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Atlanta Believes in Municipal
Ownership and Will Have Il
T should be plain enough even to the least
l observant, that Atlanta at heart favors
municipal ownership of the public ntili
ties, and .that the day of consummation of
this ambition can not long be delayed.
Whenever a fair and square plan of action
looking to this end is submitted to the citi
zens of Atlania for approval, The Georgian
has not the slightest doubt that it will bLe
adopted.
We do not believe Atlanta will stand for
anything less than a square deal for those
persons who own and control the present
street car, gas and eleetric institutions. We
are most confident that when the day of
change comes, it will be effected upon en.
tirely honorable and just methods of proce
dure. No person of poise and balance wishes
to see the property of anybody confiscated or
taken over ruthlessly and for a song. What
ever is done, will be done in a business-like
and equitable manner,
At the same time, Atlanta will hardly per
mit a false sense of delicacy or mawkishness
to swerve her from the plain paths of com
mon sense and municipal progress. ‘
ATLANTA EVENTUALLY WILL TAKE
OVER THE STREET CAR SYSTEM AND
THE GAS, LIGHT AND POWER PLANTS,
BECAUSE THAT IS THE BUSINESS
LIKE AND SENSIBLE THING TO DO;
BECAUSE IT WILL MEAN CHEAPER
LIGHT AND POWER TO THE MER
CHANTS, THE MANUFACTURERS, THE
PROFESSIONAL MEN--TO EVERY PER
SON OF EVERY SORT, WHO FOR ANY
_REASON USES ANY OF THESE THINGS.
There likely will be a mighty battle before
the end is reached; private control will not
turn loose so good a thing readily. But final
ly turn loose it WILL, if not because it wants
to, then because it MUST!
Municipal ownership is ne longer to be
pooh-poohed and tut-tutted aside.
It is no longer to be set down as ‘‘the fad
and fancy of cranks and rattle-brains.”” The
very people who so characterize it KNOW
better; if they did NOT, they would not
bother themselves to combat and oppose it
so vehemently and bitterly
Atlanta may not yet have reached the ex
act stage where she is altogether READY to
The Big Victory Loan Drive to
Get Under Way Here on Monday
OR perfectly good and sufficient rea-
F sons Atlanta postponed the inaugu
rating of her Victory Lioan drive until
Monday of next week—April 28, -
Atlanta gives herself over so whole-heart
edly and unreservedly to her annual magnifi
cent grand opera season, that it was thought
wise to get THAT out of our systew before
taking up the loan matter.
For when Atlanta STARTS that drive
why, naturally, Atlanta is going ‘‘over the
top’’ with a whirlwind rush—and a few
days’ delay in putting it across matters lit
tle, if anything.
Atlanta hasn’t fallen down on a war work
drive of any nature whatsoever thus far,
and she is not going to begin with the drive
that is designed to finish the whole series.
Not Atlanta—she isn’t built that way.
The Vietory Loan is starting off splen
didly all over the nation.
The reason is perfeetly plain. When there
is something for sale that eventnally every
body will want, the wise men, the men train
ed in buying, are the first in the market buy
ing to their capacity.
That explains why great blocks of the
bonds are being bought by big banks, by
millionaires, by men who make a study of
investing money.
You know how when a popular play begins
a run in a great city theater the brokers buy
tickets months in advance. They know that
tomorrow or next week you will want to
see that play and will be willing to pay a
bonus, a profit, to them for the privilege.
The bankers know the same thing about
these Victory bonds.
They know that in a few weeks or a few
months you will decide to invest your sav
angs and that then they will be able to sell
%ou at a profit the rock solid promises of
nele Sam which you can buy today as
cheaply as they can. .-
This last loan should be just as much a
popular loan, a people’s loan, as any that
reeded it. It should be even more a popu
r loan because it bears a higher rate of
interest and so gives you a better return.
B have got any money in your pocket
put m into Vietory bonds. po«
-~ If you haven’t any ready money, bnt hav.
& salary, make arrangements at some hank
to buy your bonds a little at a time, so much
‘& week or 50 much a month. H 'will ter.ch
TRUTH, JUSTICE
“America may think herself happy in having the Atlantic for a barrier.” —WASHINGTON, TO THE CHEVALIER DE LA LUZERNE, FEBRUARY 7, 1788,
take the plunge—even though 8o many hun
dreds of cities ean assure her most trathfully
that the water IS fine—but it is ne longer to
be doubted that Atlanta INDORSES the,
theory and is willing to try it out, so soon
as the problem and its solution ean be pre
sented in concrete and finished form.
Naturally, this state of affairs is most grat
ifying to The Georgian. :
THE GEORGIAN STANDS FULLY, SIN
CERELY AND UNCOMPROMISINGLY
COMMITTED TO MUNICIPAL OWNER
SHIP.
