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“momma-sundae.“ WhOOWWT 58 afraid of submitting any 3 great help in building up their freight busi- question, civil or religious, to the test of [7“ ness. discussion, is more in love with his own than with the Truthâ€"WATSON. -â€" . . , . f transportation must be taken out in advertls- Thursday, March 31, 1932 THE RAILROADS AND BUSINESS The majority of weekly newspapers are to possible to advertise the freight business and modesty” by a fellow dentist from Cleveland, lose their passenger transportation privileges pay for it in passenger transportation. These at a meeting in Toronto this week. It is so long on at least one of Canada’s big systems, rect. railroads are falling down in their earnings. Heretofore the newspapers have had year- heads of departments, there appears no reason opinion THE DURHAM CHRONICLE * Toronto is opposed to the dole system. So is everybody else, except those who get the dole. “folding up” and making no effort whatsoever to regain or retain their business. . We believe it is a case'of the passenger and Toronto Mail and Empire 1 “m says: “Jail-breaking Bandit Shoots Detective in B. C. Four Times." 'What part of a detective \ . . , weekly newspaper in the province, telling of m h" B' C' ' the advantages of rail transportation, would be Parliamentary closure may not be the nic- This condition, however, will never be rea- lized. The passenger and freight departments are too far removed from each other. Passenger ished farmers of Saskatchewan. ing but a “goat” would spend its time snooping ing the passenger seams, and so far asi've can around bedroom windows, “my. see there is absolutely no how of ever convinc- ing our railroad heads that it would be quite Dentists were urged to “put aside their the departments are so far apart that they might since they have used it, however, they may have C. P. 3., this year, if a current rumor is cor- as well be two separate companies. Owing to the decline in the passenger business there will be no more advertising conâ€" out, a freight advertising campaign in every tracts issued “in exchange for transportation.” weekly newspaper in Canada, and a consulta- Perhaps herein lies one of the reasons why the tion with trouble in finding it that they may follow the With a pick-up and delivery scheme worked advice. Baconrind, wealthy Osage Indian chief- tain, died at his home at Pawhuska, Oklahoma, from grief over the death of a favorite daugh- ter. Is the stoicism of the Indian disappearing? Or was the impassiveness credited them by old- country station agents who know the local conditions much better than the est thing imaginable, but it is effective. It se- Sunday there shall be no commercial cured prompt relief“ for the drought-impover- WWt ”was forth the merits “peeper” now turns out to be only a goat. Noth- mm: and at the end of each pro- ly contracts for advertising in varying amounts, why the railroads could not win back a good this advertising to be taken out in passenger deal of the business they have lost. This is a tickets for the editor and his family, or forlday of competition for the railroads. The moun- members of the staff. _In some instances this tain will not go to Mahomet, so Mahomet will ”transportation” was used up by the different have to go to the mountain, and the best way newspapers; in a good many instances it was the railroads can do this is by advertisingâ€" lbut not altogether through the daily press and The railroads. we believe, are making the a few selected magazines. The country people’s mistake of their lives in this move, but if they freight business can only be secured through not. have made. up their minds, there is nothing to be done. Generally, the newspapers will not care. but the railways will lose. For a long time now we have thought that railway business has been run too much in de- partments. There is the passenger department, the freight department, the express depart- ment, and no doubt many others. These are headed by most competent men, but they are working for their own department, and none other. There is no relation between passenger, freight or express, the heads of which are as far apart as the poles. As a usual thing the success of a business is determined by its total earnings, and we believe there is no business in existence which does not carry certain lines, or do certain work, in which it would have been financially ahead if it had never seen them. It takes everything, however, to make and hold business, which in the end may be considered