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Show ! RAILROAD PATRIOTISM. The order to the thirty-six American railroads to move immediately 68,815 empty freight cars to the lines of fifty-four fifty-four other railroads is a striking demonstration of the " public advantage derived from the nationalization of the ojxjration of the railroads in the country. This order was given by Chairman Harrison of the Railroad War Board. This order with regard to the empties is a further radical administrative act for the purpose of putting the entire equipment of the railroads of the country at the public service; preventing the accumulation of idle cars where there is nothing for them to do and compelling their distribution to centers where they are in demand. Whether the railroad managers will ever get credit from a careless public for their patriotic action may well be doubted, but the conduct of the railroad managers of the country under war conditions ought to secure for the railroad management and railroad property more just and equitable treatment than the public has been accus-'tomed accus-'tomed to give heretofore. Minneapolis Tribune. |
