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Show i;i:: ;..ii.r.i situation rr-.eh! and pa .ciiser rates are at ! .i.i. lie- greatest handicap to bus-i, bus-i, aial ut.b.-ss some way is found t(, I'.- ' i--' re :!.-;:ur';aiuii charges, 1't- ';!. (-..! !i: K'--h bill, responsi-. :.!,. fi.r tun:;.- evils of the present ', situation, is denounced by .-verybody. It was an illy-con a. a. -ar". it .--bed through in the last lavs ef the Ki 2 0 s -ssion of congress, j seems to be fundamentally wrong i-.ite.-s the manifest evils of this mea-snre mea-snre are sin-edily corrected the people peo-ple will !. r.-aily to return to government govern-ment ownership in- any other plan i !. a t promises relief. The railroads themselves, are the worst sufferers. People in ordinary 'rrHirstaiHM'"! no longer indulge in lie luxury of railroad travel and the i'liiiT hauls of freight are now made ay motor truck. In the old days it cost something like $150 to make a trip to Chicago, including meals on the diner, sleeping car tickets and the other luxuries of travel. Today the cost is more than doubled. Four years ago the carload rate on freight from the East was $1; today it is 1.S3. and local freight has advanced ad-vanced in tho same proportion. And -.I'll the railroads complain that they anttot pay expenses. There is a real crisis in the railroad rail-road situation and unless early relief re-lief is afforded the business of the country will suffer unnecessarily and unavoidable loss. |