successful and pay dividends to its share- holders. Not so the railroads. The Durham branch of the C. N. R. may make a million dollars on its freight service, but if it loses twenty-five thousand a year on its passenger business there is an immediate howl from the passenger de- partment. On the whole, the branch may be a paying proposition. In our opinion there should be a get together between railroad department heads, and the financial success or failure of a certain line determined, not by the receipts of any one department, but from the earnings as a whole. We may hear a lot about the “main line” passenger earnings, but what is responsible for this? Where would the main lines be without the feeder lines? A man may buy a ticket at Durham for Vancouver. The main line gets the credit. The Walkerton branch is still classed as a non-paying passenger division. There is no side-stepping the question. The railway passenger business is at a low ebb. extent, it is the private passenger car that has brought about these conditionsâ€"and both the bus and the private car are here to stay. Would the railroads not be well advised to pay more attention to their freight business? There is no reason we can see why they cannot regain a big share of this business if they go about it in the right way. Why not advertise? Heretofore, any exchange for transportation advertising we have inserted in the Chronicle has been for the passenger department. Why not advertise the time? During the past twenty-odd years, how much advertising for freight have the railroads done? None. Last year the C. P. R. in certain newspapers and magazines carried f ull-page advertising telling of the wonderful feat of constructing that road as far west as the Paci- fic Coast. People are not interested in that nowadays. It made nice reading but it got no business. How much better off the C. P. B. would have been had they, instead of cutting down their advertising in the smaller papers, taken out larger contracts to advertise the ad- vantages of shipping by rail rather than truck. In the manor! of the writer our Canadian rail- roads have made no eflort to advertise their ”flags heightbusiness, andnowthatthe mmuveeomeintotheneldand freight department for a - .6 ta. snarl-u. the nil-m "" .l ‘V. . ' " R, ~ .. l ‘1’”:- J.“ l. ' e . I O ‘ .l A 4 h' 1. VI) . O ‘ :1; a I 7 . While the busses are responsible to a certain advertising in country newspapers. The decision of the railroads will not affect the Chronicle very much, as we have all along maintained that the business way would be for the railroads to pay for their advertising in cash, and the newspapers do likewise, but we refer to the action of at least one railroad to show that in taking the lead in severing a con. dition that has existed for years the railroads will lose much heavier than the newspapers. THE GASOLINE TAX A circular from the Canadian Automotive Trade protesting against the tax on gasoline for passenger cars, trucks, busses' and other similar transports using the highways of On- tario was received in this office last week, but . we can scarcely agree with the article when it. says that the tax is not a fair one or that the users of the highways are paying too great a larly anxious to have the cost of motoring any higher than necessary, and if some scheme were devised whereby we should pay no tax at all, no doubt we would be happier. The cost of i 1 Senator Haydon says that Hon. G. H. Fer- !to the highest bidder. time writers in the minds of the writers only? guson asked for $200,000. R. O. Sweezey, the man who was supposed to give it to him says he never heard anything about it. Mr. Fer- guson says the statement is absolutely false. Still there are some who will insinuate Ontario’s ex-Premier is guilty. Not very much British fair play stuff here. Emil Sauer, United States Consul-General at Toronto, predicts an “upward trend” in the exchange rate as it affects the Canadian dollar. Mr. Sauer is right. United States business will look after this. Speaking of United States sales to Canadians recently, well, er, the old gray mare, she isn’t what she used to be, and the l ° ' sv . Lnlted States bus1ness men seem to be the only'ployed and disturbances of all kinds? ones so far to make complaint. England, the United States and Canada will attend the auction sale of the Newfound- widespread suffering, but with the lland fisheries rights on April 7, which will go whole on short rations there has beenl The price of fish will evident a much greater ability to ap- gramaadwithaperfedefeaeheur with interest the mom t in z: lstodrlllaolld.udngtheordlnarygrain drill.