Show REMEDY FOR THE CAR SHORTAGE American Railway Association Has Evolved a Plan to Pun Punish Punish Punish ish Delinquent Roads 1 Chicago April 24 Decisive action was taken here today by the American Railway association to remedy medy r the car shortage which for several months has been causing so much worry among shippers throughout the country The failure of some roads to furnish sufficient suffiCient quota of or equipment for tor their own traffic and the failure to provide and enforce proper rules for tor the return of foreign cars to their own roads are re responsible responsible for tor the shortage and to rem remedy remedy remedy edy the evil the association today adopted a rule to be pc e confirmed later by letter ballot of or all alf the roads providing that any railroad which hereafter shall not promptly return to its owner after fter unloading all nIl cars consigned to It will willbe willbe be penalized 5 for each car so mis misused misused misused used to be paid to the owner of or the car This penalty is In addition to the per diem charge of 50 60 O cents which after July Jul 1 each road must pay for lor each eath car not its own which may be beon beon beon on its lines Publicity Plan In order to make the new rule more effective efI the principle of publicity Is js to tobe tobe tobe be invoked through the instrumental instrumentality ity of or the car clearing house recently established in Chicago Through the new rule the chairman of the clearing house committee is now authorized to send to each of the roads a n statement comprising the information I already collected as to the car location percentage of equipment on line Une of total owned and unfilled car orders This the association believes will en enable enable enable able each railroad In the country to know exactly which lines are delin delinquent delinquent quent in the matter of furnishing ade ado adequate adequate quate cars ears or failing faling f to return cars to their home homo lines The report of the committee on standard sections was adopted unanimously unanimously and the steel rail mil manufacturers I ers will be told that the present rails are not up to specifications and that a aI I better and safer rail ral must be provided |