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Show PAYROLLS PRUNED. As might have been expected, Director Direc-tor General McAdoo has taken measures mea-sures to curtail the payrolls of the railroads, rail-roads, and in order to make passenger traffic as light as possible, he has issued is-sued an order calling in the passes. While it is possible that the services of thousands of men now in the employ of the railroads can be dispensed with while the roads remain under control of the federal government, it is none the less true that these same men will be needed when the roads are restored to their owners after the close of the war. It is likewise true that substantial substan-tial injury will be done to the business of the roads if some of the departments depart-ments in which such men are at present pres-ent employed are not kept up during the period of government operation and control. No doubt there are many lawyers in the supernumerary class and the government will have no use for them, but it will be hard to find legislative legis-lative lobbyists on the payrolls. When congress passed the law restricting the use of passes the railroad officials rejoiced re-joiced over a chance to abate the evil, and we dare say the managers will be glad of another opportunity to still further 'curtail the list. |