New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
War Work Leads in
The Land Of Cotton
Fields Not Neglected While New Born
Southern Industry Drives Strong Arm
Blows in the Direction Of Berlin

A.. story OF region That came back
These things have not simply been
handed out" 20 Dixie. She had the
natural attractions; she aled s'ter-
ton TO them; went after capital, and
got il. The result? Great ,egs guns,
aero propellers. one-pound ard heavier
shells, pressed steel for mines, great
ships, and rails, and railroad cars; Tin
plate from Schwab's new plant, In
Maryland: freight cars for France and
agricultural tools for Russia: coal tor
Italy: good cloth for Sammies, real
bullets for the Hun, all stream from
the region that few years back vas
little but a planter Of corn sni
grower of cotton.
On the Seabosrd gross revenues for
three weeks ending September q we're
, sl,7s2,3lS, gain OF $780,, $50; and gross
from January / 10 September Il u
! given a. sci ,229,923, an increase Of
| S3,l26.52s over one year before. SO
! that il appears there j. no lack OF Dusi-
ness. Tho Western Maryland reports
/ somewhat increased gross for the first
three weeks Of September. Tho gain
over one year ago being Sl2,OO2O6
From January l there was a rise OF
Sl,146,715.52. On the Atlantic Coast
Line operating revenue for August Is
announced officially as 1885 074, con.
trasting with S2,505.922 Tor the same
month Of 1916. Operating income vas
5000 1913. comparing with S5l5,9ss for
that month one year before. Operating
revenue Tor eight months 20 August 81
SzS.6ls.6,2, IS against S2i,Z0O,Zzo ior
1918; operating income. s7,522,857 and
S7.23I,693. respectively, Tor tho.
periods OF 1917 and 1915.
Full Cars; Big Loads; Small Profits
This is not all in Southern railway
development. Number OF tons per
freight train il rising. figures for the
Western Maryland recording 49l IN
1912; 735 in 1915; S92 in 1917. Tons
per loaded freight car are thls year
standing. CT rather moving up, az 1884;
in 1912 Il was 1852. The company now
earns Sl.ol more per freight mile than
il did In 1912. Despite all this, TIE
burdens OF the roads increase most
rapidly, and viii continue so until their
needs, one with the country's, ara
much more CON fortabiy worked out.
THAI present increased rates nave
rot been ample is adequately shown D.
the figures OF that bell-wether Of
Southern roads, the Baltimore s. Oalo.
In Augas. the company SCI new high
record for -ross; and at the same time
l. new high record Tor expense N
operatine. in one month transports
tion oypense s alone rose by Sl,3Il,Oo9,
80 that net revenues that month RECORD.
cd a lo5s Of 1894. 2l3, and the total OF
S3,066,s79 was the smallest reported D.
the company since the iean days o.
1914. Eo- time -mi..ion-doAai
months drew some attention on the
Baltimore & Ohio, but in Angus, groSs
figures reached the total OF Sl2,oos, 'yp'
the greatest yet accomplished. -
multaneously, operating costs rose eA,-
90i,272, sucking up ali gains h he'
Tor every dollar in gross Z cost me
management more than Io cents %
handle business represented, comparing
with 6s.32 cents for the corresponding
month 1nly one year ago. ne bslt-
more & Ohio deserves richly 20 are
better. I. IS pioneer IN progressive
practical rsilrosding i, IN common
with otner Southern lines, "a handing
hugely Augmented amounts OF coat
coke and wood, coal tonnage Tor july
being al the rate OF about 4O,OOO.V0p
cons per wear. II is doing this with
rapidly mounting applied efficiency.
Heavier loading enabled II 20 save the
10 y
carload freight during July, compared
sIth that month the YEAR befor.
throughout the South shippers are be-
ginning 10 exact full to-. Of me loaded
car, and are making every freight car
do its duty"
Crop diyers.fying has increased The
one-crop folly fallen of. Though cot
ton is king no more and his acres nave
shrunien away, new care and better
treatment are producing 100000 more
bales on ,365 900 less acres than IN the
year 1916. lis condition for August
was 67.8, contrasting with 6l2 for Az
gust OF 1915. And these gained acres
nave Lot been LEI 10 run 20 weed seed
More food ha. been raised, less wasted,
more put away than in the SOuthe
whole history before. Much cotton land
has gone 70 food. Old fields. abSn'
doned half century ago and let 10
raise a scruboy crop Of pine, have been
denuded OF It lstterly. The pines have
made pulp paper, good ammunition 10
the war that Scandinavia has seemed 70
wage against new manufacturer a.
home. And while this happened ire
onetime pine lands have again been
set to crops.
The South is standing by" Our a..
lies may confidently count upon aet
cotton, timber. railroads, ships. ner
men, her money. She has risen fast -
great need, is rising Dissen,lon
may raise an ugly. morbid head e,se
where. The South will have none OF y.
She is mad clean through As one -.
! casts herself into fight than ~n'e.
the world has never seen a better OF.
before, nor one more needed. MOT.
crops. more mills. more money Is w.
slogan. The crops are food for t1tOp'
and America; the mills spell real ns
terial for waging WARS and SinnIns
them; as for the money, just nov IT"
America'a