Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1943-07-30 | Page 3 | Civilian Week-End Travel Hampers War Transportation

I Civilian Week-End Travel ! Hampers War Transportation Week-end pleasure travel by intercity in-tercity train and bus is practically eliminated for the duration, reports the Office of War Information not only because such travel interferes inter-feres with war transportation, but also because, the way things are, week-end travel is no pleasure. Railroad and intercity bus companies compa-nies are in agreement that week-end I pleasure travel should be eliminated. eliminat-ed. Their service in carrying the essential war traffic under great difficulties dif-ficulties has won official recognition. Contrary to the peacetime practice of advertising the lure of recreational recreation-al spots for America's millions of week-end travelers, transportation companies, as well as the Office of Defense Transportation, are urging civilians to stay at home over weekends. week-ends. Furlough travel for men in the service reaches its peak on weekends week-ends and a holiday week-end increases in-creases that rise. Civilians should travel in the middle of the week.