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Williams, Edward Thomas, China yesterday and today, rev. by 295 Williamson, James A., English colonies in Guiana and on the 297 Wilson, Francis G., rev. of Bacon and Morse, The reasonable- 104 rev. of Jensen, The problems of public finance. 106 Wood, Edith Elmer, Housing progress in Western Europe, rev. by 205 Wright, B. F., Jr., rev. of Brooks, Political parties and electoral 113 ed. of book reviews... rev. of Ford, Representative government. 198 198 THE H. G. JAMES, University of Texas F. F. BLACHLY, University of Oklahoma C. F. COAN, University of New Mexico M. S. HANDMAN, University of Texas Association PRESIDENT W. M. W. SPLAWN, Austin, Texas FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY AND TREASURER EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT W. M. W. SPLAWN, Austin, Texas ELECTED MEMBERS T. S. STAPLES, Conway, Arkansas THE SOUTHWESTERN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY is supplied to all members of the Southwestern Political and Social Science Association. The subscription price of the QUARTERLY is two dollars a year. Applications for membership, orders for the QUARTERLY and remittances should be addressed to F. M. Stewart, Secretary-Treasurer of the Association, University Station, Austin, Texas. Correspondence with reference to contributions to the QUARTERLY should be addressed to the Editor, University Station, Austin, Texas. Station, Austin, Texas. THE SOUTHWESTERN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY Vol. V JUNE, 1924 No. 1 The editors disclaim responsibility for views expressed by contributors to THE QUARTERLY THE RIPLEY REPORT ON RAILROAD WALTER SPLAWN Texas Railroad Commission Professor William Z. Ripley of Harvard University prepared a report at the request of the Interstate Commerce Commission upon which that Commission based its tentative plan. Before considering the tentative plan it would be well to look to this report. The purpose of the act is first considered.1 It is pointed out that while by far the larger proportion of the traffic of the United States is carried by so-called strong or prosperous roads, a large amount of mileage is in the hands of financially weak corporations. That these weak lines are as essential to the welfare of the communities which they serve as are the strong lines to their patrons. "It is the theory of the transportation act that the railways must be considered as a whole, group by group, fixing by means of the new statutory rule of rate making, a general level of return adequate to maintain them all at a proper pitch of efficiency." Senator Cummins is quoted as saying: "It has been utterly impossible for any body of men to make a system of rates that will sustain the weaker railroads of the country without giving to the stronger railroads an income excessive and intolerable in its extent; and there lies the great fundamental obstacle in our system of rate mak 1Appendix to the Tentative Plan of the Commission, p. 476. |