Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1922 — Page 5

JITNEY DRIVERS PLEAD CASE IN OPEN HEARING Ask Ordinance Amended So They Can Make Living From Operations. ONE SPEAKS FOR PUBLIC While former jitney drivers argued that the jitney regulation ordinance should be amended 60 as to permit them to operate in order that they might make a living, motormen and conductors of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company pleaded for the permanent suppression of the 5-cent bus in order that | street car men may continue to have j jobs, at the public hearing before the public works committee of the city coun- ■ cil last night. The hearing lasted three | hours and was further marked by the appearance of a lone citizen representing the public. He was Russell Willson, ex- j president of the city council and one of the authors of the present Jitney ordinance. Dr. Henry Jameson, chairman of the board of directors of the street railway company, was one of the speakers against the amendment, while Fred R. Bonifield, attorney for the Indianapolis Jitney Drivers’ Association, and C. J. Orbison, whose connection was not announced, were chief orators in favor of them. PROVISIONS OF AMENDMENT. The amendments would do away with the prohibition of jitneys receiving or discharging passengers upon streets where car tracks are located; reduce license fees from $25 and $35 to $lO, sls and S2O a year; reduce bonds from $5,000 and SIO,OOO to $2,500 and $5,000; abolish the requirement that jitney drivers file schedules aud routes and adhere strictly thereto under pain of loss of license; reduce penalty from 300 fine and ISO days in jail to SIOO and thirty days; give drivers refused licenses because of physical ability right of appeal to a committee; repeal the section prohibiting any passenger from riding so the body protrudes more than six Inches from the edge of the vehicle and include taxicabs and busses plying between Indianapolis and points outside the city limits in all provisions of the ordinance. None of the eouncilmen expressed an opinion upon the amendments, but tney frequently interrogated tbe jitney and street car men after they had finished their set speeches. Chairman John E. King of the committee announced that the report on the amendments probably w-ill be given at a special meeting of the council within a few days. PUBLIC STATS AT HOME. Mr. Willson was the last man to speak. ‘‘You see here another instance of how the contending factions in a controversy come up before the council in full force, while the dear public sits at home,' 1 he said. “I come here as a citizen. I have been asked to do so by at least twentyfive or thirty people. Those interested selfishly are here on the job, while the public, most Interested of all, sits at home expecting you eouncilmen to do your duty. They will make no comment until you make a misstep and then you’ll hear from them aplenty.” He traced the history of the present jitney legislation through the period last summer when the public service commission in effect told the city that it would either have to regulate jitneys or see the street railway company either get increased fares or go out of business. ‘‘We were two or three years behind other cities in jitney regulation,” he said. “The reason was that all over the country street railways had been charging from 7 to 12 cents fare while we had been riding for 5 cents. The jitney problem, up to that time, had not reached the acute stage here.” REGULATION IN OTHER CITIES. He told of the conditions a council committee of which he was a member, found In Sioux City, Des Moines and Kansas City, where it went to Investigate the jitney, asserting that in Sioux City and Des Moines It had been driven out and in Kansas City put under regulations, making it impossible for it to compete with street car service. “There is not room in Indianapolis for both jitneys and street cars. It has got to be one or the other, and while there are hundreds of people in Indianapolis who want jitneys, they want them with street car service. None is ready to throw himself upon the mercy of jitneys alone. “This Is a matter which most vitally conecrns the public and the public alone. The greatest single disaster that could happen to the city would be to overthrow the ordinance passed by the other council.”

BAYS REGtXATION PROHIBITORY. Mr. Bonified in arguing for the Jitney drivers contended that they do not fear nor oppose just regulation, such as he believed the amendments would provide. They do not favor prohibitory regulation such as now keeps them from operating, contending that they have as much inherint right to use the public thoroughfares as a great corporation like the street railway company. Thousands of citizens who cannot get service from the street cars demand the supplemental service of the jitneys and have a right to get it, he said. Jitney service does not mean the elimination of the street car. Street cars will go right on running. The city needs both services, he declared, pointing out that New Y’ork City has elevated, subway and surface railways and thousands of jitney busses besides. “The street railway company has no quarrel with the jitney drivers/' said Dr. Jameson. “There is nothing wrong with men trying to earn an honest living. But this company must afford service to the people of Indianapolis. The former city administration, that nobody can charge of being overly friendly to this company, allowed us a valuation of $16,000,000. The company has gone on without receiving any just return on that valuation. Mr. Bonifleld and Mr. Orblson both admit that if we have to have one IT WENT TO THE SPOT Lingering colds and coughs that hang on and wear one out are difficult to get rid of, but Henry E. Campbell, R. F. D. No. 3, Adrian, Mich., writes: “I had a bad cough for three years. Tried several cough medicines. Got little relief. 1 tried Foley’s Honey and Tar. It went to the spot. There is no better remedy on the market.” Good for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough—clears the passages; soothes irritated membranes; stops tickling in the throat. Contains no opiates. Sold everywhere.—Advertise-

