Go North, East South - orlVest ••• youngman! THE BETTER WE PRODUCE, ~.. , THE BETTER WE LIVE '\t;;;;I e'G . THE o West, young man, and grow up output of each of us for every hour we r/MIRACLE ------------, with the country." Horace Greeley said work. OF' FREESend for this it in 1854. He was right ... but he was AMERII The best is yet to come - _~II valuable booklet today! also wrong. He was wrong because all This is what we have done, and this is Approved by representatives of of America turned out to have room for Management, Labor and development then undreamed of. the way we have done it-to get higher the Public wages, shorter hours, and lower-cost I" words a"d pic!llres, it tells you Let's look at the record: goods for everybody. • How our U. S. Economic System Here's what's happened all over Amer­ And this is the way we can make a started ica just dming the last 40 years. still better living in the future-with • Why Americans enjoy the world's highest standard of living Income: Since 1910 we have increased greater use of machine power, better • How mass production began our annual income per household from an machines, better distribution, better col. lective bargaining. • How we have been able to raise average of less than $2400 to about $4000 wages and shorten working hours (in dollars of the same purchasing power), Sure, our system still has faults ... yet- • Why tbe mainspring of our sys· but none that we cannot cure if we all tern is productivity Work hours: Since 1910 we have cut work together to do it. • How a still better living can be work hours down an average of 18 per bad for all week-equivalent to more than two pres· MAIL THE COUPON ent work days. Approved for the Public Policy Com­ to Public Policy Committee, The Ad· How did we do this? Through- mittee of The Advertising Council by: vertising Council, Inc., 25 West 45th St., New York 19, N. Y. Machine power: We have increased EVANS CLARK the supply of machine power 41f2 times Executive Director, Twentieth Century Fund Name _ since 1910. This increased machine power PAUL G. HOFFMAN Address _ gave us- Formerly President, Studebaker Corporation Occupation _ Increased productivity: This made it BORIS SHISHKIN L ~ possible for us to more than double the Economist, AnIerican Federation of Labor 2 The Milwaukee Magazine rage Who's Going to Say Stop? ... By President C. H. Buford 4 Station Names on The Milwaukee Road...... .. .. 6 Prof. Kaphingst Teaches the Fourth "R"..... .. 8 OCTOBER VOL. XXXVII Phoners' Boners '" . .. .. .. 9 Milwa ukee Moves Sprayers for Army..... .. 9 1949 No.7 Notre Dame Squad Rides Hiawatha....... 10 A. G. Dupuis The Railroad Takes Over the Trail Drive II Jl.la nager How Are We Doing? , " 12 Marc Green Marie Hotton Horses Are Her Hobby. 13 Editor Assistant to Editor Presenting Grace Johnson. 14 Coal Mining Discontinued at Waukee, la....... " 15 PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT Retirements ............................ .. /6 UNION STATION - CHICAGO How Well Do You Know Your Railroad? 16 A Bell for the Boys................................................ 17 Milwaukee Railroad Women's Club Membership Honor Roll............ 18 The Milwaukee Magazine is published for aclive Home Department 19 and retired employes of The Milwaukee Road. to Hallowe'en Trick and Treat 21 whom. it is distributed free of charge. It is available to olhers at IOc per single copy or $1.00 per year. About People of the Railroad. 22 WHEN HELLO MEANS GOOD-BYE WHEN Alexander Graham Bell played his little prac­ This, as you must know, is an exaggeration for the sake tical joke on society, he simplified the business of antago­ of making a point. The telephone can be as powerful an nizing people. instrument for stimulating business as it can for driving Prior to that time it was difficult for a person to incur it away. Furthermore, there are probably few habitual another's displeasure without going to a certain amount telephone offenders on The Milwaukee Road, and none of trouble. Now, thanks to the telephone, it's easy. Any­ who actually try to be unpleasant and discourteous. body can do it. The really alarming thing about telephone manners is Although the telephone serves as a labor-saving device that all of us break one or more of the rules, at least occa­ in the antagonizing department, it is still true that extra sionally, and don't e1'en realize it. effort produces more spectacular results. The railroad employe, for example, who works hard at being obnoxious Since the great majority of telephone discourtesies are on the telephone can really make people hate him. At any innocently committed, The Milwaukee Magazine is under­ rate, he will antagonize more people and drive more busi­ taking to point out some of