A SUGGESTION
Weaver, A. C.
A Suggestion Limited Government Ownership By A. C. WEAVER Eassano, Alberta, Canaca FORTY short days is the time allotted in the joint resolution passed in the recent session of Congress, for the...
...Its slogan is "standards and not rules...
...The cost of construction and equipment to be covered by an Issue of government bonds...
...4) A practical method of securing Government ownership, whether by purchase or condemnation of properties, or by purchase or condemnation of bond or stock issues, or otherwise...
...The women who have sponsored it say that it is bad enough for a girl to earn a low wage without being further punished by a lodging-house life bristling with rigid regulations...
...What think you, Mr...
...When the public faces, as it must eventually, the problem of control or ownership of railways, the main obstacle to progress will be found in legal barriers such as differences of opinion in regard to valuation, what it shall include, the amount of mileage to be involved, the particular roads to be affected, etc., etc., and the result must naturally involve litigation covering a number of years during which changes of administration are quite likely to occur...
...A Suggestion Limited Government Ownership By A. C. WEAVER Eassano, Alberta, Canaca FORTY short days is the time allotted in the joint resolution passed in the recent session of Congress, for the consideration of the following problems: (1) The practical results of Government ownership both as to efficiency and economy where actually practiced...
...This would require about 25,000 miles of roadway...
...3) Whether a system of Governmental ownership will suit local needs...
...A New Kind of Home A"SOCIALIZED apartment house" is the latest thing in working girls' homes in New York City...
...If such operation proved impractical, the system could be leased to a private corporation with such restrictions as the government might impose, and rates easily adjusted to bring a reasonable return on the actual capital invested...
...Thus not one cent need be taken from the United States Treasury or by way of extra taxation...
...For instance, data concerning the railway wage question, valuation of railways, classification of rates, etc...
...Honest operation of 25,000 miles of railway would place the public in a position to determine whether or not it desired an enlargement or a continuation of the policy...
...It is quite evident that an exhaustive or even a searching investigation affecting $20,000,000,000 of stocks and bonds, could not be had within the time mentioned...
...Being limited in effect, though directly affecting every state in tho Union, its popularity as a compromise or middle ground would seem to be conceded...
...In order to avoid delay and at the same time escape legal entanglements, the following plan is suggested: The construction, equipment and operation by the government of two trunk railways, one in the North ana the other in the South, reaching from ocean to ocean, with branch lines extending into every state in the Union...
...If operated honestly and efficiently, the result would be invaluable in its assistance to the Interstate Railway Commission in determining the many problems now confronting it...
...Countless injunctions will be issued, and every obstacle used to defeat accomplishment of the purpose intended...
...It would, through actual, honest competition, go a long way in automatic regulation of all other railways...
...The great advantage in this particular plan would, more or less, directly affect the transportation rate of every railway within the United States...
...This plan could not be successfully attacked in the courts as in the event of condemnation proceedings, for the basic right of the government to construct its own railways and operate the same, cannot be successfully contradicted...
...Here we have another evidence of the evidence of the tendency everywhere apparent to treat members of the feminine sex less like children and more like grownups...
...Voter...
...2) Whether Government ownership is compatible with our system of government, and what its effect will be on our Governmental institutions...
...This plan would seem the easiest of accomplishment and the safest possible investment...
...Since it is a limited experiment it should have little opposition...
Vol. 8 • December 1916 • No. 12
