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The Frisco Employes' Magazine, February 1931 Only a few hours away from ice and I, snow . on FRISCO'S smart Kans; City-Florida Special" and 11 S~nn~land~~.. I~AL witching palm sheltered spot on Florida's ^A. .LLBr.-. "LA"I) 60 HOUR Modem Jewelry Bunn Special GENUINE DIAMONDS Brought Within Your Easy FA69 Reach $55 ate st dy~e- mdernist* - GUARANTEED CIRCLE OF LOVE" mounting of solid I8 kt. white gold-set with a large SAVINGS sire flashing, genuine blue white Diamond. 1 34.58 a month Ow large volume bu in power, buying both for our ~ationaldailOrder Busi- ness and ow Tulsa Store. enable us,to oiler you superior quality genume Diamonds, fine standard witches and exwisite Jewelry atsaving prices which are beyond cornpariaon. All ofthia with no extra charge for the added conven- ience and advantage of dignified liberal FA 249 $55.00 credit. CIRCLE'O'LOVE- -Modern- istic cbannel Diamond wedd- ing band of 18kt. solid White HOW TO ORDER Cold: exqodtely proper(ioned. carving of Orange Bloswm Just rend 31 with your order and yew desirn. Ten Diamonds per- seIrction comes lo you on 10 days free FA 601 $73.00 fectly matched and guaran- tr.al. No C. 0 D. to pay on aniial teed blue white and perfect. After fullenmination and free trul, pay 7.3 Jewel Illinois 60 Hour "Bunn Special" adjusted $4.50 a month. balance in twelve equal monthly pay- to six positions-heat-eold-md isochronism:runs FAY 9 of Enchanlmrnt - on one windina sixty hours-passes inspection on thorouahlr modernistic-richlv hand enmared ]/ ments snr Rail Road-eases auaranteed 25 years-rour choice of green or white cold filled-state color ease desired. $6.16 a month. inera1 American Tank Car Corp. General American Car Co. - -7LESSORS k Cars 1 Tank Cars r Cars Milk Cars lad Cars Refrigerator Cars Continental Illinois Bank Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Chanin Bldg., 122 E. 42nd St., N. Y. City Canal Bank Bldg., New Orleans, La. Cosden Bldg., Tulsa, Okla. Magnolia Bldg., Dallas, Texas Richfield Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. WESTERN TIE & TIMBER COMPANY AND HOBBS TIE & TIM"""BCK CU"-MPANY announce the incorp oration of thc HOBBS-WESTERN COMPANY Organized to conduct the business formerly handled by each of them R. C. HOBBS A. R. FATHMAN C. H. HOBBS President Vice-President Vice-l'residetlt 1. C. ROWE G. M. HANSON E. J. STOCKING Secretary-Treosurrr Asst. Secretary-Trrusurcr .Sales illonayer Offices 1 967 Railway Exchange Building St. Louis, Missouri I:i.hruary, 19.32 Pane 3 THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZI: ROOMS 737-738 FRISCO BUILDING .. ST. LOUIS WM. L. HUCCINS. Jr.. Edilor MARTHA C. MOORE. Associate Editor G. E. STAPLES. Special Represwdatioc WM. McMILLAN. Adoallsina Managa Vol. VlII FEBRUARY, 193 1 No. 5 Permission is given to reprint with or without credit, in part or in full, any article appearing in this Magazine Contents of This Issue Pageb National Policies Hurt Kail Workers .................................................................................................... 4-5 By Robert A. Holey, Frisco Switchnzan Frisco Relief Fund Totals $33,815.00 ........................................................................................................6 Pension Sixty-one Veterans During 1930................................................................................................ 7 By W. D. Bassett Cape Girardeau Celebrates Fiftieth Rail Anniversary ....................................................................8-9 Oklahoma City Station to Open April 1............................................................................................ 10-11 J. W. Beveridge Began With Frisco in 1854........................................................................................ 12 Twenty-five Years Without an Accident .............................................................................................. 13 News of the Frisco Clubs.................................................................................................................... 14-20 Meritorious Service......................................................................................................................................... 21 Locate 325 New Industries in 1930............................................................................................................ 22 Perishable Crop Movement Decreases in 1930.................................................................................... 25 Frisco Employes' Hospital Association Statement............................................................................ 26 Locomotive Fuel Performance Records............................................................................................ 