The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-04-22

exploitation must be removed and /
labor must Join management In un- 4
derstanding that the public which pays |
Is the public 10 be served and simple |
justice Is the right and will continue |
to be the right OF all the people
Highway Building.
Transportation over the highways Is
little less important, but the problems
relate TO construction and development
and deserve your most earnest inten-
ton because We are laying a founda-
ton for n long time TO come and the
creation Is very difficult 10 visualize
in its great responsibilities.
The highways are not only feeders
to the railroads and afford relief from
their local burdens: they are actually
lines of motor traffic in Interstate
commerce. They are the smaller ar
teries OF the larger portion of our
commerce and the motor car has be-
come an Indispensable instrument in
our political, social and Industrial life.
Federal Assistance.
There Is begun a new era in high
way construction, the outlay for which
runs far into hundreds of millions of
dollars. Bond issues by road districts,
counties and states amount TO enor-
nous figures, and the country Is fac
ing such an outlay that il is vital that
every effort shall be directed against
wasted effort and unjustifiable ex-
penditure.
The federal government can place
no inhibition on the expenditure in
several states; but since congress has
| ha rlr oil ,nli Of in
the states in highway Improvement
wisely. believe. 1t can assert a wholly
becoming influence in shaping policy.
General Supervision.
With the principle of federal partici-
patton acceptably established. prob
ably never to be abandoned. 1t is inn
portant to exert federal influence in
developing comprehensive plans look
ing to the promotion of commerce and
apply our expenditures in the surest
way to guarantee public return for
money expended.
Large federal outlay demands a
federal voice in the program of ex-
pendlture. Congress cannot justify a
: mere gift from the federal purse to
, the several states, to be prorated
tOuutitS lOl 1pdtu uttttl
Such course will invite abuses which
it were better to guard against in the
beginning.
The laws governing federal aid
should be amended and strengthened
The federal agency of administration
! should be elevated to the Importance
S and vested with authority comparable
to the work before it. And congress
D ought to prescribe conditions to fed
! eral appropriations which will neces
state consistent program of uni
formity which will justify the fedora
q outlay.
/ Constant Repair.
/ I know of nothing more shockin,
! than the millions of public funds vast
l. ed in improved highways, wasted be
t cause there is no policy of mainte
l. nance. The neglect is not universal
L but it is very near it. There is moth
z, ing congress can do more effectively t
n end this shocking waste than cond
6 ton all federal aid on provisions 70
st maintenance.
< Highways, no matter how generou
a the outlay for construction, cannot
e maintained without patrol and cor
+ slant repair. Such conditions insiste
upon in the grant of federal aid wi
d safeguard the public which pays an
a. guard the federal government agains
IS political abuses, which tend to defea
n the very purposes for which we al
Of thorize federal expenditure.
o. Merchant Marine.
IN Linked with rail- and highway is tn
At nrnhlnm nf WDtpr trnpSnnrto inn--iJ
IS land, coaStwise and tranSOceanic.
e. is not possible on this occasion to su,
Us gest to congress the additional legi
Is lation needful to meet the aspiration
a. of our people for a merchant marin
". In the emergency of war we have col
Ill structed tonnage equaling OF
DC largest expectations. Its war CO.
must be discounted to the actual va
ues of peace and the large different
n charged to the war emergency and tt
as pressing task is to turn our assets
il tonnage to an agency of commerce.
tic 1t is not necessary to say it to co
of gress, but l have thought this to be
ia befitting occasion to give notice tn
In the United States means to establi!
&c and maintain great merchant NJ
m rine.
Marine Laws.
or Manifestly IL our laws governil
~ American activities on the seas a
'ss such as to give advantage to tho
u who compete with us for the carryil
'ss of our own cargoes and those viii
a ought naturally to come in Amerlci
is bottoms through trade exchang,
,ss then the spirit of American fair pl
III will assert itself to give Amerc
carriers their equality of opportuni
= This republic can never realize
ro- righteous aspirations in commer
,ur can never be worthy the traditio
ON of the early days of the expanding
ms public until the millions of tons
lex shipping which we now possess 8
sh- coordinated with our inland transp
ing tation and our shipping has govel
re- ment encouragement not governme
as operation, in carrying our cargo
under our flag, over regularly oper
III ed routes, to every market In
lin, world, agreeable to American
ess changes. 1t will strengthen Anne
ms, can genius and management to hs
nnIarcton1 that ~,,,e, ;c m oh