And all this and similar squander
which has come down from the Gov
ernment operation experiment must
be taxed out of the hard working,
uormally paid American public. It
was being taxed during 1920 more
than six billions of dollars a year in
direct transportation bills. Before |
Government operation ceased it was j
being taxed, in addition to the direct
transportation bills, many hundreds I
of millions of dollars in Government
funds paid out of the United States
Treasury to make up the guaranteed
rental to the railroads under Govern
ment operation.
Billions on billions of dollars into
the pay envelopes of railroad work
ers, many of them doing scarcely
anything to earn their fabulous pay.
straight out of the pockets of the
general public working so hard to
get its Income and striving so hard,
after earning and getting it, to make
both ends meet.
If the Gomperses who demanded
and the officials who granted the
pillage of the earnings and the sav-1
ings of the American public for such
squander do not know what is the;
matter with this country, the Amerl-!
can people do. They are now on the
Job of correcting It all along i o line
and nobody can stop them.
Farmingdale's Memorial Oak.
The custom of planting a memorial
tree in soil brought from a distant
spot, intimately associated with the
object to be commemorated is of groat
antiquity, Just as the symbolical
pouring of water from Lake Erie into
the Atlantic Ocean by Db Witt Cliw
toh to mark the completion of the
''"to Canal was an adaptation of a
practice whose beginnings go back
ir beyond the beginning of history.
