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TO READJUST RATES
TO GEORGIA POINTS
SHORT HAUL CLAUSE
local points to benefit
Wil , Ask State Commission To Ap
prove Similar Rev.s.on In
Intrastate Rates
Atlanta, Ga.-The recent order of
the interstate Commerce Commission
an forcing the Long and Short Haul
clause of the Federal Act to Regulate
Commerce, has made necessary a gen
era? readjustment of freight rates
throughout Southern territory, declare
Presidents J. R- Kenly of the Atlantic
* . Line, W. A. Winburn of the
Central of Georgia, M H. Smith of
the Louisville and Nashville, W. J.
Harahan of the Seaboard Air Line, and
Fairfax Harrison of the Southern, in
a statement, addressed “To The Peo
ple Served by the Railroads of the
South ” which has just been issued.
Since the order of the Commission
was handed down, a committee of traf
fic officers has been at work prepar
ing tariffs which will put into effect
its provisions. Obviously, precise fig
ures to all points may not be an
nounced pending a completion of the
work of revision. It is understood that
where long and short haul discrimi
nations now exist, many rates will be
reduced and some of them advanced,
and that an important effect of the
revision in Georgia will be to give
a large number of local points more
favorable rates as compared with the
rates enjoyed by the distributing cen
ters.
For the local points to get the full
benefit of the principles under which
the interstate rates will be readjust
ed, that is to say, the reducing or elim
ation of the differences between the
rates at the local points as compared
with the rates at the so-called com
mon points, which are in the main
the large cities, it will be necessary
for a revision, following the principles
of the interstate adjustment, to be
made in the intrastate rates, and a pe
tition to this effect is to be made by
the railroads to the State Railroad
Commission.
Statement Of President
The statement of the railroad pres
idents is as follows:
“To The People Served By The Rail
roads Of The South:
“An order of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, pursuant to re
quirements of Federal law, compels a
general revision of Southern freight
rates. It is proper that the people of
the South should be informed as to
the reasons for this revision and the
principles upon which it is being made.
“Excepting the Norfolk & Western,
Chesapeake & Ohio and Virginian Rail
ways, which lie in Official Classifica
tion territory, the railroads of the
Southeast receive virtually no part of
the five per cent increase in rates
recently acquiesced in by the Inter
state Commerce Commission. While
the need of the carriers of the South
for increased revenue is certainly no
less than is that of the Northern and
Eastern roads, that need is in no way
related to the revision of rates now
in progress which arises solely from
the necessity of more nearly conform
ing to the so-called “long and short
haul clause” of the law' as amended
in 1910, and as now construed by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
“The original Act to Regulate Com
merce forbade the making of lower
rates for a longer than for a shorter
distance within the same line or route
under substantially the same circum
stances and conditions. The carriers
were free to meet competition as they
found it and were required to answer
only upon complaint as to the reason
ableness of their acts.
The amendment of 1910 deprived
the carriers of the right to initiate
departures from the long and short
naul requirement, and they may no
■onger meet competition as they find it
‘ the long and short haul requirement
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of the law is involved, unless they can
first obtain the approval of the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
“They were furthermore required,
by this change in the law, to apply
to the Commission for authority to
continue in force rates existing at the
time of its passage which contravened
the long and short haul principle.
Roads Must Make Changes
“The existing rate structure of the
South is not the creation of traffic
managers of this generation. It is
an inheritance from those who built
the roads, aud finds its explanation
largely in the geography of the South,
and in a public policy which encour
aged its creation. The changes now in
progress are not of the carriers’ choice.
“W%ter competition, the most im
portant factor in bringing about de
parture from the long and short haul
principle of the law, has been peculiar
ly influential on the rate adjustments
of the South, surrounded as it is on
three sides by navigable water and
penetrated by navigable streams. Ter
mini of the first roads were 011 navi
gable waters and rates between those
termini were from the beginning de
pressed because of this w'ater compe
tition. When, subsequently, railways
were extended to the interior, distrib
uting points were thereby created,
where there arose competition of two
or more markets, or of two or more
carriers, resulting in depressions in
rates, even when there was no direct
water competition.
“These conditions undoubtedly con
tributed to the commercial and indus
trial development of the interior
South, and, while they resulted in
more frequent departures from the
long and short haul principle of the
law, the carriers had every reason to
believe that their practice had the
approval of the public, even when it
was not directly the result of public
demand.
“Now, the Interstate Commerce
Commission, pursuant to the require
ments of an amended law r , has conclud
ed an enquiry into rates from the East
ern Seaboard, including the Virginia
Cities, from South Atlantic aud Gulf
Ports, and from Ohio and Mississippi
River Crossings, into the Southeast and
Mississippi Valley territory. Asa re-
suit the Commission has in large meas
ure condemned existing departures
from the long and short haul require
ment, except where justified by com
petition beyond the control of the rail
carriers, a phrase which came to be re
stricted to mean direct or indirect
water competition.
Must Raise Some Rates
“Obviously, the removal of inequali
ties condemned by the Commission, by
reductions only, would result in disas
ter to the carriers. This fact is rec
ognized by the Commission, which, in
its review of the situation, stated:
“ ‘lt is entirely clear that the reve
nues of a large percentage of the lines
in the Southeastern territory would be
so impaired by such a procedure as to
make it impossible for them to meet
their operating expenses, taxes and
fixed charges and leave their stock
holders even a moderate return.’
“It is equally obvious that it would
be unfair to punish the carriers, in con
forming to a changed public policy, for
acts which at the time of commission
were approved by public opinion.
“Hence in working out the Order of
the Commission such elevation of rates
to the depressed points must accompa
ny reductions to the much larger num
ber of intermediate points as will at
least preserve the revenues of the
carriers.
“The task of revision is no easy
one. It has been undertaken in loyal
effort to conform to the law, as now
interpreted, and to be fair to all.
“Departures from the long and
short haul principle In the South are
not confined to interstate traffic. There
are in the South a great many intra
state rates that do .not conform to
the principle. If undue discriminations
are to be avoided, these intrastate
rates must be brought into harmony
with the revised interstate adjustment
being made under the direction of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. It
is the purpose of the railways of the
South to take up each intrastate revis
ion with the Several State Railroad
Commissions.”
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RAISE DOGS AND BUY HOGS.
“The way we do it in the South,”
is the subject of a Georgia editorial
which has attracted wide attention.
It follows:
“We throw away water and buy
whiskey. We raise rats and buy
corn. We throw away ashes and buy
soap. We raise dogs and buy hogs.
We raise wocd and buy bread. W T e
raise ticks and buy beef. We raise
weeds and buy vegetables. We raise
molasses and buy sugar. We raise cot
ton and buy clothes. We rise hook
worms and flies to kill people. We
raise blackberries but are too lazy to
pick them. We build school houses
but we send our children away to
school. We send our boys out to
hunt with a S4O gun and a S2O dog
after ten cent game, and then yell
‘hard times.’’’
HOSCHTON, Rt. 25.
■ ——
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Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Castleberry
visited their daughter, Mrs Outhrie
at Loganville recently.
The robin has visited us and the
blue bird too, but spring seems
mighty backward about appearing.
How about the cattle tick in Bar
r'-'wi. If we have them We should
avail ourselves of the government
quarantine law until we are rid of
them.
Plain Josiah.
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