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Show HOT, BUT INTERESTING Guy Morrison Walker writes the Wall Street Journal: "I am sick and tired of seeling you newspaper editors soy that private ownership and operation of railroads 1 on trial. Stop ltl There Is prlvato ownership becauso tho government cannot buy and tho politicians daro not confiscate, but thero Is not even a semblance of private pri-vate operation. You have compelled the owners of tho railroads to deal with audit labor unions; you have forced them to pay wages that bear no relation whatever to value of tho service rendered, or current wages in other lines. Tou deny toho owners own-ers and operators the right to charge what railroad eervlco costs under those blackmailing conditions and then predond that railroad credit has been destroyed by tho crimes and mismanagement of tho prlvato owners. own-ers. What tho railroads Of tho United Slates need Is not an Incrcaso In rates but roller from regulation by tho Ignorant, lncompotent and Irresponsible. Irre-sponsible. It this country Is to over ov-er get back to prosperity It must repudiate re-pudiate the wholo systems of restrictive re-strictive leglsaltton that has been foisted on thorn by theso Ignorant legislators and demagogs. This ro-strlctlvo ro-strlctlvo legislation Is what has ruln-Vd ruln-Vd our railroad systems and deslrot-!cd deslrot-!cd tho efficiency that formerly pre- vailed In tho transportation business. I Tho only hope for returning pros-' pros-' porlty lies In relcaso from regulation tho return of economic operation nnd the steady induction of railroad rates |