Show Frei Freight ht Car Shortage ShortageS S SCARCITY CARCITY in freight cars car is a world wide wide worl-wide condition accentuated perhaps in countries devastated by the thc war as in Germany Austria and France but severely felt in En England land and the United Unie States In England tho the railway car sh shortage rage is one of the th real themes of the thc hour among business men and it seems likely that demurrage rates rat will wil be assessed as high as a a aday aday aday day for those thos wl who o detain a a. freight feight car ca of a 3 special type In our own country it i is said freight cars ca simply do not exist in sufficient numbers to carry cany the traffic They arc are lacking for exactly the same saro reason that houses arc lacking lakin During Duing the war new V houses lUSe and new railroad cars did not rece receive e their proportionate share of attention The government railroad administration administration adminis adminis- acknowledges that acquisition of freight cars cars during federal federl control was ws less than under private ate control and that none at all al was ordered in i 1919 1019 Traffic requirements arc aro reported to be so heavy at the present tine time tic that even if i construction had been normal loral the supply would be severely tested The Te railroad railroad rail rail- ral- ral road administration announced that a week in January Jau- Jau Janu Janti- ary ar 1920 1020 showed more cars of freight loaded than the corresponding week in i 1919 1910 and more than for the corresponding week in 1918 and at the same time there was wa prospect of still stil heavier heavier traffic in the spring The railroads under private control will wi have ha many new problems to solve I |