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nullftln No. 1
A Mistake in the Policy of
the Bethlehem Steel Company
To Ihe People:
The Senate of the; United States has passed a bill to spend $11,000,000 of the People's money
to build a government armor plant The measure is now before the Homo of Representatives.
It is said that manufacturers of armor have "gouRwl" the country in th past, and that government
plant i necessary to secure armor wore cheaply.
The mistake of the Bethlehem Steel Company has been that it haa kept quiet.
We have allowed irresponsible assertions to be made for so long without denial, that many people
now believe them to be proven facts.
We shall make the mistake of silence no longer.
Henceforth we shall pursue a policy of publicity. Misinform a lion will not be permitted to ge
uncorrected.
It is and has been the policy of our Company to deal with the American Government fairly
and squarely.
We shall henceforth place the details of our relations with the Government before
the American People.
The United States has for twenty years obtained the highest grade of armor and has paid a lower
price for it than has any other great naval power.
Flsurca officially eeanplled for tha Seaata Coaamlttea an Naval Affairs bona Iks Naval Year Booh abaw that
aander conditions prevailing Jaat before tha Earepeaa war, la abief aaeal pejwere of tha world were pavlog
thaaa pctaea for arena!
England, $303 per font France, $160, Germany, $490 1 Japan, $490 UNITED STATES, $i2S.
A government plant cannot make armor any cheaper than wa can do it; and
We are prepared to manufacture armor at any price which the Government itself
shall name as fair. THAT BEING SO, SHOULD $11,000,000 OF THE FEOPLE'9
MONEY BE WASTED TO BUILD A GOVERNMENT PLANT T
naiLHUHU 0LUHUIU I
CHAS. M. SCHWAB. Caalrmaa
BUGENK O. GRACE. PraaJdeat
Bethlehem Steel Company
29TH ANNUAL MEETING
rthwesteru Baptist Association
Meeting to lie Held la Alliance
on June 15th-18th.
The 29th annual meeting of the
Northwestern Baptist Association
-will be held with the First Baptist
church of Alliance on June 15th to
18th. Rev. A. A. Layton is pastor of
the local church, Rev. B. F. Farrar of
Gerlng Is moderator of the associa
tion and E. R. Phillips of Chadron is
clerk.
The program as announced for the
tour days' meeting is as follows:
.Thursday Afternoon
2:30 Devotional. Rev. W. H. Davis.
2: 50 The Fundamental of Faith
and the rise of Denomination
alism. Rev. F. M. Sturdevant.
3 : 3 0 Discussion. Associa 1 1 o n a 1
. Business and Organization.
Thursday K veiling
7:30 Praise and Prayer Service.
fr:00 Annual Sermon. Rev. Ed
mund Brown.
-.45 Appointment of Committees.
Announcements.
Friday Morning.
fc: 00 Devotional. Rev. Claud Nlch-
mond.
p : 15 Reading of Church Letters.
Rev. E. R. Phillips.
10:00 Discussion.' Led by Rev. C.
M. Strong.
It: 30 Report of Missionary Committee.
by Corn
by Rev.
Northern
10:35 Discussion. Led by Bro. A.
11:00 Sermon. Rev. B. F. Farrar.
Friday Afternoon.
2:30 Devotional. Herbert Rich
mond. 2:45 The Five Year Program.
(a) Goal One, Two and Three.
Rev. Ray E. York.
3:05 (b) Goal Four. Rev. J. D.
Collins.
3:25 (c) Goal Five. Dr. Geo. W.
Taft.
3 : 4 5 Recommendat ions
mittee.
3.55 Discussion opened
Edmund Brown.
4:30 Echoes from the
Baptist Convention.
Friday livening.
7:30 Service of Song.
8:00 Five Years Program (Inspi
rational). Rev. Ray E. York.
8:30 "Nebraska Dry." Rev. H. F.
Carson, Supt. Antl - S a 1 o o n
League of Nebraska.
Saturday Morning
9:00 Devotional. Rev. A. Newman.
9:15 Sunday School Round Table.
Supt. J. D. Collins.
9:45 b. Y. P. U. What? Why?
How? J. D. Collins.
10:15 Discussion opened by Mrs.
W. C. English.
11:00 Sermon. Rev. C. M. Strong.
Saturday Afternoon.
2:30 Devotional. Mrs. A. A. Lay
ton.
.2:45 God's Perfect Plan.
M. Sturdevant.
3:30 Discussion. Led by
Newman.
lUllrrMMl Hmploye Object to State
ments In ramphlet luiel
Itecenlly by Howard K.lllott.
Cleveland. O., May 17 In a state
ment given out today by the Railroad
Transportation Brotherhoods who
are Jointly asking for an 8-hour day,
exception is taken to a pamphlet Is
sued by the Railroad Officials en
titled: "The Malady of the Rail
roads." by Howard Elliott, President
of the New York, New Haven Hart
ford Railroad.
The employes' statement admits
that Mr. Elliott la well qualified to I
speak with authority on some phases
of rn'lway malady. Judging from cer
tain recent revelations about the for
mer financial mismanagement and
wrecking of the road which he Is
now directing.
Mr. Elliott says; "It Is the present
and future which confront us. Let
the dead past bury Us dead." There
must be many things of the past In
regard to the New Haven mismanage
ment over which Mr. Elliott would
like to draw the veil and have the
public forget, especially the most
recent revelations.
