| Show NT HUB BITES ab AILWAY 11 OFFICIALS discussing FREIGHT suggestions OF THE PRESIDENT 10 C ORDERS AN INQUIRY by EDWARD B CLARK washington president coolidge ell casting sting aside the rube robe of st silence lence L out cut loud on a prime subject of public interest when ito hu talked to president prisident samuel rea of the Pennsylva ula artill road on freight re glit rate nite cuts cutson coal and ad grain mr ilea and its his fellow railroad officials now tire are discussing what tile president said with it a view to action washington liaa been considerably puzzled because of the nature of the remedial suggest suggestions lons made by president C 0 oladge lie ile naked asked that tile the freight rates on oil wheat intended tor for export be cut while the rates od non export chent remain as they tire are nim that tile tho rates on coal for domestic ic uso use be scaled so that they would not le be grenter greater than tho the rates on coal intended for export it if president Coolid suggest suggestions suggestion lon are adopted they theyon Aon the faco face ot of them will give a greater advantage to wheat shipped abroad than to wheat intended for Amp american consumers in tile the case of coal tile lie suggestion places the domestic bestic use on oil the same rate basl basin i there was no definite explanation ait oit of the reason for the difference in treat dent of coal consumers and wheat growers washington washington accepts the suggestion of president coolidge to the railroad chieftains as a definite hint of a moans mean to help the runner farmer and the suggestion us as to coal as it n definite hint of it means to close town down on the complaints of american consumers of coal along the that the canadians are being bitter better treated than the americans in the matter of tho the prices on american coal rate hate inquiry la Is Oi dered the interstate commerce commission lias has just issued tin an order on its own jai int flatie for a general inquiry into the fairness of existing rates on grain an and grain products this the commission tins lias denied at least temporarily the petition of western grain growing states which lins lias been pending for several months asking for a reduction in freight rates on grain and grain products tile tho complaint has not how tyer over the case ins lag been reopened for the he taking of more evidence the complaint case Is known its as the Kan kansas gills grain rate case because it was avas brought before tile the commission by that tha t state the commission held that the evidence vid en celins has not shown that the grain and the liny link rates are unjust but it has declared a willingness to proceed with evidence taking thus giving the group of middle western states which are interested a further furt lier chance to male inake good their claims the general investigation into tile tho fairness of existing rates on grain and grain products which the interstate commerce commission has authorized will be carried along the iol following lowing lines tie the verbiage being that of the commissions order fo for the lie inquiry to determine whether and to what extent tit alie rates charges regulations anil practices of oe carriers subject to the interstate commerce act in respect to the transportation of grain and grain products lit in interstate or foreign commerce are arc or for the future will be unjust unreasonable or otherwise unlawful and in such case to proscribe prescribe just reasonable and lawful rates harges charges regulations and practices thereafter Viere after to bo be observed unfairness not yet proved an in the kansas case the commission in its op opinion hilon said upon the present record we ive would be lei led to conclude that the general basis of rates on grain groin grain products and hay within with inthe the western group has not been shown tobe to be unjust unreasonable unduly prejudicial fetal or otherwise in violation of the interstate commerce act two commissioners mr mcchord and mr campbell dissented from the opinion commissioner roy did not participate in the lie hearing on the case or in its disposition president coolidge seems to be intent int t on finding some boroo solution for the problem of the farmers of the grain growing states ills attempts do not lot g go altogether together ul without criticism fr from on members of his own party senator ladd Ile republican publican of north dakota who naho has just returned from europe already lias has roade made something more than a mild attack on the plan of the president which resulted in the sending of a commission into the states of the central northwest st for study and report ort purposes senator ladd lias has said that it Is impossible to effect any re r lief through such an organization to to meet this emergency no student of economics in washington apparently believes that any plan can be pr pi y J ased for me relief of any economic condition which will not meet with criticism As ono one man has put it the only tiling thing to do is to try everything which looks helpful on oil