‘!hiswlllrequlreaboutl%to 3 bushelsofaeedperacle,dspendlngon thevarietyandthealaeofaeed. Soybeansmaheaneasallsnt emer- Whaycmpmtheeventofclover or alfalfa failure am! under ave-'0‘ conditions-halldyieldfromltitofli tonsofhayper aa'e, depending. of course,uponthevartetyusedand the locallty.’l'hecropahouldbecutforhay whentheseedslnthepodsareabout e RadloAct.Inhrlefltprovtdeathaton of this or that product. However, under Anyway who wants to listen to belly. hOO advert“ on the my; my?_ about 38 to 30 inches lle't. The grain Blyth. Standard. adjusted by covering the feed cups not AMWThatShouldBesw in use. The plants in the rows slmld It has been drawn to the attention he “’0‘“ 3 inches wt md this rate of the Telescope that some sugar and 0‘ 913mm requires about 30 pounds groceries were observed in town re- or one-half bushel, 0‘ seed per WN- cently, being transported in a truck Cultivation should commence just as. which had not been cleaned after be- the beans are coming through the- ing used by cattle. ground, “51118 the spike tooth harm. The railways are very strict in this, This will destroy “95h” germinated as in other matters. Suppose a load weeds and break any crust which may of cattle arrived in Walkerton tonight ‘ have f0med- ROW cultivation should in a railway car, and a dealer wished be frequent enough to keep down to ship out some cattle the following weeds- This ‘5 essential for the pro- imorning. That car could not be utilized. duction Of a 8‘00d seed crOp. 'It would have to be returned to be southwestern Ontario is especially thoroughly cleansed and disinfected. suitable for soybean seed production. Truck owners should be obliged to In this district, at the Dominion EX- .perimental Station. Harrow. several of I The point is that a car used by cattle ithe varieties tested have averaged over icannot be utilized for the same pur- .30 bushels of seed per acre over a Slx- l s pose a second time. before it is cleaned We” period. to say nothing of other types of freight I Varieties recommended are AK. and being loaded into it.â€"Walkerton Teles- iEarly Koran for extreme Southwestern c0pe §Ontario; O.A.C. No 211 and Manchu {for Western Ontario generally. and Confidence Returning iMandarin for Eastern Ontario and dis- . Do you remember how it was said last 2 tr 1"“ With similar conditions. 'ian that we would not get through thei Generfitlly speakme soybeans should winter without serious riots of unem- ibe planted about the middle of May or 'when danger of frost is over. Inoculate Well. here’s the winter practically over i the. seed With the prOper culture if and the sun is shining more brightly :Dlantlng the crop for the first tune. than ever. Undeniably there has been! icomply with the same regulations. . Character is the foundation of sucâ€" Icessful business. have to rise if the privilege is to be of much preciate the plight 0‘ those less fortun- use to any of them. But watch for the nigger 1n the woodpile. them in and then close them out? We have it on the strength of a tobaccol percentage of the cost. None of us is particu-‘COYYlllan.V"S advertisement that the “imports 0f lic morale. Confidence is growing fast, Canadian tobacco through the Port of London and as it grows the fetters on the limbs in 1930 amounted to 728,000 lbs., and in 1931 0‘ business are thrown 03'. A has“: sit- to 2,070,000 lbs., and still on the increase.” nation is developing that “1’9“"le 1 ’ lEvidently Canada’s High Commissioner in Bri- building and maintenance of our highways has tain has justified his position and the confi- fore long. to be paid for, however, and it seems fair to us dence placed in him by the Canadian Govern- that we who use it the most pay a much higher ment. percentage of this cost than others who use it scarcely at all. Surely we are all fair-minded enough to admit this. ‘ During the past several years we have read and printed a good many newspaper opinions anent the transportation war between the truck transportation companies and the railroads, and contrary to the Opinions often expressed by these companies, we do not believe there is any- one who is Opposed to truck transportation in principle. It is here, is going to stay, and we shall have to make the best of it. The big argu- ment has been because too many thought the truckers, in their campaign to pick up loads that would otherwise go by rail, have so slashed the prices that there could be no possible profit for the truckers, who, by this system, were not only headed for financial