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Vol. XI11 MAY, 1935 No. 5

COTTON CARNIVAL TO BE STAGED AT MEMPHIS

The city of Memphls, Tenn., explects Permission is given to reprint with or without credit, to entertain 250,000 visitors durinl: its -. . ~ ~~ in part or in full, any article appearing ill this Magazine. annual Cotton Carnival and National Cotton Show to be held from -11 inclusive. Transportation systems serving Memphis have reported un- usual interest in the event among Contents of This Issue residents of neighboring states. Offi- cials of the Frisco, one of the prin- cipal railroads entering Memphis, ex- Pages pect to bring thousands of visitors i from Florida, Alabama. Missouri, Okla- A Supreme Court Decision on Elimination homa, Kansas and other states served of Highway Crossings ...... 3 by that road. Western Roads Engage in National Covering every phase of the indus- Advertising Campaign ...... 4 try. the National Cotton Show will be The Itineraat Potato Peddler ...... 5 participated in by leading cotton Here and There...... 6 users of the nation and will be co- ordinated with National Cotton Week. The Honor Roll ...... 7-8 Attractive exhibits illustrating new The Crop Outlook ...... 8 uses tor cotton will be among the 1935-Conventions-1936 ...... 9 featnres of the sixday show. 10 Under the general theme of "The The First $100 Club Member ...... Dreams of King Cotton," the Cotton In Appreciatfon ...... 11 CarnivaI will feature a "Miss Dixie" Frisco Employes' Hospital Association Report ...... 12 beauty contest, a gala parade, a Month's Qutstandlng Solicitation Report 13 faslilon show presented by memlbers ...... of the Junior Leagne and a score of In Memoriam ...... 14 other diverse attractions. Among the Agency Changes ...... 14 events which have been scheduled for Meri'torions Service ...... 15 children will be the "Children's .. Court," in which 300 youngsters will News From the Mechanical Deparhment ...... 17-22 participate and during which the chil- Frisco Family News ...... 22-32 dren will crown their own King and Queen.

MEMBER THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE A The Frlsco EhpIoyes' Magazlne 1s a monthly puhllcatlon devoted prlmarlly lo the Interests of the active and retired employes of the Frisco Lines. It contnlns storles. Items of current news, personal notes about employes and thelr families, artlcies deallng with various phases of rallroad work, poems, cartoons and notlces regarding the servlce. Good clear photographs sultable Pot reproductloo are especially deslred, and will be returnod only when requested. A11 cartoons and drawlngs must be In black Indta ink. Employes are Invlted to wrlte artlcles for the magazine. Contrlbutlons should be type- written, on one slde of the sheet only, and should be addressed to the Edltor. Frisco Build- Inp, St. Louls, hio. Dlstrlbnted Free amon! .Frlsco Employes. To others, prlce 15 'cents 6 copy; subscripttOn rate, $1.50 n pear rate will be mnde known upon appllcatlon. 176 W. Adam St., Chicago, I!!. May, 1935 Page 3 A Supreme Court Decision on Elimination of Highway Crossings