its face and keep on oil trying until the evolving factor of thet the problem leiu Is found veterans bureau welt well conducted brig gen frank T kilnes director of the veterans Tet erans bureau gave the members of the tha american kin erlean L legion glon in convention bention assembled in son san francisco a modest account of hi his ts six months sf p oliea general nines was tag appointed director of the bureau lie told that if he took the place he would find and ho h had taken over tile the hardest job under govern government melt the story Is that the generals nn awer to tills this well that Is onu one of tho the reasons I 1 must take it r from rom tho the day that thai the bureau arno established until director illanes assumed office the ali complaints against tile the service werd constant there were not only complaints it there were charges against it some of which were unquestionably true hut but probably the fault did not lie so much in the of the bureau rim ny with the polli politician letang who tried to make of the service a dumping g ground round for or refuse friends who they needed jobs and who could not got get them any where else when it Is said ald a that former celeta of the bureau perhaps were vere not to blame tor for conditions it Is meant only that thoy they were blameless so far 13 1 their initial intentions were calill corned apparently they tit did not have lont backbone to stand up again ag aln at the job seeking ones brieg who had political backing but who wore devoid of tit aliu qualities which make for good work 14 avery official of the veterans bureau since tile day of its IN establishment probably has fins meant well ivell but tho the trouble has been until recently that they did not do well good effects of discipline when frank T nines hines was asked by president to tako take the job men said and a good of thos choso who said ll 11 1 were veterans blines biln was till old time regular briny officer vint that jie he would be hard holled boiled lit in till lili methods and that clillie discipline would be brought into play in a place where it was out of place there thare recently lecent ly has been discipline in the veterans bureau apparently but it tins hns been the proper kind of discipline which tins lins lit kt pt em cm nt their work in behalf ot of the tha veterans there link been no bloating loada find and as a result work which used to ing lias has gone steadily on nt at a bulc pace director perhaps did show some boiled tendencies but tile veterans so far as their claims mid and their cases caf ea were concerned concerns con cerne d have imd had no personal evidences of it tile ill rector wati was hard bard boiled oward the job seeking politicians who did not enre at till nil whether bother the men tor for whom they wanted appointments were alt for the he work or not all they wanted wentel to do 10 was to get them into places where they could draw their pay it did not take the lie job seekers long to td find out that with the new dIrce director for the first consideration was the good of the words wards of the government ono one does not li hear nr today that chei in four thousand housend dollar dolar positions in tile tho veterans bureau are drawing their pay while junior clerks do their work for them no politics this time I 1 there does not seem to be 6 any polities politics in the direction of the work of the bureau tile the writer of tills this nl at though lie he knows general illanes personally so nally does not know to what political party he belongs president picked pick edthe the gener general alfor for the job because of the commanding excellence of the lie executive exec uthe work that lie he did during the war the appointment of the director to office was one of tile the few appointing nets acta dahich was not followed by charges that another politician iad had been given a job tills this article Is written by an ex service man who like ithe other ex sch service lee men inen felt in the past that the bureau which ans established for the benefit of wounded and sick sich veterans was not doing its to work ork the ex cx service men front from the ho very beginning have not cared the proverbial whoop whether the director was it democrat or a republican a wet or a try dry all that they the wanted and all that they want avant Is that tho the men who were mere chot up tip in the war or brought brou glit low by illness be glien given proper care c ire As things stand today the ex service men seem to be satisfied with the bureaus work 0 of course general illges has been in obilee only six sit months butcho one ona groat great tiling thing tins has lieen been accomplished the lie job seeking politicians in washington liae have read understood and obeyed the order of Il lands on off it if politics can be kept out of tho the bu reau eff leNney wll will stay in it but otherwise there will be it a return to first conditions the veterans seem to hold tile the comfortable belief that general nines will stay on the job and am will NAIR continue to do ns as lie has haa done |
