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PAGE TWELVE ' THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929 THORNTON SAYS CARALNAY Hes "TURNED CORNER Tells of Progress Made and Misthods Used to Elim. inate Deficits Toronto.~Writing in the Saturday Evening Post under the caption "A Railroad Is Never Finished," Sir - Henry Thornton outlines the progress made by the Canadian National il- way since he became president of the He deals with the history of he railways that were amalgamated to the C.N.R., and tells of the early days of the C.N.R. under his man- agement, Sir Henry says in part: "The Canadian National Railways, us it stands today, is six and a hah ears old, The income for 1922 was i than $2,000,000, which was better than previolis years, since practically all of them showed deficits, some- times running as high as $30,000,000. Today the railroad is solvent, and has been so since 1926, Its net income available last year for interest on funded debt was $51,585,945. Per- haps those figures may be more in- teresting when it is considered that in the six years freight reductions aggregating $2,000,000 were put into effect and wage increases aggregat- ing $8,000,000 also came out of the earnings." Regarding that section which was known as the Transcontinental, Sir Henry writes: "This Transcontinental was one of the most fortunate mistakes in the history of railroading. It began as a road across the wilderness; today it is approaching maturity and a condi- tion of opulence. It is at the stations of this road that the prospectors ather to jump off for new gold folds; one of its feeders is the tre- mendous copper camp of Rouyn. The dog teams took off from it for the PHONE 22 For Your Drug Needs THOMPSON'S 10 Simcoe St. 8.~~We Deliver Daily, Daily. 'All times shown above are times trains depart from Oshawa Station, CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS Effective April 28, 1929, (Standard Time) Eastbound m, Dail, gildsdds of Red Lake, Pickle Lake, row and Woman Lake; there is ex- cellent geological opinion that along the height of land adjacent to this railway, which, years ago, plunged into the bush with so hope of revs] enue save at its two points of ter- minus, lies one of the really great gold 'deposits of the world. 'Not long ago a settler along its route sold out for $60,000, because he had found gold while digging a post hole. ""It is the steel backbone today of tremendous endeavor. French-Cana- dian pioneers, filtering west through Northern Quebec, have conquered its bush for farms; thousands of settlers are there now where a decade or so ago there were only hundreds, Tre- mendous power and pulp mills dot its route, harnessed waterfalls roar forth their message of electric power." As To Politics As to politics in this Government- owned enterprise, Sir Henry says: "There never has beén any poli- tics. But that wasn't the fault of a great many persons. Premier King kept his promise. And during the period between elections when the Conservative party was in control no one labored harder in the real inter- est of the property than 'Sir Henry Drayton, who carried on governmen- tal administration during the election period, Within a year a bulwark had arisen to back him--the opinion of the peaple of Canada. Today there is as much chance of politics getting into the Canadian National Railways as there is of an elephant walking a tight rope. Last year, for instance, the railways, which I am fortunate enough to administer, bought $99,- 000,000 worth of supplies. Not one cent of those purchases was"dictated Jolsleally, It is the story of one ong, grand fight, of hitting both above and below the belt; in fact, there wasn't any belt." Y As to the condition of the railways in 1922: "Much of the equipment had grown old. There were at least two sets of everything, and some of that worth- less. Often the steel was too light for transcontinental traffic; some towns had two sets of shops, roads paralleled in place, others wandered along the prairies without ballast, many engines wheezed with the as- thma of obsolescence; rolling stock often creaked with age and inade- quacy." Dealing with opponents of Govern- ment operation of the CN.R, he says: "The opposition, in fact, possessed every weapon but two--good humor and optimism. These were mine, and I held to them with all the strength I possessed. "The first one meant salvation; when a man fights without it he works under a handicap. If a man is only angry he is at least temporarily demented. If he allows himself to get thoroughly mad, then he becomes plumb crazy. As for the optimism, it was my working capital and my stock in trade; if I could sell it I could help a nation out of the doldrums. If I failed I failed utterly, both for Can- ada and for myself, V2 18 Simcoe Street, South, ANNIVERSARY SALE . SPECIAL Towels 15 Cc I. COLLIS & SONS 50-54 KING STREET W. PHONE 733W 1 » £43 pp Sunday. i y only. m, Daily except Sunday, nm Dally 'except Sunday, m, Daily . Daily. 