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4 THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. AUGUST 1, 1921. The Omaha Bee DaILV (MORNLNU) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY NELSON B. UPDIKE, Publisher. MEMSER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It iimUtaa Pleat, M tie The Bee la s Beaber. It laelteli entllled u Ui im l subUnUea tt eU sews dwwiabai oradlsM M II or set otawwut credited Id Uih rrxr, toa alas Ue loeal mi Buollsaes kwraln. All rUMa o( robUaslloo o emt svMlej BEB TELEPHONES SiS3 5VS. AT Untie 1000 rr Nlaat C1U After 10 . e. Sdttarlal OwwtMl AT lantls Mil or 1142 OFFICES OF THE BEE Mill Offleet III aa riiun CvmO Blafls M ( it 1 Boat 1K 4933 lost tltt Out-f -Toea OIIIcmi K Totk Ml ring A i Wuhlorton llllO it Caieae miut Bite I Puis. Prases. 4 SB Ba Ik Bonon The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including tho part meat of Mai Thoroughfarea leading ialo Omaha with a Brick Surfaeo. 3. A short, low-rala Waterway from the Cora Bait to tha Atlaatio Oeaaa. 4. Homo Rula Chartar for Omaha, with City Maaagsr form of GoTammant. Starving Children of Russia. The American Relief association will do Hhat it can to rescue from starvation the chil Ven of famine-ridden Russia. This statement mm that onen"it! American!! will contribute. I they have become accustomed to doing, in TUCl lliai J1111UI.C1119 will IJVh buiivi uv..oi. v. fpnditions they cannot help. No duty ts more nperatlve than this. Just as the situation in Belgium wa met in 1914, and as succor has 'een extended to Armenia and Syria, to Po land, and to other stricken regions of the Old liVorld, o will we share our plenty with the Russian unfortunates. Some inquiry into why there is starvation n one of the richest of all the world's agricul- ural regions may be justified. Russia was one lof the world's great food exporters; the FJkraine and the Ural regions produce wheat lelds second only to those of the American plains. From bolshevik sources word has been ent out of the successful cultivation of the soil nder soviet control. What really has taken blace is the slow disintegration ot an means ot communication, not only the breakdown but the utter disappearance of transportation facili ties, even the crudest. Along with this came neglect of the farms, and finally drouth, and famine. Now, 160,000.000 of people, occupying one of the richest regions of the world, profuse in all things that are needed to support life and uphold industry, find that they must appeal to the world for food. No mystery surrounds this; it if the net result of the experiment in communism, as inevitable as the process of the suns. . Russia will recover, because the sternest of necessity will drive its people to work. Salva tion for them must come from within, and the relief they will get from the world outside will be temporary only. A people that will not try to save itself does not deserve assistance, but sign are plenty to support the belief that the Russian! are ready to put forth some effort in their own behalf. When they set about to organize industry with half the energy they de voted to destruction, all danger of starvation will disappear. "My Lords and Gentlemen!" It seems to be just one condemned thing after another for poor, perplexed and bedeviled John Bull. Just as he gets the coal strike off his hands, and the Irish affair begins to simmer down with a promise of cooling to where it can be assimilated, here comes the outbreak be tween Lloyd George, Curzon and Northcliffe to trouble the dreams of the dear old gentle man. His gracious majesty, the king, is dragged into it by reason of the indiscreet utterance of one of Northcliffe's adherents, language mis takenly imputed to the chief, and which brought down on him one of the gentlest thunderbolts that may be hurled from the throne. Not so many years ago a secluded subterranean cham ber would have been prepared for the offending lordship's grace, and he might have had ample leisure for contemplating the uncertainties of mundane things, all save the wrath of reigning monarch. Having abjured the words that evoked regal displeasure, his lordship defends himself elsewhere by stating in bald and tin adorned language that the noble lord who sits in the imperial cabinet as minister for all his majesty's foreign affairs is an unqualified liar. Hardly that; it is reasonable to assume that in his haste his lordship did not omit to add the adjectival fringe that convention permits, al most require, when one noble gent finds him self impelled to catalogue another as a liar. The next move must come from London. Lord Northcliffe has betaken himself once more to the protection of the Union Jack, this time in conjunction with the Maple Leaf, so is well within range of Downing street. Our neutrality will be unwrung, because further firing will be over British soil, but Americans surely cannot withhold the gratitude that is due these eminent