It is one of a nation-wide chain of Hearst
newspapers; and these papers have urged
municipal ownership for years, and have
watched its development and suecessful con
snmmation in ecity after city—indeed, these
papers probably have had more to do with
bringing the nation to a clear understanding
of the real merits of municipal ownership
than any other influence—perhaps more than
ALL other influences combined.
In his papers and magazines, officially and
unofficially, Mr. Hearst and his associated
editors have urged municipal ownership and
pleaded for its adoption.
The things that have proven overwhelm
ingly good for other great cities will prove
good for Atlanta.
If San Francisco can make a municipally
owned street car system highly profitable
upon a basis of five-cent fares, Atlanta ALSO
can do it. '
If Jacksonville and Seattle can perform
these municipal acts with suecess, ATLAN
TA can.
Is there any person who will contend that
Atlanta has less pluck, determination, re
sourcefulness AND PLAIN COMMON
SENSE than San Franciseo, Jacksonville
and Seattle?
Assuredly not!
Atlanta already has signified her AP
PROVAL of municipal ownership.
All she awaits NOW is a well-thought-out
method of procedure,
And the man or group of men who get be
hind this and push it to a sueccessful con
clusion—and the sooner the hetter—will be
the m:n Atlanta eventually will eall blessed
and must wise, in their day and time
you to save money, one of the most valaable
lessons you can learn,
Under any conditions buy as many bonds
as you have ready money to pay for, and
then bind yourself to buy as many more ag
you think you ean possibly spare the money
to pay for in the coming year.
It isn’t a charity you are subseribing to.
It's a business proposition of buying for
yourself the best security ever offered at the
lowest {\rioe it will ever be sold to you.
WHY THE METROPOLITAN
STARS LIKE ATLANTA
A gentleman from Chicago, a grand opera
visitor in Atlanta, made this statement
Thursday :
I do not know why it is, but somehow the
Metropolitan aritsts seem to sing better in
Atlanta than anywhere. | have heard them
repeatedly—in New York and in Chicago—but
never have | heard them—Caruso, Martinelli,
Didur, Barrientos, all of them—sing with the
verve and enthsiasm they display in Atlanta.
Here they seem to strive their hardest to
please; here in Atlanta they seem at their best
and happiest.
Perhaps The Georgian can enlighten this
observant gentleman. We think what he
says is true, and we think perhaps this is
why :
( These artists, visitors here year after year,
have hundreds of real, warm, personal
friends and acquaintances ‘in Atlanta and
Georgia. Here their art is appreciated gen
erously, and here they enjoy a form of hos
pitality that is engaging.
It is quite natural for us to hike those who
like us; it is quite natural for us to strive
~ harder to please those who pay us and also
~ hold friendly intercourse with us than those
who merely pay us. Grand opera in New
York is largely a maiter of business; in At
lanta it is much more than that. We donbt
that Caruso, for instance, would eare to come
to Atlanta for the mere purpose of addinz a
few dollars to his yearly incomg; it would
make no appreciable difference to him in the
annual summing up of things financially.
But Caruso dearly loves to make his annual
' visits to Atlanta, where he is greatly appre
ciated as an artist and where he also has
made many warm, personal friends,
And' the same thing may be said of ALL
the Metropolitan visitors.
That, The Georgian believes, is the ‘‘ why '’
the Chicago visitor has found more or less
elusive.
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By Winifred Black.
£ sat together at the little
W table in the corner of the
crowded restaurant, my two
old friends and 1. All of us women
past the wild g v
thrills of youth. J "7
But each still T v, A 4
interested in life ‘ s ffé
and vitally full | L MEWRER
of the joy of liv- } / ;
dng. Thirty years | o '
ago women of | e |
our age were %“ e
called old. To- 563 QJ \flr
day we are just |4 *’
in the very |8 .
prime of life— 9"-(»/ ‘té
that's one of the |'&« CHHEEE. &
reasons it's such "af’(‘ s i
fun to be alive. & % 9 ¥~ ¥
We talked first -'. \v'y. .
about the
weather and
then about the armistice, and then
about the peace conference and
then about the new skirts and how
unbecoming they are to middle-aged
figures. We didn’t approve of low
shoes ahd silk stockings in the dead
of winter,
What a silly looking thing the
average girl was with her little
doll's face and funny affectation
of childishness. How much nicer
we were In our own youth when we
stood up straight and tried to look
athletic and strong and clever, no
matter how dellcate and stupid and
weak we really were,
OUT OF THE PAST.
Oh, we had a lovely time flatter
ing ourselves and making middle
aged fun of the girls, and all the
time we love to look at them with
their bright eyes and we love to
hear them talk in their light, joy
ous voices. What a world it would
be, after all, without the girls and
boys! 1 wouldn't want to live if
every one was middle-aged and el
derly or even just over 26 or 27.
