Show b do letterhead L sprit PRINTING on tan G OA 11 ISAM HAFE AND satier satisfactory SERVICE i facts which have been published time and again show that transportation costs are credited with wit h an importance ra in alfe th e cost of living entirely unwarranted by the facts in the cost of a 10 cent loaf of I 1 thread bread in large cities according to the department ot of agriculture the rall I 1 roads receive 13 1 3 of 0 one cent for or transporting the wheat to the mills land land 16 1 6 of one cent for bringing the 1 flour to the baker it the railroads I 1 carried the wheat and the flour tor for nothing the saving on the price ot of a cent loat loaf of 0 bread would be only j cent j the cost of sate safe and satisfactory railroad transportation in this country 0 will not decrease this is evidenced encee by the latest move in the interest of public safety which Is to provide automatic vain stopping devices which will bring a train to a halt it if it passes warnings which show that the track is not clear a head ahead such improvements cost millions and must be figured in the cost of do freight rates which are reduced at the expense of reasonable railroad earnings promise anything r more than forced reduction in railroad wages a crippling of service to the public and a slowing up in railroad expenditures for maintenance and development Is it possible that advocates ot of governmental govern menti ownership are carrying on this campaign to break down the earning power of american railroads in the hope that thereby tiey they may force government operation if such is tie flee tape ae thi traveling public and uie tae taxpayer would be the sufferers safeguarding THE PUBLIC the valuable work being done by the Nat national lonal board of fire underwriters through its arson department la Is about as understood as ag the service being rendered by the united states secret service in its annual report just published led special agents ot of the board are shown ifo 40 havo have investigated during ill the e past year losses ot of suspicious u s or incendiary origin during 1923 data was compiled concerning arrest and conviction for or arson of 0 about persons and completo complete information was accumulated accumulate od respecting more than cases ot of arson successfully brought to trial by local authorities during past six years ot of persons arrested last year on oil arson charges were convicted this work tor for the protection ot of the public Is carried on and without any great hurrah but the criminal whose mania Is burning down bull angs finds a hard task master when he becomes entangled with the arson investigators ot of the national board and the program ol of insurance companies tor for reducing the fire hazard in american home and business life RADIO TARGE CONSUMER OP OF COPPER A survey just completed shows that the radio industry to date has con consumed 1 umed approximately 6 5 pounds of copper and other metals there are now 2 radio sets in use it Is sate safe to say there will be not less than in five years and the tha radio industry may be expected to use pounds of copper during that time this will be a direct help to the american mining industry the radio corporation ot of america has pioneered the way in making it t possible tor for radio to be as common in the home as sewing machine or the phonograph it was this organization which saved the U S from foreign domination in the radio field AN individual HANDICAP sote sate fire marshal G W ot of texas states the publics case against fire wastage in these crisp paragraphs fire the red plague Is a far more serious menace to yie haalon as a whole than would be the theft ot of a million dollars a day stolen money presumably remains in circulation but a dollar or its alts property propel prop eitY ty equivalent burned Is a flat loss the wasted toll ot of men and women who labor day in and day out 0 0 produce the things upon which the progress ot of the world depends there can be no question la in the mind ot of any thinking american Ameri caa tat americas annual bonfire places a handicap upon the nation as a certainly the me destruction of raw materials alone and itis lt effect upon the markets in which the manufacturer roust must seek such materials Is enough of 0 a burden for auy any industry to 10 bear nut but the destructive power of lire fire goes beyond that and reduces the value ot of the output of every man and woman in the country |