Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-19
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP ? OF RAILROADS BEST,
 SAYSHARRY WHEELER
President of United States Chamber of Commerce
 Gives Views
Rv Review Leased Mirel

OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 1S.-Harry A. Wheeler, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Wash ingtOn. told 1000 delegates to the s-Mississippi readjustment con gress, which opened its sessions here todays that better railroad service is obtainable under private ownership of the railway lines than under public ownership. There has been a sluf- fling on enthusiasm, ingenuity and mi tiative under government control" he declared.
 Mir. Wheeler analysed the far reach ing effects of league of nations and add that this country, under present world conditions, must face more or less entangling alliances. He viewed these entanglements as having been brought out for a mighty good cause"
 In message to the congress, J. Og- den Armour of Chicago, who was pre- vented from attending by illness, de cried the spread of bolshevism in the United States. He said, m part:
 Armour's Letter
 From where we stand now, there are two roads; one of them leads to bOlshevism. It has brought to life the worst forces that are in men. We find it manifested in excesses of de- structiOn, savagery and complete dis regard for the rights of others. It is desire for liberty gone insane and is unthinkable in the United States. The other road leads back to individual and corporate freedom which is limit ed only by the rights of others.
 Let us not forget that what the malcontents call the old order of things has made the United States the richest of nations and made Amer ican citizenship worth more than any other.
 The road is a well marked one. The first guide post says, faith in the future'-the next one. employment for all,' and the third, gradual read justment- Faith in the future of this
 Address Is Read
 An address which MT. Armour had planned to make was read tonight. The address, in part, said:
 This congress can do the nation no greater service than to make plain to the public the true relations between wages and the cost of products, be tween profits and the cost of service, between investments and the returns thereon l have come to the conclu- sion that the greatest need we face today is that of understanding.
 'AS humans, we are prone to place a higher value on the thing out of our reach than we do on the things in our grasp The COW risks scratching her neck on the barbed wire in order to n1bble al the grass outside the fence and neglects better grass within. Any l driver knows that the other side of the road always looks more inviting. There are times when I envy the tramp his freedom from care. Tt Is my opinion that the congress of the United States should take cog nizance of the need for giving our re- turning soldiers opportunity to en- gage in productive work. I think this matter is of sufficient importance to | justify an extra session of the con- gress if need be.
 "Our government possesses millions ! of acres of arable land. It has miIIians more that can be reclaimed and made arable- l advocate opening of this government land and it's apportion- ment among soldiers who wish to enter into productive work ! country is justified. All the elements which make for prosperity are pres i nt-"
 Many leading men of the middle , west are in attendance, among them being former Governor Ammons oi Colorado; Mayor Mills of Denver and J. A. Shoemaker, general manager of the Umo Stockyards, Denver.