Show Shortage Hard c r On Industry SAN FRANCISCO May 13 The Tle The solution so 60 lution of oC the high cost cost of pf living lies largely In InV in the solution of the nations nation's transportation problem This was the declaration of t R. R 1 M M. 1 Calkins Calkins Cal Cal- kins vice president of the Chicago Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mu- waukee St St Paul railroad today addressing addressing addressing ad ad- dressing the foreign trade convention American railroads the railroads the best Dest and most I efficient Ili in th the world world today today are practically proc four years behind the industrial progress of the country Approximately boxcars are needed immediately IY to adequately take care of the Ind industrial production of ot v the country he said Whereas congress has provided a 1 re revolving revolving revolving re- re fund of to meet the equipment n needs neds eds of the railroads a minimum minimum min mm- of Is needed right now to bring the tha equipment up up to to rhe pressing g needs of o our indus industries r s he added SERIOUS SITUATION Some of ot the results of the transportation tion shortage Mr Calkins summed up as follows Thousands of ot tons tons' of steel are lying Iving In th the yards at Johnstown Pa and other Eastern steel centers unable to tobe be moved Half of ot last years year's wheat crop of the state of Kansas is still to be trans trans- ported o Millions Millions' of ot fe feet t of lumber urgently fy needed all over the country to solve the housing problem are piled up In n North North- o western g Y lumbering states with t J no iio im immediate immediate im- im mediate prospect of ot or being moved mewed The great melon crop of the Imperial valley California now ripening may goto go goto goto to waste because of ot lack of ot cars to move it |