the more common ones in a ness away from the railroad than will the one who is just series of brief pieces entitled "Phoners' Boners." The first passively unpleasant. But since that kind of extra effort of these will be found elsewhere in this issue. commands no extra payor commendation, most telephone As you read "Phoners' Boners" each month, how about offenders are content to let the public hate them just a pausing long enough to ask yourself on honest and obvious little bit. question! STO RY WITH A MORAL The following appeared originally in the "From the based on the price of the suit two years ago and normal Editor" section of the Nickel Plate Road Magazine for July, depreciation. I left not completely satisfied, for it meant 1949, and is reprinted through the courtesy of that publi­ buying a new suit immediately. I now send my cleaning cation. elsewhere. The incident came to mind recently when I learned the A FEW weeks ago I picked up a suit from the cleaners and sum the Road paid last year in claims on lost and dam­ found the pants riddled with small holes. You could tell aged freight. The total is staggering, but I wonder how from the frayed threads at the cuff that the suit was not many shippers who suffered inconvenience and intangible new, but I liked it and had planned to wear it another losses through our carelessness in handling their freight season. The manager and I finally reached a settlement, decided, despite settlement, to shift their business elsewhere. ========J"====== October. 1949 3 Who's going to say by C. H. BUFORD SITUATION exists in the trans­ money contributed to these agencies A portation industry today which is making it possible for them to should be a cause for very real alarm gain formidable competitive positions to every American citizen, and par­ against the railroads. ticularly to those of us who are part The September issue of the Rail­ of the railroad industry. Speaking way Employees' Journal summed up railroads largely because they are not bluntly, the continued use of our tax the problem with this statement: required to pay their own way as money to build and maintain facili­ "Perhaps the most important first step the railroads do. ties for buses, trucks, airlines and toward establishment of equality of "Until such public policies are waterways is a growing threat to the competitive opportunity for all car­ changed, the amounts the railroads security of many railroad jobs. riers is to recognize the fact that pub­ take in and the number of jobs avail­ In the past three issues of this mag­ lic policies are such that other carriers able will continue to be influenced azine it was pointed out that the tax are able to offer rates lower than the adversely by the competitive disad­ vantages they are working under. For that reason, it seems clear that railroad workers generally ought to do everything within their reach to see that equality of competitive opportunity is established for all car­ riers, with special privileges for none." Actually, we as railroad workers are in a peculiar position. A part of the in­ come tax withheld from wages is being used to help undermine our jobs. Last year, while the rail­ roads were paying hundreds .. The Milwaukee Magazine Trucks have become serious competi­ iors of the railroads because they use ~d..,.crys contributed by the taxpayers. :c..a.. I year alone, I billion 540 million doUars of government money went into the building and maintenance of high. 0( ways. :Jf millions to maintain their own steel roadways, they also were among the taxpayers who contributed $1,­ 700.000,000 in subsidies to railroad 20mpetitors. J. Weldon Jones, assistant director in charge of fiscal analysis of the Bud­ get Bureau, predicted that mail pay­ ments to airlines this year will total The price the public is paying to maintain and operate airports and provide the air. $121,000,000, of which the subsidy ele­ lines with navigational aids amounts to 100 million dollars a year. In addition, the ment will amount to "probably well airlines are subsidized by excessive airmail payments. over half". Over and above the mail payments, the public is contributing about $100,000,000 a year to maintain and operate airports and provide navigational aids for the airlines. "Navigation" includes figures to' show taxpayers. in 1948 alone, $1,540,000,­ Millions of dollars of taxpayers' that the so-called "savings" for ship­ 000 of such money was spent for the money are also being spent for the pers using T.V.A. waterways cost the building and maintenance of high­ maintenance of waterways on the taxpayers $4.00 for every $1.00 ways, much of which was necessary theory of developing "cheap" trans­ "saved" by shippers! because of damage caused by over­ portation.