Show ECONOMIC ANARCHY the railway age speaking for the railroads complains because traffic managers to resist the efforts of the railroads to put themselves on a profitable basis the editor of the railway age says that until balance exists in the national economic machine we will not have genuine prosperity pros penty the heads of many industries he says appreciate the importance to them of railway prosperity under private ownership and yet the traffic managers of these same industries desirous of making records for their departments may be the worst enemies the railroads have to meet they try by every conceivable method to beat down rates before the commission and they are the main stays of subsidized highway and waterway competition here is the core of the biggest economic problem before the american people it is not particularly a railroad problem but it is a problem that involves manufacturers and farmers the makers of steel and cement the mining and lumber industries in fact everybody wage earners and employers we get our living by exchanging services in some degree the railroads are a market for everything under the sun in turn railroad service is a factor in the p price rice of everything |