White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-29

There are lots of good Wodkmen
who own. automobiles and travel
from job to job with them. VINO are
capable and willing to work. but en-
ployers believe that among appli.
cants for work they are in the minor
ity. When a newcomer applies for
work of course it is assumed that he
came te the country in his Nv ca,
so that is not held against him as Il
cause for refusal, but it cannot be
ignored. especially with unattached
young men of the vanderlust age.
How these tourists get by in their
days of travel is asother study. In
stances have been related where they
have parked their ears by the high
ways at great distances out and stop
ped every passing car, begging gaso-
line by the gallon until they had
enough to go a hundred or two hun
dred miles. An instance was mar
rated the other day where a fellow
bummed a gallon of gns on the Lin
coin highway and when it was being
given to him ii turned out that he
had a full five-gallon can Of gas on
the back of his car. This happened
not a great distance from Ely.
In other respects they are quite as
capable in the art of ~panhandling as
ever were their prototypes OF the
~Drakebeams of old. They get every
thing they want as they travel. liv-
ing On the Lest and caring net for
' Sunday.
Other than these there is a closely
related class of tourists, which are
those who at n time or another
have had the price of 4 car and gen
orally start out by taking the whole
family along, not knowing their des-
oline twenty-four hours ahead are
coming from. Last year the iriver
of a car "a: bowling along the high
way out of Milford headed for Bea-
yer, Utah. Inside of three miles he
! picked up a young fellow with 4 sack
of auto parts on his shoulder. Tho
young man and some partners had an
Oakland six and broke down on the
Arrowhead trail enrcute from Los
Angeles to Salt Lake. They sent to
Salt Lake for parts and received the
wrong ones. Then this fellow caught
q ride to Milford and paid his fare
on the train to Salt Lake. He got
the right parts but it tool all his
money. With the sack of parts he
beat his way back to Milford on the
brakebeams and was starting to walk
the thirty miles to Beaver, knowing
he would catch a ride sooner or later.
The driver told about it that night
in Nelson's garage at Beaver. Young
Nelson said hat was nothing: thai
auto parties tried to beg gas enough
to take them to the next town, and
that from coast to coast hundreds of
such persons were constantly travel
ing Many were without money and
others were getting through without
spending money if they had it.
Hosts of persons contemplating
trips by automobile will tell you that
they can earn their way from place
to place by working a few days wheE
their money is low. Such persons
are generally well meaning and want
to make trips hat they otherwise
could not afford, but in so doing, in
view of the tremendous increase in
the out and out auto tramps. they
are taking the risk of being classed
by strangers as being in the same
genera.
Today the automobile is as much
the poor mans vehicle as it is that
Of the rich and the one has as much
right to use it as the other. 1t Is
the motor age and no person by the
use Of words or influence of any kind
is trying to sweep back a tide that is
irresistible. 1t cannot be done, so no
one is making the effort. Persons
looking for new homes and places
where they may better their tondi-
tons or get a new start is the world
are to be encouraged and have as
much right morally and a great deal
more right physically to undertake
a journey across the continent in 4
cheap car than the '49ers had to
tackle it with their Ok teams. The
automobile is bringing a great wealth
in muscle and Drawn to the coast to
figure i'll the future upbuilding and
greatness Of the best part of the
United States. but at the same time
and by the same method 1t is bring
ing a lot of the rifraff. In the latter
way it is creating a problem for cap
tains of industry and all employers
Of labor that they do not even make
pretense of being able to solve. To
cope with II is not a question for to
morrow. but me of today-right now
and getting no better.
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