Show Back to River Traffic AFTER A i FTER decades of idleness the Missouri river Li x once again is to become a highway for com corn merce On June 7 navigation will r reopen open along the he Big Muddy and a string of barges barge will leave eave St. St Louis in charge of a tug carrying fr freight ight to Kansas City While all this will present present pre- pre sent ent harassed railway traffic managers with more reason to furrow their brows it is probably probably probably ably true that on the whole it represents a step stepin in n the right direction We may not be quite sure just yet how we are going to solve o our r transportation lems ems But it is surely logical to suppose that any step which makes transportation cheaper is s a good one to take It is worth remembering remember remember- ing that if we ever really exploit our vast industrial industrial in- in resources to their fullest extent we shall hall need all the transportation facilities available avail avail- able and able and wish we had more |