OCR Interpretation


The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, June 12, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 5

Image and text provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL

Persistent link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-06-12/ed-1/seq-5/

What is OCR?


Thumbnail for

"n?r" ?, 2prTw'rm "f-wi: w -n '-- tsJ
ONE MAN'S OPINIONS
BY N. D. COCHRAN
Improving Car Service. Street car
service on surface lines could be
greatly improved if team and auto
traffic were kept off the tracks. Cars
could make better time and more of
them could be run for the accommo
dation of the people.
Autos and wagons standing near
the curb make it impossible for wag
ons and trucks to keep off the tracks
altogether if they travel the streets
on which car lines are located.
But there are streets through
which this traffic could pass without
interference with car traffic.
Street car tracks were built for
cars to run on cars which carry
people. They were not built as a
driveway for vehicles. This vehicle
freight traffic on the track holds cars
back and makes people who ride in
street cars lose time.
The real distance between two
points in Chicago is not measured in
miles, but in minutes the time it
takes to cover that distance. By
keeping vehicles off the street car
tracks the distance between the cen
ter of the business section and out
lying points could be lessened from
30 to 50 per cent. The next time you
ride on a street car just notice how
much time you lose by the motorman
being held back while vehicles get off
the tracks.
There could easily be much better
regulation of traffic, with a vastly im
proved street railway service, if
proper restrictions were placed on
the use of street car tracks by vehicles.
Hearst's Hatred of Wilson. W. R.
Hearst's hatred of President Wilson
and his absolute lack of anything ap
proaching patriotism's shown in an
interview he has just succeeded in
getting printed in the Vossische Zei
tung of Berlin.
Referring to the President of the
United States, this kept journalistic
mountebank says: "They (the peo
ple of the United States) have had
enough of pusillanimous pedagogues
and vainglorious visionaries. They
have had enough of unpatriotic and
impractical theorists whose ideas of
courtesy to foreign peoples is disloy
alty to their own. They have had
enough of anaemic students of the
outgrown past and unbalanced ideal
ists of an impossible future. Our
people desire and need a modern man
a man of flesh and blood, of heart
and brain, a man of patriotic senti
ment and patriotic achievement, a
man who lives in the present and
who understands the conditions and
requirements, the aims, the aspira
tions, the activities, the actualities of
to-day."
That is the message Hearst sends
to the German people. It is the im
pression he would give them of the
President of this republic. And yet
this journalistic jumping jack, this
special agent of special privilege, this
tool of Wall street, this pal of Steel
Trust Gary, this betrayer of labor
and pimp of capital, poses as an au
thority on patriotism.
It is said to be a peculiarity of the
insane that they think all others are
crazy while they themselves are sane.
If there be anything in this, it might
be a wise precaution for Hearst toj
consult an alienist and find out just
how his wheels go 'round. His men
tal processes may need expert tin
kering. Hearst owns an enormous ranch in
Mexico. He has made a frenzied,
fight in his kept newspapers and mag
azines to force President Wilson into
war with Mexico. He has fought for
forcible intervention and for annexa-r
tion. It would be dollars in his
pocket; for then Uncle Sam would,
have to police Mexico and protect'
Hearst's property interests and make
it more valuable. But Wilson would
obey Wall street orders issued1
through Hearst.
Big interests also wanted fre tolls.
M&h&MitmmM(rifa jnflftjwi

xml | txt