gentlemen for so enlivening a silly season that would probably have been dull indeed without the diversion they have created. Cutting Out Waste. Fifteen western states are interested in the opening up of the Great Lakes ports to ocean vessels. These contain a third of the popula tion, one-fourth of the total area of the coun try and more than half the farm property value. The series of articles which have been appearing in The Bee demonstrated the im portance of this project to Nebraska. They showed also that, though the shipping trade of New York and Boston might be decreased, yet the compensation of cheap and abundant hydro electric power, eliminating danger of coal shortage and stimulating productive industry, spreads the benefits over a targe area of the east In lowering the costs of production in the factory districts and lessening the costs of dis tribution for the exportable surplus of the farms the St Lawrence waterway would do double duty. This is the elimination of waste a thing of benefit to every human being, no matter what his direct interest is. A ship canal that will allow ocean freighters to steam into loading docks at Duluth, Chicago, Cleve land, Detroit and elsewhere along the lake shore is labor-saving device. One might as well advocate the use of primitive methods of the cradle and flail in the harvest and the aboli tion of power machinery in the factories in favor of hand work as to oppose cheapening and shortening the route to world markets by means of the Great Lakes waterway. Farm Communities of the West. In the current Review of Reviews Dr. Albert Shaw writes rather ardently of the venture abo.ut to be set on foot, whereby a group of New York people are to be transplanted from Brooklyn to Buhl, Idaho. The spirit, of course, is "back to the land," with the economic freedom and social advantages that flow from the independence at tendant on possession of a farm. A unique fea ture of the present migration is that the trip is to be made by automobile, and, as Omaha and Nebraska are included in the itinerary, the home folks will have opportunity to see and maybe to become acquainted with the Argonauts. Just as a matter of history, there is nothing new in this movement. Indeed, it has been re peated a number of times in western annals. From the day when a group of Frenchmen cast their lot in what is now Union county, Iowa, there to find the happiness that dwells in Utopia, only to split on the everlasting rock of indi viduality, down through the Amana colony's ex periment, including that which brought a famous group together at Maquokcta, where a center of culture was to be set up, the way along which the trans-MLssissippi country has progressed to its present high stage is lined with wrecks of such hopes. Nebraska had its Studebaker "farm com munity" trial; some colonies that came from Europe have thrived, but mainly because they were on the basis of individualism. The great Mormon trek is the most luminous example of all, but in it the community interest went only to the extent of religion, although their faith today is less of an incentive to cohesion than self-interest, the group being held together by pressure from without. The Idaho of today has been developed from the wilderness of yesterday by communities that have been induced to take up and exploit a virgin land, lured thither by the promise of exceeding return from new land under new conditions. Most of these have prospered, a few have been overwhelmed, but the success of any has rested on co-operation modified by the intelligently directed separate efforts of the colonists. Here, as elsewhere in the world, thrift and industry have preceded accumulation. Nebraska can match these, as well, in the Mitchell Valley region. The Scott colony will be welcomed to the west. If its members are energetic, vigorous and industrious, they will live to bless the day they exchanged the congestion of Brooklyn for the expansiveness of Idaho." But they will find that honest, well-directed toil is needed, and that plenty only comes to him who goes after it. Gilt-Edged Investments. The petition for higher fares on the street railway system of Omaha still is under con sideration before the state railway commission of Nebraska. For the information of the board it may be well to quote briefly from a financial publication evidence to the effect that public utility corporations in general are far from being in need of increased rates. The facts as presented by that well-informed business publication, Commerce and Finance, follow: Public utility stocks and bonds, which were practically friendless during the war, are again coming into more popular favor. Many prominent Wall Street financial houses are inviting the attention of clients to this class of security. To quote from a circular on this subject issued by a large house: "Practically all of the expenses of these companies are being much reduced by the fall of