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lMmlJWfRwf dcJctndcnL small and
IwWKRjX-ZZtlme both In the dk and ln
tliority as well ns its influence to
stimulate local managements to avoid
all unnecessary employment.'
"Why was it necessary to stimulate
thcso same 'skilled railroad' officers
operating the railroads for the gov
ernment and who will continue to
oporate them after' federal control is
ended 'to avoid unnecessary employ
ment?' "Why should railroads after March
the 1st., with the same skilled rail
road officers 'create the impression of
being better managed than has re-
Tho Courier-
In the process of time, the first
Ingersoll has evolved into 15
different Ingersoll watches, in
cluding jeweled models and the
famous Ingersoll Badioltcs that
tell time in the dark.
Tft rvrnnmomnrnt.fi thfi first. flUftT-
nontlv been the case?'
ter century of work the House Journal correspondent gives the an-
I .......... ICi. iltnt rvMrnirnvinnt nTOtioi.
of Ingersoll has had published a! Bhip-(will) not agaJn como an is!
book entitled "Time Telling sue for many years.
m , . .. Li j "Thus the whole truth will finally
Through the Ages" (Doubleday dawn upon tll0 pUbiic, awakening
pnf,ft x, frtrvi-nn-nv "ft nftt the them to realize that so called govern
Page & Company, yd.uu) tne :t operation wag but an inspira
fir3t comnlete book on the sub- tion to inefficiency, extravagance and
ject, 296 pages of romantic au
thoritative history, intere3ting-
,ir? !?i2er v written; attractively illus-
thin, tells t.rn.t.nri- Sra this hnnk at st.nrfis
showng the Ingersoll Anniver
sary Window Trim, .or ask your
f4 Public Library, or vrite us.
FIFTY million I n g e r s o 1 1 s Robt' H' ffersoll Bro., 315
have been made and sold Fourth Avenue, N.ew York City.
since Bobort H. Ingersoll's - r
"Yankee Contraction"' first
amazed the world at the Col- 0Hl&IA IDcitcuSd
umbian Exposition at Chicago
in 1893.
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Finn Exposes R. R.
Law
Hon, Lawrence' Finn, of the Ken
tucky Railway Commission, exposes
some of the -weaknesses of the now
railway law in his illuminating way.
Ho says:
"Regardless of prophetic criticism
or approval, only actual results will
determine the folly or wisdom in en
acting the Esch-Cummins Railroad
foil Admired
Their Health
&nd
Strength.
Wlicutator
(iye suchHeallh to you.
You watched tlie soldlcra and suitors come
homo on lurlonclis mui wi!i.Mir .. ,.
U nlr,U?J1"thnt y?u hud th0 pperanc of
neallh -the non tho vIikm- nt tn. !......
of our. p
Save thorn tliolr health And this you cannot do
uuiyoncan
PandicuIateYour Way To Health
JMndlculMlon means strctclilitj: nnd thoPandlculn-
between tho spinal vertebra, room to ktow and the
Jierves cmciylnjr ironi the various cartilages room to
currv mpsKiiL-ox in iuv nrnu,.. .,..1. ...... ,r:i,.i
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bill. However, if it does not prove
thoroughly satisfactory to the Na
tional Association of Owners of Rail
road Securities representing, as they
claim, twenty-eight billions of "the
investing resources' of the nation,
that organization can only have it
self to censure, as the bill was framed
October the 9th, 1919, and then read
primarily to meet its demands. In
connrmation or this statement read
the letter of the Organization's Presi
dent, Mr. S. D. Warfield, dated
the bill.
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axorcita you ncetf. tahvs hoalih .nH wn(i.r..i .v,.ki.r:
tt w toll youliow tho PndicuUUr pnlif to you. Uvnte(J
by Colics iWeisor and tn.lord by Vhjpicuim. ,"""":o
o ranaicuiator oripBny
839 Advance Building,
uicvcinuu, tfulo.
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"Why are not the same newspapers
and magazines which criticized the
burdensome rates imposed by the
government" now criticising a con
tinuation of these same rates or pro
posed increased rates? It is because
the increased revenues go to the
"wards of Wall street?"
"The Louisville Courier-Journal of.
February 26th carried a special dis
patch from its Washington Corres
pondent headlined: 'PUBLIC
OPINION BEHIND PASSAGE OF
(ESCH-CUMMINS RAILROAD)
BILL. GOVERNMENT OWNER
SHIP FADES AS CONSERVATISM
COMES TO THE FRONT.' A para
graph from the news' item reads as
follows: 'If tho railroads under pri
vate ownership create an impression
of being better managed than has
recently been the case, government
ownership ought not again to become
an issue for many years.'
"From Director General Hines' re
cent letter addrossed to the news
papers, we lift the following ex
tracts: 'Local managers of (rail
roads) are the same skilled railroad
officers who operated the railroads
prior to federal ocntrol and will still
continue to operate them after fod
eral control is ended.'
" 'The Ceutral Administration at
I Washington has been using its au-
wasto by those who operated the rail
roads for tho government and at the
same time desired private owner
ship. The Director General's state
ment is a strong indictment against
railroad management.
"The necessary inference is that
during a national crisis, when win
ning the war largely depended 'upon
properly mobilizing labor, railroau
managers were employing unneces-
sary labor, "wnyr' ine quesuon
may be asked, "the inspiration to
employ unnecessary labor?" The
answer is, "To dissipate government
revenues and prevent a financial suc
cess of government operation, which
financial failure could be advertised
to discredit government ownership."
Read again the Washington dispatch.
What will now become of the two
hundred thousand extra railroad em
ployees who were employed during
so-called government operation?
Some are- already being discharged,
while the rest will soon drift (?)
from the ranks of railroad labor.
"Friends of private ownership, in
order to discredit the eight-hour
law and force its repeal, are charg
ing this lw with having necessitated
200,000 extra employes under so
called government operation. But
the statistics which reveal this army
of unnecessary employes wore ob
tained by comparing December 1917
(under private operation) with De
cember 1918 (under so-called govern
ment operation). In December 1917
the eight hour law had been in effect
twelve months, and by that time all
of its evils (?) should have de
veloped. "The conclusion is inevitable there
fore, that if there is an organization
in this Republic so powerful that in
times of war it can have its returns
Ruaranteed, assume the role of the
government and commit depredations
upon the public that would not be
tolerated if true conditions were
known, then such an organization
ougtit to bo and must be destroyed.
"Again if there is a private enter
prise in times of peace so necessary
to the general welfare, that service
w.ithout cessation s esential, and the
enterprise cannot be maintained ex
cept as a necessary monopoly under
the fostering care of the govern
ment's purse, such an enterprise
ought to be and must be owned by
the government.
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