Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 February 1915 — Page 8
REAL AMUSEMENT Planned by Auto Men to Spring on Show Visitors Week of March 8.
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Not all of the opening week of the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association will be devoted to business. The directors of the opening week, believing that visitors to Indianapolis shall be given entertainment, are arranging some things which will feat-
ure tne doings of the week. Dealers too are thinking of means of entertainment which will be staged in their own salesrooms, which will
De beautihed and decorated for the occasion. The dates of the opening week will be March 8-13. There will be on display every automobile feature shown at the big displays. Nearly but not every car shown at Now York and Chicago will be displayed here. Each dealer will be able to show his full line. Although the idea of making annual charges in models are exhibiting the new automobiles for the first time at the automobile shows is pr,irl-
I ually dyin;; out, 'there are naturally ! many innovations which are intro-
duccd to tne public at these exhibitions.
Railroads Caught Between Two
Extremes Show Need .For Help From Legislature.
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Governor Ralston will assist at the opening ceremonies of the opening week of the Indianapolis Auto Trade Association, March 8-13. The governor, less than a year ago, bought his first automobile and consequently he is interested with other automobile users in good roads, proper traffic conditions, the philosophy of "safety first" and other problems which have eome along with the general use of the automobile.
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Indianapolis Two points, which heretofore have not been given great consideration, are being brought out
m the facts gathered in connection with the bill for a 2V2 cent a mile passenger rate, which comes before the
present session of the Indiana Legis
lature at Indianapolis. These two points are:
1. The same authority (the Legis
lature; which reduced Indiana passenger rates 33y3 in 1907 was also the cause of a substantial portion of the additional expense which the railroads had subsequently to meet. 2. A very large part of the great increase in expense to which the railroads have been put since 1907, brought absolutely no increase in
revenues. Following the enactment of the 2cent a mile passenger law in Indiana in 1907, the steam railroads of the State were caught in a curious situation. The passenger rate was cut from 3 to 2 cents a mile, which reduced their passenger income onethird. Their income went down, and at the same time costs rose on every hand.
The Indiana Legislature, which brought about the reduction in uas-
senger revenue by the enactment of
tne 2. cent a mile law now turned its attention to devices and equipment for
improving transportation conditions,
particularly in the line of safety both to passengers and trainmen. In the years which have followed the SSy3 reduction in Indiana passenger rates, the State has required many things of the railroads. The 1914 report of the Public Service Commission to the Governor of Indiana says: Combined Effect a Burden. "The Legislature in its wisdom has enacted a large number of laws, no one of which in itself would be burden
some to the railroad, but the combined effect of all them became verv burden
some to them. It is not our judg
ment that any of the laws were un
wisely enacted. Each one has a humane and wise purpose behind it.
Among these are improved safety appliances, interlocking "devices, automatic block signals, grade separations, improved cabooses, more effi
cient headlights, full train crews for engines that add to the safey of life
for those that operate them, and many
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"Each of these laws is wiselv de
signed for the protection of the prop
erty of the companies or for the lives
of those who operate them or travel
on the highways of the State. These laws ought not to be abandoned, but should be courageously, wisely and vigorously enforced, keeping in mind at all times that there is a limit beyond which the revenues of the railroads will be insufficient to defray expenses." The hours-of-service law and the act requiring automatic fire-box (?oors, ad
ded also to the expense of the railroads at the critical time when passenger revenues were reduced onethird by State legislation. All Expenses Increased. Year by year the expense of labor, supplies and material increased, with no corresponding increase of revenue. The Public Service Commission of Indiana in its report comments upon this fact. "There has been a marked increase in the wages of labor." savs
the report," which has more than overcome the constantly increasing efficiency of labor. There has been a marked increase in all the materials that enter into the construction, repairs and maintenance of railway property." Testimony by 30 railroads before the Interstate Commerce Commission.
as stated in the Commission's report, showed an increase of 9.02 in wages
in comparing 1913 with 1909. It was also pointed out in this report that if "the scale of wages for 1909 had been in effect during 1913 the labor costs of the latter year
would have been less by about $51,000,000 than they actually were." The same reptrt indicated that the average price of coal had increased 7.1 from 1910 to 1913. The railroads have entered no complaint as to the increased expense, recognizing the fact that much of it has been both wise and inevitable. JBut they are emphasizing the fact that very little of the added expense has brought them increased business or larger income, and that the same "hand" which has helped increase their expenses, although wisely, has at the same time reduced their revenue These are the points that they are makinar plain in their statpm
conditions, with the hone that in tht1
interests of good business and justice their condition may be remedied by the enactment of a 2 cent passenger law by the present Legislature.
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