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' Value of Railways to
New Civilization.
By C. B. Markham
Editor's Note. C. H. Markham is
president of one of the greatest rail
road systems in the world. He speaks
with the voice of absolute authority
and knowledge. His opinions are ac
cepted and hailed by railroad execu
tives throughout the United States
and because of his close touch to the
executives of other railroads what he
says may well be considered a voicing
of the sentiment of the American
railroads as entertained by their gov
erning heads.
For twenty years the American pub
lic has withheld sympathy for the
problems of the railroad, problems
that were vital to the welfare of the
public.
For twenty years the American rail
road has proven too often to be the
football of peanut politics, the "hor
rible example" for the pointing finger
of demagogues and the sounding
board for the more or less silver
tongues of spellbinders.
Constructive legislation has been
hindered rather than helped by this
attitude for in their desire to please a
suspicious public even fair minded
legislators have leaned so far toward
repressive legislation that the con
structive sort has been lost and en
tangled in the maze of restrictive red
tape of the former.
A better service to the nation at
large, a wider scope of production to
the city and a lessening of cost to the
farm producer who must move his
product would have resulted long ago
if the railroads, often as unseeing as
the public that frowned upon them
had been met half way in friendly
spirit and problems that were Teal
and tangible been thrashed out to
gether rather than attacked from
varying angles that neither solved the
problem or tended toward the crea
tion of mutual benefit.
Both Sides Blamed
In thus placing blame upon the pub
lic, I do not wish to give the impres
sion that I believe railway men al
ways have followed the blameless
course; in fact, I hold them jointly
responsible for the mistakes of this
dark period. I believe they erred in
not pursuing at all times a policy of
taking the public into their complete
confidence and telling the public
frankly what their problems were
and what was being done, or should
be done, to solve them. Railway men
have largly pursued a policy of re
ticence where their own actions were
involved, seemingly proceeding upon
the theory that the public did not
need their counsels. Recent railway
history has proved that their atti
tude was wrong.
But, regardless of where the blame
is to be placed, the fact remains
that the impression gained popular
ity that the railroads needed
protection. That, in fact, they were
entitled to no protection, and that
the public welfare could best be
served by attacking railway manage
ment, embarrassing it and putting
every hindrance in its way. Every
action undertaken by the railroads
looking toward an improvement in
their capacity for rendering service
was viciously attacked; every ap
plication for rates which would pro
vide revenues sufficient for opperat
ing expenses, fixed charges and I
return which would be attractive to
the capital needed for financing ex
tensions, improvements and better
ments was bitterly fought; hamper
ing legislation and restrictions were
adopted, increasing the cost of rend
ering transportation without in
creasing the capacity for it. Bait
ing the raidroads became popular
political sport. The public grew to
look upon the critics of the railroads
as being always worthy of belief,
and the defenders of the railroads
as being always in the wrong.
Roads in Future.
My optimism for the future of the
railway situation is based upon a be
lief that this deleterious period is
passing. One finds it still cropping
out in some quarters, but it is on the
wane. We as a people seem to have
learned the lesson the last few years
have taught us; namely, that the fu
ture of our country is tied up with
the well-being of transportation, and
that the two must develop together.
But, even though I entertain an
optimistic belief in the future of
America's second largest industry
second only to agriculture I be
lieve there still remains a great
and pressing need for further pub
lic education on railway questions,
.The public must be constantly re
minded of what it has at stake in a
solution of railway problems. Our
efforts must not lag.
One of the most important steps, I
believe, in creating a wholesome
public sentiment which will assure
progress in transportation is inspir
ing public confidence in the men who
stand at the head of America's
great transportation systems. I have
been in railway work a great many
years and I know the calibre of the
men who hold positions of trust in
the railway industry. I know them
to be honest, conscientious men,
trained in their calling, and I know
their ambition is that American
railroads shall maintain their high
rank among the transportation agen
cies of the world. I believe them
worthy of the public trust.
At Public's Mercy.
The growth of public regulation
has placed the railroads literally at
the mercy of the public. The rail
roads are controlled through gov
ernmental agencies in the service
they shall charge, the wages they
shall pay and the conditions under
which their employes shall work;
while to managment is given the
power of directing operations with
in these limitations. But I hold for
managment a greater task, that of
impressing upon public opinon the
need of constructive policies, and
of outlining what those policies
should be. Railway management is
the trustee of vast properties valued
at nearly (19,000,000,000, and it
would be derelict to duty if it did
not exert its utmost effort toward
construction as a,;:iinst destruction,
toward progress as against retro
gression. When we are ill e call upon men
trained in the diagnosis and treat
ment of human ailments to etfect a
cure; when questions of jurispru
dence arise we consult the best
lerai minds at our disposal to
guide our actions; in railway matt
ers men trained in that ecienc
should be our advisers. In the con
sideration of every public question
there always is proposed a plethora
of untried remedies, fake cures,
quack panaceas; these have exer
cised, in the past, too great an in
fluence upon public thought in rail
way matters.
The first principle of railway prog
ress is the necessity of placing at
the disposal of the railroads a net
income which will be sufficient to pay
obligations and attract the savings of
investors in order that extensions,
improvements and betterments may
be carried out The only source of
this revenue is in the rates charged
for transportation service. "What
the traffic can bear" is the misno
mer. The movement of traffic can be
more seriously hampered by physi
cal inability to handle it than by
rates which seem high as compared
with those of another period. Rates,
of course, should be so distributed
as to allow for an easy Sow of pro
ducts from producer to consumer,
but the importance of protecting the
railroads against rates which will
impair service to protect other in
dustry from rates which might up
set the scale of price adjustments.
Oppressive Regulations.
