. Review of reviews and world's work . wners of the roads, the al-legiance of officers and subordinates is likelyto be divided between the expiring Govern-ment control and the approaching privatecontrol. Mr. McAdoo finds a further difficulty inthe financial situation. Annual permanentimprovements are, in his opinion, impera-tive for the maintenance of a national trans-portation system commensurate with thecountrys growing needs. Up to the sign-ing of the armistice about $600,000,000 hadbeen spent in improvements during the year1918. The authority for these expenditureswas the necessity of war,
. Review of reviews and world's work . wners of the roads, the al-legiance of officers and subordinates is likelyto be divided between the expiring Govern-ment control and the approaching privatecontrol. Mr. McAdoo finds a further difficulty inthe financial situation. Annual permanentimprovements are, in his opinion, impera-tive for the maintenance of a national trans-portation system commensurate with thecountrys growing needs. Up to the sign-ing of the armistice about $600,000,000 hadbeen spent in improvements during the year1918. The authority for these expenditureswas the necessity of war, as recognizedin the law. When hostilities ended thisnecessity could no longer be urged. A com-prehensive plan for the improvement of therailroad system as a whole must be developedand adopted, but twenty-one months wouldbe too short a time in which to make andapply such a plan, even wnth the full co-operation of the corporations owning theroads. If the railroad corporations, thinking thatthe end of Federal control is in sight, prefer. he cant let go! From the World (New York) to wait, and make their own capital invest-ments, Mr. McAdoo feels that the organiza-tions will be more or less demoralized, as-suming that the properties are kept by theGovernment for the twenty-one months own plan of extension of Federal con-trol contemplates a yearly expenditure fornecessary improvements of not less than$500,000,000, or $2,500,000,000 for the five-year period. Already the Government has accumulatedmuch instructive experience concerning themanagement of railroads, and this experienceshould not be thrown away. Sooner or laterthe American people will have*to decide be-tween Government and private this problem is economic rather thanpolitical in its character, Mr. McAdoomaintains that the decision should be basedupon the acceptance of an adequate test, andwe are now provided with an opportunityfor making such a test. He says: If the period of Federal control is ext
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