It would be like taking all the dew
off the grass and all the sparkle
- out of the stars and all the shine
- out of the moonlight--and that
would make this a very dull world,
indeed, wouldn't it?
But, anyhow, the name of one we
al knew came somehow into the
conversatign and one of my friends
put down her coffee cup and leaned
across the table,
“Do you know,"” she said to my
other friend, ‘1 believe he loves
you to this day."
My other friend drew a quick
Saturday, April 26, 1919
A Woman’s Heart
NEED HE SAY MORE.?
breath, recovered herself, laughed
and took up her cup of coffee.
“Nonsense!” she =gaid. “He never
did love me at all!”
“My d@ear,” said the first friend,
“I saw a !ood deal of him the sum
mer than you parted. He never
mentioned your name, but he said
once that there were certain hours
in the day that always brought
back to him a walk he had in the
park with a woman he knew—he
could see the sun shining in her
hair, and somehow there was some
thing about the way her feet moved
in and out under her foolish little
skirts that touched him to the
heart.”
The other woman grew very, very
pale.
“Did he say that, really? she
said.
DIFFICULY TO UNDERSTAND,
“Yes,"” said my friend, who was
speaking, “he did, and just the other
day when I met him he spoke again
of you, though he never mentioned
your name. He was speaking of an
actress we had both just seen and
he mentioned the color of her hair
and the way she walked and said
something about the shape of her
feet and the way she used them-—
made him think of a girl he knew
when he was a young man and how
she walked in the park with him
one day at sunset—"
“Hush!"” said the other woman.
“Don’t say any more about it."
We changed the subject, but when
we left the restaurant to go home
my friend looked somehow differ
ent, younger and sadder and yet in
a strange way happier, too. T won
der why-—for the man we spoke of
was her divorced hushand and she
is supposed never to think of him
at all, and 1 happen to know that
in her youth my friend wus cele
brated for her pretty feet and for
the way her hair looked when the
sun shone on it,
She married again and so did the
man she loved when she was very
young, and yet-—
What a strange thing is a wom
an’'s heart and how difficult to un
derstand!
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Shafts of Sunshine
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A local paper prints a picture of
a well-known office holder with the
caption, “Fighting to Save His
Face” We ca.n't.ns why.
\
~ Sharks ate recommended for eat
ing. All the sharks we have met
have been hen.rty‘eu.tern.
F. W. Hohenzollern is said to
have turned Socialist. The Social
ist party has lived down a good
deal. It may survive thjs latest
calamity,
"6 9
It certainly looks suspicious to see
a hairy man laying in a stock of
hair tonie.
a o ek b L
KENNETH M. Goode. |
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EDITOR HEARST'S Magazine.
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MY DEAR Ken.
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IN HEARST'S fer April.
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YOU STARTED a story.
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BY ARTHUR Somers Roche,
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AND IT’S a mystery story.
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AND THERE are crimes commit
ted.
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AND MY wife has read it.
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AND SHE had me read it.
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AND EVER since then.
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SHE KEEPS arguing with me,
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ABOUT WHOEVER it was,
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THAT COMMITTED the crime.
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AND IT’S the second time.
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THAT ARTHUR Somers Roche.
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HAS DISTURBED our household. \
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AND THE last time.
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IT WAS a murder story.
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IN ONE of the maagazines,
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AND WE both read it.
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AND THE installment ended.
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AT A most exciting place,
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AND JUST the moment.
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THEY WERE going to catch the
murderer.
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AND I" was so sore,
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| COULD have eaten the magazine,
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AND MY wife and 1.
hen
WE TRIED to figure it out.
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AND WE couldn't agree,
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AND | went downstairs.
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TO THE telegraph office.
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IN THE hotel lobby.
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AND WROTE out a telegram.
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TO ARTHUR Somers Roche.
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AT TrlE Majestic Hotel. .
PUBLIC SERYICE
IN NEW York City.
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AND SAID: -
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“CAN'T WAIT until next month.
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“MUST KNOW at once.
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“WHO MURDERED the judge.”
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AND ARTHUR wired back:
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“FIGURE IT out for yourself.
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“THAT’S WHAT 1 had to do.”
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AND TWO weeks later.”
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| SAW him in New York.
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AND THEN he told me.
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THAT HE wrote the whole story.
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EXCEPT THE last chapter.
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WITHOUT HAVING any idea.
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WHO COMMITTED the murder.
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AND IT nearly drove him crazy,
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TRYING TO figure it out.
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IN TIME for publication.
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AND I'M writing you now.
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JUST TO give you warning,
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ABOUT THE way Arthur works.
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AND | know him very well,
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AND HE'S careless with his auto,
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AND IF I were you. <
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I'D MAKE him tell me right away.
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THE NAME of the criminal.
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IN THE story you're reading.
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BECAUSE IF you don't.
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SOMETHING MIGHT happen.
