Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-07

an American down to the roots, fearfully in
earnest in the midst of titanic struggle. He
was battling with The Hun People got to feel
that McAdoo was of the fig ting stuff from
which true patriots are made-Scrappy patriots
with teeth He made a lot OF friends on his
Liberty Loan drives. Every one of those loans
was a StunendouS success. He did the lob.
Then there was the Job of running the rail-
roads of the nation, operating trackege that
would reach ten times around the world. an in
duStry that maintained eight million people
There has beer lot of complaint against
McAdCo, says his friends, because of decreased
efficiency n the service of the railroads. They
also point to the fact that we took over the
roads to accomplish the purpose of the war, not
to improve the service to Stay-at-homeS.
The railroad admin Stration, tkey say. trans
ported troops to the Seaboard without hitch,
and kept supplies piled up on the docks as fast
as steamships could be procured to take them
/ away. This was the purpose for which we took
the railroads. 1t was right we'll accomplished
Just now, toward tn end of government Op-
Grafton of the railroads, they are getting back
McAdOoS course will have been justified. PeO-
pie will be coming to appreciate his accom-
plishment.
The friends of this versatile executive are
telling little stories like the following: In
February, 1913, the ambassadors of Great
Britain, France and Ital came to the head OF
the railroad administration and said: "The alb
Sence of wheat in Europe is breaking the morale
of our people. The United States is behind ir
! the amounts that ii was to send. If we don't
get wheat we are lost The wheat is in the
United States, but not Seaboard. 1t is up tC
! YOU"
Mr. McAdoo acted Immediately. He ordered
all the available empty cars on the Atlantic
SeabOard made up into trains and started west
! 1t was against all the laws of economical rail-
road operation H. haul scores of empty trains
Yet many miles of them sped west to Chicago
radiated out to the oints where there was
grain, they were loaded and in month were
back at Seahoard with their wheat From thai
time no allied ship was at dock asking fol
wheat that did not get it. The war emery ency
was met. The job had been accomplished with
| the McAdOo wallop.
McAdoo is of the Roosevelt type, say those
! Democrats who admit the virtues of the former
president He is man of the open an active
exuberant life-lOving man He likes to dreS!
! in cowboy clothes and ride the plains with
out-of-door men. He likes action, accomplish
ment.
He is not in the movie business as many
people think. He is a lawyer with his Shinglt
out. He is retained by big movie corpora
ton, but not exclusively. 1t is one of his eli
| entS, but he has many others. He is practicine
law, and probably, looking for chance to put
pep into presidential campaign.
His friends say he is League of Nations
man, that his policy would be that America
should assume her share of the world burden
of responsibility for backward peoples in &C
cordance with the WilSonian doctrine They
buzz-saw man of action and practical expe-
rience might be expected to handle them They
say that he has been SO close to international
affairs that he would be able to get hold
quickly and drive ahead.
They say that they know, and the people
know, the McAdOo way of accomplishment
They are willing that their candidate shall stanG
or fall on his record.