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 Wils9p n the interest of Am'eric%a AA'' % and is E Ts small Ns eotnitiee of five men, representing Mi abest brains in the transportation field, the Iii Havs over their control Nothing of the klid had eaer been done before by any industry i1 siS or any other country. q It was the answer of men of America to the qHfstion that
 disidnal in the railroad aflny stss asking .s How can best help my country? 't.lI fH M l'sssn1t of this answer the railroads of this tpntfy afetbeing operated today ah a'sinele sys+ ksm, working for and with the Government to get khe last ounce of efficiency out of their equipment bo that the abnormal transport problem which h IN war has produced may be- solved without the commercial life of the nation
 Ownership Names Wiped Out.
 N Sitting constantly in Washington is the commit bee of five men to whom the railroads have en- trusted their control. This committee, which has cnu1e to be- known as the Railroads War Board, 1s,f< f<,%o v,ourN Noff he Stntes on which is railroad system 265,0OO miles tn length with all ownership names wiped out. The members of the War Board no longer think in terms Fl Inc Southern Pacific, c. E. & O., B. & O.,
 naul,anae CT anv other road. The~ ~r hsdo7e country and as these problems arise, enc sf..r.s< other, the solution of them is reached without the question of ownership intruding itself.
 In the South recently, for instance, thousands If cars were needed to haul lumber to the canton ueats, The lines operating In that Territory had evek9 car they owned moving between the forests and the cantonments, and it was not enough With out quibbles or dispute the Railroads War Board, acting through its Commission on Car Service, ordered roads operating in the North and Middle West to send enough "empties' into the Southern territory to protect the lumber movement and as- sure the rapid completion of the training camps in which Uncle Sam's citizen soldiers are being trained for their duties abroad
 All in all, more than 125,OOO cars have been ohifted from one line to another, irrespective of ownership, during the past five months in order to avert freight congestion and slowing up of the country's transportation machine.
 What such slowing up would mean now is moi difficult to visualize For in addition to keeping the commercial life of this country at high pitch thousands of carloads of troops, munitions, food and other supplies must be kept moving constantly from seaboard to seaboard.
 From now on, Great Britain, France and all our other Allies will have to depend very largely upon this country for their food, and for much o! the material needed for carrying on the war.
 In addition, we must send at least a million X men to the fighting lines within the next year This means that millions of tons of food and sup niles must be sent out of this country and all O. this tonnage must be brought to the seaboards by the railroads.
 The effect of shortage of transportation ever in normal times easily be appreciated Wha such shortage would mean at the present time however, with the whole fate of both this countr, and Europe involved staggers the imagination.
 The railroad men, however, have not permitted themselves to be terrified by the situation Neithe have they deluded themselves with any false hope concerning the possibility of securing enough ney equipment to enable them to handle the additiona transportation that the war has produced, withou herculean efforts They know that this ant needed equipment is unavailable, not only becaus it is impossible to turn out freight and locomo tives over night, but because what equipmen can be manufactured is sorely needed by the Allies
 As result, they have taken up the only rea