Abandon Hope
of New Rail Law
at This Session
Cummins to Submit Report
in Near Future on What
Makes High Cost of
Transportation.
By GEORGE F. Al'THIKR.
Correspondent The Onmlm Her.
Washington, Jan. 13—(Special.)—
Expressing abandonment of any hope
of obtaining enactmet of remedial
railroad legislation this session, Sena
tor Cummins of Iowa, chairman of |
the senate committee in interstate i
oommerce, proposes to submit to
congress shortly his report on what !
causes the high cost of transports- j
lion. This will bs preliminary to the 1
possible submission of his own bill
amending tha Esch-Cummin* trails
portalion set, together with the se
ries of railroad bills now before the
committee, including the Capper hill,
repealing the so-called •guarantee
clause and restoring power over intra
state rates to state commissions.
The reporting of ihese bills will be
merely for the purpose of swnkenlng
public thinking on the all Important
subject of transports lion. Along the
same line, tile rGeat LukesSt. Law
rence waterways people ure urging
President Harding to call a national
transportation conference in Wash
ington for the purpose of working out
a correlated scheme of transportation
which shall seek to place in their
proper relationship the steam roads,
the auto trucks and the waterways,
Including the Great Lakes scheme.
Sees No Chance.
Senator Cummins says there is not
the slightest chance to secure passage
of any railroad legislation this ses
sion because the subject is too com
plex and the time is too short. Neither
does he look forward to a special ses
sion and the railroad problem will
have to await the next congress, with
even less liklihood of action then, pre
cipitating the whole question Into the
maelstrom of the next election where
many believe the question will lie the
simple deterinnintion of whether pri
vate ownership will continue or gov
ernment ownership take its place.
In his report on the high cost of
transportation. Senator Cummins
will urge compulsory group consoli
dation. consolidation of terminals and
a hold'ng company for interchange
able re.ling stock. In this way he
believes, a saving bf .approximately
$300,000,0(10 annually c-iin lie made.
I.arollette Ima .Scheme.
Senator LaFollette is planning a j
move to discharge the committee j
from Its further handling of tho Cap- j
per and other bills, but this motion I
would merely take Its place on the
calender and would die there. Ap
parently, it 1h Senator Cummins’ at
titude that little good could be ob
tained by the passage of this act, as
any amendment of tho law must
take the entire act Into consldera- ■
tlon and not attempt to change it
piecemeal.
Singularly enough, the larger roads
are showing a tendency to support
the proposal to repeal the guarantee
clause. It contains a provision that
when the earnings of the roads run
over 6 per cent, they must be shared
with the government for the purpose
of building up a fund for the sup
port of weaker roads. I'p to this
time, no roads have reported earnings
of more than 6 per cent on their
tentative valuations, hut this year
several roads are expected to go
beyond that figure. Notably among
these are the Pensylvania, the At
chison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the
Union Pacific and others. Repeal of
the guarantee clause would carry
with it, also, repeal of this feature,
rendering unnecessary the appeal to
tho courts which the roads are plan
ning to avoid sharing their increased
returns with the weaker sisters.
Wait Ruling on Cut.
In the meantime considerable In
terest rests with the decision which
the Interstate Commerce commission
is expected to make shortly on the
request for an 8 per cent reduction
on hay grain and grain products
urged by the Kansas Utilities Com
mission In which such states as Ne
braska, Minnesota and South Dakota
were tntervenors.
The Importance of the Great Lakes
St. Lawrence wsterways project may
be gathered from the fact that dur
ing the past year, more freight was
carried through the Panama canal,
from coast to const than was carried
by the transcontinental railroad lines.
'J’hia business is constantly increas
ing. In spite of tills loss of revenue
from the long distance haulings, the
roads have patently been offered more
business than they are equipped to
handle.