prices; and, on the other hand, rates for gas and electricity have been rather gener ally increased during the past two years. Gas oil has gone down about 67 per cent; coal 43 per cent; miscellaneous materiats and supplies 39 per cent and labor costs probably about .15 per cent. These companies should be able to produce gas and electricity at costs about 15 to 23 per cent under those of a year ago." The public is warranted in the view that in stead of increases in public utility rates, de creases are more in order. This does not only affect electric and gas plants, but street rail ways as well. The Spirit of the West. Cheyenne has a frontier show; some of the biggest business men in Omaha drop their im mediate affairs and go out to Wyoming, shar ing the pleasures and adding to them. Tueblo has a flood, and the people of Omaha contribute money and supplies for the refugees, sharing the burden and participating' in the general sorrow. Needless to say, in both cases the interest of Omaha in its neighbors is appreciated. People like those who are always ready for fun and frolic, and they like still more those who are willing to extend a helping hand in time of .trouble. There is no fair weather friendship about the community of Omaha. The spirit of the old west, where neighbors would hitch up and drive twenty miles to a dance or thirty miles to relieve suffering still lives. It is reassuring to hear Secretary Mellon ex plain that merely because the income tax returns show only 65 persons with an income of $1,000, 000 a year or over in 1919, as compared with 206 in this class three years before, is no sign that millionaires are vanishing. He explains that many, by dividing their property up among their children, have avoided the high bracket surtax. The aforesaid children would be ungrateful, in deed, to advocate the repeal of the income tax which opened the hearts of their fathers. Through the generosity of the American people the library of the University of Louvain is being rebuilt. Doubtless there are also many Americans willing to write up-to-date books with which to load the shelves. The former ambassador to Vienna, whose wife is suing for divorce, seems to have lacked the fundamentals of diplomacy, not even being able to maintain friendly relations in his own home. The congressman who is proposing to forbid women smoking cigarets perhaps fears the habit may become effeminate. It does seem that in trying to dry up the ocean the prohibitionists are undertaking a rather large order. Great Watericay Is Needed Service of Lake to-Ocean Canal Important to Western Farmers. By ALBERT W. JEFFERIS. (Congressman Second Nebraska District.) The greatest present need of the farmers of Nebraska and central west is adequate trans portation for their products to market, both domestic and foreign, at lower rates than at present. The farmer is also vitally interested in obtaining cheaper transportation upon the man ufactured product which he is compelled to buy. High as are railroad rates today they are not high enough, according to the managers of the railroads, to permit of earning a fair profit upon their actual values. Then, again, railroads have no money or credit with which to construct the necessary freight cars, equipment and rolling stock for the transportation of the country's products., According to the Railway Age, leading rail road magazine, the outlay for railroad cars for the next three years will be as follows: To make up present shortage ....262.000 To provide an adequate surplus. . .100,000 To take care of im-reased traffic. .126,000 To make up for deferred retirement 49,500 To care for normal retirement ....174,900 Total cars needed In 3 years 712,400 This number of cars will require an ex penditure of some $2,000,000,000. Even if this expenditure could he made by the railroads and the 712.400 cars built, the various products, at certain times of the year, would require ad ditional transportation facilities. We must move with speed and despatch the peak loads of grain, corn and other products when the markets are most favorable. One has but to study a map of the United States to realize that we of the Central West should pot be dependent upon but one mode of transportation. Such a course will lead in evitably to commercial stagnation and indus trial decay. Fall fashion note: Lenine red is being re placed by Russian blue. We have seen each year proof of this fact in the shortage of cars and rolling stock when movement of grain is imperative. This is no reflection on the railroads of the Cen tral West. In the course of my travels through the more densely populated eastern centers, I have had the occasion to ride, on railroads which bear high reputation for efficiency, but I want to say that for good road beds, com fortable trains, capable crews and courteous service there are no railroads in the country maintaining a better average than those in Ne braska. My argument is against putting