American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-10-18
MERITED REBUKE GIVEN
BY STATE COMMITTEE
Power County News Given Fine OPP
pOrtunity to Make Honorable Amend
for Injustice Done ID. w. Davis in
Regard TO Liberty Loan Campaign.


Regard TO Liberty Loan Campaign.
The state Liberty Loan Committe
has taken notice of the grave injustice
done its retiring chairman by the edi-
tor of the Power County News, in
charging him with having received
pay for the work he did in the sec
ond Liberty Loan campaign at the
rate of about $40 day, and expenses
in addition. The News also charged
that Mr.. Davis was requested to re-
sign by the chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of the Twelfth District
The letter of the state committee,
signed by all its members, is a COM
plete refutation of all that has been
charged. The same story was circu-
lated during the primary campaign,
and those who were circulating it
knew of its falsity The editor of the
News was probably not aware of the
utter falsity of the charge, and be-
cause the state chairman of Liberty
Loan campaigns in all the states are
charged with expenditures made by
the state committees, as a matter of
form as the letter explains, the News
was misled The Press could have
concluded to wait and give the News
an opportunity of publishing the let
ter of the state committee and max
ing apologies. A little investigation
would have shown the utter falsity of
the charges. The vouchers are public
property and are on file in the state
headquarters and will show where the
money went that is charged to Mr..
atyic In "a
sonal services" The letter of the COM
mittee is as follows:
Boise Idaho, October TO- 1918
Hon. D. W. Davis,
American Falls, Idaho
Dear Mr.. Davis:-
Referring to the article in the Pow
er County News under date of Oct
4th
In justice to the State Liberty Loan
Committee and to you as chairman of
the committee during the Second and
Third Liberty Loan campaigns. we be-
lieve a statement of facts is due from
US.
We do not care to dispute nor deny
the figures given in the above men
toned article, but will confine our
statement to the actual facts and fig
ures
The expenses incurred during the
Second campaign were S1,99910
This was the exact amount expended
by the committee and for which the
Federal Reserve Bank at San Fran
cisco reimbursed the committee.
The items of Personal" and "Trav-
cling to which the writer of this ar
ticle seems especially critical and
which he endeavors to create the i'm
preston was money actually paid TO
you for your time, do not represent
the facts. as these items were for ex-
penses incurred by the authority of
the whole committee. The syst1n Of
accounting adopted by the Treasury
Department, specifically provides that
accounts be rendered by the chairman
and distributed under a number OF
various heads
All checks issued by the Federal
Reserve Bank for reimbursement for
these expenses are made payable TO
the chairman of the State Committee
as a safeguard against improper dis
tribution and is done under a ruling
of the Treasury Department.
The writer of this article is mistak-
en- when he infers that this money
was paid to you for your personal
services, which he estimates at about
$4,000 per day as you were not paid
one cent for your services which you
Loyalty and patriotically gave in car
rying both the Second and Third Lib
erty Loan compaigns to a complete
and successful conclusion, as all of
the people of Idaho are we'll aware.
We further desire to confine our
statement to facts and not "Rumors"
regarding your resigning as chair
man of the committee. You were
not asked nor requested by the Of
ficials of the Federal Reserve Bank at
San Francisco to resign as chairman.
On the contrary you were requested
and urged by them to remain as chair
man You, however, voluntarily re-
quested the committee to accept your
resignation as chairman, which after
due consideration, it did, and unan-
imously endorsed Mr.. Monte B. Gwinn
for chairman to succeed you, and he
was duly and formally made chair
man by the governor of the Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
3 Trusting this statement of facts by
4. the committee, all of whom attach
their signatures hereto, will be given
proper consideration by the writer of
the article referred to. and that he
will be fair enough to correct any
wrong impression his article may
have given, we are,
Very respectfully yours.
(Signed) MONTE B. GWINN
CRAWFORD MOORE
F. F. JOHNSON
G. r. HIT