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value of their investment and to pay a fair rate of wages to their em- 

 ployees. 



Our organization has always favored fairlj- compensatory rates and 

 has stressed the desirability of good service rather than rates so low 

 as to make a high quality of service impossible. 



Nevertheless, the problem is one worthy of fearless analysis and frank 

 discussion. 



If the new rates stifle more traffic than the increase produces in the 

 way of revenue, a disservice may have been done not only to the carrier 

 but to the general public, and to the producer who has spent months, or 

 in the case of orchards, even years in building up his tonnage producing 

 powers. 



COMPARISON OF PRE-WAR, WARTIME, AND POST-WAR FREIGHT CHARGES. 



To give you a clearer idea of the heavy burden imposed upon perish- 

 ables by present rates, I am inserting at this point in my paper, a table 

 showing the rates for the three situations that have prevailed in recent 

 years. 



