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Show TIMES HAVE CHANGED. S 8 No one can fool the big railway companies of this country on the part the motor truck is going to play in transportation. Already the New York Central system has realized that on short hauls the motor truck beats freight trains, so it is installing whole fleets of trucks to haul goods that have heretofore been carried on "local" freight trains. Older citizens of Delta can remember re-member when railroads would have tried to put the motor truck out of business instead of admitting its efficiency. But it's different differ-ent now. Today the men who own the railroads know that the motor truck can help them to make more money and money is what they are after. So they are going to combine the trucks with their freight trains and catch trade both coming and going. Maybe we won't live to see it, but some of these days the railroads rail-roads will recognize the airplane as a competitor and will establish es-tablish routes of that kind so long as it pays to do so. |