Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1930 — Page 13

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PUBLIC-OWNED FRAME PAY IN SAN FRANCISCO 6-Cent Fare Is Maintained, Improvements Made and High Wages Paid. Municipal ownership and operation of street railways is successful! With prcpci management a.id direction. a city-owned compsny can operate with a low fare, make needed improvements and pay high wages! The history of the San Francisco municipal railway proves this. On May 16. 1928, Mayor ROlph of Ban Francisco declared: “All I want everybody to know is that our municipal failway has been a gold mule!" Indianapolis citizens who feel that the city should take over the local transportation system and operate it can get plenty of ammunition lor their arguments from the history of the San Francisco line, which has, since 1912. been in competition with a private transportation system. Five-Cent Fare Maintained lit all those years a 5-cent fare ha.'T been maintained and there has been no deficit except for 1930, when it was found that, optimistic over the. success of the line, too many extensions were made and it is necessary to appropriate $157,000 of 1 lie city's funds to pay the interest un bonds. Here is what the Transportation of San Francisco has to say aixnit the municipally owned system : “Since 1912, the benefits to the teity from municipal street car operation has totaled more than $183,- , 000,000." Qf this sum, $6,336,261 was represented as an actual operating profit. . Millions Saved for Public Ip addition, it is claimed that by -maintaining the 5-cent fare on its own lines and so on the competing private lines, the municipal j oa'd has saved the car riders $77,248,000, while a round $100,000,000 more was set forth as the increase In land values because of railway extensions. A survey of the financial record at the end of its eighteenth year oi operation made by the San Francisco News, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, reveals the following: xuuil cash revenues from fares and all other sources since Dec. 18, 1912. have in round figures totaled $18,000,000. Total operating expenses, including maintenance of tracks and ears, cost of electric power, wages of employes and salaries of officials and miscellaneous expenses appproximate $36,000,000. ; Profit Paid by Road As the difference between the above two figures is $12,000,000, then the income of the municipal railways has been sufficient to pay air operating expenses and leave a maj-gin of $12,000,000. This margin has been expended as. follow's: Various bond issues voted to build the municipal car lines total $5,500,000. The interest on-these bonds to date, amounting to about $3,375,000 has all been paid out of the railway’s revenues. This reduces the margin to about SB,620.000. 3onds totaling $2,800,000 have matured so far and have been paid out of the revenue, bringing the margin down to $5,825,000. Further reductions for accident claims paid and for other necessary expenses have trimmed the margin down to $4,500,000. Extensions Are Built Os this last, amount $4,000,000 has been spent, for railway extensions and improvements and purchases of new equipment in the wave of optimism which surrounded successful operation of the railroad. And only because of this must the city pay the $157,500 bond interest. The only funds to be taken from the city treasury in eighteen years of operation. Critics of the Municipal railway make much of the fact that it pays no taxes. They assert that the private company “gets by” in spite of having tb pay about $700,000 a year in taxes; and since both systems operate at the 5 cents fare, they point to this as evidence that the privately owned lines must be operated much more efficiently. Pay Employes Good Wages But what these critics neglect to say, the San Francisco News points ou{. is that the municipal lines pay their employes much better wages. Tlte municipal carmen have a basic eight-hour day and a sixday week and are paid at the rate of 75 cents an hour. In addition they get twelve working days vacation on pay each year, and they enjoy the advantages of a pension fund, half of which is contributed by‘the railway. If vacations, pensions and other benefits are counted in their actual pay the total is nearly 84 cents an hour. The private line carmen, on the other hand, work a ten-hour day

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at an average wage slightly less than 53 cents an hour. Another answer to the critics is the following: Suppose that the municipal system actually had paid, during the eighteen years of its operation, taxes and insurance bills on its property in the same proportion as paid by its competitor. The total amount to date would be about $4,500,000, which would be almost exactly balanced by the margin left over from the revenues after paying all expenses, all bond interest and redemption charges due so far, and all other real charges. Taking into consideration the higher wage scftle, this puts municipal ownership in a much more favorable light than those who seek to compare it with the private operation may like to admit.

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RUTH OWEN IS TRUE DAUGHTER OF COMMONER Snake Charming Act to Save Political Situation Was Surprise to Self. BY THOMAS L. STOKES tailed Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—When Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen boldly picked up a five-foot king snake j and coiled it about her neck to -the amazement of startled male members of a house committee recently, she surprised herself as much as she did her colleagues. She smilingly admitted as much today. To save a situation, she forgot for the moment she was a woman, and inspired by political necessity, became a snake-charmer—which she certainly never had been before: Thus she revealed herself as the true daughter of William Jennings Bryan, who often saved similar situations by a bit of showmanship. The snake was brought in by a scientist, one amoi. l ', several who were testifying about wild life in the mysterious Ewrglades in connection with Mrs. OWen’s bill for a national park there. She Saves the Situation When committee members looked fearfully upon the reptile, Mrs. Owen calmly picked it up, and fear in congressional breasts subsided. It was just another illustration of the ingenuity of this tall, striking woman, who has lived a life full of experience all over the world, including England. Egypt, South America, and who has raised a family of four talented children. She entered politics, in the steps of her father, as another outlet to her abilities and her energies. She and her children could go on the stags together and delight audiences. It w’ould not be necessary to use the snake trick. The children call their mother “Ruth.” Mrs. Owen is an accomplished pianist and a singer of the topical ballads so popular in England music halls. She trained a troup of British soldier-actors during the world war. Then there is her elder daughter, Mrs. W. P. Meeker, of Baltimore, a composer of music, for which John Bryan, 25, actor and poet and pianist, writes lyrics. Son Shakespeare Actor Her younger son, Reginald Bryan, 17, is in a Virginia military academy, and wants to be a naturalist. Her younger daughter, Helen

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Rudd. 10, apparently is destined for a political career. “I can’t keep her away from the house when she is here with me,” Mrs. Owen said. “I used to be the same way, though, when my father was here. And she knows politics, that youngster does.” Mrs. Owen will sail Wednesday with Reginald and Helen for Jamaica, where she can tell her children all about her life there as the wife of a young British subaltern, the only woman who ever played polo on a British army team. Her elder son is opening in New

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ister it in his own way. regardks of “ifs” and “buts.” The bill represents a curious com promise. The figure is $15,000.0 >C more than the house wanted, $29.000,000 more than Hoover proposed and $15,000,003 less than the senate urged. Though the senate agreed ic elimination of specific authorization to use the money for food, it obtained language designed to permit this in extreme cases. The funds, the bill. says, may be used for purposes of crop production and "all purposes incident thereto.”