Show FIXING RAILROAD RATES Making railroad rates is like playing playing play ing inga a gam game of checkers or che chess s. s Communities Communities Com Com- to be producers manufacturers or shippers to be aided represent the pieces used Every possible possible possible pos pos- sible move Is studied for Its effect on the general result by skilled traffic traffie fic fie managers A false move in the making of freight rates may mean the ruin of ot a a city of a great manufacturing ing interest of an agricultural com com- Railroads strive to build up all these so th that t e each ch may have an equal l chance in the sharp competition competition tion of business So sensitive to to this rivalry are are the railroads that in order to to build up business along their lines they frequently allow the shipper 10 to practically dl dictate tate rates Rate making making mak make ing has been a matter of development of mutual c concessions for mutual benefit That Is why the railroads of the United States have voluntarily made freight rates so much lower in inthis this country than they are on on the the owned government-owned and operated rail rally ways of Europe and Australia that they are now the lowest transportation tion rates in the in-the he world |