28-29 The Pension Roll ...........................................................................................................................................31 'The Twiligh! Hour ......................................................................................................................................32 Frisco Valentines ............................................................................................................................................ 33 Homemakers' Page........................................................................................................................................ 34 Flashes of Merriment ............................................................................................................ :....................... 35 Frisco Mechanic........................................................................................................................................ 36-43 Frisco Family News ................................................................................................................................44-72 THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE MEMBER The Prlsco Employes' Magazine Is a nlonthly publication devoted primdly lo the interests or the more than 21.000 nrtlre and retired ernployea of the Frlsco Llnes. It contains slorles. items nf current news. personal notes nbout employes and tbeb famlllea, artlcles deallng with rurious phases of rallroad work, poems. cartoons and notices regnrdin,~the service. Good .- rlenr photographs sullable for reproducllon are especially desired, nnd will be returned only when requested. All cartoons and drawings must be In black India drawing Ink. Emplores are invited to farite articles for the nmgaztne. Contributions should be type- written, on one slde of the sheet only, and should be addressed to the Edltor, Frlsco Bulldi%. ': St. LOUIS.310. Dlstrlbuted tree among Ftlm Employes. To others, prlce 15 cent6 a copy; subscrlplion ram $1.50 a year. Adrertlslng rate will be made bnown upon appllcatlon. NATIONAL POL A ICIES HURT RAIL WORKERS VERY klnd of transportation Fr, and $25.00 per week and our own now operating in competi- oitchman Decrie lawmakers are making it possible. E tion with the railroads is (avvG, ..mental Subsidy The present railway situation subsidized by the government. is only partly due to the depres- The trucks and busses have their of Rail Competitors sion and is largely due to govern- free roadway maintained by the ment policies. Consequently a state. The barges have their Hy KORfiKT A. HALE}' revival of general business will rivers and canals maintained by .5'7idclirrrntr. St. Lohis, .\40. leave the railroad problem un- the government or the state, air- solved. The Interstate Com- ships have their ports p r o v i d e d A11 over the country applications are merce Commission tor ten years has and maintained by the munlripal- bc eing made to abandon short line disregarded the provlsioos of the Ities. The capital of the railroads is in- rr iilroads because they have become a Transportatfon Act which direct 11 to vested chiefly in road and equipment. fi nancial drain upon the owners. initiate, modify and adjust rates as to Approximately 75 per cent of all rail- Forces on existing railroads are being enable the railways, under good man- road capital is invested in road Twhich rapidly reduced. Crews are bein g agement, to earn a fair relurn. the railroads themselves have built. taken off and stations are bein g Right here I would ltke to call at- They not only maintain it themscelves, tention to the following from a recent but they must also pay taxes up1on it. issue of "Railway Age" under the The estimated aggregate value o'f ths title "Time to Fight It Out". .which railroads is thirty billion dollars and wasa reprint frbm Wall Street Journal the ratio between road and equipment of October 6, 1930. The substance or at 76 and 26 per cent. thus figuring the article was that the time has the railroads have ~22,500,000,OM1.00 come for. the railroads, squarely to invested in road. The railroad tax bill meet the attack upon their traffic and last year exceeded four hundred mil- earnings 'being made by the carriers lion dollars and the greater amount of on the highways. Further quote-"It this- - -.- vast. - - Bum- -. was. paid in t,axes levied I is time for railroad managers to stand agalnst road. up and Aght it out. There is no quick- The chief comlpetitors :waterways er or surer way to popular support." and trucks) have no such capital in- This statement can be given a much vestment and are wholly err rempt from broader applicatlon than it was in the -. -a -.-AL -.navrnent ur aucrr taxes. Wall Street Journal. It is time for The remedy is for the governnlent. railroad managers to stand up and state and municipallity to discontinue fight all who are attacking the rail- subsidizing the com]2etitors of the rail- road industry-those who are attack- road and place themI on
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