The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 2, 1921, Page 11

Q — Four Billions——What Became of Them? (Continued from page 7) to turn over their own work to these companies. : The railroads themselves, in a peti- tion to the interstate commerce com- commission in 1919 reported salaries of railway officers and directors, many of whom received more salary than the president of the United States and dozens of whom got from $50,000 up- wards. WHAT ABOUT OTHER .BIG EXTRAVAGANCES? Since 1919 there has been no report by the interstate commerce commis- only on a final accounting and the rail- roads refused to make this accounting. So the railroads went over the head of the secretary of the treasury to con- gress and in spite of their ®continued Saves You $2 By ordering di- rect from this adver- txsemen% yotu lsave all ex- se of catalogs, postage, mers and time. And we give you the benefit of this savin%lf ycu send the coupon now. Fur- ¢ thermore, isn’t it better to have one of these big money-making machines to use instead of acatalog to read? Wouldn’t you like to com- paré the New Butterfly with other Seé:a- rators in your neighborhood regardless of price? Wouldn’t you like to see just how much more cream you would save if economy installed under government control has been abandoned. Joint routings, - which save millions of car miles each month, have been given up. Instead of using one consolidated ticket office, which not only saved money but was a’great convenience to the costat all. You will have the Separator to use on your farm and ycur mon- €y in your pocket. If at the end of 30 days’ trial, you are not pleased just send the machine back at our expense. We will pay the freight both ways, a single penny. helps to supply the reason why prace tically all the papers are against gov- ernment control and for higher rates for the railroads. The railroads are before congress again asking more money. But the facts about what became of the $4,~ ‘ O | 1 5 the public, separate offices have been 000,000,000 are beginning to come to . mission, stated that their annual ex- :fii‘usal‘)tt:hemrilgrelea final accounting 1enteq by each railroad in every large light. We do not know yet what be- penses for locomotive repairs for the —hey & 2l © - city. Expensive advertising with daily came of the whole four billion, but we entire country have in the past been Since the r?.xlroads have been re- newspapers, interrupted under govern- know enough to make us want to learn I‘fll;:)(illr$t5£0,000,000 to 5601(_),0‘-’0;300- ; }ff » turned to private ownership every ment control, has been resumed, which the rest. er the new system of sendin is . work out to the private equigment = : ADVERTISEMENTS companies, this cost were doubled it - e e - ey ; 3 - R S : 3 B"oooulgo 'gggg 030’(1) (l)l(])((:)reglsl(; :t; ii%%&‘)(:;; '||u|||mmulumununun"”muun T T RO 5 SR e T ‘- B the examples cited above the average " |I A Ilhh‘ o5 ; T 8 ¥ $ ’ price has been from three to four NGRS ; 7 Yo tigye times as much, so the increased ex- i Sy penditures on locomotives alone are " ! : S A likely ~-to run over the billion-dollar I / T ISR o Fak : mark at this rate. ) 7 .on a E 4 U R £ : . But this is only one item of the ex- ] \ g & o penditures of the railroads. Recently | / Fa mous 3 : contracts were awarded by the rail- |, RIS : R OET 2 __ roads for 50,000 freight cars. Again e — - T . the contracts were awarded to private v = P equipment companies at a cost of more Ay | 4 than $600 per car more than the same B ut vo" Mus' Act No w’ ©) cars had been costing when manu- We will accePt the coupon below the same factured in the railroad shops. This AL as cash for full payment of $2 on any 1921 model New item on these freight cars alone would than Bufi?;gfl{f{:gg:figga‘}fi%{u 01333,.5 csfl:;%ft:fi?" _ add about $30,000,000 to what the peo- f,ggjosouot_ .g'mg us which size m:ig:hipetyou want (see list "¢ ple.must pay for the cost of the up- | terfly Cream W o We Ll ship Hioryqut by ddere / keep of ‘the roads. fv:,'::';‘,'."!’)':e_ or yourself just how much a New Butter- A In addition to the money that has "fi’::.‘.“&‘%::‘%fi:‘e‘f “fi:&‘.’:"&“‘éfié‘m‘fle & ‘ T m e cite e increases. in ow the they are due. e i Ieite comaens | || COUPON By ey o ot seel You don’t risk you owned a Separator?r We believe you would, so we send you a machine from our fac- tory totry 30 days. Then if you decide you want tokeepit the coupon counts the same as a §2 pafv- ment. You take that much right off from our fac- tory price on any size Separator: you select. For sion as to the amount of the salaries of railroad officers and directors, but it is known that many of these salaries have been doubled and trebled. In his analysis of the railroad question Sena- tor La Follette said in congress: “Does not every senator on this floor know that to escape the payment of . taxes under the excess profits tax the corporations of this country very gen- erally multiply their salaries in order to escape as large a portion of their taxes as possible? Everybody knows that. There is hardly a meeting of the finance committee of the senate where it is not a matter of comment. There is not a treasury official who appears before us who has not appeared to ad- mit it.” : At this point Senator Simmons in- terrupted Senator La Follette to ask: - “Has the senator compared the high salaries he is now speaking of being paid by the railroads now and the salaries paid by the railroads before the war?” Senator La Follette replied that he had not been able to get from any - source this information. Neither has any one else been able to get the in- formation. The fact that the railway companies are guarding it so careful- ly points to the possibility of enor- mous graft in this line. The matter of increased salaries to officers is not the only matter that the railroads are guarding closely. Twice they appeared before the last congress asking money and on neither occasion were .they willing to make a detailed _statement of their financial condition. On one occasion they get $275,000,000 and on the last occasion $354,000,000. These sums were claimed as due for their losses during the six months’ guaranty period. 'The secretary of the treasury had refused to pay the money to the railroads because it was- due example, if you choose a $44 machine you have only $42lefttopay in 12 easy payments of only $3.50a month, If you select the $66 machine you will have only $54 left to pay in 12 easy paymentsof only $4.50 amonth—and soon. The Coupon Makes First Payment eparator ltself Pays the Rest You get the benefit of the great saving in time and- work while the Separator is paying for itself. After that the profit i the best Separators made—a steady profit producer the year 'round—a machine guaranteed a lifetime against all defects in material and workmanship, and you won’t feel the cost at all.® If you decide to keep the Separator we send you, you, can pay by the month, or you can pay in full at any time and get a dis- The coupon will count as $2 just the same. The impor- the couwponl; whethh_ex;ggut hwant té) bug §)r cash or on the easy payment plan. e have ship ousands of New Butterfly Cream Sor al:'ams direct from our factory to other farmers in your And the is all yours, and you own one of count for cash. 3 tant thing to do now is to send State on this liberal plan. You take no risk what- Lifetime Guarantee against, defects in material and work- manship. 2}4—Machine illus- No. 1 5 trated at left. Capacxtyfup to 250 1bs. or 116 qts. of 4 milk per hour. TERMS: Free $2.00 coupon with order. Balance, $3.50 a month for 12 months. No. 3}4--Machine shown at left. Capacity up to 400 Ibs. 95 qts. of milk or 1 per hour. Price, $56.00 PERMS: Free $2.00 _cou- pon with order. Baldnce, $4.50 a month for twelv: months. ¢ it is Always Best— PickOut SizeYouNeed Order from this Advertisement on 30 Days’ Trial. Use Coupen to select a larger machine than you need. 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