all of our eggs in one basket; against the mental apathy which year after year sees the need for addi tional transportation facilities, and, instead of developing our resources, vainly attempts to remedy the situation by futile legislation and excessive regulation. . If by the development of waterways we can market our corn, grain and farm products at a great reduction over present freight rates, if we can bing the ocean some 1.500 miles closer to us and thereby get our products to market at much lower transportation charges, we shall be derelict in our duty if we fail to develop such facilities. As a representative of the people of Ne braska, I have felt that I should make an ef fort to ascertain something of the proposed deep waterways from the Great Lakes, through the St. Lawrence river to the ocean and, from July 10 to 16, I availed myself of the oppor tunity to accompany the Great Lakes-St. Law rence Tidewater association from Buffalo to Quebec in an effort to learn how, if at all, the completion of the work-, that is. canals and locks, etc., between Buffalo and Montreal, would help to secure cheaper water transpor tation for the agricultural producers of the cen tral western states to domestic markets of the eastern states, and at Liverpool and other for eign markets. The propect is not a new idea. The treaty of 1909 between the United States and Great Britain relates to the boundary waters between the United States and the Dominion of Can ada, and created the International Joint Com mission. Congress, in 1919. requested the Commis sion to investigate what further improvements of the St. Lawrence river between Montreal and Lake Ontario were necessary to make the same navigable for ocean-going vessels. Engineers to conduct the surveys were ap pointed by Canada and the United States. They have filed data with the International Joint Commission which the Commission will soon report to this and the Canadian governments. If the report be favorable, then Congress will consider the great project which to the central portion of the United States is a hundred fold more important than was the building of the Panama canal. The Panama canal, to the middle and central west, is but of little bene fit, though it will prove of great value to the coastwise trade of our country and the com merce of the world, whereas, if "the Great Lakes can he united to the Atlantic ocean, so that ocean steamers may navigate to Chicago, Du luth .or other cities 1,500 miles inland, load the surplus grain and other products of the west, and, through cheaper water transportation rates, carry them to the more densely populated sec tions of the eastern portion of the United States, or across the ocean to the markets of Europe, it will save to the farmers of Nebraska from 5 to 10 cents per buslirl on all the surplus which they have for sale, after having provided for the peoples of the central west. The Welland Canal now being constructed will connect Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. This continent has many beautiful sections, but I doubt if there is any section in the world which will surpass the beauty of a trip through the St. Lawrece from Rochester, N. Y., to Quebec, Canada. The lakes and the rivers, all clear and of deep blue, are so refreshing and possess grandeur to satisfy the lovers of the beautiful, to say nothing of the Thousand Islands, cov ered with beautiful homes and overhung with the foliage of green trees. Surely, the beauty would not be lessened if ocean-going vessels were to transport through these waters the food products of the west to those who must eat, From Montreal alone during the past two months ocean freighters have carried to Liver pool more than forty million bushels of wheat. The distance from Montreal, which is far in land along the St. Lawrence, to Liverpool, is 3.107 miles. The water route from Chicago to Montreal would he 1,246 miles, while bv rail from Chicago to New York is 912 miles. When we consider the subject, we marvel that the great natural waterways have been permitted to flow on, day by day, as useless to the hu man race for. commerce, as a "painted ship upon a painted ocean." Surely the day is not distant when our people and their government will utilize the natural waterways of this con tinent for cheaper transportation of our prod ucts and the production and generation of cheaper- hydro-electric power for manufacturing pur poses, thereby conserving our waning coal sup ply for the warmth of the people. Times and conditions demand thought and action on big projects and undertakings and it is my hope that the people of the Central West will have the vision and courage to foster and promote deep waterways for ocean-going ves sels from the Great Lakes to the Ocean. We are told that such a big project can be completed without expense to the Government. So much the better. But, if necessary, I feel that we should give all reasonable aid in fur thering a plan which will so signally aid the agriculture and commerce of our middle west. Stay in the Houdah. Doc Sawyer insists that President Harding must take up horseback riding. If the presi dent cares to take our advice he 11 keep right on riding that old elephant on which he dur bared into office a few months ago. Cincinnati Enquirer. