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THIS COMPLIMENT HAS
BEEN EARNED
Senator Robertson of Virginia recently had some important., things to say about our American railroads.
We have only six per cent of the world’s land area and population, he piotned out, yet we have 30 per cent of its total railway mileage. Our railroads employ 1,500,000 persons paying them more than $5,000,000,000 a year in taxable wages. And the industry has achieved safety standards , which are almost unbelieveably high. On the average over 9,000,000 passenger miles are traveled for each passenger injury.
He also cited the railroads as a prime ekample of the virtue of private enterprise and an outstanding answer to socialist arguments. During World War II, he said, the railroads paid federal taxes averaging over $3,000,000 a day. By contrast, when the government operated the railroads in World War 1 a taxsupported deficit of nearly $2,000,000 a day resulted.
Finally, the Senator said: “I have ridden on some of the railways of Europe and of the Orient where all are under government operation. The equipment of none of then, is comparable to ours and all of them, with the possible exception of the National Railway of Switzerland, operate in the red every year.”
We take A-l railroad service for granted. And the compliment that implies has been thoroughly earned by Qur railroad men.
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