxt many
Of rs fev Il is 0m tie scwse. Hosc about thGt9
Ordered to help wash the family dishes,
Sherwood Woody Fuefrer. IA years old. of
Csanston, r. l., complained that what he
needed was mechanical man to help him.
why don't you make one?" jolked his
he'd found big pet1d can. an old alarm
clock. some camera housings, two parachute
brackets and the take from an old oil burner.
From this scrap heap. he has built robot,
wired it. set up control panel He's named
it 'Gism0." and he has broken it IN to wine
the dishes and fetch him cookies from the
cookie jar.
Recently he has added improvements -
pat in a tape recorder that makes Gismo talk
and installed mechanical heart beat that
keeps perfect time.
In Baltimore, Md. snub- b-nosed, l3-yeM-
old snip of girl told us that she sent away
for booklet called. How to Build Your Own
High Fidelity Sci" " Following directions care
fully she has built and sold more tf,m dozen
hi-fi record players She oonfded, grinning,
Would you believe it II fimled math
three times!''
Are on bids fgsviRg on lisisg off tather.s
Evening star., 1955-02-27
s soszHT J. saEru
ZOO -ls9sEU1l: Allon Salipssuns's
cnlleciion IS vulved al SUI. 900
aosEnT J. s1Trn

not in it for money admission is free
Its educational. " he explains
IsseLlecfsal pursuits hase their place. bat are
oHu kids going seft7 Are they losing their taste
for adse,stsye. hhei, ability 10 take ii? Not SO
you could notice it!
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1955-01-21
Recreationa| Facilities For Negroes
In Little Rock
BY S. S. TAYLOR

Recreaona facilities Negroes Little Rock
slightly higher point this year gets under way The three
gymnasums of Dunbar Phander Smith, Arkansas Bap
fist have become routine in the city life We have the swim
ming pool at Granite mountain and the Dunbar community
center building and certain of fecreatona life and
organization has in around the Housing enthu-
sasts assert that there play provision in connection
with of the segregated housing
But Notwithstanding the large of money voted
bond issue for Negro recreation the casual observer would
be apt notice improved housing than improved
alton.
It is worth while to bark back occasionally to the find
ngs of the Little Rock survey by the Association of Commun
ity Chests and Councils Incorporated Among other things
the survey recommended that public recreation facilities for
the Negro be established that public departments
recommended neghborhood Fairgrounds with minimum
half mile the undesirable maximum" 1t reported that
there should be such playground for each 5000 population
The report stated There is in Greater Little Rock
park where the Negro feels free go This
given pointed emphasis during 1854 when Negro boys
driven from public park where they playing
ed to the city and Granite mountain for few
minutes of ball playing Granite mountain is far from being
playground in of the word for the
Negro child of Little Rock Of course Granite
tain is OK neghborhood playground (ahough bit des
olael for Granite mountain but is less than nothing
neghborhood playground for any other in Little Rock
The Little Rock survey made by white specialists
who thinking only of the best interests of the
city 1t is hard to understand how much money could be
spent for the Negro while dsegarding what might be
dered his primary recreatona addition there
certain appropriateness graveyard and ouSrsof
own projects for education and recreation