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Trains run on schedule time, carrying freight and passengers over two hundred and fifty thousand miles of traffic lines with marvellous safety and dispatch, responsible to shipper and passenger for wanton damage, and are at the command of all alike. Absolutely indispensable to commerce and industry, they have now admittedly reached the highest peak of effi ciency. But they do not pay a reasonable rate of interest on the investment. What is the matter with the railroads? In themselves, not much of anything! They are operated by the highest skill and talent in the country. They have learned their les son through costly experience, careful experiment, consistent analysis of the fundamental elements of success, breasting stock speculation and recovering from war control, and are today the finest examples we have of private corporate man agement. If they cannot be made to pay there is a cause outside their administrative conduct, and that cause lies more largely in the Government of the United States and in the attitude of the American people than in themselves. Let us consider the attitude of the people first. The old antagonism has passed away. But it has not yet been suc ceeded by that pride in and solicitude for the roads that a great industry of this kind demands. Yet patronage is the life of trade. And we may as well put it flatly: A shipper who, after years of accommodation and service, turns a part of his business to some fly-by-night trucking company in order to encourage a "local" industry, is not treating an old friend right, and is encouraging a concern of little moment in the mass of transportation, that pays little taxes and may or may not be responsible for damages. This is not bestow ing patronage where deserved, and only serves to help break down the whole interlocking structure of the roads. Putting by all historical criticism, failures and fault-finding, a good motto for the shipper who looks at transportation in its larger aspect would be: Stand by the railroads, for they stood by you! These roads are indispensable. Why not con cede their importance and give them full patronage? We are not saying some of the short haul business is not per missible in the behalf of progress, but seeking to encourage the breaking down of a huge national industry is poor policy, be it by a shipper large or small. In the midst of a thousand fads, reforms, theories of standardization and betterment, all industry and all commerce is recreant to its highest principle when it forgets the "live and let live" which is exemplified in a rational mutual patronage. The railroad- today are pay ing tremendous sums in taxes to the several States on fixed properties, they builded themselves, that are not furnished free highways to run upon, and what they do not pay is largely paid by private citizens and corporations. And this brings us to the part played by Government. To foster the creation of new transportation methods by dis pensing huge sums of the people's tax-money in the building of hard-surface transcontinental highways to be used indis criminately for short hauls, and long as well, is not good busi ness if it ends in destroying one public utility privately owned and already in efficient operation without furnishing an ade quate substitute. And even then there would be the ques tion of the expense and waste of scrapping one for another no better and only partially available. But lest we be accused of discussing impractical features, let us turn to some specific facts. The railroads of this country need more freedom from the interference of Government. They alone, in the mutu ality of their intertwining interests and in the levelling pro cesses of necessaiy joint conduct, are capable of establishing an equalization of rates over a territory as large as the United States. No commission sitting high and dry in some chamber at Washington is competent for the job. If consolidations are to become a part of the process, then let them go on ac cording to plans worked out by those who own and run the roads and not by permission of a Government Commission on the outside. It cannot be shown that control can be had save by ownership—and nobody wants Government ownership of the railroads outside of a few quasi-political theorists. Of course the people own the railroads—own them in two ways; by an ever-increasing ownership of stock and by the common potential ownership of a public utility. A thrust at the railroads is a thrust at the people. Now at the height of efficiency is the time to show appreciation. What, it may be asked, of the effect of internal improvements, the water ways? The railroads should be allowed to establish barge lines on the rivers, in connection with their own operation, after the Government has completed the work, and also in connection with transport on lakes v gulfs, bays and oceans. But the most serious considerations are these: Is it good business policy, so far as a legitimate let-alone