Show Is Private Ownership a Failure is much concerned O over overA Cl T HE press press press' 0 oC the country 7 A the question as to whether the recent appeal of tl e railroads to tho the interstate commerce commission means that private ownership and operation is a n demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated dem dem- failure or whether it is only n a legal formality formal formal- for b by tho transportation and it ity foreseen ity-foreseen foreseen provided act Advocates dYO of or I o ownership of course arc aro not slow in ill pointing Jointing out that the roads have havo run nm up the white flag fag n and ind confessed their inability to give service iee to the public at a time timo when there are o no o war var dt demands mands with no war Avar board giving arbitrary priority orders and no interference with tho the freest operation vand r control by their owners s. view is impartial But a 1 san saner sailor r and und perhaps more I that there is no lapse lapso toward government go ownership themselves will coni continue continue con con- but that the railroad companies i tinne to operate the roads loads to collect and disburse I mone moneys s 's and nud enjoy all nil their rights as private earners carriers I with the single singh exception that the interstate commerce commission will act as ns director of traffic for the whole I country It Tt will compel the pooling of cars cm's and other equipment the joint use of terminals where desirable I place embargoes on nonessentials an and require routing i to relieve congestion and get the freight to its destination destina li tion 1 in the quickest possible time I Section of the transportation act provides that II t the th commission may suspend the tho operation of any i TI iii orall all all' rules re regulations or practices with rith respect to toI I car service for such lime time as may be he determined l by hr tho the commission J Jt t may male such just and reasonable directions with respect to car service without regard to the ownership as between carriers of locomotives cars cars and other vehicles during such emergency a as in inI I its opinion will best promote the service in the interest inter inter- est cst of the public and the commerce of tho the people Ob Obviously the present conditions were forecasted I u when the act was drafted and the weakness of pH- pH rate ate management as regards ordination co was realized I by Congress That the power granted the commission by the transportation act has been heen invoked does docs not alter the status of the railroads though it may be cla claimed med that t any resort res t to the commissions commission's po powers erB emphasises s a defect in present private ate management t whose e. e executives es are to bo he the ablest business businessmen men man in the WorM world Still others will contend that it is but the tho accumulated not w weakness in private management load lond of failure in gO government operation which is isI I harassing the managers 1 I 4 Money in in Campaigns THE T 1 Kenyon committee i investigating jn expenditures has established the following contributions con- con coni contributions i A which include those made by the candidates themselves I II I i Gen I. I Leonard onard Wood Gov GO Frank Franl O. O Lowden Senator Hiram Johnson estimated I. I O OS S Senator W. W G. G Harding Senator Miles Miles' Poindexter about abouL 5 20 OO Go Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover er j Nicholas Murray Butler 4 Senator Howard Sutherland r 1 1000 I Total 2 1577 1570 Democrat A. A Mitchell Palmer Gov Coy James D. D Cox with pledges jj James W W. Gerard 1 GO GOE Gov E. E J i I. I Ed Edwards wards to 1 Senator R. R I. I L. L Owen Oen Senator G. G M. M Hitchcock I Including person personal l e ex expenses ex- ex unknown if It William Ullam Ibbs McAdoo cAdoo any nn Total 0 1 All Ail of the candidates insist that this money was expended honestly and with no intention to corrupt the electorate but that it was necessary in III bringing I their qualifications to the attention o of the ot voters lS in inI in I 5 states having having- the preferential primary primar law No doubt most of the monc money was spent for postage advertising headquarters literature transportation the e expenses of thousands of managers boomers speakers intelligence service espionage on the doings of the tho other fellows etc etc but what of the laws that tha necessitate this orgy of pro prodigality The candidates can can- themselves wms are arc perhaps only doing on a large scale what has hus to be done one by b candidates who bo are lre compelled compelled com corn to to go before that ble blessed ed discovery of ot modern modem I. I times the state or district primary The New York Times says Here Is an abuse glaring laring and monstrous which has been produced by legislation In the several states b by tho the people themselves It Is the they who have offended It Is 18 for tor them to prevent In future the offense which they have havo authorized and promoted There TherB will bo be much Improving T i talk about the limitation of primary campaign expenses limitation would be only a palliative The whole primary I c e excrescence and superfluity should be cut off otto After all nIl this costly apparatus nothing has been accomplished and i ithe the national conventions or their masters wilt will have havo to name the candidates candidate their their- hook on own The Th presidential primary Is a a. folly an and a fraud for Cor which the people of ot tho the states that Set fet it up arc responsible r Wo We 0 think experience has bas proved that the tho Times is is correct in its arraignment of tho the system and looking to the future when with the women voting there thero wilt will willbe be voters in all Uio the states wo we are led to won wonder er what a poor man who wants to be President is going to do I The Tho first aign sign of age Is the att attempt to conceal it Congressmen sailing the Pacific ought to be able abl to locate tho the island of Yap Looking backward how peaceful seem eem those Wart war- war x timo t JI c days dB s i f S i Maybe A. A Mitchell Pal Palmer er dropped his front in- in initial for fear the people would think it sto stood d for S Ananias And now they are