The sun., 1916-12-07

a separate contract. Carriers are On.
titled to remuneration therefor ard
would be discriminating In favor o, and
showing preference to the owner OF IN.
goods were they to perform withc.,
charge other services than those cal,.o
for In the original contract. The fac,
that this extra service Ia to be Der.
formed In the limits Of territory covered
BY the charges for the primary contract,
does not alter or In any way affect the
payment for services rendered in ac.
cordance with the econd movement.
The New Jersey cities making ,h,s
complaint have enjoyed their prcsen, d..
velopment and prosperity wholly BY rea.
son OF being links In the chain between
United States shipping and receiving
centres and foreign countries throush
Greater New York as the point of trans.
shipment between railroads and ws,sr
carriers. Their rights are those Of link,
and nothing more.
To disrupt this present system b, sucN
allowances would be ruinous to business.
banking and transportation in Greater
New York. II would 80 confuse III,
present. methods Of commercial inter.
tOuTbC WIN boESIku touItTltS as NltallN
to affect not only the whole United
States but foreign countries as well.
The present congestion OF freight I.
o~ccasioned by the lack OF sufficien; ter.
minal facilities. II is obvious that ter
minal facilities In the New York dis.
trict mus, soon be improved by cx,en.
sion OF freight car switching yards and
freight handling facilities. In this do.
vclopment the New Jersey section wi,
benefit materially. swere a united stand
TO be taken to obtain these b%cttcrmen,,
by Greater New York and its zone A..
lies there would he n more equitable dis.
tribution Of benefits than " efforts arc
continued toward disruption Of TIC zone
freight rate structure. with inevitable
confusion to the entire shipping world.
financial loss to all and a radical read.
justment OF the traffic structure from
ocean TO ocean and from lakes to gulr.
There IL a right way and a wrong
way to eliminate any inequities which
growth in trafic at great points OF cor.
centration nay involve but the r.gh,
way In not to magnify merely local df.
ferences. Wherever such difference,
have arisen in a large commercial com.
muniiy they have arrested rather than
promoted a development of the whole.
The right way Is that which rc,os
nizes the tendency of national and world
trade to develop under the form of great
organic units with such n division o.
labor within them as will serve on sub.
stantially equal terms all classes of car.
riers and shippers In the cbb and fow Of
trafic. Any attempt to disin,egrate the
mechanism of the zon functions for
the sake OF local advantages mus, not
only defeat the purpose OF correcting
minor defects but must work incom.
parably greater wrong by lowering The
efficiency OF the worlds foremost instru.
ment in the distribution OF commod!.
ties through channels OF trade.
This is not a new fight in the history n
commercial progress. 1t IL the old claim
Of division by d~lsintcgration rather than
Of growth by cooperation. The former
* destined TO fail here IL ever tried.
just as the efforts to handle a similar
situation in the Argentine failed In the
ooit plan TO cut out Buenos Ayres for
the benefit Of AN adjacent community
which had everything to gain and III.
tie to lose in the big stake for which IL
promoters played.