ruin themselves but were also taking our railways down with them. As this argument now has the support of what is known as the transportation compan- ies, who now complain of price-cutting by pri- vate competitors, it seems the press has not been very far wrong, and has shown consider- able foresight in suggesting that some reason- able rate should be agreed upon and truck trans- portation placed under the supervision of the Railway Commission along with the steam transportation companies. This scheme may re- sult, possibly, in a slight rise in rates as they are at the present, but will make for the finan- cial' solidity of our transportation systems and cost us less than at some future date when these systems are either bankrupt or giving the coun- try an inadequate service. One thing must be borne in mind by the ratepayers, be they the customers of the trans- portation companies, or the companies them- selves: The railroads are yet, and will be for a 800d many yedrs, “our mainstay in transporta- letter which comes lride, that we found the descent much ' The Collingwood Bulletin says: “There is longer, steeper and with more hairpin something wrong with this ‘hard times’ stuff bend-5 than we expected at the WM. when an arena, like the Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens, reputed to hold close to fifteen thou- sand peOple, is sold out completely days before an exciting hockey match is scheduled and at prices as high as $3 a seat.” This is exactly the way we feel when we go to Toronto to see the game and find even the S. R. 0. signs taken down. \ The farmers in the vicinity of Dundalk, and all over Grey county, for that matter, are gave you those?" opposed to an open deer hunting season in Grey. The Department of Game and Fisheries, there- fore, refused the request of some 200 petition- ers, most of them non-land owners, their farms, even with the damage they do, to the army of alleged hunters who would flock all over the premises, as liable to kill the family edmned,-â€"-John Calvin. cow as the deer. We notice no less a newspaper than the To- ronto Globe, and it has a good many others as company, speaks of a newspaper “fyle.” Why? There is no such word. The proper spelling is “file,” “a string or thread, a wire upon which papers are strung,” or “a row of papers ar- ranged for ready reference.” Another misused and misspelled word is “alright.” There is no such word in any dictionary in our possession. The correct usage is “all right,” two separate words, although we believe “alright" was con- sidered proper at one time, but is now obsolete and not recognized by any standard dictionary. The first linetofeeltheeflectsofreturning prosperity will be the dotted oneâ€"Paterson News. Anotherwolfinsheep’sclothlngistheclrcular in an envelope marked “Person- tion, especially during the winter months or for “3-011“? m" Journal. long hauls, and it is to everybody’s interest to see they are allowed a fair operating profit. « weaned president on. Ontario Edna-1o " ‘.. tassaifwuhaveaofiingtotaks tieul ov I Association. in tea-inn Tom an. It'stheheedleasehickenthatsoonbecomesthe headlesachiaenâ€"ifthefarmadlolns'amotpr - “y. hleh Will the United States bid Probably the worst is now behind us. for this than an unjust way of making bar- privilege. Farmers generally, prefer the deer on gains, where equity ‘3 W on ate than oneself, and those in dire need have been taken care of somehow. This Week’s Specials While there has been no general busi- ness improvement as yet, there is evi- dent a very real strengthening in pub- Ladies’ Full-fashioned Silk Hose. chiffon and aervice weight. Val- ues up to $.50. All shades, for per pair 79c can scarcely fail to be reflected in greater trade and industrial activity be- Ladies Cre Blouses. all shades and 5 each $1.95 Someone remarked to me the other day that we have had our toboggan Ladies Neck Scarves. New patte each $1.00 but that we have managed to stay on the toboggan and negotiate them with- out mishap and now find ourselves at the bottom of the hill with nothing worse infront ofusthanalongtramp 5‘” ~25“ back to the top.â€"P.M.R., in Toronto Fancy n Teapots, good Saturday Night. gm, .«c Joeâ€"“I travelled as a salesman the New Goods: Bun“ ' entire summer and only WW“ two Sets, Centre Pieces, Vanity orders:n Sets ............................... each 15c Sympathetic Oneâ€"“Too bad; who Goad 5-String Bmoms . .. . 35¢ Joeâ€"“Everyone; get out and stay out.” Large Size Glass Pitchers..e_.25c The Variety Store R. L. 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