1 m, Sun: m. beet dt 0 dod S3JYT8 Pe? 1 o I. I 223 vee 3] tn ] Felt Bres. The LEASING JEWELE | 22 Simeoe St. South ; EES SRRRREE " &y Machinery Repairing NOTHING TOO LARGE NOTHING TOO SMALL Adanac Machine Shop 161 King St. W. Phone 1214 geetiss rn 1] For Better Values tn DIAMONDS Burns' Jewelry Store Corner King and Prince Cash or Terms 'The Thornton Speeches "It was a job. I don't like to make speeches, but here was a case where 1 bad to make them--three and four a day stimes--meanwhile '1 was riding the road, sitfing in my car day after day, watching the road, and saying mothing until we arrived at a town where I could make a speech. Once there, with my audiences com- sed of those who came from curios- ity, from friendship and from enmity, T tried to paint the picture of Can- ada as I saw it. I couldn't use mauve gr pink as my colors. They had to be red, 'the reddest of red. ' But I be- lieved in' that painting. CU ALTH AMY WHERE HIGH GRADE EQUIP. MENT KEPT IN PER FECT CONDITION. MEANS RELIABLF SERVICE Phone 82 COLEMAN CARTAGE LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE "I had four big brushes with which to splash:my canvas. First there were the tremendous agricultural poten- tialities of the prairie provinces, which I did not believe had been ful- ly developed. Then there was the knowledge that up in the North Country--then only so much wilder- ness--Ilay a verit mine in the rush and roar of muskey- colored waters, plunging through ra- pids and over waterfalls to a poten- tiality of 40,006,000 hydro-electric horsepower. Beyond that was the suspicion of great mineral wealth in the tremendous expanse of the pre- Cambrian shield, covering a great portion of the Dominion. Perhaps this of all things gives an accurate picture of the progress of Canada since 1922, Today the Dominion is in the throes of one of the greatest mining developments ever known, Then, as I have said, that wealth was only a suspicion, little known about and adventurous. "And last of the important things was the fact that to the south of us was a country of more than 100,000, 000 persons that could furnish a mar- ket, particularly for the enormous re- serves of pulp and paper resources which we possessed. "On and on we went, across the country, along the main line and branch lines; there were speeches, speeches, speeches, questions and an- swers, the painting of pictures, and the incessant demand--for this was no time to make requests--that Can- ada look to its own future and make it a rosy one through sheer force of will and faith. And after a time there began to arise a counter demand, faint at first, then stronger and stronger until it became stentorian: "'Give Thornton a chance! "We could now go ahead and truly build that railroad into a great sys- tem. "Of course that building had been going on simultaneously; without the savings of co-ordination there could have been little progress the first le national gold | year. In this connection it must be remembered that in many places the component railroads of the Canadian Natiomal System were not built with any idea of future co-operation, but ss Mghly competitive lines. There were two or more of everything. "Mdny towns had two raiiroads sta- some had two sets of shops. tions; 'At other points the rails of two roads ran practically side by side for miles, only breaking away to reach some town that would become a ruined community should one whole line be junked, It was exactly what I have called it before--a railroad jig-saw puzzle, the solution of which was made more difficult by the human equation. If it had been a cold- blooded proposition of reducing a railroad to its most efficient basis, the problem would have been easier. But there were communities to consider, families settlers who had come into remote places dependent upon the railroad. There were times when, in the moving of shops, for instance, it was necessary to take up mortgages on workmen's homes, substituting others under like conditions, many miles away. "There still exist duplications even today. I know three stretches of road in which reproductions of main-line trackage exist to a total of 1,500 ex- cess miles. If I could abandon that 1,500 miles, it would mean an actual saving in maintenance and . struc- tures expense of $1,350,000 a year. It cannot be done. People trusted those railroads They built their homes along them and founded their farms." F.€. IRISHMAN CLANS HIS BATTERY WILL Patrick McGill, Irish Free State Minister, Launches Electric Scheme Dublin, July 13--Patrick McGilli- gan, Irish" Free State Minister for Industry and Commerce, has launch- ed what promises to be a revolution- ary electric scheme, which if the tests to which it is being subjected prove satisfactory, will, it is claimed, revolutionize the transport systems of the world. The invention is an altogether new type of electricity storage battery, which, it is declared, can be charged and discharged with unprecedented rapidity. The announcement of the invention was first made in the Dail towards the end of February, when Minister McGilligan unostentatiously remark- ed that the Government had been as- signed the patent of a certain in- vention. He asked fof, and was granted a supplementary vote of $25,- 000 in order to subsidize the inven- tor in his further work on the inven- tion, Now the Minister has gone a step further and announced that the invention had been under examina- tion, and that it would be subjected to further tests. "It is a very rosy and optimistic view to express, but I do not hesitare to say that 1 believe railway electri- fication at a very cheap cost is quite upon us." An expert who inspected the inven- | tion told the United Press that it is ja battery which can be charged and discharged with "unprecedented rap- fin to WORK REVOLUTION "2 idity® Its 'storage capacity is equal to driving a railway train for 60 miles, This means that the use of the battery, instead of steam, would] 4 the railway journey from Dub ork to be accomplished 'in two hours instead of four and a half as at present. , a performance would. mark e n of the end so far as the existing systems of electric rail- ways are concerned, and the applica- tion of the invention to other forms of transportation would have conse- quences so far reaching that it is impossible to calculate their extent at the present moment. The i Master of Science, of College, Dublin, is a native of rum, nty Down, northern inventor, James J. 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