The long haul business is threat
ened with another Jolt in a bill
which Senator Ooodlng of Idaho has
offered, known as the mileage tariff
bill. It is intended for the relief of
the Rocky Montain states and is fa
vored by Senator Cummins wild will
give the proposal a hearing shortly
before his committee. At the present
time, it costs more to ship products
from Idaho to the Coast than It
does proportionately to ship from
the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific
coast. By the terms of the Gooding
bill, all rates would be built on the
basis of mileage only. It would
revolutionize rats structures every
where.
Mustaches Removed from
Freshmen of Ohio College
Defiance, O., Jan. 13.—Persons who
are old fashioned enough to think
that women are the most precise
about their observance of the ruling
fashions have never spent much time
on the Defiance college campus.
On the campus it is decidedly out
of order for the freshmen to boast
dainty decorations on the upper lip.
Two of the innocents, proudly nur
turing the tender tendrils for the
holiday trip home, awoke to a sud
den realization that campus custom
can't be crossed with safety when
they were aroused from their slum
bers in Pisson hall (men's dormitory)
by the none too gentle application of
barber's clippers.
And then. Just to show that cam-'
pus tradition is a ieveler of caste,
their awakeners paid a similar visit to
a Junior.
S Today there are no mustaches on
ih" 'oiiege camt ;pt on two
* uroLC .<*|«.
Reporters Disappoint London Visitor
By STEPHEN LEACOCK.
Immediately upon my arrival in Lon
don 1 was Interviewed by the press
l was interviewed in all 20 times. I
am not Buying this in any spirit of
elation »r boastfulness. I am simply
stating it us a fact—interviewed 20
times, 16 times by men and twice by
women. But as I feel that the results
of these interviews were not all that
I could have wished, I think it well
to make some public explanation of
what happened.
The truth is Hint we do this thing
so differently over In America that 1
was for the tim% being completely
thrown off my bearings. The ques
tions that I had every right to expect
after many years of American and
Canadian Interviews f.-tiled to appear.
I pass over the fact that being, in
terviewed for five hours is a fatigu
ing process. I lay no claim to ex
emption for that. But to that no
doubt was due the singular discrep
ancies ns to my physical appearance
which X detected in the London pa
pers.
The young man who interviewed
me Imediatcly after breakfast de
scribed me as "a brisk, energetic man,
still on the right side of 40, with
energy in every movement.”
The lady who wrote me up at 11:30
reported that my hair was turning
gray, anil that there was “ a peculiar
languor” in my manner.
And at the end the hoy who took
me over at u quarter to. 2 said: "The
old gentleman sank wearily upon a
chair in the hotel lounge. His hair Is
almost white."
The Youngstown Way.
The trouble Is that I had not un
derstood that London reporters are
supposed to look at a man's personal
appearance. In America we never
bother with that. We simply de
scribe him as a "dynamo.” For some
reason or other it always pleases
everybody to be eallad a "dynamo”
and the readers, at least with us,
like to read about people who are
"dynamos,” und hardly care for any
thing else.
In me case or very old men we
sometimes call them 'battlehorpes'’ or
'extinct volcanoes,” but beyond these
three classes we hardly venture on
description. Wo I was misled. I had
expected that the reporter would say:
"As soon as Mr. Leacock came across
the floor we felt we were in the pres
ence of a 'dynamo' (or an ‘extinct bat
tle horse' as the case may be).'' Oth
erwise I would have kept up those
energetic movements all the morning.
The more serious trouble was the
questions put to me by the reporters.
Over in our chief centers of popula
tion we use another set altogether. I
am thinking here especially of the
kind of interview that I have given
out in Youngstown, O., and Richmond,
Ind., and Peterborough. Ont. In all
these places—for example, in Youngs
town, O.—the reporter asks us his
first question. "What is your impres
sion of Youngstown'.'”
I:ndellvercd Prophecy.
