Show 00 00 K KEEPING THE CARS RUNNING Down In iii Atlanta Ga the he city elty has bad had a big problem in 16 ItA it efforts to 10 keep in service the street rail rail- railway way say ay lines In Atlanta as elsewhere the autos aulos have haYe made mode the tho traction unprofitable and the city Olty has becil called caned on oh on tomake to make concessions to It the street car people Recently the Atlanta Constitution in dealing this thia edt edi editorial with this thiB question made tonal comment There Is III not another factor In Inthe the tho life lICe and nd welt welfare ro ot o A a city city- city which means tho the people who reside In the tho city and in IA Its suburbs suburbs- suburbs that IS 18 so EO Important and Around the success Or St failure or orso isO I mAny Inter interests ts revolve aa I that of Its Iti street traffic facilities Like I the he arteries that feed Iced the blood to the human homan body all parts must be oth- oth oth otherwise uniformly and adequately 1 Id 1 those p parts ot of the tho th body not properly fed wither and sooner or later the body succumbs to the Iho ills of a part put and death ensues Dependable traI is 1 to a city what the arteries are to the bodY soil and a city's health Is b measured tired by by the healthfulness of these dependable transportation trAn port facUlties quicken Its every section etton just as and aad to the same urns extent that th las the health of ot a bod body to U dependent upon the of ot Its circulation circulation lation muon Therefore It to is important that a city shall encourage her facilities so 50 o essen- essen to her Tier very Tery life lite by every fair faJr fairand and Just manner possible thereby encouraging the enlargement of those the thO Jn ef- ef effIcIency ef- ef efficIenCy ef efficiency of ot those facilities and the dependableness of service Ice at t the lowest cost to the people that la Is commensurate with ith fairness and with economic justice Keeping the cars moving iS 18 iSone isone one of ot the problems of ot every cIty lODe not most favorably lh equipped to meet the difficulties brought About great eat number of ot former pa- pa pa patrons who now irons of the traction lines ride In autos Street corS cars are as es- es es essential to a city as elevators ate are to toa toa toa a ten story building |