The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-02-09
SOME REAL INFORMATION

TRUTH as moving on Ieaden heels has finally
feet footed fasehood far railroad propaganda is
The whole tissue of lies that has been
by railroad executives for the of dis
crediting workers and misleading the public shot to-
pieces Walter Hines former director of transpor
tation under federal control of railroads testified before
the Senate Committee Interstate Commerce,
Here of the statements vouched for by Mr..
Hines twenty-five years high railroad Off
ca and has been charged with being too friendly
with the idea of government ownership of anything
The workers did not slack, the railroads said they
They produced during operation,
fc units per hour than before In 1919 they
efficient than 1915, when the
under private management
Mr.. Hines made his calculation upon the amount of
units produced per hour and not upon the homemade
statistics of railroad propagandists
The railroads not undermaintaned by the gov
eminent They in fact in better shape when they
returned their than they had been for many
years.
The government did take the railroads for
political took them because locomotives
and in such bad shape that the carriers could
the transportation needs of the nation The
railroad presidents admitted this fact and favored
ernment Intervention.
The government does not the railroads $780,
100000 for undermaintenence the railrods demand
1t does not them than $75000000O Mr. Hines
said and anything paid above that will effect be
plain theft.
In every important particular, the railroads under
government control made better showing than before
since
Unfortunately this information will not receive the
wide dissemination given the propaganda statements
When Mr. Hines testified the first class inn
portance He giving account of it's stewardship
Yet the newspapers little space his declara
tions. To have done would have been make rdicu
lous the malicious editorials that have been written about
the propaganda sent them from Ivy Lees poison mill
Still, the truth will prevail 1t will gradually seep-
will eventually be settled upon the basis of the
into popular consciousness 1t is nconcevabe that
railroad problem affecting the destines of the nation
will evenuaady be settled upon the basis the
whelmng msnformation that the managers have given
the public To concede that this might happen would
to confess lack of confidence in the intelligence
people
1t is pretty generally recognized that the collapse
that threatens this country if it has not already hap
pened be laid directly the door of the railroads
They have hamstrung commerce until it cannot move
They have imposed crushing freight burdens upon
ton and until they removed there will be re-
viva1 of business.
When the public fully appreciates what has been
to it by the Wall street financial clique that dominates
transportation there will be such protest that
Congress will be compelled to do something about it.
AS long the nation is compelled to guarantee the
railroads per cent billions of dollars nonexstent
value, just long will there be unemployment among in
dustra workers and creul distress among the farmers
HENRY FORD asserts he has 121 million in the bank
Part of that is doubt the profits of his Ironton Rail-
road upon which the United would not let him cut
rates-Creede Candle.