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< XXI *3:xz:xxxrxxxxxxxxxxxxTxxxcxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTxnxxzxxx. Thi$Hfeek By Arthur Brisbane 5 H0 w TO BE FAMOUS. faster AIR MAIL. WARNINGS TO MIDDLE AGED. TRILLIONS count. There are many ways of making t j, f world talk about you. 0»e philosopher jumped into the fra u r of Vesuvius. slave, that his name might be r . i »inhered, burned the Temple of pinna at Ephesus. Disraeli wore waistcoats of scnr- n-t and gold, and curled his hair in beautiful black ringlets in the Mouse of Commons, and Mi«* Sophia Curtiss gave a dinner party for her favorite horse, named “Surprsie.” The horse was brought to the table; many well-known stage folks attend ed and ate while the horse ate. That happened twonty years ago, but now thut Miss Curtisy dies, aged sixty- five, every newspaper will mention Thank heaven, the President and Postmaster-General New, the Post Office at least encourages flying, in earnest. In the Post Office, flying is treat ed as a separate important enterprise not tackled on to post office trains and trucks as a “minor auxiliary.” Not satisfied vlith excellent jair mail service, the Post Office plans to increase mail plane speed thirty- five miles an hour, making the trip between the Atlantic and the Pacific in twenty-four hours, cutting off one day. That is progress. A well-known merchant, fifty-five years old, played a “hard, fast” game of tennis, beating players half his age, went home, told his wife about it, and was dead a little later. Tennis or any other violent game is dangerous to every man past forty. Howard M. Anderson, typesetter, seventy years old, very ytrong, says, “Take a cold bath every morning. I UNION RECORDER. MILLEOGEVILLE, CA.. OCTOBER 11, 1MB i do cartwheels and might douhl'»> o ! t and still it would ■ ’hirty, to take a cold :-ning before exercis- get up at 5, c handsprings." Mr. Ander« back somersai be foolish for any age past hath in thq ing. Your nervous system shot^ld not be shocked violently, but saved to give warnings and information, cold bath in the morning in many cases is a short cut to the gravi Professor Albert A. Michels. Chicago University, Nobel orfzc winner, and greatest living physicist,', haw concluded experiments at Pasade-1 na, confirming his findings as to the speed of light. The speed, inconceiv. able to our minds, is 186.284 mile* a second, Sonic ask, "Why bother about a few miles in a speed like that?” The matter is very important to science. One of the so-called “outwide uni verses” is one million light years away from our little earth, which re volves in a cosmic city called the Milky Way. One million light years is the distance that light can travel in one million years. At that distance, a difference in speed of oi^» mile to the second would mean a difference of thirty- one trillion five hundred and thirty- six billion miles, enough of a differ ence, even in astronomy. Some day a more highly developed race, able to think in trillions and in the fourth dimension, may want to know just how far away the other universe is. We may all go there some day. “In my Father’s house are many mansions.” NOTICE TAX PAYERS The Tax Books are now open for collection of 1928 taxea Pay your tax now. Confidentially I have ai inkling tha: times will be hard late on. Remember you are helping your county, your local schools and yu< State by paying early. L. D. SMITH Mary had a little mule. It followed her to school, The teacher, like a fool. Went up behind the mule, And hit him with a rule. And there wasn’t any school I Mr. J. W. Darden, who has been assisting at the A. & P. Store, in this city has been made Manager of an A. & P. Store at Waycross, and commenced his duties Monday morn ing. He is a reliable and hustlnig young man, and has many friends here. LOST—One Kokomo Finder return to Fn for reward. Cast on Rin FOR RENT—One 8 room houie or West Montgomery Street, known ai Hawkins house. See Mrs. J. H. Ennis Greater - '**^^' Farm profits A concrete sik) pays for it- adf in less than three years. Hogs red an a concrete floor pkt90% faster. One year's ttantof a concrete floor. There •ae a hundred other ways to a^ae money out of concrete. Came in and let us.givc you facts to prove how concrete ■B1 uuhiu the cost of farm- Selli PEOPLE’S HARDWARE CO. irything in Hardware 310 for quick service. Central of GeorgiaDiscusses Railroads’ Ability to Meet Future Transportation Demands The all around excellence and dependability cf railroad service are now generally admitted, and the public expects good railroad service .an a matter or course. Advocates of other forms of trans portation though frequently base their arguments for support and development of these other forms—bun and truck lines using public highways oi bout lines using natural or dredged water ways—upon the plea that the railroads may prove unable to meet the increasing transportation demands that will result from continued development of the United States. There is no ground for such a belief. In 192G the railroads handled the greatest traffic in their history, and this with no serious tie-up of equipment or shortage of cars. Practically every shipper who needed a car or cars got what he wanted without delay, and loaded cars were moved promptly and .quickly to destination. Despite their tremendous traffic, the railroads operated more efficiently than ever before, nor was theii freight handling capacity reach. Great as was the volume of traffic, the railroads could have bundled considerably more without any diminution of their efficiency. Since 1926 the volume of traffic hundled by the railroads has shown ',a substantial decline. Traffic for 1927 was considerably less than in 1926, and traffic for 1928 shows still further declines. The railroads are now handling considerably less freight than they did in their peak year of 1926. If the traffic were offered for handling, the railroads could not only attain but could exceed the effici ency they displayed in handling the record breaking traffic of 1926. So far as efficiency goes, the rail roads are now making even better records than in 1926. With their present equipment and facili ties the railroads could handle at least twenty per cent more freight than they are now handling, and this just as efficiently as they are handling their present diminsihed volume of traffic. If sufficient capital is available, the railroads may be relied upon to keep their equipment and facili ties ahead of demands likely to be made upon them. The public is entitled to any from of transportation that it desirew, or that meets a public need. Each form of transportation—the railroads, bus or truck lines, water lines and air lines—can be of public sen-ice. Under certain conditions each of these can operate more efficiently than any of the other forms of transportation. But the public should not be misled into thinking that there is any vital necessity for artificial development of any of these forms because of imminent danger that the railroads may prove unable to meet this country’s transportation demands. No matter what development is achieved by the other forms, the railroads will remain the backbone of this country’s transportation system. Water ways, bus or truck lines, as well as air lines, can supplement efficiently but cannot replace the railroads. If the railroads are allowed to cam a fair rate of return, a rate sufficiently high to enable them to attract capital in competition with other forms of investment, they will continue able to supply the kind of transportation that this country needs. The allowing of such a rate of return, rather than the artificial development of com peting forms of transportation, is the best insurance that can be taken out against a failure or break down of our transportation system. Constructive criticism and suggestions j Savannah, Ga., October 9, 1928. invited. J. J. PELLEY, President, Central of Georgia Railway Company. Z12Z Kelley SpringfieldTires The Tire of Many Miles of Long Service. Note T hese Prices. 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