ta talking king of appointing a a. commit commit- s tco tc I to 10 investigate igat tho the motives behind bebin the tho men who were responsible r for fur the appointment of a committee to in- in in campaign expenses Our Educational Rank Dr J. J Leonard onard P. P FROM 11 noi no o less n l authority than 1 Ayres director of the department of education of the tho Russell Sage Sago Foundation the people of Utah will be bo prou proud to learn that their state stands eighth in the tho standard of efficiency of its public school RJ Rys- Rys states the District Dis Dig District tern The standing of tho the forty-eight forty of Columbia and the tho three territorial possessions ons is fraught with such interest that wo we O reproduce tho the Foundations Foundation's Foun a ons on's tabulation in ill full fall In working out tho educational measurements tho the Foundation has taken tho the official data it is announced showing ving the number of children attending school tho the amount of training they obtain the progress they make tho the amounts ex er- expended for buildings and supplies tim the salaries paid their teachers an and other similar items and has bas combined corn com these factors into a single index number which shows the general standing or efficiency to bo be as as' as follows fol fol- lows fun 1 1 Montana 1 27 j 27 Kansas 2 California 2 71 S Canal 28 Canal Zono 3 3 Arizona Arizona 29 South 29 South Dakota 4 Now New Jersey 6 9 30 30 New New Hampshire 54 4 4 5 District 6 of ot Columb 31 New 31 New Mexico C Washington j 32 32 Vermont Vermont 16 7 7 Iowa 33 33 WiscOnsin Wisconsin S 8 8 MissoUri 31 3 31 Missouri S 6 I 9 9 Massachusetts 9 36 Maine 35 l Maine 1 10 10 Michigan 10 Michigan 36 36 OklahOma Oklahoma H 11 ll Connecticut 11 59 g 3 37 Maryland 37 i 3 12 12 Ohio Ohio 38 Delaware 33 Delaware 13 New 13 New York C 94 39 Texas 39 Texas 14 14 Colorado Colorado 69 40 FlorIda to Florida IE North 16 North orth Dakota 41 West 41 West Virginia lnlA A 77 16 16 Nevada Nevada 4 42 Porto 42 Porto Rico 17 Indiana Ii Indiana 89 43 43 Virginia Virginia 3 3 18 18 Idaho Idaho 44 Tennessee i Tennessee l 19 Minnesota 19 45 Kentucky 45 Kentucky i-Kentucky 20 Oregon 20 Oregon 46 46 Louisiana Louisiana 21 Pennsylvania n t 47 47 i 22 22 Nebraska Nebraska 48 North 48 North Carolina 2 23 Hawaii cio 70 49 Alabama 49 Alabama Illinois 24 24 Illinois 50 Arkansas 50 Arkansas O 03 2 26 Wyoming 25 Wyoming 51 Mississippi 51 26 Rhode Rhodo Rhode Island 52 South 52 South Carolina Commenting on the facts culled from the report tho the The west has been New York Times says coming up educationally during th the last thirty years while the east has beer beed going down Utah has bas made tho the greatest gain while whilo t to Maryland is ia attributed the greatest fall falling n off in relative standing In tho the east New Jersey is the only state that has gained while in the west California has the best average high recIn rec rec- ord In our self complacence let us not forget to congratulate congratulate con con- the seven states which stand above us and particularly Montana which stands at the top of the tho list A Deserted Village T TIlE THE HE capital city of tho nation which has furnished L the major portion of the hews of things political for a long time timo will be deserted today so far as tho the politicians are concerned R Republican publican and Democratic campaign managers and their camp followers will have havo packed up their baggage and gone to the westward for or tho the conventions first in Chicago and find twenty days ater later in San Francisco Senators and representatives ind all nIl their belongings will have ha joined the ible caravan nn an and either fled to tho tile convention cities or r to their homes where every ery ever member of the House will rill perhaps begin bogin to construct fences for re election and ind many of the senators also The immediate immediato activities will center in Chicago and he the national capital will be bo of secondary ary importance nho Tho newspaper correspondents will have hae started in large argo arge numbers for the tho west The occupant of the White louse House may find time timo to ruminate on Moores Moore's fantasy fantasy- I feel like ono one who treads alone Some Somo banquet hall deserted Whoso Whose lights are fled whose garlands dead And all but he departed I J The Bergdoll Scandal THE evading draft-evading prison-escaping prison law-defying law 1 L Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is now said to be at atthe the Mexican border Whether the jingle of his money will ilI ge get him 11 m safely over oyer the Rio Grande remains to be seen At any rate be he continues at large largo and tho the scandal continues to grow larger Secretary Baker has lies arrived with an alibi lIe He says ho he knew nothing about the mission or escape of Bergdoll until notified by bj the military militar authorities lil 1 Military tary authorities dis disagree Tee with the secretary of war in this important particular p Attorney Attorney Attorney At At- torney General Palmer deposes and sa says s 's that the department de de- de- de of justice was warned of the attempted escape es escape escape es- es cape yet disclaims nn any responsibility for the tho sensational sensational sensa sensa- departure of Bergdoll The attorney general seems anxious to to tell the world orld that Bergdoll w wi s in tho the custody of the tho war department Tho The war department has arrested some of the guards but the secretary of war var insists that the attorneys of Berg Bergdoll oIl are really responsible ible for Bergdoll's Bergdoll's Berg- Berg dolls doll's safe return rn Meantime rewards for Bergdoll's Bergdoll 8 capture have bave been offered but ut few are arc so 60 simple as to believe e that Bergdoll will not post rewards outbidding the government The New York World characterizes the Bergdoll affair from beginning to end as both scandalous land and stupid The million or more members of tho the American L Legion gion who did not evade e the draft probably agree with the World orl Eugene V. V Debs has nominated for President for the the fifth time thus putting it all over O Bryan Brynn Perhaps some sorno day it will be definitely settled as to why we lye went to war with Germany |