Another important element in as
suring railway progress is the need
for curtailing oppressive regulations
which increase the cost of produc
ing transportation without increas
ing the capacity for producing trans
portation. In one of the states in
which the Illinois Central operates
bills were introduced and passed
for passage in the recent session of
legislature which, if they had been
passed and approved, would have in
creased the expenditures of the
railroads of that state more than
$100,000,000 annually without in any
way increasing their efficiency Pract
ically the same situation has existed
in the regular sessions of every
state legislature of the forty-eight
states for years past. Fortunately
for the railroads and for the public,
which must underwrite the railroads'
bills, the measures to which I have
referred failed, but that has not
been the history of such legislation.
Too often the ill-advised burden has
been placed. The cumulative effect
of this shortsightedness has been to
place the railroads under great handi
caps and to increase unnecessarily
the cost of transportation.
The hope of the railroads lies in
the establishment and maintenance
of a wholesome public sentiment to
ward them. The public should bear
in mind that whatever hurts the
railroads hurts the public. Anything
that affects railway service and rates
detrimentally is opposed to the pub
lic welfare, for anything that increas
es the cost of transportation with
out a comparable betterment of ser
vice has a bearing upon rates. The
welfare of the railroads and the pub
lic welfare are so interwoven that
it is impossible to separate them.
That the public has not been in
clined to accept this viewpoint is un
fortunate; that the public is now
more favorably minded toward the
railroads augers well. .
On the Illinois Central System" we
are exerting our best efforts to ac
quaint our patrons with railway
problems and the best methods of
their solution, and are asking their
constructive criticism and suggest
ions. We are being rewarded by the
co-operation of the public served by
our line in a degree hitherto un
known. We have passed through trying"
times and bur lesson in railway
economies has been a hard one. If
we have profited by it, it is well. I
believe we have.
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ROUGH SEA SAILORS
I love to talk with fellers, with a
glitter in their eye, in defiance of the
panic that is slowly passin' by. . . .
I love to see 'era swagger, an' to ele
vate their chin an' to hear 'em speak
of pluggin' till their ship comes in.
I like to run acrost 'em, as we
travel on our way. ... I take a
lot of stock in what they do, an'
what they say. ... I get my in
spection, and the firm desire to win,
from the feller that's a-pluggin' till
his ship comes in.
I aint got time to listen at the
bird of grim despair, that dotes on
disappointments, till they get him
by the hair, but you'll see my sperit
quicken, like you'd stuck me with a
pin when my neighbor speaks of
pluggin' till his ship comes inl
HOMEY PHILOSOPHY for 1922
What a wonderful boy they say he
is David Gladstone, fifteen years
old, four feet tall, and yet a freshmen
in the College of Arts and Pure
Sciences of New York University. He
plans to enter law school as soon as
he has completed his college require
ments. Education? A prodigy, one
of the seven wonders of the world.
Aint it a funny idea when those who
see the setting of the sun know that
a boy of seven the age of reason
always has a much better education
than Gladstone when he is taught,
and really learns that happiness
comes from making the other fellow
happy. That's the meat. Why fuss
over the trimmings?
Will Soon Be Over.
Fortunate indeed is Wallowa coun
ty to have escaped the bitterness of
the campaign being waged in western
Oregon over the school bill. Certain
factors have entered wbich have
broken up old friendships and divid
ed families into hostile groups. Per
haps years will pass before the an
imosities will die down.
The campaign will be over in a
tittle more than a week. The count of
the votea presumably will tell the
verdict of the people, and in a pop
ular government majority rules. In
this case the majority must act with
great forbearance and the minority
also must be charitable.
No man should stake his happiness
and peace of mind on the outcome
of a political contest. There is an
ebb and flow to the affairs of man
and sometimes one opinion prevails,
while again quite a different view
is adopted. No one year is final; no
one .campaign settles the fate of
humanity.
The majority which controls a mass
meeting or an election is not alwaya
right; in fact very often- it is unfair
and unjust and wholly wrong. But
it must have its day just the same,
while all must await the day when
the light dawns. The people of a
state or nation are greater than any
faction and in the long run, no better
form of government has been found
than that in which the people rule.
So their verdict must stand, and if
it is a blunder, they should seek to
correct it later. Enterprise Record
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HAS LOYALTY VANISHED?
When one looks carefully at the
passing throng he is forced to ask
the question, Is loyalty a lost art?
Have the people forgotten its mean
ing? Or has it ceased to have power
over the people?
Loyalty in its truest and deepest
meaning is free from every element
of selfishness; loyalty means abso
lute devotion to principle, to party,
to person.
Absolute devotion takes into ac
count the sacrifice that has to be
made to be loyal. It may mean the
loss of everything; but loyalty never
counts that a cost too dear.
If this is a correct definition of
loyalty then it is highly probable
that it has been supplanted by the
meanest kind of selfishness because
men are sacrificing principle, party
and person for their own selfish in
terest, or to fill their own greedy
purses.
They seem to have but one God
the God of Gold. They worship at his
shrine; they bow before him morn
ing, noon and night; they carry his
image in their pockets; they burn
incense to him; his image is stamp
ed upon their features; they would
sacrifice their homes.
Yea; they would give up their
families to satisfy their own selfish
ness. What can you expect when
loyalty in its truest, and most glor
ious aspect is surrendered and self
ishness is enthroned?
Many business men have ceased to
fight for great business principles
because they are afraid it will cost
them something. Politicians have
long since mortgaged their souls.
They are taking anything that will
buy votes. Nearly every election has
on its bargain counters cheap politi
cians. Loyalty to the government,
devotion to fundamental principles
are foreign subjects, alien ideas,
and ancient history to modern polit
cians. Oh, for a power that would bring
back to the throne of business
statesmanship, and to the religions
altar unswerving, untainted and un
adulterated loyalty.
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