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Show Best In History "The quality of the service furnished fur-nished by the railways' is bettor now than at any other time in the history of the country," says the annual report ot the United States Department of Commerce. "Shortage "Short-age of cars have now become a rare occurences. At present it takes scarcely two-thirds as long to move goods a given distance as it did a decade ago. With the increasing efficiency with which traffic is being handled han-dled producers arc able to make quicker deliveries and distributors are able to carry smaller stocks and turn tneir capital more quickly. As a result goods arc cheapened to consumers." his is not a biased statement, but the well-considered utterance of a fact-finding governmental department. depart-ment. Its conclusions should ba known to every citipen. Railroad executives have obtained the greatest great-est possible benefit from every facility. fa-cility. Waste, in time and money, has been outlawed. Industrial progress made in the past few years would not have been possible witnout a nigh standard of transportation service. |