Arizona republican., 1921-05-10
RAIL EXECUTIVES SLATE
 TRANSFORMATIONS OF COUNTRY IS PASSING THROUGH WORLD CRISIS
High Wages and Low Rates Blamed for Present Condi- ton of American Railroads by President of Railway Executives; Says Rates Will be Adjusted to Meet Changed Economic Conditions at Earliest Possible Moment
Special to The RsoubIiean)

WASHINGTON, May 9-In con nection with the hearing to be under taken before the senate committee on interstate commerce in Washington tomorrow, T. Dewitt Cuyler, chair man of the Association of Railway Executives, authorizes the following statement:
 The Association of Railway Exec utives welcomes the inquiry under taken by the senate.
 The presentation of the railroad case will be under the general charge of Alfred P. Thom, general counsel for the association, and among .be first witnesses he will put on stand will be Daniel Willard, president Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and Julius Krittschnitt. chairman of the board of the Southern Pacific com pany. They will be followed by other witnesses prepared to deal with all phases of the railroad situation
 Gist of the Railroads Case
 Tn a general way, the following will indicate the spirit which win pervade the testimony to be offered by the railroads:
 The transportation service of this country is passing through a crisis. It is not crisis peculiar to the rail- roads of the United States: it is a situation of world wide incidence arising from perfectly understand able causes, most of them having their origin in the world war
 Feeling, as we do. that the world has definitely turned the corner of it's most acute depression, so we feel that the railroad situation has Likewise passed through its darkest hour and has now definitely turned for the better
 The last congress in passing the transportation act. placed upon the statute books the most constructive measure dealing with our transporta- tion situation which had been enact ed into law in the past Is years.
 Difficulties not Due to Act
 The transportation act has not broken down; the present difficulties. of the railroads are not due to the transportation act. and the trans 1 portation act provides effective ma i hinery for remedying, in so far as t may be done by national legislation. the difficulties in which the rail- roads now find themselves.
 The arrangements of the railroads
 do not approach congress or the American people asking for any amendments in existing national leg islation. They desire to make per fectly clear their present situation. and the measure they are taking and propose to take to work their way out of existing difficulties.
 The railroad managers regret that the operation of memorable economic laws makes if necessary that railroad wages should be reduced. But the railroad mana gers have no fight with their employees and the supreme aim of every railroad management in America today is to establish its re lationship with it's employees or a basis of friendliness and co-opera- ton which will result in work at sat isfactory wages for the largest pos sible number of men aEld in an ef- ficient and economical service 10 the i public.
 sion has a clear understanding of the real nature of the American trans portation problem and has evinced its desire, in cooperation with the pub lie and with the railroad manage ments to work out the difficult prob lems of regulation in a manner which will insure adequate facilities and complete protection to public interest "The public also is manifesting a disposition actively to cooperate with railroad managers.
 Railroad arrangements are fully aware of the feeling in many quar- ters that certain railroad rates are excessive. and the unremitting eff forts of the railroad homogeneous of this country is to provide service of such economy and efficiency that # can be rendered at a rate which will