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Questions concerning hygiene, sanitation and prevention ol disease, submitted to Dr. Evans by reader ol Tha Be, will be answered personally, subject to proper limitation, where (tamped addressed envelop la enclosed. Dr Evans will not make diagnosis or prescribe tor individual diseases. Address letters in care el The Bee. Copyricht, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evans BATHING IN HOT WEATHER I know one very fat man who lives in a hot climate. He takes several cold baths each day In hot weather; one when he gets up in the morning, ons or two through the day, and one before he retires at night. He has a theory that he sleeps better after ho has been "chilled." He uses the term chill much as does a refrigerator ware houseman who chills butter, eggs and meat. The Journal of the American Med ical Association for July 9 quotes from an article In the London Times, written by Leonard Hill, which carries a good deal of sclen tirto. support for my fat -riend. Dr. Leonard Hilt quotes Dr. Soune of the Finsen institute as having shown that when a man stands in the hot sunlight the visible rays penetrate the skin and the heat Is absorbed by the underlying blood find carried away. He found that the blood might be heated up nine decrees in that way. If my friend reads this he will rdd another chilling out bath to his hot weather menu. Kerley. speaking of the comfort of children in hot weather, says ona or two basin baths a day, with a tub bath at bedtime, will give the child much relief and help him to pass safely through. Nothing will give a heat tormented child such re freshing sleep as will a cool tub bath. If a child has a convulsion or is threatened with one use a mustard bath. Use a heaping tablespoonful of mustard to each six gallons of warm water. Ten minutes In this is enough. Two or three minutes of a mustard bath, followed by quick rubbing, will oftentimes bring sleep to a restless grown person or child. The bran bath is used in place of the soap bath in prickly heat and bath itch. A cup of bran is placed In the bath water. The tempera ture may be hot, cold or tepid. The child is not rubbed while in the bath. The skin should be dried with soft cloths. vv,ng To make a soda bath dissolve' a tablespoonful of blcarbonato of soda in a half gallon of water or use the same proportions In a tub or basin About the Bread Law. Omaha. July 28 To the Editor of The Bee: Have Just read with amazement that three Omaha bakers have been successful in hold ing up, for a time at least, a law which our last legislature passed after much trial and tribulation. Is it possible that the Omaha baking combine is stronger than even our state laws. The fact that this law is thus fought to the last ditch gives food for earnest thought. A law so reasonable and sane (merely labeling a loaf of bread with its welRht, the same as Is done with all other packages of food.) Why should the bakers object to it? I have found it perfectly possible in my own kitchen to bake a loaf within one ounce fof any weight I choose. The law "gives the bakers two ounces leeway. Why should it be impossible, sbl they claim for them? By leaving out an ounce or two more they are able to add sev eral hundred dollars' profit any day. I wonder if the people who sim ply buy a "loaf of bread" without questioning its weight would be willing to buy a package of beef steak or butter the same way? Tet it would be Just as reasonable for the butter makers to give us 12 or 14 ounces now and then when they felt like it, thereby adding to their profit. We have Rained a few ounces on each loaf of bread in the last year, whilethe Ingredients have declined while the Ingredients have declined honor to Representative Smith, who seems to be fighting almost single handed against great odds. May he "not weary In well doing." The peo ple should remember who Is fighting against them. AN OMAHA WOMAN. "Gasoline Vamps." Omaha, July 28. To the Editor of The Bee: Your editorial on 'Pinching the Gasoline Vamp." cer tatinly ought to be applauded loud enough to be heard all over Omaha, as this menace certainly is getting appalling. I know from actual ex perience not only on the busy streets but anywhere in Omaha. Now I am a married woman. .and not out on the streets looking for any Joy rides or sny acquaintances. I go along minding my own affairs, dress modestly and am 38 years old. But this summer while out walking for a littlo exercise or fresh air, as I live in an apartment, there have been five different times that one of these he-male gas-bums has pulled up to