FRTDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 2, 1919 IVARNSSTREET RAILWAYS OF PERIL IN HIGH FARES Commissioner Ainey Recommends lo Companies Rather the Merchandising of Service Than Driving Patrons A may St. l<ouis, May 2.—ldeas as to the solution of the fare problem of elec- ] trie railways, so as to protect service [ and investment, quite at variance with the practice which has been | followed almost everywhere through out the United States, except in Phil- ' mlelphia, were expressed by Wil- ' liam D. B. Ainey, chairman of the \ Public Service Commission of Penn sylvania, in an address delivered here before the Chamber of Com- J merce of the United States. Mr. Ainey bore strongly upon this proposition that increasing the fare docs not meet the situation, but in many cases, differing as to local conditions, makes it worse rather than better, and if persisted in too far leads certainly to bankruptcy of the company pursuing such plan. He said that it is "without doubt ! startling" that the operating revenue of the electric railways of the coun- | try for 1918 increased only (1.45 per. cent., even with the generally ad- ! vanced rates, while expenses in creased Id per cent, lie said that for i December the cost was 2£ per cent. ; higher than for the same month of i 191". What he terms the "merchandising of service" has not received the in telligent attention of the electric railway managers which it deserves, in tile opinion of Mr. Ainey. Main taining that the public is entitled to adequate service "at a rate gen erously sufficient to meet operating expenses, provide a reserve for de preciation and yield fair returns," . he adds: "A rate of fare so high as to lose to the company a material part of j its patrons will result ultimately in : BEFORE SUPERIOR COURT ' Major Sumner S. Bowman, of the 1 Judge Advocate General's Depart- 1 ment. United States Army, was ad mitted to practice in the Supreme '"otirt of the United States on Thurs day last on motion of Charles Evans Hushes, ol ,\nv York, former justice of that court. KEMP^MLSAM i WHI Stop that Cough | GUARANTEED GBANOMA GAVE HEB THE M6HT ADVICE: . -LiXLJL Mrs. Elsie Genk, 30'.) Dtincannon Street, Philadelphia, says she's glad site listened to the advice of her grandmother. "I suffered front stomach trouble and nervousness My appetite was bad and I couldn't sleep, i suffered from pains til the heart. While I was in this eondi- : tion my grandmother, Mrs. Miller, told me about Tanlac and advised me to try it. I bought some and j now l know front my appearance and the way 1 foci that I've gotten hack my health. I only took six bottles of Tanlac. I sleep and eat : better. Tanlac has done mc so much j good. It's a great spring tonic." j The genuine J. I. Gore Co.. Tan- ! lac is sold here by George's, Gorgas',, Kramer's and Steever's and other j leading druggists in every com- I in unity. Baby Coming To Your Home? Tile Wonderful Event That Will Bring Much Gladness. ; Are you looking forward, dear prospective ! mother, to the wonderful, glorious time when you shall hold In your arms the little I ir.lte, which it of your flesh and b'ood, I with feelings of misgiving? Now Is the time ti get in condition to j meet the crisis, and t'.iree generations of I women have found in the time-honored I preparation. Mother's Friend, a grateful, i penetrating remedy to prepare their systems to withstand the shock. The action of this famous remedy is to relieve tension on drawn nerves, cords, ten- ! dons and ligaments, to relieve strain and I d'scomforts, such as nausea, nervousness, , bearing-down and stretching pains. By | regular use during the period the muscles expand easily when baby is born; pain j and dancer at the crisis Is naturally less , and the hours are fewer. Do not neglect the use of Mother's Friend. It Is for ex ternal application only. Is absolutely safe and wonderfully effective. Write the Bradflelr.' Regulator Company, Dept. N, I-amar Bui! bag, Atlanta, Georgia, for their Motherhood Book, and obtain a bottle of Mother's Friend from the drug I store. It !v jr.'t as standard as anything you can think of. WOMEN SHAVE UNKNOWINGLY When yon only remove hair from the surface of the akin the result Is the same as shaving. The i only co mm on -sense way to remove hair Is to attack It under the akin. DeMlrarlr, the original sanitary liquid, does this by absorption. Only grnnine DeMlraele has a j money-bark guarantee In each package. At toilet counters In (Kir, $1 nnd 12 sires, or by mall from us In plain wrapper on receipt of price. I'HEE hook mailed In plain sealed envelope on request. De- Mlraele, 130 th St. and Park Ave, I New York. j disaster to that company just as ] certainly, if not so immediately, aa | a rate of fare too low to produce the required revenue. I "To attract car riders, whereby the unfilled cars may he filled, is a S business proposition which the elcc | trie railways cannot afford to ignore. "The zoning problem, particularly in interurban service, is a fruitful field for local examination, but zones \ should be so arranged that car riders ! will be attracted rather than re pelled. In some instances the pres ent zones for single-faro areas are entirely too long. 1 have noted one instance of sixten miles for a single fare. Whenever it costs more to carry a passenger than is paid by him. a burden is placed not only up on the company, but upon other i riders whose rates must be higher to make up the deficiency. I "!