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or tbe other they would take street car service, but they say that the street cars would go right on running regardless of jitney competition. Thai: is where the fallacy comes in. The street car company is just an ordinary business. It either makes money or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t Its credit is no good, just like that of any other business. “When the street car company doesn’t make money its stockholders are affected just like those of any other business, and don’t forget that 26 per cent of our stockholders live in Indianapolis and 85 per cent in Indiana. They bought our securities as investments. MUST GROW WITH CITT. “Up to that point we’re like any other business. Then we begin to differ, in that we can’t sit down and be satisfied when we get to a certain point. We’ve got to grow with the city. We have got to have new money to grow, and it wouldn’t be fair to take it out of the pockets of the passengers. It is only fair that the street car company should put the money in itself. But we can’t get new money unless we show a profit, and if we can’t get money we can’t grow. If we don’t grow the city can’t grow. If the city grows, we must grow. “Therefore, every member of this council Is charged with the solemn duty of settling the transportation problem in the next four years. The public service commission can’t do It. It can’t regulate service. It is Just to aid you.” Dr. Jameson said that street cars are the cheapect system of transportation, and that if jitney drivers keep books right and operate any length of time they must admit they are not making money. The street car company would tolerate the jitney, perhaps, he said, il it were not in the same condition. “You gentlemen must either study the street car company and sanely set about to solve the transportation problems or do as, I am sorry, it has been done in other cities, take the other track and have confusion and dissolution just as sure as the sun rises tomorrow. Are you going to do the best thing for the people if you do what they did in Toledo, Flint, Bridgeport and Des Moines, destroy street railway service and destroy $lO of the people's money for every dollar of the company's money?” DRIVERS, CAR MEN SPEAK ALTERNATELY. The jitney drivers and streit car operators were given five minutes each, speaking alternately. Jitney men asserted that street car service is worse since jitney competition was eliminated. Conductors and motormen claimed that more cars are being operated on lines where busses formerly made business lean for them and that lives of persons wait.ng for cars are no longer endangered by the wily vehicles crowding them against cars or the curbing. There was much ado about the service West Indianapolis, one Jitney min asserting that he waited an hour for a street car the other day. A conductor answered him with the statement that the Belt Railroad frequenly causes tieups and that Jitneys are necessarily delayed just like the cars. One street ear man declared that If Jitneys come back the company mast either go out of business, thereby throwing Its 2,500 employes out of work, or cut their wages back to the old 21 to 25 cents per hour scale. Councilman Heydon W. Buchanan asked if the men had been told this by the company. The conductor replied that they had not, but as a matter of simple economics he could see that this was what was in store for them. Mr. Buchanan then wanted to know If the company had not already cut wages. The employe replied It had not. Jitney men who spoke were. W. I. Hubbard and Elsworth Conklin. Mrs. M. L. Reiffel also championed tbe busses. W. A. O'Nan, William P. Stevenson, David Griffin. Edgar E. Young and Homer C. Belch were street railway employes heard from. Young declared that while working as a conductor on the South Meridian line against jitney competition he only took in between $8 and $9 in eleven hours. This, he said, was not enough to pay the

