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Show I RAILROADS FIGHT MOTOR TRUCKS .3 When the railroads pushed westward, man n stage driver and J 3 eamstor was driven out of business and his investment m hprscs and j vagons rendered worthless. In many parts of the country freight- 3 .rs, with prairie schooners and freight teams, were reduced to bank- 1 uptcy. But the old stage drivers and freighters did not complain They accepted the ordeal as Ihe price of progress and went their ij H .'I But how conditions have changed' Yesterday 111 Salt Lake the 1 1 "ailroad officials and attorneys were before the public utilities com- 1 mission to ask protection against the possibility of a motor freight : lervice between Ogden and Salt Lake, claiming that to allow the ,-jf auto trucks to operate between the two cities 111 enrrving freight m The old tuners who saw their lug freight wagons pushed to one Jjl side by the coming of the steam engine would derive considerable 1 satisfaction from the present wry faces which railroad officials arc M making as they contemplate the loss in "business which the latest .jjl idder for traffic is threatening to inflict. 'M When you go to New York the hotel clerk will be pleased to i lave you tell him that in 1675 lodging in Gotham cost 6 cents a light and meals 12 cents each. B If a gas bomb were exploded over any part of Ohio, the mor- jjW .'ality among the presidential and vice presidential candidates would 91 be something frightful. |