Show t RAILROAD PRESIDENT SAYS SOUTH ISN'T HOSTILE TO ROADS NEW YORK Tonic Oct 15 That That the south i SR I- Inot not hostile to railroads Is 19 one of ot th thi th dt declarations appearing In President W. W V. V o iW s Findley's statement ment to tho the stockholders hold ers of or the Southern Railway a portion of the report of Which for the year endIng endIng ending end- end Ing June 30 last has Just jUH been made public In fact President says las there thoro Is a growing feeling among shippers and travelers in tn that part vart of the country countr in favor avor of ot a re reasonable treatment of or railway y enterprises The Tho statement then as an indication of tho the rapid IndustrIal Industrial industrial Indus Indus- trial expansion of the south louth that last lt year ear no f t fewer than Sti new plants of various sorts were Installed alon along tho the Southern railways railway's s lines an the capacity of many old plants was en en rJ ed Of Ot the disputed new rates ratu put In force torce In tn tho the south pending determination of ot the cue case Involved d b by th the United States supreme e court Mr r says Bays s 's The eb b board J has considered o d it essential t I al not Dot only in tho the interest of the owners of property ro rt hut in the Interest of the public pub pub- lie lic whose Inter Interest st is III that the railroads shall hall not bo be deprived of the means of providing adequate t facilities for the commerce com corn merce nerce of or the country that the Issues raised d b by the action of ot these states stats whether In investments In railroad propertIes properties properties' proper proper- ties ties' are entitled to the same lame measure of ot prot protection cUon as other property and whether t ey can be bo deprived b by an any form of stat action of or the effective protection o of the constitution of the United States hall bo be finally settled with the least pos pos- t Ible dela delay |