the curbing with "Hey, kid, come on for a ride," or "Oh, what's the mattter with you. Climb in," or even "Hurry up. I've got something to tell you. Get in." I have always ignored these sug gestions, as I am old enough to know better, but what about some poor working girls who have noth ing but a hot room to live in or some lonpsome and discouraged girl? Those are the ones who are in dan ger and should be protected. I have wished on every occasion that I only had a badge and & sap along with the authority to hop in and drive them to the police station, or there should be orders given out from headquarters to every woman who wishes to protect her younger sis ters from these brutes to take down the license number and report them to headquarters. to headquarters. EXPERIENCE. CENTER SHOTS. The park policeman reports that the majority is against disarmament. Greenville Piedmont. T Cambridge banker. 76 years old, stiys dancing keeps him young. Now, if the girls who feel obliged to dance with him only say the same Kansas City Star. It's easy to predict higher rentals, but mighty hard to collect them. Wichita Eagle. The world will also make a beaten pc.th to the door of the man who uses his lawn mower at 5 a. m. Blnghamton Morning Sun. The new marri.ige ceremony should read: "Love, honor and don't lay." Nashville Tennessean. are soon A fool and his wife parted. Boston Herald. Clouds ot dust so thick as to be a menace to navigation are reported by the weather bureau on the Yel low sea. Thus the dry influence spreads Seattle Daily Times. A Missouri RevMou. It's all right to have close friends if they loosen uo occasionally. . Klrkivllle Express, of water. The temperature Is a matter of choice. The sktn is not to be rubbed. It is dried gently with soft cloths. To make a starch bath dissolve a half cupful of laundry starch In a tubful of water. Some persons make an epsom salt bath by dissolving a pound of salts in a tub of water. A friend who enjoys an epsom salt bath proceeds as follows: He dissolves three pounds of the salts in a tubful of warm water. He lies in this for about ten minutes, then gets out and rubs his skin with a coarse towel. He then gets back in the bath for a few minutes. I asked hm if this caused him to lose any of his excess weight. He replied that it looked to htm like the rough towel must roll up about half a pound of scarf skin, but that otherwise he lost no weight. The Schott bath salt, when dis solved in a tub of bath wafer, makes a saline solution filled with bubbles or carbonic acid gas. It Is used j with massage In tho treatment of heart disease. i $300,000 Bonds VolcJ for Itapid City Court House Sioux Falls, S. D July 31. (Spc: rial.) The county commissioners ot Pennington countv have sold bonds of $500,000, which were voted at a special election for the construction of a new county court house at Rapid City. P.ids for the conduction of the building will be opened August 15. and the contract is expected to be awarded soon thereafter. When the structure is completed it will be one of the finest and most costly of its kind in western South Dakota. Ik'ware Typhus Cooties. J. H. M, writes: "Please publish preventive and treatment for ty phus? There are a few cases In our part of the country." REPLY. There is no proof that typhus is spread in any way except by lice. Be careful to keep away rom lousy people. If you get lice In your head kill them with kerosene. There Is an odorless kerosene If you prefer that. Kill nits with hot vinegar. Kill body lice by using the same preparations, but remember that bedy lice live in the underwear. They can be killed there by heat Typhus is a severe disease and calls for the best possible treatment bv the best available physicians and nurses. Feeding Kgg to Baby. G. V. F. writes: "A raw egg beaten into hot cream of wheat Is often accepted by a child who will not touch eggs otherwise. Also a one ounce enema of warm olive oil cures colic In babies Quicker than anything I have ever used." Quite an Eyeful. J. J. writes: "For the last week I have in the white of my right eye a round red ball about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. What could this possibly be? Is there any treat ment ror it. and if so, what? Some people have told me ft Is bloodshot, tut I cannot take their word for it." REPLY. Your eye is bloodshot. Do noth ing. It will get well if left alone. It may have been caused by getting drunk, swimming, straining your eye, or some other thing. What ever the cause may have been try to avoid repeating it. Jug & la Volstead. P. R. writes: "I am seldom tl'ilrsfv anA flrinir vainr ltffl tt.tth a .. - ... ..... ' . i i i . nihil JL apart from my meals. However, on minnn, i usually orinK tnree glasses of water, as I think it beneficial even though I am not thirsty. Am I right in so thinking?" REPLY. As a rule people should drink more water than they do. It is bet ter to distribute the intake thrniiffh. out the day. But if you want to save up and go on a water drunk daily there is no harm In doing so, However, morning is better than night for your water Jag. Money to Loan On Omaha Real Estate Low rates of interest. Favorable repayment terms. Preference given on home loans of $5,000.00 and less: s&e Conservative Savings 3Loan association mm mm PAUL W. KUHNS, President. E. A. BAIRD, Vice President. J. A. LYONS, Secretary. J. H. M'MILLAN, Treasurer. Omaha-Chicago 7 DAILY TRAINS Leave Omaha Chicago Express .... 