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THE RAILROADS SHOW A GAIN.
For the first time in many months government op
eration of the railroads in July showed a surplus in
stead of a deficit. ,
Director General Hines .announced that figures
of the month’s business indicated net operating income
of 77 million dollars. After allowing one-twelfth of
the annual rental due the railroad companies the net
gain is about 2 million dollars, as compared with a de
ficit of $22,031,000 the preceding month and 65 million
dollars in February, the largest deficit df the year. The
net loss to the government for seven months is $290,-
£26,307.
In calculating the surplus, however, no account
was taken of the wage increase offered the shopmen
and which has not been accepted by them. It has
been estimated that the 4 cents an hour advance would
amount to about 45 million a year, and as it is retroac
tive, the surplus for July may become a deficit of ap
proximately .the same amount. - -
Mr. Hines pointed out that the falling off in
freight business continued to be a big factor in the
railroad administration’s finances, although business has
grown steadily since February. As compared with
July', 1918, the decrease in operating income was about
44 per cent. Ton miles per mile of road per day in
July of this year, 5,487. The freight traffic was about
25 per cent larger than the average of July of the
three year test period, on which the returns to the
roads are computed, but expenses likewise were great
er, the increase amounting to 175 million dollars, or
about 95 per cent, much of it in wages. Passenger
triffic also showed a substantial increase.
In connection with railroad figures, among the
interesting disclosures in the recent report to the Sen
ate on railroad passes by Director General of Rail
roads Hines was that McAdoo, who announced when
he took over the railroads that he intended to reduce
materially the number of passes, not only had a pass
himself but that three members of his family also had
them. He still retains-a Pullman pass and so do the
members of his family. Mr. McAdoo was described in
that report as explaining that he has a pass as “special
• counsel for the state of New York.”
Inquiry into th'e number of passes was made by
Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, after he
noticed a traveling companion the other day with a
rass good over all railroads.
Mr. Newberry found it numbered higher than
10,000, so on his return to Washington he put in a
resolution, which the Senate adopted, calling for the
number of passes granted to officials and their families.
1 he figures do not include passes to workers other than
officials and do not include trip passes.
There were 1,590 wives, daughters, sons, other
] datives and near relatives of railroad officials with
annual railroad passes traveling on all lines during the
last year of government operation of the roads. And
there were 1,096 wives, daughters, sons, other relatives
and near relatives of these officials who enjoyed the
privilege of all-line annual Pullman passes.
THE DARKER SIDE.
Nine soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force
were hanged and one was shot for criminal offenses
duiing the war, it was revealed at the investigation
of A. E. K courts-martial by the congressional com
mittee inquiring into war expenditures.
Two of the hangings were for murder and seven
were hanged for rape, of whom six were negroes. One
was shot for desertion.
Murder trials totaled 110, resulting in sixty-two
convictions. One-fifth of all the general courts-mar
tial were officers and the remainder enlisted men and
welfare workers. Most of the officers were charged with
diunkenness and disorderly conduct. Convictions re
sulted in (i i per cent of officers’ cases which went
to trial. Seventy-seven per cent of the men tried by
general courts-martial were found guilty.
Only one conscientious objector was tried m the
A. E. F.
The investigation failed to establish that officers
had received more lenient treatment than enlisted mme
in the A. E. F. courts-martial.
Not such a bad record, when remember we had
2,000,000 men in France. The percentage of wrong
doers was extremely small.
i f/ Wait Mason ,
RELIEF COMING.
jgE patient yet a little while, and winter will re
turn ; the blasts will come in arctic style, the blasts
for which you yearn. A little more of ardent heat,
that heat which is a crime, and we may all exult in
sleet, and have the hangedest times. What though
all night we toss and roll, and slumber doc-s '
come? ’Twill soon be time to shovel coal, and make
the furnace hum; then life will be one round of bliss
without a carking care; remember it, on days like
this, and cease to sigh and swear. Be patient, for
it’s always wise to bravely stand the gaff; so boil
the germs and swat the flies, and at hot weather
laugh. The geese will soon be flying past, to dodge
the polar storms, and, following, the eager blast will
cool our fevered forms. And all our cares will dis
appear when winter brings its snows, and we have
frostbite in the ear, and chillblains in the toes. How
merrily we’ll pay for coa] (hat costs twelve bucks a
ton, the precious knowledge in our soul, that summer
days are done!
NATIONAL SONG HOUR.
Representatives of the National Council of Wom
en will meet in St. Louis on November for their bi
ennial convention and will celebrate the first anni
versary of the signing of the armistice by starting a
national song hour from that city. Birth to this idea
was given by Mrs. David Campbell of New York,
chairman of the community music department of the
council. The National Council of Women embraces
thirty-one national organizations, representing 9,000,-
000 American women who have united in this pur
pose. It is the hope of the council that community
singing of national patriotic songs will take place in
every city and hamlet in the land on November 11
at 11 o’clock.
“Let us gird the nation with song and face the
reconstructive problems confronting us with renewed
laith and purpose, says Mrs. Campbell in her appeal
to the American people to join in the celebrations.
Jhe city of St. Louis will start a song hour on the
first anniversary of the signing of the armistice such
as the world has perhaps never heard before. Al
though the celebrations are only just being planned
we hope to have hundreds of cities join this mighty
chorus and swell it to such grandeur that the soul and
voice of America will be heard throughout the world.
“The songs selected for this first great national
assembly sing will be thrown on the screens of moving
picture houses and elsewhere through the co-operation
of the film companies so as to enable their audiences to
to join in the singing. It is planned to sing soul stir
ring and uplifting songs of a kind that will dispel gloom
and radiate cheerfulness.”
The organizations embodied in the National Coun
cil of Women are the National Women’s Suffr
sociation, Wom’en’s Christian Temperance Union,
Young Women’s Christian Association, National Fed
eration of Music Clubs, Internation Child Welfare
League, Women’s Deaprtment, National Civic Associa
tion, and twenty-three others.
| What Other Editors Say
HARD LUCK FOR AN OLD FRIEND.
Hard lines for th'e rich. Hard times for the male
factors of great wealth. Hard days, also, for our old
friend and schoolmate, Rose Pastor Stokes.
Mrs. Stokes has been barred from membership in
the Communist party. The Communist party, be it
known, is the bolting contingent of the Socialist party.
It is composed of that class of modern statesmen who
believe that a Great Revolution is coming and who want
to help it along, peacefully, of course, with such little
encouragement as can be given a revolution by hand !
grenades and bombs and other forms of the wooden
shoe and the black cat. The socialists were all right
in their day, but this not a day for mere radicals. It
is the day for revolutionists.
So, the Communists are working away in a na
tional convention preparing for the coming of the
Great Revolution, with the agents of the government’s
secret service looking on through the keyhole and the
skylight. And
Just imagine Rose Pastor Stokes being barred from
membership in a brotherly love of that kind!
Lut Mrs. Stokes was barred. She protested
against it, but the Advanced Brothers decided against
hei. She was classed with those epemies of the New
Order who are listed as “receiving rent, interest or
profit. 1 ’ We do not know which particular class Mrs.
Stokes belongs to, whether she receives, rent, interest or
profit, but, anyway, she does not belong to the prole
tariat. She has persisted, however, in sticking to her
meal ticket. Hard lines for those who cling to the meal
ticket. They are sure to fall in the day of the Great
Revolution.—Kansas City Star.
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