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Show RETURN OF RAILROADS. After having been drafted to meet the emergencies pf war and after having hav-ing rendered highly Important service during the war and after, the United States railroads have been demobilized and returned to private life. While there was much opposition at ( the first announcement of the govern-1 ment's Intention to relinquish tho , roads, that opposition ha8 not been so j strong recently. This attitude has been j brought about by many circumstanced in connection with the taking over of j the lines. The experiment of government con-1 trol was conducted under the worst j conditions possible. The conditions' which threatened to cause a breakdown break-down in the privatoly operated trans-; portation system and which made nec-: cssary the taking over of the roads ( were the conditions which the federal roads successfully battled. If the service under these conditions was not up -to the standard of pre-war times there was good and sufficient reason. Yet many persons did not give thought to this. They pointed to the service given before the war and tho service given by the United States railway administration and said: ' "This is the result of government i control; lot us have no more of it." j The companies have a difficult task I before them as they again assuni charge- of their properties- The rail-' j roads arc so closely connected with J everybody's broad and butter that it !behooves us all to wish the companies' success and do our bit toward helping them solve the tasks before them. j |