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Show ONLY ESSENTIAL TRIPS SHOULD BE MADE Increasing tempo of the war effort and the increased demand on railroads and buses has led to a renewal of the appeal by the Office of Defense Transportation to avoid unnecessary travel. It is uointed out that organized troop movements by rail are pro1 ceeding at the rate of over two miilion men a month. This requires requir-es the constant service of over one-half of all Pullman sleeping cars and nearly one-fourth of all day coaches. Railroads are performing more passenger service than in 1920. the pre-war peak year, and they are doing it with only two-thirds as many passenger cars and less than two-thirds as many passenger passen-ger locomotives. Sample surveys have indicated that the travel of at least 25 percent per-cent of all passengers on trains and intercity buses is strictly nonessential non-essential trips trips to visit friends, trips home for weekend, trips of a sightseeing nature, or other pleasure travel. The problem is growing more diffulcult because of the increasing increas-ing man power shortage. This makes it difficult to maintain full operating, maintainance and repair crews. , It is pointed out by the ODT that every essential trip places an added strain on alrealy overtaxed over-taxed transportation facilities. It hinders the war effort by causing caus-ing a greater consumption of already al-ready scarce commodies and its likely to keep a service man or women from making a last trip home before going over seas. |