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Rh It is idle to blame the present owners and managers of the properties for errors of the past; the present and the future are the important points to consider.

The old nursery rhyme reads:—

Uncle Sam should study his transportation machine and understand it better, and take steps to conserve it. If he does not he may find that in an effort to have cheap transportation he has not enough transportation, that his “cupboard is bare,” and that it will take him a very long time and a vast amount of money to get it well equipped again.