Show GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP By FREDERICK E. E WILLIAMSON President New York Central System P POLITICS POLITICS lives on jobs as you ou all know It is obvious that under a government which is based on the political party system tern tem the railroads under government government govern govern- ment meat ownership would be administered adminis primarily for the need of that system Under government ownershIp ownership ownership owner owner- ship the Job of every eiery one of the million railroad employees sooner or later would become a n political prize with merit and experience taking a back seat Moreover It IL Is reasonable le to assume assume assume as as- sume that the sources of the raIlroads railroads railroads' rail raIl- roads roads' supply of materials would not long remain privately owne owned An And since railroads buy for example 22 per per percent cent of all the coal that is mined 10 per cent of or all the steel and 16 10 per cent of all all the lumber manufactured thus providing pro much of the backlog of these basic Industries Industries Industries In In- how long do you suppose It would woul be before these too would come under tinder the control of the federal federal fed fed- eral bureaucracy |