Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1929 — Page 2

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I. C. C. RAILROAD MERGER SCORED FOR INEQUALITY Primary Principles of Rate Territory Disregarded, Says Expert. I! ii T nit"i Prr#* NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 23.—Professor William Z. Ripley of Harvard university criticised the interstate commerce commission's railroad merger plan and’charged the commission with lack of diplomacy in a statement at his home here. In general, Ripley declared the plan failed to create substantial equals which could compete with each other effectively, and the "cardinal principles” of confining each system to a definite rate territory. Professor Ripley, a leading authority on railroads, was retained by the I. C. C. and in 1921 drew up a preliminary consolidation plan which later was scrapped. Would Be Pygmy With reference to the former, the Harvard professor declared that ‘‘it is Inconceivable for instance, that th Wabash, which is a string line anyway, with nothing but trackage rights east of Detroit, by being pieced together with the Chesapeake & Ohio of Indiana line, itself subnormal, and even with the prosperous Lehigh valleye into New York,' could be bhilt into anything like an even-handed competitor with the powerful Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio and Van Sweringen system. It would be a Pygmy among giants.” The principle of confining each system to a definite rate territory “seems to be substantially disregarded in the plan,” Ripley said. "New England roads are projected into trunk line territory. The Illinois Central is extended far to the north and into the southwest. The Burlington reaches from Canada to Mexico. Mobile & Ohio way down by the gulf is tied in with the Chicago & Northwestern. Disregard Boundaries "And so it goes, disregarding the boundaries which with more and more distinctness have been set to these rate adjustment territories.” Past decisions of the commission have in practice tied its hands, Ripley felt. “Thus, the Union Pacific "was thwarted in its desire to get the Central Pacific, which gives it a line from Salt Lake City into San Francisco. This one denial in its ramifications stands in the way of any statesmanlike plan for evenhanded competition between systems each of which operates straight through from Chicago to the coast.

BREEDERS WILL MEET Outline Convention Progrm for State Duroc Association. General business and discussions on swine breeding will constitute the program of he thirty-third annual convention of the Indiana Duroc Swine Breeders’ Association to be held at the Severln Jan. 7. Harry T. Gooding of Anderson is secretary of the association. Edwin C. Mosley of Peru and Perry M. Barker of Tliorntown will discuss j •the Duroc promotion campaign, i Speakers will include Charles M. | Trowbridge of Mays and H. L. Igle- ! heart of Elizabethtown, Ky. Presiding officers will be R. C. Jenkins, Orleans, president, and Dr. Earl; Ferre, Danville, vice-president. CITY ALUMNI TO DINE D Pauw Grads to Elect 1930 Officers at Session. Indianapolis alumni of De Pauw university will hold a dinner Jan. 13, at Broadway Methodist Episcopal church to elect officers for 1930. Addresses by President G. Bromley Oxnam. Bishop Edwin H. Hughes and music by the De Pauw choir will make up the program according to Mrs. William H. Remy, secretary. Co\s •ertwo g*o*r- \ Vi' 1 *~ ationa Grovs# \ \\ Laxativ* \ V, • ROMO QUI- \ V MINE haa been \ weed for colds and \ headache*. It is today the largest selltn( °!d remedy in the world. Merit Is the reason. At all druggist 40a. Grove’s Laxative BKO.MO QUININE Tablets kutaattful Sine • 1889

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