Show HIGH fREIGHT AID AID TO MOTOR TRUCKS TRUCK oad CI Charge arges Will ill Force Shippers to Resort to Highway High Transportation It is r said tc that t the return of the railroads to private ownership win wm soon be marked by a a. formal application to t trUM rUM raise freight rates 20 per cent and to In increase rease passenger fares tares to 6 G cents cent a mile mUe The railroads have havo their applications practically drawn up tip and It Is la e expected expect expect- ct- ct ed od they win will be tIled flied with the Interstate commerce commission within sixty days after March 1 1 and will ask ask- that new rates be made effective not later than September 1 They point to the th fact tact that the government In operating tho the roads was forced to run ran up a a. big deficit def def- def deficit and they declare the Individual corporation could not possibly shoulder shoulder shoulder der s such ch a burden If H their request is granted ed and the higher freight rates are am adopt adopted It will be tho the bl biggest est boost for tor motto truck transportation that could possibly possibly pos pos- sibly be ho hoped for says BaS A A. A F. F Savage of ot tho the Savage Motor company local distributors distributors distributors dis dis- of ot Federal truck In this ter ter- It will force torce thoc thousands of or shippers shippers shippers ship ship- pers to adopt the motor truck for tor all short hauls Mr Savage says that numerous Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral trucks In practically every section section section sec sec- tion of ot the tho country are already being utilized for short hauls or rural motor motor motor mo mo- tor express lines Unes and on long hauls such BUch as tho the overland moving mavinS' of ot household house house- ouse hold goods and various kinds of ot merchandise merchandise mer mer- chandise of at nearly every cry description and kind are transported over distances of or to OO miles |