The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-07
WHAT McADOO DID DO
eGN R. McADOO however could not be giving attention
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eeN McADOO however, could not be giving attention to WI the railroads while he up to his eyes in treas ury business This is language The Couran which fairly representative of other critics, who want the wounds of years healed by magic.
 is true that the shortage of coal is due to the shortage well to other railroad insuffciencies It true that Mir McAdoo has the duty to get the cars.
 is not true that Mr. McAdoo has neglected the railroads Far different months he has corrected ancient abuses affected great economies and accomplished more uncaon than twenty years had produced For dishonesty in management substituted honesty Where there sepa ration he introduced coordination Where there waste he produced rugay In the place of extravagance he in serted economy.
 Come to the cars When Mr. McAdoo took charge there useless general officers of all sorts learned counsel lob bys political manpuators, competitive freight agents cost y ticket offices and every sort and fashion of exavagant thing which sheltered the friends the relatives and the of the railroad clques and coerieS
 These had Watered stock crushed canals acquired throtted steamboats
 McAdoo fired surplus officers unoaded unnecessary counsel slaughtered the lobby ordered the canals into useful ness, and began the restoration of steamboat
 Only the other day McAdoo wiped out the expensive ticket offices fifty American cities. One must visit city like Buff falo Cincinnati Chicago to realize what this economy 
 time ordered thousands of new railroad car and large number of steel bages for the great New York state.
 Let have time for ruitage McAdoo cannot restore in few months the damage that has been occasoned years of gross msmanagement, careessness and theft.
 Nevertheless in the brief time at his he great y improved everything Shipments better they go better All instruments of transport being summoned to service.
 When next winter arrives will be within the purvew everybody that coal moved than anybody thought sbe just going to France each week. than even the wisest supposed could be taken.
 The why the American people excel their ex pecaons not because of the wisdom of them by the wisdom of all of them.
 Transport in the beginning thought of in terms of things they are much tonnage much time to many constructed; all the familiar elements
 When all American minds put to work the minds of the whole world in fact many things happen They build in wood and concrete, we'll in steel Simple cheap craft substituted for coastal and lake service releasing stronger and faster ships New methods for building ships estab ished and especially for the construction of Economies made in the and method of loading unloading Discrimination is practced in respect to com modies which shall be moved, to what, when how much,
 One pnd contributes improvement here, and another there The whole greater than individual supposed would be-
 The American people will be amazed at the improvement in their railroads which will from the exercise of the de crate purpose to get the very most out of them
 Mir McAdoo is not too busy to heed tue railroads
 He Is today the greatest railroad that lived and to him. receiving initiating improvements are to be credit ed the greatest and most useful and most complete railroad forms that ever took place.