The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-22
FROM OTHER PENS
TO END THE CAR SHORTAGE


will rejoice to learn that the railroad
companies have decided to join forces
with them in devising plans to remedy
existing car shortage evils. The Ameri-
can Railway association, which has
just closed its spring session in Chi
cago, has adopted a plan which will
be worked out and put in force in
September, and is expected to remove
one of the greatest sources of COM
plants from shippers. 1t was decided
by the association to increase it's fees
for the use of cars by other roads. The
Pennsylvania company, for instance,
reported that $4,000 of its cars were
out on the rails of other lines which
instead of returning them, were using
them in their.-local business. AS the
earning capacity. of a freight car is
figured at about $40 a day and the
penalty for failure to promptly return
it to it's owner is. but 25 cents a day,
railroads. With q car shortage readily
pay the penalty and keep the cars of
other companies in their service in
definitely. The Railway association
atty from 25 Gents to SIS day, and the
managers are confident that this will
procure prompt return of cars sent
with freight to destinations on other
roads.
In return for this efforts on their
part the railroads will ask the ship
pers to make concessions which will
lessen the evil of using the cars for
of keeping them employed in the bust
ness of transportation. An effort will
be made to so increase demurrage
rates that shippers will find it more
profitable to unload cars speedily
when consigned to them. The Inter
state Commerce commission has as
sured the railway managers that any
movement "to stop the using of cars
as warehouses and limit their use to
purely railroad purposes will have our
hearty cooperation" Results of recent
Investigations show that the cause of
car congestion is due as much to a
lack of cars. Responsibility for this
condition is not one-sided. but is ap-
parently divided between the railroads
and the shippers.
The action of the railway managers
in taking decisive steps looking to the
remedy of their share of the car
shortage evil will doubtless be warmly
approved by the shipper and should he
met in a spirit of cooperation for the
wrought much damage to the shipping
and transportation interests of the
country.-Omaha Bee.
A RADICAL PRESIDENT, SURE.
Now this is something that fore
casts how the people of the United
States will act in the next election for
president. They are not going to have
Mr.. Roosevelt for a candidate. because
he is not going to run. But if they do
not get from the Republican party
someone who inspires in them a like
faith that the war is to be hotly waged
by its national leader they will go to
Bryan or Hearst, or any other radical
whom the Democrats may nominate:
and the Democrats will most certainly
put a radical. and an extreme one, in
the field. Just as sure as the sun is to
set tonight the next president of the
United States will be no less a radical
than Theodore Roosevelt There is no
way in which the corporations can es-
cape that result for. though they
should be able to nominate, only the
voters can elect-New York Press.
NATURE STUDY.
Moving pictures are to be used for
scientific demonstration as well as for
amusement. Photography has al
ready been of great value in the study
of anatomy, and it is now proposed to
produce moving pictures of surgical
operations. so that students may ac-
quire the technique without verbal de-
scription. Such representations might
be of service in refreshing the MEM
DRY, but some patients would not care
to submit to an operation which had
been rehearsed by means of a kline
matograph. Mr.. Charles Urban sug-
gests that this method might be en-
ployed with advantage in the study of
living wild animals. We should then |
be able to settle all these vexed yet
momentous questions about caribou, |
wolves and grizzlies. to say nothing |
of the woodcock treating its own
broken leg secundum artem.-New
York Evening Post.
THE PRESIDENTS FUTURE.
1t seems to be conceded that Theo- |
dore Roosevelt will not be the candi- |
date. but will content himself with be-
ing the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Cour- |
ier-Journal.
PRINCE OF THEM ALL.
The man who says that w. ]. Bryan
is not running for office certainly is the
prince of nature fakers.-Indianapol
Sun.