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crew. On rainy days, he said, the fares mounted considerbly higher because jitneys were not so numerous. Legion Notes Investigation by Congress of the alleged illegal hangings in ,the A. E. F. is termed “a farcial burlesque,” by the American Legion at Mineral Wells, Tex. “This abortive investigation 'is an insult to every loyal American,” a resolution reads. “We believe it Is time members of the board began devoting their efforts to matters of import instead of indulging in the hearing of unsupported and absurd complaints made by a few obviously disgruntled and irresponsible muckrakers.” The American Legion Weekly of Feb. 10. prints an article by an ex-captaln In the Signal Corps, quoting General Bullard’s order to shoot “on the spot” any person advising surrender during battle, but flatly denying that evidence of apy such instance has been substantiated. District schools In Moffat County, Colorado, had decided to close their doors for a period of weeks, due to Insufficient funds. The American Legion succeeded in raising $916 to keep thm going, taking -the stand “a shortening of the school term or a curtailment of athletics would be a backward step, depriving children from rightful advantages.” Former service men In Calcutta, India, have applied to the American Legion for a charter. . Found wiping his auto with an American flag, a man in Tampa, Fla., was questioned by the American Legion. He was pronounced “simply ignorant,” and given instruction In how to treat the colors. Hearing of the Incident, the man’s employer presented the legion with a large flag. A complete French village, with a "Hotel de VUle,” accomodating 1,000 persons will be planted at Medicine Parkn. Okla., as a recreation center for the American Legion. Posts will build cottages where members may spend their vacation. Hu-Ing squads of unemployed former soldiers, each squad in charge of an exnurse. has been suggested to the American Legion in Toledo, Ohio, as a means of tearing down unsightly election posters. “Nervous” ex-soldiers present a special problem to hospitalization. Neuropsychiatrlc treatment at Government Institutions is under investigation by the American Legion, and a conference of specialists has been called by the Veterans’ Bureau. John J. Payne, released two years ago from a German prison, is being sought by the American Legion. His mother, at Newburg, N. Y., has not seen him since Christmas, 1920. Holding aloft a tin can labelled “for exsoldlers,” a man raised $9,000 In New i York streets. The American Legion learned ex-soldlers got about SSO of It—the man got a jail sentence. Brooding over war horrors continues 'to wreck the minds of former service men. The American Legion at Tampa, Fla., reports twelve eases of ex-service men pronounced “Incurably insane” since Thanksgiving, Good standing In the American Legion will be the only security required to float a loan from the legion’s rotating fund for disabled and needy ex-soldiers. | History, as taught In public schools, prejudices children against foreign countries. Alvin Owsley, head of the American Legion’s Americanism Commission, told educational authorities at New York. “To sail away for a year and a day!” New York State delegates plan to charter a steamer to take them to the American Legion convention at New Orleans. Gathered at the call of radical New York labor leaders, 600 unemployed men threatened a tear-gas attack on Fifth avenue financiers. The American Legion was condemned as a “tool of capitalism,” and ex-soldiers present were told they should have kept their guns to “force the Government to give them Jobs.” Literature “on the wing” Is the latest convenience provided American Legion members. “Traveling libraries” are being loaned to posts of the legion by the Oklahoma State library commission. ,

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1922.

CENTRAL LABOR BODY OPPOSES TAXATION PLAN Method of Raising ‘Bonus’ Funds, Not ‘Bonus’ Itself, Attacked. Opposition to the proposed method of raising money for the soldier “bonus” was expressed in a motion adopted by the Central Labor Union at a meeting at Labor Temple last night. The opposition was based, not on antagonism to the bonus idea itself, but only as to the method of taxation for financing it. Adolph Fritz, secretary of the State Federation of Labor declared that the proposed taxes would result in the soldiers paying their own bonus. Sale of the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant to Henry Ford was approved and letters will be sent to Indiana representatives in Congress urging them to vote for the project. At the request of Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank a committee was appointed to attend a conference on the proposed increase in street car fares to be held at the city hall Saturday. A motion was adopted protesting against any increase in present rates. The following committee was apointed to attend the conference: Louis P. Schwartz, chairmanp; John Smith, William F. Wilson, Arthur Lyday and C. G. McAllister. Donations of used clothing and money will be welcomed by Mayor Shank’s committee, which is oerating In connection with the relief station of the National Disabled Soldiers’ League; C. E. Hammand, business representative of the Painters' Union No. 47, told the meeting. Labor must use the ballot more than it does. Mrs. Luella Cox, of the women’s und children's department of the State industrial board said, if it is to get what it wunts In the way of legislation. She urged legislation putting a limit on the working hours of women.

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