Show WW RAILROADS AND BUSES COMPETE A new economic factor has en- en entered entered en entered transportation In fn the last decade It has grown from Crom noth noth- nothIng noth- noth nothing nothing ing at all to a carrying system of motor passenger buses wIth companies controlling the lines Unes Talk about competition There never was a time when a railroad faced such competition as the companies are offering today And that's not figuring In the trucks But the tho railroads hate ha seen the power ot of this new carrier and rather than fight It they are adapting the motor to their own use The truck and the bus In Inmany Inmany Inmany many are being used as auxiliaries the railroads realizing that their field Is the tho long lone haul The figures are somewhat fit fitter bit bit- bitter ter representing losses to the railroads figured In millions of oC dollars Thus In 1924 the steel lines Unos took took In Ire fewer fares than than in 1920 This has brought the roads to a a full cognizance or of what they have to fight They are fighting this battle of ot com tom competition competition petition with the very weapons that took their fares and their freight the charges charges the buses and trucks themselves |