CONSERVATION OF RAILWAY SERVICE
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:—
“Old Mother Hubbard,
Went to the cupboard,
To get her poor dog a bone.
But when she got there.
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog got none.”
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.