7:35 a.m. Atlantic Express .... 2:00 p.m. Chicago Special .... 6:00 p.m. Los Angeles Limited () . . 7:32 p.m. Overland Limited ()... 7:35 p.m. Oregon Washington Limited 9:00 p.m. Continental Limited . . . 2:30 a.m. Fint-clm ttandard efapinf ears only. Arrive Chicago 9:30 p.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:35 a.m 8:50 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 3:55 p.m. The Best of Everything For information regarding train schedules and sleeping car accommodations apply at Consolidated Ticket Offices, 1416 Dodge Street (Tele phone Douglas 1684) or Union Pajsenger Station. (102) Illinois Central System Betters Service by Co-operating With Public This is the twelfth in a series of monthly public statements which the Illinois Central System is making through the newspapers on its lines. Each preceding statement has treated of some railway problem of current importance, setting forth information which we believe the public should have and inviting cwsstructive criticism and suggestions. Our aim has been to bring about closer co-operation with the public in such a way as to be reflected in the constant betterment of the service rendered by the Illinois Central System. Our program was begun September 1, 1920 the day the railroads resumed operations under their own financial responsibilities. The results we have obtained convince us that the plan we have followed has been worth while. We believe that we and our patrons have received, through the better understanding which has been brought about between us, full value for our efforts in newspaper adver tising. Consequently we hold it to be our duty to continue to play our part in dis seminating information that will give the public a more adequate idea of the problems which railway managements face which also are the public's problems. We have decided therefore to continue our program another twelve months. Railway management is the trustee of a vast investment in the railroads, an in vestment fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission for rate-making purposes at $18,900,000,000, but in reality greater than that, for upon the satisfactory ad ministration of railway properties depends the future welfare not only of the rail way properties themselves, but also of all the manifold activities of our entire national business life. We believe the railway problems of the United States require the best and most constructive thought of all the people farmers, business men, professional men and railway men working in harmony. The railroads are ruled by public opinion. If public thought on railway questions is unprogressive, the railroads cannot make progress, which means that they will not be enabled to meet the con stantly increasing demands of public service. The public is not entirely to blame for such unsatisfactory railway conditions as have obtained in the past. We believe the reticence of railway men them selves, in failing to keep the public well informed, has been one of the causes of the growth of restrictive legislation, of unprogressive regulation and of an anti railway spirit, which have worked a hardship upon railway development, and con sequently upon the public itself. That our discussions have contributed to a better understanding of railway problems on the part of'the public served by the Illinois Central System is evi denced to us in many ways. Not only have our patrons helped us in the solution of many problems which we have presented to them, giving us their hearty support and co-operation in carrying out our programs for better service, but the better mu tual understanding which has been awakened a better understanding on our part of our patrons' problems, and a better understanding on their part of ours has been reflected in generally improved service. Our discussions have also been a means of perfecting within our organization that spirit of loyalty and service which always has characterized the Illinois Central System. Railway rates are standardized under governmental authority. Service is the basis of competition among the railroads. Service is the measure which deter mines the worth of a railway system. Service must be unselfish. It must find ex pression in safety, efficiency and economy. We pledge our best efforts toward serving the patrons of the Illinois Central System. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. C. H. MARKHAM, President, Illinois Central Syttem.