>ct me summarize: "That a rate of fare which seri ; ously interferes with the riding con stituency of any company will lead |in the long run to financial ruin 'of that company. | "That we cannot return too quickly j to the former-time policy of building up increased revenues by resorting to the merchandizing side of the business, whereby empty ca:s will be filled. "That rczontng in particular cases be considered. "That commutation tickets be adopted where the results would justify and attract at timely hours land to convenient localities. "That operating conditions be studied and that lighter cars, or, j perhaps, one-man cars be installed ! where conditions warrant." Wonderful Facts About Absolute Zero ll> t.airvtt I*. Sorviss "It has been saiil that all nialtcr d'sappcars when a temperature 01 27.1 below zero on the centigrade scale is reached. Is this possible : and if so how can it be expla'ned ! Deuxuunes. Newark, N. J." Nobody knows what would liap : pen to matter at the absolute zero of temperature, which is theoreti | cally placed at 273 C, or 439 U. We ' have no experience of absolute zero. ! Physicists liace never been able to | reach all the way down to absolute ! zero in (heir experiments. They ' have arrived within about three de ' grces of il. but to traverse those last three degrees is incomparably inoi" ibtllciilt than ail the rest of the descent, and perhaps it" will prove to lie impossible- Arrived there, it is assured that matter will become totally inert, or chemically inactive, and it has been : questioned whether such "dead" matter could continue to exist as ■ matter at all. The suggestion has | been made that at the temperature I of absolute zero, i. c., at the point of no temperature at all, the par ticles composing matter of all kinds might cease to possess cohesive force, and then, as Gustav I.e Hon has put it, "one does not very well see what would become of matter." it looks like a very short road lo elmlhilattou; simply drop lo abso lute zero and nothing is left. This is about equivalent to saying that thcic is nothing in existence except • energy, matter itself lie ng a state. or condition of energy. For the I word "energy" substitute "electric ' itv" and von have the statement in ; a form which is often encountered , nowadays. If absolute zero represents the j t' lnporaturo condition, or condition !of 110 temperature, of interstellar space, while at the same time space is lilled with a "medium." which we ! call the ether, then that medium can ! hardly lie "matter," in any ordinary ! sense. while the free movement through it of the heavenly bodies, j and it • own apparent fie" movement through t!m substance of all bo.lie. ; thus lind a ready explanation. To! lie annihilated, according lo this i view, it would simplv lie necessary to lie turned to ether, and to be: turned into ether all that you would have to do would be to drop, titer- j monietrically, to absolute zero! Vet. after all, the etlier must be j something, since according to the! prevailing theories of science, it con- ' veys light, electricity, etc., in the! form of waves, and these waves arc ' capable of affecting matter as for in stance when they produce the sen-' sation of light in our eyes, or are j transformed into the vibrations of I heat on encountering an absorbing ' substance, or when they make their Impressions upon the receiving in struments in wireless telegraphy. I he way in which the existence of ait absolute zero of temperature ' is theoretically inferred, although I it has not been experimentally proved, is this: Heat being re garded an effect due solclv to ml- j nute vibration of the invisible mole cules of a body, it follows that a body whose molecules possessed no ! vibration would have no heat. Now ' proceeding from what happens witli i matter in the gaseous state, wherein I the pressure produced by the mole cular vibration is measurable, a law ' of relationship between the temper- i ature and the pressure has been ex- i peri mentally established. I his law states that gases con- i tract by one 273 rd part of their i volume for every centigrade degree that their temperature fails; or that • if the volume is kept constant the I pressure disminishes bv one 273 rd part for each fall of one degree In the temperature. So. If you start ' with the temperature of ordinary zero, or at the freezing point, then. I when the temperature has fallen 273 degrees there will l, e no pressure lett, which is the same thing as sav ln .M the - n J°lecu!ar vibration will have entirely ceased, and thb- ' last statement means, of course that there will be 110 heat The law, though derived from the studv of matter in the gaseous state, an- ! t plies to the solid state also. The extraordinary changes which the physical properties of bodies un- ' dergo when their temperature is re I ; duced to a point approaching abso : lute zero furnishes an argument fa- I ! vormg a suggestion that if the übso ; lute zero itself could be attained the i Properties would be so completely altered that the matter involved would no longer be recognizable as | matter, and might disappear from I 1 the material world. But.it would I continue to be matter, however rare ! or scattered it might be, as long as its atoms were not destroyed To be reduced to the supposed condition of the ether it would need to lose its atomic structure and even the ultimate particles, or the elec tronis composing tlip atoms, would have to be resolved into something more elementary still, the real na ture of which would not be rendered I evident to our minds by calling it electricity. These are very deep wa ters, but perhaps science may one /lav touch bottom. isrxumjm- wa if . 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