Less than bring our industries and our labor, of every kind back to a normal basis after the greatest upheaval known to history and the winter just ahead of us may bring suffering infinitely greater than the war brought upon us if we blunder or fail in the process. An admirable spirit of self-sacrifice, of patriotic devotion and of community action guided and inspired us while the fighting was on. We shall need all these now, and need them in a heightened degree, if we are to accomplish the first tasks of peace. Do its full part. The car service section in Washington and the various regional organizations are striving earnestly to secure a fair and just distribution of the existing equipment as well as to meet the requirements of individual shippers. Of the 100,000 new freight cars which the railroad administration ordered constructed, 59,409 had been completed on September 13, and are now in service, and this number is being increased at the rate of over 900 each working day. 