A DISCUSSION OF CURRENT RAILWAY ISSUES VOLUME LXXXVI The Annals NOVEMBER, 1919 EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING EDITORIAL COUNCIL: THOMAS CONWAY, JR., A. A. GIESIECKE, A. R. HATTON, AMOS 8. Editor in Charge of this Volume: T. W. VAN METRE Assistant Professor of Transportation, School of Business, Columbia University Econ 3091.16 PE 34-5.3 Dec 16, 1919 TRANSFERRED TO HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Copyright, 1919, by THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE All rights reserved EUROPEAN AGENTS ENGLAND: P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 2 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London S. W. GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W. ITALY: Giornale Degli Economisti, via Monte Savello, Palazzo Orsini, Rome. CONTENTS inneh PAGE M. Thelen, Director of Public Service, United States Railroad Administra- ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMIN- ABOLITION OF THE OFF-LINE OFFICES.... C. A. Swope, Secretary of the Traffic Club of New York. THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT OPERATION AND OWNERSHIP.... 67 W. L. Stonex, Philadelphia, Pa. PART II-CURRENT PROPOSALS FOR REGULATION THE ELEMENTS OF A SATISFACTORY RAILWAY POLICY...... N. L. Amster, President, Citizen's National Railroads League, Boston, Mass. Charles Reitell, Ph.D., School of Economics, University of Pittsburg. Discussion by H. M. Beardsley, Elmira, N. Y. PART IV-RAILWAY EFFICIENCY AND LABOR In planning this volume of The Annals the editors have kept in mind the inclusive discussions that have heretofore been published in the columns of The Annals. The emphasis in this volume, therefore, has been placed upon the current issues as to railway regulation and the participation of labor in the management of the railroads. A number of contributors failed during the last week to present their articles, hence certain of the discussions are not as balanced in presentation as had been planned by the editors. However, the articles already printed by the Academy together with those published in this issue will present an inclusive and well-rounded discussion of the railway problem. For the guidance of our readers we give below the articles that have appeared in preceding issues of The Annals dealing solely with phases of the railroad problem and the names of the contributors of those articles. Other articles referring to the railroad problem can be THE EDITOR The Accounting System Prescribed for the Railroads by the Interstate Com- Railroad Commission of California, S. E. Moffett, Vol. VI: 469-77, November, The Interest of Labor in the Economics of Railroad Consolidation, W. H. Disability and Death Compensation for Railroad Employees, Daniel L. Cease, Federal Valuation of the Railroads in the United States, Thomas W. Hulme, The Present Supply of Freight Cars, Arthur Hale, Vol. XXXIV: 592–600, Southern Railroads and Industrial Development, W. W. Finley, Vol. XXXV: The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Railroads, S. O. Dunn, Vol. How the States Make Interstate Rates, Robert Mather, Vol. XXXII: 102–20, |