Show RAILROADS AND newspapers the railroad industry has applied app liel for permission to raise freight rates 15 percent because its revenues are not sufficient in these days of higher costs and wages to pay expenses ind and leave an adequate amount over lor for improvement and expansion in asking this permission the rail railroads roada want to do only what most unregulated businesses ha have ve 1 already done for example newspapers all over the country have been increasing their single copy prices and in some cases their monthly or annual subscription prices increased production costs make this necessary the railroads are tn in the same position as these papers everything the lines use costs more than it did a year or two ago even as a news i tapers main source of expense newsprint costs more than it did and like the newspapers the railroads only source of operating income Is from the sale ot of their services in one case transportation in the other advertising and news whenever a regulated industry permission for rate increases the average human reaction is to protest at once and hope that it 11 will be denied but a railroad lan 1 I any different than a newspaper or a real estate agency or a grocery store or a specialty shop it Is governed by the same economic laws and when outgo exceeds income it must raise its ita prices or go bankrupt wo we cant understand along with many other people why at this time when the president of the united states calls a special session of to consider ic legislation i all important to the entire nation a couple of members of at that body insist on bringing the antl anti till lill up for consideration when the b 11 was brought tip bp members of from the southern states at which the bill Is ai aimed med threatened to filibuster which would have wasted many days of the session we dont believe that the passage of 0 such a law would stop the lynch ing of negroes in the southern states any more than prohibition solved the drink problem even it if it would the coming regular biess session 0 Is time enough t to consider and either cither pass or reject the bill 0 0 there Is a continuous cry going gain up for tile the president to balance the budget top stop spending iding until ill revenue equals the expenditures everyone who asks that this be done also has ills his own idea as to what expenditures should be cut in order to accomplish com lt it but when mention In of nt I a cut in any of these expenses is mado made by tile the president another cry gos goes up from another group of people mr air secretary of at the treasury recently advocated cat e d balancing bala neing the budget by r g 1 expenditures for or relief hl highways public works and agriculture this lust just suited big business so did ills his idea to make a revision aion in certain special taxes which they claim are detrimental to buchit business gs but OUT they agree with him and the president in tightening up the in P omo tax laws on the other side when a cut in ellet expend expenditures Aures was advocated ih h mayors of all the count rys large atles at a convention in washington D C wailed loud and long ionic they know what their cities would do with their unemployed they handle and care for or hem it if the government cut them loose the mayors of these large lare aties had large building programs to carry out likewise and they want that expenditure stop ither ather 0 0 and when a cut in highway appropriations was mentioned the road commissions of every western irate let out a roar and immediately sent letters to their il 11 delegations begging tor for them to ight such a 1 cut here in the west the states with high road mileage and small resources would be lilt hit hard as about 75 of tho the roal road noney spent is federal money A cut in ili agriculture appropriations would bring the same cry of distress from the big agricultural states 0 0 the people of the united states must think that we have a god for a president when they ask him to lower taxes balance the budget and still build highways take tak care of 0 the unemployed and aged people insure high prices for that which the farmer tanner has to sell low prices tor for what he has to buy aad do the same tor for the industrial workers of the country no mortal man or roup of men can do this and we will just have to ask for I 1 less pas or expect to pay tor for what we ask a sk 1 more afore than two years ago a man ar y the name or of kidnapped his former wife in a city in washington taz ton state took h her er to idaho killed her in cold blood and stuffed her body in a culvert und under I 1 r a highway then he killed two highway olice notice when they tried to arrest him or the crime and is still awaiting leath for his crime in a a state at te where punishment is mandatory lor for such crimes ilia his attorneys attorney TS claimed that he be vaa as insane at the time the murd murders ers vere vera committed we agree with them hem there because we think any man insane who commits murder but dont think it any reason why hey pay the penalty for their crimes in the two years tile the tato tate of idaho has spent thousands it f dollars in trying to mete out justice and has ben been thwarted evry iry time through some legal egal I 1 loop hale in the laws |