Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-09-17

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sive extemporaneous address on the
relation of the public and industry
to banking. He highly commended
such gatherings as the conference as
being prospective of better under
standings and a more effective de-
gree of general cooperation 1t was
necessary at the present time, he said,
for every citizen to put in his best
ticks in a spirit of confidence---simply
going to work and staying with it,
depending upon himself more than
upon others.
Mr.. Gray, speaking to the question
of railroad problems, stated that
their predicaments were the predi-
caments of the public; that the two
were inseparately connected. Certain
stockholders owned the physical prop
critics but the public owned the serv-
ice and controlled the rates through
its official bodies.
he Union Pacific system, he said
was concerned primarily in moving
the produce along its lines into prof
liable markets. 1t prospered as its
territory prospered.
The important points was to get the
produce to market profitably to all.
Without that the people in the terri
tory could not purchase incoming
commodities no matter at what price
they might be offered.
AS showing the manner in which
the Union Pacific had aided develop
ment he pointed out that of nearly
240O miles of standard lines about
1400 were branch lines. A main line
might not develop, but branch lines
were the great arteries of local
growth.
1t was not an easy matter always,
he stated, to secure the rate condi-
tions the Union Pacific desired. be-
cause there was perennial opposition
before the interstate commerce and
state commissions on the part of con-
Meeting lines having the same kind
of produce to move from their terri
tory.
The Union Pacific had continued its
fight for Idaho produce until the
Idaho potato, for instance, was laid
down in Texas at a rate within II
cents of the nearby Colorado rate.
He went into many other phases of
the railroad and distribution ques-
lions and clarified number of
points.
Miss Boellert asked the men pres
ent to consider the business and pro-
fessional woman as part of the essen
tials of state building and not class
separate. eve ask no favor; we
only ask to be placed on an equality
as our merits warrant" she said.
Mr.. Greenawalt, assigned the sub
ject of the telephone business, cover
ed the whole field of public utilities
in a most Illuminating and impress
sive manner. Among other things he
said that weak and impoverished
public utility meant a weak and i'm
poverished community or state.
He pointed out that the savings Of
the common people and the funds OF
insurance policy holders represented
largely the financing of these util-
titles, and any unjust treatment of the
utilities to that extent impaired the
value of those securities SO held and
imperiled those savings and those in
vestments made as against sickness,
death and accident. A great problem
of the utilities, including the tele-
phone companies, he said was to Sc
cure needed funds for extension OF
service demanded by the public.
The conference unanimously adopt
ed the following message and ordered
it wired at once:
Herbert Hoover, Washington, d.
c.:
"The Idaho Press association in
convention assembled here, and in
conference with representatives of
leading industries of this state, de-
sire to assure you of the active CO.
operation of all Of us in the efforts
of yourself and associates to deliber-
ate on the question Of finding work
for the millions of unemployed men
in the nation and suggest that enact
ment of the pending legislation as
contained in the McNary-Smith bill,