The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-08-30
Transportation Brings Prosperity

yeloped without transportation. That
gave us national markets. These are
mass markets, and thus we have been
able to use better methods of manu-
featuring and get higher wages and
lower prices. The first rapid trans
portation came through the railroads.
Then came the automobile. The mo.
tor vehicles were at first thought to
be competitors of the railroads, but
now we know that they fit in to-
gether.
Business breeds business, and now
we have not enough transportation.
We must use the great waterways
that have been put here for us to use
| both for transport md for power.
Damming them for power improves
them for transportaJi5a. Besides, the
accumulation of these large bodies of
water assists the rainfall. We have
the Great Lakes and The Mississippi
partly in use, but they are doing only
4 fraction of what they can be made
to do. And many other projects only
await further planHiag and eoordina.
ton. For we know mat we are in
need of all kinds Of f3Hsport-by air,
by land and by wateI-and that each
has its place and thaJ each will make
business for the others. This eoun-
try needs to have is industry more
spread out. ELECTRICITY and transport
will do this.
This program will circulate billions
of dollars. Don't say it will cost bill
lions of dollars; say it will circulate
billions of dollars. That is the true
way of saying it.
We have the money and will have
much more, for every dollar thus
spent will produce several dollars
And undertaking this work will mean
that for many perhaps forever
we shall not have to bother about
unemployment anywhere. Both the
farm and the factory will share in
every dollar that is paid out to the
men actually on the work.
It does not matter to me who does
the work or who owns this work
when done. 1t is use, not ownership,
that counts.
The bare statement of what this
country must do for its own we'll.
being also describes the kind Of
President it needs. 1t is not that the
President is the director general Of
the nation or any other kind of abso-
lutte ruler. But someone has to be
spokesman of the progressive need Of
the country.
Hoover Knows Language of Progress
Hoover knows the language of mod
ern progress better than any man.
AS an engineer, he has already plan
ned the water. and hydroelectric de-
velopment of the country; and as
public officer with knowledge of
cause and effect, he knows the great
present and future influence of these
developments!
From time to time foreign nations
have been foolish enough to imagine
that by some system of control they
could raise the prices to us of raw
materials that we had to have. Some
OF the controls were official and
others were semi-official. The British
control of rubber was undertaken
from the best of motives, but the
temptation to boost the price was too
strong and so rubber went above a
dollar pound.
Hoover did not ask for legislation
or make any protest-any foreign ma
ton has the right to charge lis what
it pleases. 1t is up to us to defend
ourselves. He called a meeting of
the rubber men. They learned Just
how much rubber was already in the
country and what could be done to-
ward retaining rubber. That broke
the artificial price and saved the
users of automobiles at least half a
billion dollars. Incidentally, it caused
some OF us to make a start toward |
getting our own sources of rubber.
man less versed in the ways Of the
world and of business would have /
made a great many speeches and
had the country talking war
and accomplished nothing but the
generation of a great deal of hard
feeling.
Can Do Big Things
This man Hoover not only has
deals but he can do things. He
Knows what to do and where to find
he right men.
Among what are said to be issues
ire prohibition and what is called
arm relief. We cannot elect a Presi-
lent who says in advance that he
will take the oath of office with a
mental reservation not to support the
Some farmers are we'll off and
theirs are not. But | cannot regard
he farm as distinct from industry |
+ as in oppositin to industry. The
ne depends on the other. If the far |
lers do not earn money, then great ,
Industrial market vanishes. If the
Iorkers do not earn, then the great 3
larket for farm products drops. I'm $
the freight on farm prod $
cts is too high, just as is the freight 7
n all products, but this will be cured |
My by providing more and better q