Arizona republican., 1917-10-18
GREATER REVENUES NEEDED ID MEET
 DEMANDS IF WAR
Republican A. p. Leasea Wire]

WASHINGTON, Oct 17.-Necessity or corporation by the state railroad ommisslons with the interstate com .nerce commission and the need for greater revenues if the roads are to meet the demands of the war, were subjects of addresses here today at he annual banquet of the National As ,oclatlon of Railway Commissioners.
 In urging standardization of regula ion, President Samuel Req, of the Pennsylvania railroad system, told the tate commissioners that to the extent hat they cooperate with the federal 5overnmentt in it's supreme power of regulating interstate carriers they would share in promoting the common lefense and the general welfare.
 "To the extent that you fail to CO., )perate,' he continued, even though Jou may appear to be benefiting cer ain cltIzens Tn your state, you not Jnly weaken the railroads, impair their service and destroy then creuit, but Ilso menace the national authority, conflict with it's policy and weaken the Elective commercial and military .Jower Of tie country.
 Senator Newlands, chairman of the ;ongresslonal committee Investigating transportation problems, told the con- Jention that the successful prosecu ion of the war depends more upon transportation by rail, river and ocean Lhan any other one thing, and yet rail md river transpol tation is the only hing to which the emergency aid of he government has not been given.
 Railroad rates, he said, are station
 ny, and railload expenses are increas- ng New money for emergency equip nent must come from increased traf- ic or increased rates, unless the gov ernment itself loans the necessary money or furnishes the equipment.
 Necessity for the development of the country's rivers and the construction I merchant marine in order 10 pro- vide a co-ordnated system of rail. iver and ocean transportation such as prevails in European countries. was emphasized by the senator.
 Other speakers at the banquet were Food Administrator Hoover, Interstate iommerce Commissioner Atchison and Max Thelen, of California, retiring president of the National Association If Railway commissioners.
 Eastern railroads are preparing to place before the interstate commerce commission a program to provide a general I6lleI HUH lileiI liudHCldi uil . faculties. Executives of the roads so notified the commission today, when they appeared in connection with the proposed increased rates on long list If commodities not included in the .'ajse granted in the fifteen per cent rate, last June.
 What form the railroads program will take was not disclosed, although il was broadly intimated that the com mission would be asked to authorize a general rate advance.
 Notification of the roads intention was incidental to conference among the commission, the roads, shippers, state railway commissioners and other interested parties at which the ques- Iion of specific advances was taken up.
 Temporary relief, the commission was told, was desired in the form of increased meats. petroleum, grain and grain products. sand, stone, cement and copper. The proposed increases would apply to traffic east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers.
 Tt is the opinion of the gentlemen
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