Show U. U S. S I WILL OWN ROADS I II I I Railway Control Will ill Lead to Proprietorship Noted i r Writer riter Says f RY fly ROBERT RORERT LONG Noted Nc Newspaper 1 Writer rUeI and European Written for Cor or the International News Service New e York Jan 1 President I.-President Wilsons Wilson's Wilsons Wil sons son's experiment In iii federal railroad n I control will Inevitably lead to public ownership Control without owner ownership has bias been tried and failed ailed In Europe I I Germany German tried It Jon long before the I Iwar war ann and she soon passed to complete te national w with Ith Immense Immense- financial social and profit profi Such successes as t she has reaped In Inthe Inthe inthe the field and such financial resisting power as she has shown would have hayo bce been Impossible had h her railroads been In private hands s. s German Germanys Germany's s nationalized railroads are arebe the be most valuable asset s t In Europe Sho She acquired the asset only onh after atter a aseere severe sever political struggle le Like tIle the United States Stales Germany German I started with private railroad construction construction construe construe- tion iou and operation When hen Prussia began building in 1835 she laid do down n nth th the principle that the state should merely encourage t construction In thinly thinly thin thin- I ly peopled districts which private capItalists capitalists capitalists cap cap- Ignored Smaller lIar German states from rom the first regarded railroad building as n a state te function unction but only Baden and Brunswick Brunswick Brunswick Bruns Bruns- wick built their own roads In SofO 1340 In the earlier stage of ot German railroad rail railroad road roa construction only 8 S per cent of oC the mileage belonged to the state tc yet forty ort years rears later exactly half of ot the tho mileage belonged belong to the lie state and In Inthe Inthe Inthe the year car before the war only 3 per per percent I J I cent of or the tile mileage was In private hands I I 00 |