In London they don't. They seem In
different to the fate of their city. Per
haps it is only English pride. For
all I know they may have been burn
ing to know this, just as the Youngs
town, O., people are, and were too
proud to ask. In any case I will In
sert here the answer I had written
out in my pocketbook (one copy for
each paper—the w-ay we do it in
Youngstown), and whioh read:
“London strikes me as emphatical
ly a city with a future. Standing ns
it docs in the heart of a rich agri
cultural district with railroad connec
tion in all directions, and resting, as
she must, on a bed of coal and oil,
I prophesy that she will one day be
a great city.”
The advantage of tills is that It
enables the reporter to get Just the
right kind of heading: "Prophesies
Hright Future for London." Had that
been used my name would have stood
higher there than It doc* today—un
less the London people are very dif
ferent from the people in Youngstown,
which I doubt. As it is, they don't
know whether their future is bright
or Is as dark as mud.
Literature, Art and Sewerage.
If the first question hart been han
died properly it would have led up by
an easy and pleasant transition to
question two, which always runs:
‘‘Have you seen our factories?” To
which the answer is;
"I have. I was taken out early
this morning by a group of your cit
izens (whom 1 cannot thank enough)
In a Ford car to look at your pail
and bucket works. At 11:30 I was
taken out by a second group in what
was apparently the same car, to see
your soap works. I understand that
your are the second nail-making cen
ter east of the Alleghenies, and I am
mazed and appalled. This afternoon
1 am to be taken out to see your won
derful system of disposing of sewage,
a thing which has fascinated me from
childhood.”
Now I am not offering any criticism of
the London system of Interviewing,
but one sees at once how easy and
friendly for all concerned this Youngs
town method is; how much better It
works than the London method of j
asking questions about literature and
art and difficult things of that sort
I am sure that there must be soap
| works and perhaps a pail factory some >
where in London. Hut during my
entire time of residence there no one
ever offered to take me to them. As
for the sewerage—oh, well, I suppose
we are more hospitable in America.
Let it go at that.
Unfair Tactics.
1 had my answer all written and
ready, saying:
"I understand that London is the
second greatest hop-consuming, the
fourth hog killing, and the first egg
absorbing center in the world."
But wharf I deplore still more, and
I think with reason, Is the total omis
sion of the familiar interrogation:
“What Is your Impression of our wom
en?”
That's where the reporter over on
our side hits the nail every time.
That la the point at which we always
nudge him In the ribs and buy him
a cigar, and at which youth and age
join In a,sly Jest together. Here again
the subheading comes In so nicely:
Thinks Youngstown women charming.
And they are. They are, everywhere.
But I hate to think that I had to keep
my Impression of London women un
used in my pocket whit* a young
man asked me whether I thought
modern literature owed more to ob
servation and less to inspiration than
some other kind of literature,
j Now that's exactly the kind of
! question, the last one. that the lam
i don reporters semi to harp on. They
4 Rvit 1
My kind of reporter could have taken me out in a Ford car mild
shown me a factory.
seemed hipped about literature; ana
their questions are too difficult. One
asked me whether the American
drama was structurally inferior to
Hie French, t don't rail that fair.
That question is only one of a long
list that they asked ine about art and
literature. I missed nearly all of
them, except as to whether I thought
Al Jolson or Frank Tlnney waa the
higher artist, end even that one was
asked by an American who is waiting I
himself on the London rpess.
I don't want to speak In snger.
But 1 say It frunkly, the atmosphere
of these young men Is not healthy,
and I felt that 1 didn't want to see
them any more.
Had there been a reporter of the
kind we have at home In Montreal or
Toledo or Springfield, 111., I would
have welcomed him at my hotel. He
coudld have taken out In a Ford
car and shown me a factory and told
me how many cubic feet of water go
down the Thames in a hour. I
should have been glad of his society,
and he and I would have together
made up the kind of copy that people
of his class and mine read. But I
felt that If any young man came
along to ask about the structure of
the modern drama, he had better go
to the British museum.
(Copyright, 1923.)
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