Show I 1 t H T URN ED TO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP on oil the finlie 1 l t day of I 1 march the railroads all over L the united states stales have been returned to their legitimate owners awnet s after they had been operated by the government for over two ONO cars the railroad hill bill which had agitated tile the congress for a long time which finally had been passed and which was fought hy by the labor unions even after adai adoption tion hy by con giess to the extent that the unions asked the president to veto the bill has been signed by president wilson and what is generally termed the largest turnover in ili is now an ail accomplished fact the public we ire are sine will aill be pleased and well nell satisfied atis fied even ol 01 those who advocated government ownership anti and op of railroads many have learned a lesson from tile the denture the only excuse for which was that it IL was a war necessity when the railroads turned returned re tho the government was million dollars in the hole and this enormous deficit was accumulated in twenty six months of operation we think herbert hoover a practical engineer was light v when lie he made the statement that government operation of laili oads is utterly bad ad it is costly wasteful arbitral traby y and universally sally tormenting in the little things whose treat treatment makes comfoct colfo t or discomfort to those who buy transportation |