$ 89
AND NOBODY'D ever know. ™
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AND IF you can find out,
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I WISH you'd silp it to me.
"o
BECAUSE | have a chance,
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TO MAKE a bet with my wife.
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YOU'D THINK she wrote the story.
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THE WAY she talks.
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-l THANK you.
Today
Here's a Plan—
Read It. It’s Yours.
For Railroads and Men——
Capital and Government,
=—==By Arthur Brisbane.
IRST, a word about the Vie-
F tory Loan and the opportu
nity to be offered on Mon
day.
(What happens once happens
again; you know that. Four per
cent Government bonds before the
war sold above 130. These 4 3-4 per
cent Victory bonds are 20 per cent
better than a 4 per cent bond.)
Read about a matter that in
volves the welfare of every Ameri
can, fair treatment for those that
work, justice for those that own
railroad securities, SAFETY for all
owners of property that dread the
agitation, unrest, uncertainty de
scribed in the vague word Bolshe
vism. . ’
There is a plan to solve the
problem of railroad ownership and
management with economy, efficien
cy and justice for all concerned.
This plan comes, as it should, from
those that do the work. It has the
approval also of many directing
minds that have built up American
railroads.
The plan is submitted by Glenn
E. Plumb, attorney for 500,000 rail
road workers—the Order of Rail
road Conductors, the Brotherhood l
of Locomotive Engineers, the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and Enginemen and the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen.
The people, under this plan, will
own and manage the railroads, tak<
ing them fairly by purchase, recog
nizing property rights, bearing in
mind that railroad granchlses are
gifts of the people, and that, as the
Supreme Court of the United States
said, Smythe vs. Ames:
“A railroad is a public highway
and none the less so because con
structed and maintained through
the agency of a corporation deriv
ing its existence and power from
the State. Such a corperation was’
created for public purpeses; it per
forms a function of the State.”
The price to be paid to the pri
vate ewners will be fair, also the
interest on securities to be given to
present owners.
First, from railroad receipts, after
paying wages, will come money to
pay interest on Government securi
ties held by private owners.
Second will come profits divided |
between Government and all the
workers, from the track walker to |
the head of the railroad.
Sharing in the profits, the rail
road workmen will not be a mere
“hand” driven only by fear of los- |
ing his job. He will be a workman |
and a business man, interested in |
the profits of the concern to which |
he gives his strength and intelli- i
gence. It will be to his interest to !
give faithful service and to see that |
his fellow workers give faithful |
service, good work for good pay. |
You may ask: “Are security *
holders to have forever a mortgage |
on the railroads of the United |
States?"
NO. After paving to private own- ‘
ers their gnaranteed interest, the |
Government will set aside one-half '
of 1 per cent as a sinkine fund, and
this money, automatically bearing ,
compound interest, used to buy in |
the guaranteed securities, will pay [
for the entire railroad system in |
FIFTY YEARS. }
Men controlling the railroads win |
be appointed, one-third by the Pres- |
ident of the United States, one- |
third by the intelligent railroad |
men chosen as managers of' the |
great national system, one-third by |
the two milliens of workers em- |
ploved in the public service. !
Would not the tendency be to |
raise wages constantly if two- |
thirds of the power were in the |
hands of railroad workmen and [
railrond managers, all on the na
tional pay roll?
No. The profit sharing between
the workers and the railroad MAN.
AGFERS is so arranged that the di
recting managers would get more
money bv inereasing profits than
they would by increasing wages,
Extensions of the railroad sys
tem ‘will not he made on the old
bhasis, by issuing bhonds for what
the railroad costs, giving away
stock on which the public must
pay dividends,
This would be no hardship on
farm owners. They would wel
come it. Build a raflroad, tax the |
land for five miles on each side
25 cents an acre each year for
twenty yvears, and you will pay the
cost per mile of any rallroad built
in the United States.
Thus, to build a railroad tn new
territory would cost only $5 per |
acre for the land benefited, the pay
ment of the $5 to bhe spread over
twenty vears. No man owning land
far from a railroad wounld refuse
that payment, if it would bring a
railroad to him, »
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The plan her outlined will be ap
sproved by owners of railroad secu
rities who value SECTURITY rather |
than the gambler’s chance. [
The railroad manager who treats |
a rai®oad like a ronlette wheel, and |
a CROOKED roulette wheel, gelling |
it short, gutting i, then buying it |
low and building it up, that gam
bler will not approve this plan. But
gamblers will not control the rail
road poliey of the United States. |
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The plan has been forwarded to |
the President, from a source that
will cause him to give it carefyl
attention, and, with his usual thor- |
oughness, KNOW the plen when he |
returns to this country, '
This plan s good for the work- |
er, good for the public, best of al' ‘
for the man who 1s well to do. ana |
whom recent events iln Rurope i
have caused to worry ahout all |
gecurities, I