Government is concerned, to refuse to release an already huge, established industry, to act in its own defense while it coddles the forma tion of small gnawing companies engaged in freight and pas senger hauling by furnishing them free hard-paved highways to run upon? Do not mistake, the highways may be built, and at Government expense—but the railroads will be able to meet all competition if given the chance, if freed from restrictive laws. When the railroads can no longer earn a reasonable return to pay dividends and taxes, what will take their place in support of the Government? When the American people read as they will that the first-class roads in 1927 failed to earn the percentage they are allowed by law—that, in fact, they, earned only 4Uj % on their investment —and, when they realize, as it is probable they soon will, that 1928 is not guaranteed to suvpass its predecessor, is it not fair to believe they will think deeply on the condition of public servants that need their support both in patronage and appreciative con cern ? Railroads on the down-grade in earnings spell depres sion. Increased, or equalized rates and lowered wages, what would these do? PARAMOUNT PERSONALITIES Trixie Friganza, famous stage comedianne now appearing in Para mount's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" has had one previous appearance in a picture from the same studio. It was as Pola Negri's mother in "The Charmer." Anne Nichols, the author of the j famous stage success, "Abie's Irish; Rose," will title the film which i THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, MARCH I, I*2B Paramount is making: from her story. Ford Sterling has returned to the Paramount studio after several days in a hospital, the result of a furnace explosion at home. He will not work for several weeks. Henrietta Cohn, Paramount's girl | executive, will be the company busi-1 ness manager for Esther Ralston's starring picture. She has served in the same capacity in recent Ralston and Clara Bow Productions. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF UNO Under and by virtue of the pow er of sale contained in that certain deed of trust dated December 10, 1925, made and executed by Jane Ford, to R. R. Blanton, trustee, and appearing of record in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford county, in Book A-2, on page 91, de fault having been made in the pay ment of the indebtedness secured therby, and the holders of the same having - requested the trustee named therin to sell the said property in accordance with the provisions of the said deed of trust, the under signed will offer for sale to the highest bider for cash at the court house door in Rutherfordton, N. C., on ! SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928 !at about the hour of 12 o'clock M., .the following described real estate: Lying and being in Cool Springs i Township, Rutherford County, North . Carolina, and more particularly de scribed and defined as follows: | Adjoining the lands of Tom Good, jP. G. Womic and Crockett Butler, Jeff Smith and Bill Doggett. 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HUNTLEY & WILKINS West Main Street Forest City, - North Carolina | thence with it North 37 East 5.51 ; chains to Jeff Smith's old corner; ; thence North 71 West 7:50 chains Ii to stake Jeff and Richard Smith's 'coiner; thence North 57 1-4 West ! 12.12 chains to st3ne on North bank ■of branch; thence South 67 West j .'5.47 chaos to small pin; thence j South 80 West 8.48 chains to stone !at edge ot bottom; thence South 36 J 1-2 West 3.25 chains to a W. O. jbush; thence North 89 1-4 West 2.35 j chains to stone Wm. Doggett corner; J thence with his line South 33 West 111.39 chains to beginning, contain ing 44 1-4 acres more or less, much more or much less. Reference to bound ami distances and numbf of acres. I This the 7th day of February, 1928 R. R. BLANTON, Trustee. I Ridings & Jones, Attys. 18-4t I \ " ! j Forest City Lodge, No. 1689, Loyal Order of Moose. i Meets every Tuesday night, : Pythian Hall. Visiting brothers i welcomed. i ___ i M. L. Edwards Stover P. Dunnagan EDWARDS & DUNNAGAN LAWYERS Rutherfordton, N. C. General Practice in State and Federal Courts. I i DR. C. S. McCALL Dentist 313 National Bank Building , New X-ftay Lady Assistant DR. FRANK WILKINS I DENTIST National Bank Bldg., FOREST CITY, N. C. ! i Dr. RALPH R. HOWES Dentist Telephone 158 New Poole Building CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends for their jrreat kindness and sympathv during: the illness and death of my dear husband, also for the beauti ful flowers. MRS. LULA GARREN. I his is called the richest country in the world, but you would never know it when passing around a sub scription paper for some £ood com munity cause. f 'Pains Caus 2JyS §lf you're suf fering the ex cruciating pains caused by Rheu matism, don't » Take A DR. MILES' Anti-Pfcin Mis They relieve the pain quickly and without dis agreeable after effects. 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