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I Comment of the American Press Our Fast Trains It may b be ungracious to look a compliment in the mouth but just what does the Association of Ameri American an Railroads mean by its statement about fast trains It has just declared that we have havethe havethe havethe the fastest trains in the world for distan distances cs of f miles and more But then no other country one would think of in this connection has distances of miles or more English trains are arc fast but if an English train tried to go miles without stopping it would run a couple of hundred miles into the sea off Sc Scotland or off Lands End A similar handicap would confront confront con con- front fast French or Italian trains A tr train in crossing Germany from cast east to west vest along its longest axis would make about miles To Tobe Tobe Tobe be sure there arc are big places like Russia China and Brazil but one hardly looks to them for leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship in such matters A really important piece of railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road news is this report by tho the New York Central of a 20 per cent increase in passenger revenue last month as against July 1935 It follows similar gratifying reports from the Baltimore Ohio and the New Haven on the subject of the 2 2 cent mile In the far west it is isan an an old stor story Tho president of the Union Pacific reports an increase of almost 50 per cent in passenger r revenue for July He says We have found that there thero is Js an almost inexhaustible market in the field of the coach ger This revival of ot passenger traffic traffic fic tic under stimulus of low fares has has-a a meaning beyond railroads What the president of oC the tho Union Pacific said abo about t passenger traffic traffic traffic fic managers will apply to many students students' of our whole economic system They were suffering from froma a defeatist psychology They had abandoned passenger travel to the buses It was the end of an epoch etc ete That sort of doom philosophy ring rings out in a good many statements statements statements state state- state state- ments emanating from the same same Washington administration which so resolutely took the railroads by bythe bythe bythe the neck and made them cut fares and brace up Perhaps it is natural natural natural nat nat- ural for tor a nc new nc J deal to discern finis in everything that came before the new deal But so many many things today are played out and done for the for the soil of America Under under under un un- der erosion the soul of America under competition the sine sma re retail retail retail re- re tail grocer the two-party two system Yet history is is' full of new leases of life New New York Times The Worst Road Perils Drunken drivers are declared to tobe tobe tobe be the worst of all hazards of oC the highway b by State Slate Motor Vehicle Commissioner Charles Harnett of oC New York Addressing chiefs of police at ata a recent convention he advocated advocated advocated that licenses of all alcohol alcohol- befuddled drivers be revoked for forat forat forat at least a year Its It's a sane recommendation but the tho voiding of these certificates certificates cates should be bo accompanied by stiff jail sentences New New York Am American For Drivers Once in a while we read of ot a veteran to w whom om bonus money in hand proved a large temptation to tomake tomake tomake make a splurge We Vo do not read of the many who have paid bills biUs improved their homes and spent the money judiciously They arc are of the great majority and the records records records rec rec- rec- rec prove provo It More Moro than paid to the tho former soldiers in bonus checks is in paper which has not yet et been cashed That does not look like a rush to celebrate A A- total of was distributed distributed distributed dis dis- dis- dis in checks which means that about a billion dollars was put into circulation The most of it went vent for substantial things for the home and the homes home's The fact there Is million dollars dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars still is proof that large numbers are meeting the days day's problems and looking to the future and indicates that conditions conditions conditions condi condi- among many are better than others had thought The story of the bonus expenditures as It may be read from the records is isone isone isone one to make Americans even more proud of the men who took arms under the colors in the worlds world's most terrible war Oakland Oakland Trib Trib- une Lindbergh on War Frequently heard in the arguments arguments arguments ments of adherents to various peace movements is the attempt to draw a sharp line Une of distinction between so-called so wars of aggression aggression aggression ag ag- ag- ag ar and d wars of defense That this sort of reasoning is wrong in so far faras as it is applied to the problems of ot national security in the twentieth century was strikingly illustrated in the address address address ad ad- dress of Colonel Lindbergh t ti t an aeronautical group in Germany The only conception of defensive warfare that envisions an army lined up or on its own side oA a territorial border determined to prevent the tho encroachments of ot an enemy Is no longer valid in an anage anage anage age that employs aircraft as Instruments Instruments in instruments In- In of war Colonel Lindbergh's Lindbergh's Lindbergh's Lind Lind- berghs bergh's assertion of ot that fact simply emphasizes what already is accepted by military strategists throughout the world Manches Manches Manchester ten ter Union |
