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Show i interest of a competing form of trans- i portation. The public is entitled to j all the advantages which highway transportation, private or commercial, offers to the growing needs of the nation," Progressive transportation systems are giving the public the best possible pos-sible service by combining rails, highways and air. Nothing will be gained by one of these branches of transportation fighting another, for each serves a useful purpose, in the public interest. in transportation sen-ice, convenience and economy. Commenting on transportation progress, pro-gress, Colliers Weekly recently said: "During the years in front of us somebody must discover ways of using ;hc marvelous resources which invention inven-tion has made available. Railroads, waterways, bus and truck lines, airj transport, private automobiles, pipe-j linos for gas and oil, these are the tools we have to use . . . We must learn how to adjust the great facilities facili-ties one to the other so that the maximum sen-ice may be had and so that nothing valuable may be lost." C. E. Wickman, president of a large motor transport system, said recently: "The automobile industry gives the railroads directly over 3,-000,000 3,-000,000 carloads of freight annually. The railroads handle twice the freight tonnage they did twenty years ago. Would the railroads be better off if automobiles, buses and trucks were entirely eliminated? The size of the automobile industry and the history of railroad transportation in the last generation is a sufficient answer to this question. "In many states, the proportion of gross income paid for taxes by the motor buses is twice as large as the proportion paid by the railroads. On the basis of the value of property used in transportation, the motor buses pay from five to ten times as luch for taxes as do the railroads. "Instead of receiving a subsidy from the public, the motor bus gives to that public which does not own cars the use of highways which the nublic owns. "The motor bus industry does not object to paying its fair share of L.he cost of construction and upkeep of the highways. It is willing to submit o all fair and reasonable regulation. It believes, however, that in the interest in-terest of millions of people who utilize util-ize the motor bus, that taxation and regulation should be imposed strictly in the public interest and not in the THE TRANSPORTATION CINDERELLA. A dramatic struggle is being staged stag-ed between the railroads and various 1 forms of transportation. As about one person out of five in the United States owns an automobile and hundreds hun-dreds of millions of individuals use buses or trucks annually, this is a question of general interest which must have intelligent consideration. The public has no desire to injure the railroad industry but it believes (hat it is entitled to every advance |