Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-08-20
Transportation
Plus Production
Required to Win

Required to WIN
In a statement just released,
R. B. White, president of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
says:
"Only during the Revolution
arv War-when our country was
born; and during the Civil War
when it was saved from disun-
ion. have there been such crltl-
cal years in our history as now.
"While we were working dur
ing the last decade to outlaw
war, and to settle international
disputes through peaceful meth
DDS, the aggressOr nations open
w scOrned democracy and were
stealthily creating military ma
chimes for world conquest. AL
ready they have overrun more
territory and enslaved more peo-
pie than has any tyrant since the
fall of the Roman Empire. And
at this very moment, the convuI-
sions Of this war are changing
the lives Of everyone of us and
the future of the world.
Nothing can be more impor-
tant than doing the best possible
iob-now! And that is the spir-
it which is driving our railroads
daily to perform seemingly I'M
possible tasks.
"Many have heard of the 600,-
600 troops who were moved by
rail within six weeks of Pearl
HarbOr. That was the largest
single organized military move
ment in our history; and its sue
cessful completion brought the
railroads widespread praise. Yet,
during the next two months, the
railroads moved more than twice
as many troops within the con-
entail United States, and both the
public and railroad workers took
this super-record as a matter of
course.
"OnIy the railroads are big
enough, and strong enough, to do
such mass transport jobs. And
they are the only agency capable
of those future mass transport
achievements upon which the
winning of this war depends.
Without transportation, Joseph
B. Eastman recently declared,
we could not fight at all
During January and Febru-
airy Of this year-When the i'm
pact Of Pearl Harbor first began
to be felt-our railroads handled
so per cent more ton miles than
they did in the same two months
of that other war year-1918.
And they did this with 10000
fewer road freight locomotives
and 100000 fewer freight cars.
"In March of this year, the
B. & @. moved all freight cars
on our line an average Of forty
five and five-tenths miles per
day. This was an all-time high,
and-with other improved oper-
ating factors-had the effect,
with existing equipment, of pro-
viding more than $4,000 addition
al freight cars on the B. & O. in
this one month over a year ago.
"The cooperation of shippers
n loading and unloading cars
promptly, thus aiding in increas-
ing the daily mileage of cars in
transit, has tremendously in
creased the available car supply.
"How have we accomplished
his biggest job in our history?
There are many contributing fac
tors. One is that railroad peo-
pie, as a whole, are proud of
their work and know how much
it is counting toward winning
the war. Railroad workers are
all war workers in the first line
Every engine, every car, every
foot Of track-all are war pro-
ductiOn machines. Every time
a crew delivers a train safely at
the end Of its run, production for
war has moved ahead. Each prec-
ious trainload, we know-be it
men, fuel material or machines
lHCdI4o CNcI IllllIS HOW.
"Still another reason why the
railroads are using their plant
more effectively than ever before
is found in the set-up which the
railroads planned with the Army
and Navy years ago for just such
a crisis as this.
big and fine as is the job al
ready done by the railroads, how
ever, we realize we must do our
share and more AS part of this
wars worldwide battle front,
the American railroads must car
ry to it-from thousands of pro-
duction centers armaments
more than sufficient to blast ty-
ranny from the face Of the earth.
That is our job. And, on behalf
of the more than $4,000 B. & O..
employees-men and wOmen-it
can be said that we stick to it
with all the energy we can COM
mand."
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