All Frisco einployes ore greatly in- tion from dangers incident to motor Taxes Paid by Truck fcresfed in fhe featnrc of elirninafion of transportation. and Bus Insufficient highzoay crossings aid from fhc stand- " 'Prior to the establishment of the point of the railroad, !he qwesfion of the Federal-aid system, Tennessee hlgh- to Pay Their Share division of cost that aftaches fherefo. ways were built under the direction of Even Highway The liniied States Sirpreme Court 091 of the county courts and paid for out Maintenance March 4 handed down a decisioia to fhe of funds raised locally by taxation or eflect that !he NC&STL Railmay would otherwise. They served, in the main, not Be required to pay one-half !he cost local traffic. The long-distance traffic "'The new highway, paralleling of eliminafing a stale Itighway grade was served aImost wholly by the rail- lines of the railway and intended for crossing, as they had been ordered to do. roads and the water lines. Under rapid movlng motor vehicles, will, those conditions the occasion for through competition for both freight A rmwspaper account of fhar decision separation of grades was mainly the and passenger traffic, seriously de- roNains some inforntafiors ~elnfiveto danger incident to rail operations, and crease rail traffic and deplete the rail- changed condifiow and anrotrrzt spent by the promotion of safety was then the way's revenue and net earnings. the railways for nmintenance of its tracks main purpose of grade separation. Practically all vehicles moving upon nnd farcs, as conlpared with siwilar ex- Then, it was reasonable to impose up- It will directly or indirectly compete peim of the trucks and brrssrs, which it on the railroad, a large part of the cost for traffic with the rallway. Busses - is felt will be of considerable interest fo of eliminating grade crossings, and the will operate over the new highway in *. Frisco employes, and definitely refutes imposition was rarely a hardship. For regular .scheduled movements in the the statenlent freq~reirfly heard, that the need for eliminating existing same way as passenger trains. Trucks, trucks and hsses aTe paying their fair crossings. and the need of new high- some of them 70 feet in length and share of tares. ways free from grade crossings, arose many weighing with a load as much A considerable portion of the ?$nus- usually from the growth of the com- as 50,000 pounds, operated by com- paper account in qtrestion is quoted be- munity in which the grade separa- mon carriers, by contract carrier and lozu : tion was made; this growth was main- by private concerns, will compete for the most profitable classes of freight. "The majority opinion of more than ly the result of the transportation fa- The competition besides reducing the 5,000 words was a ch,aracteristic ex- cilities offered thru the railroad; the volume of traffic will compel reduc- position of Justice Brandeis. An- separation of grade crossings was a tion of rates.' notated by nnmerous footnotes, it re- normal incident of the growth of rail viewed in detail the changed status of operations; and as the highways were No Direct Truck Contribution the railroads and the growth of na- then feeders of rail traffic, the com- "Although the busses and trucks tional and state highway systems con- munity's growth and every improve- would be benefited by the grade elim- structed with generous grants from ment of highway facilities benefited ination, the opinion said, they would the Federal Government. The gist of the railroad. 1-n irnm~lrlm fvnm rnnkinw anv direct the opinion was that by compelling the railroads to pay balf the cost of , 'that grade crossing eliminations, Tennes- to be see was in fact making the railroad ennes- pay for benefits that would accrue to sy be its competitors, namely trucks and d that busses. others .-.. *---.- "..- -- "-- conrrlaure as taxpayers to LuaL fund. Railroad Now Requires Protection railroads. Separation of grades serves But while nearly 28 per cent of the " 'Federal - aid highways,' Justice to intensify the motor competition and gross revenue of the railway is re- Brandeis said, 'are designed so that to further deplete rail traffic. The quired annually to pay the state and motor vehicles may move thereon at avoidance thereby made possibIe of local taxes and the cost of maintain- a speed commonly much greater than traffic interruptions incident to cross ing the roadway acquired and con- that of railroad trains. The main pur- ing at grade are now of far greater structed at its own expense, the state pose of grade separation therefore is importance to the highway users than comn~ercialmotor carriers, which are now the furtherance of uninterrupted, it is to the railroad crossed. For the supplied by the state with the road- .. . rapid movement by motor velllcles. rail operations are few; those of mo- way on which they move, pay in state In this respect grade separation is a tor vehicles very numerous.' and local taxes not more than 7 per desirable engineering feature com- "The opinion said that the grade cent of their gross revenues. parable to removal of grades and crossing at issue was at present pro- "'The taxes laid upon truck and curves, to widening the highway, to tected by the most modern electrical bus owners are clearly insufficient to strengthening and draining it, to device and that from 1921 to 1931 pay their fair share even of the cost shortening distance, to setting up there were on1.y two accidents and and maintenance of the highways guard rails and to bridging streams. those were settled for $50. which serve them. Motor vehicle The railroad bas ceased to be the "After pointing out that Tennessee taxes of all kinds, ad valorem, privi- prime instrument of danger and the contemplated buildir ~g a new highway lege, license plates and others will main cause of accidents. It is the through Lexington, the opinion con- not pay lor one-hail of the annual ex- railroad which now requires protec- tinued: (Now tirrrr lo Page 13, please)