Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-07
ASKS RAIL CONTROL
TO AID WATERWAYS
Hines Claims Five-Year
eriod Is Needed for Full
Cooperation.
sflotjL b FEED EACH OTHER


w&eFways and the railways in
hS<ng the traffic of the nation and
81 Sn3ttc cooperation between the
stems will be difficult to estab-
Iii HEongress fails to permit the
fs11x&f government to retain the lines
for five years, Walker D. Hines,
director general of railways. told the
Rivers and Harbors Congress. which
ended it's annual convention at the
New Willard this morning. Senator
Ransdell was reelected president of
the congress for the thirteenth time.
Mr.. Hines said the rivers and
streams of the nation should be feed
ers for the railways, and all antago-
nism between the two systems should
be removed by the establishment of
the most cordial traffic relations. This
cannot be done if the roads are re-
turned at once to private control, or
in twenty-one months after peace has
been proclaimed, the director general
said.
Interchange of Traffic.
ct can't bring myself to the idea
that great highway like the Missis-
sippi or the Hudson should be
economically useless" said Mr. Hines.
They should be used to the fullest
extent of their capacity and should
be allowed unhindered to serve the
nation. But it is not sufficient merely
TO provide a waterway 1t Is equally
important to provide means for the
interchange of trathc between the
two great systems.
"A railroad no matter how good 1t
may be viii not succeed unless 1t has
business and a trunk line will not sue
coed unless it has feeders. Waterways
~ ~, IN q l.
ways or the railways should do the same
service for the waterways just as traffic
circumstances or conditions may re-
quire.r We should link together the
we can have an articulated system
THE time has come when all |
thouEhtfuI men believe that the re-
eources of the nation should be fuiiy
utilized. But these can't be fully uth-
he'd unless there is close cooperation
Between the railways and the water
pays"
Sympathetic Attitude.
Mr. Hines said the heads of all de-
1artments in the railway administra-
ton have adopted sympathetic and
hopeful attitude toward the great
problem @cf water transportation, and
MAT already some great waterways
had been co-ordinated with the rail-
way system. He said he was planning
% make still further use OF the canals
md rivers.
The director general said nobody in
ne railway administration appeared
% desire that federal control continue |
tudefifiitely. but that it continue for |
2he period proposed by himself and !
His predecessor was essential to the |
success Of the whole scheme of trans
Iortation.
iSenator James Hamilton Lewis of |
Illinois congratulated the convention |
on the fact that the railways, through |
the head Of the administration in the |
United States. had come to recognise
fhe Importance to commerce of the in
hind waterway systems OF the country.
4en4sor Lewis said that every effort
hitherto made by the champions of
fkver and harbor improvements and
the widening and deepening of water
v1Js had beer met BY persistent op-
Do9ftfon from the railways.
A5hAtor Lewis said France would
MEIER have been able TO gather her
SUPPLIES. her soldiers and her general
eqiktpment at the strategic points In
tine to meet the invader but for her
great inland waterways. He warned
me delegates that America would not
afy1ys- be free from the invader, and
sid the best way to prepare to repel
hfm would be Improvement of harbors.
COASTS and waterways inland.
Mr. Bryan's Railroad Advice.
Ownership and operation of trunk
11ues by the federal government and
OF feeders to trunk lines by the sew
erui states was the solution offered
mr. the railway problem by William
Jennings Bryan at the afternoon ses-
sion yesterday. Mr.. Bryan said it
would be nothing short of calamity
to permit the railways to return to
private owners.
Private monopoly will corrupt pol
ftics. poliute religion and ultimately
destroy our government" declared
mates propose to organize right here
in Washington, get complete control
of the highways of the nation. and
then ask your government to regu-
late them. What viii occur under
such a policy Is that the railways will
regulate the government"
Samuel @. Dunn of Chicago said
government ownership would mean
additional expense inefficiency and
general depression in railroad opera
ton. Frank Lyon of Washington,
urged elimination of the freight rate
competition between the inland wa
terways and the railroads. He said
there should be uniformity of rates.
Daniel Willard, chairman of the
board Of directors of the Baltimore
and Ohio, was an interested listener
deiegatlOa from the Washington
Board Of Trade is attending the Ma
tfcnai Rivers and Harbors Congress con-
yentton row IN session at the Willard
Hotel The delegation is composed OF
Arther j. May, w. w. Bowie, w. T.
Lewis Fiaaer, Frank p. Leetch and %.
C. SnSas
Amendment in Measure,
.lookind TO St. [ awrence