However, the evils of the "dead
past" have saddled a load of debt on
the living present and when this
heavy burden Is used as an argument
against fair wages and fair hours to
employes of the present time, wo do
not forget this "past" of the New
Haven and If other roads that are so
strenuously opposing the movement
to better the conditions of Its em
ployes.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion says In a report on Its research
into the financial workings of the
New Haven uystem. that it "disclosed
one of the most glaring Instances of
mat administration revealed In all
the history of the American Rail
roads."
A reasonable estimate of the loss
of the New Haven by reason alone of
'waste and mismanagement, the
Commission places at an amount be
tween sixty million dollars and ninety
million dollars.
For many a year to come these
transactions are to be a drain upon
Rev. F.
Rev. A
4:00 Associational Business.
Saturday Evening.
7:30 Service of Song.
8:00 Our Own Grand Island Col- tne New naven''B resources and the
lege. Pres. Geo. w. tart. employes are expected to do con-
numiay mumiug. ( Btantly increasing labor without a
10:00 Sunday School. corresponding Increase in pay in I
11:00 Sermon. Rev. Wilson Mills. order lo make up thl9 "loot."
Sunday Arteriroon. No wonder Mr. Elliott would like
Woman's Missionary Societies, tQ have the public forget and "let
Mrs. A. A. Luyton presiding. th dpad pH8t bury ,tB dead. But
2:30 Devotional. iw.ut t,iuhiv infiatorl "mnltnl I
2:45 "Inspiration from the Study I ecuritleg.. cannot so easily be dis-
OI Missions. Mrs. vveymouiu, no(,pd
Chadron. I Mr Vlllntt nrsanl ntntisttlcH bnt
"Ways and Means for Mission dopg not a,low ,n thpge figure8 for
Circles in Rural Districts. tnp fact tnat the DaBlg ot an eignt.
Mrs. W. C. English. nour wor, day already exists on a
"Echoes from Northern Baptist numDer of rauroads. He does not
Convention." Mrs. A. II . Rob- aow for the fact tnat tne demand
bins- for an eight-hour day does not affect
"Our Women our fart. .Mrs. thp hundreda of thousands of train
Kerr, Ainsley. lemnloyes In passenger service
"A Message for Home mis- throu hout tne united States.
sions." Mrs. Newel, cnicago. trpg8 ,g lald by Mr. Elliott
Address enquiries concerning tne ne ,act tnat ..on)y io per cent
Association to A. A. Layton, Alliance, if the raljway army now absorbs 28
to nev. li. r. rarrar, yeuus, , i rpnt of the railway's Day roll.
Mr. E. R. Phillips, Chadron, Neb.
He falls to mention the very Import
ant fact that his 18 per cent consti
tutes the moBt skilled of the em
ployes who are bearing a greater
responsibility and running greater
risks than any other class ot railway
employes. It would be Just as eon-
"I never hear of Walker, the pedes
trian, any more. What's become of
him?"
"He is working for a real estate
concern, establishing records be
tween the houses they sell and the vincing if Mr .Elliott would sh the
, nri... hev tell a man a large salaries receivea Dy a tuiuimr
station When they tell a n an a er adminigtratlve of
house is ten minutes' walk from the compared to the total ex
station they are In a position to prove j,pn8e 0f administration along side
it.
-New York Times.
The Reason for a Telephone
Company's Depreciation Reserve
i
Patch up a suit of clothes how you will, it will gradually
wear out and have to be replaced by a new one.
Just so it is with the telephone property. Some parts of it
wear out quicker than others, but repair it again and again as
we do, finally it wears out.
In addition to the wearing out of the property a good nnny
of the parts are year by year becoming obsolete and out of-d-te
And are replaced by something better.
Each year we set aside out of the money we take in from the
sale of telephone service an amount which we estimate represents
the wearing out of our telephone property during that period.
This money is invested back in the plant, and thus tempor
arily employed as additional capital on which no dividends or
Interest charges are paid.
Through our policy of setting aside a depreciation reserve
to Drovide for the rebuilding or replacement of the property,
Present telephone users pay for the wearing out of the plant
Instead of passing the debt on to the next generation.
Lack of recognition of this principle has caused many fail
ures in private industries and is a frequent mistake in public
institutions. f
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Our policy of setting aside; a depreciation reserve is now
generally accepted as the fairestvway to provide for the rebuild
ing or replacement of the equipment when it wears out
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ishing?
F. E. HOLSTEN
of the numerous lesser officiate and
clerks. i
It is claimed by Mr. Elliotttbat
thts is a poor time to make a demand
for an increase in pay.
If, In these prosperous tlmeB it is a
"poor time" the employes are at a
loss to know when would be a pood
time. They were told early in the
vear of 1915 by the Federal Arbitra
tion Board, that "no Improvement in
their conditions of employment could
be granted, because there was a de
pression In the railroad business at
that time." No Improvement could
be secured during "lean" years and
mow Mr. Elliott comes forward and
claims that improvement In working
conditions should not be asked in
'good years." The game apparently
is "head I win. tails you lose." Dut
i he employes in railway freight train
service see no good or convincing
reasons In Mr. Elliott's argument, es
pecially in view ot the fact that enor
mous sums are wasted in misman
agement and financial manipulation
and when the United States oovern
ment Issues reports, showing how
once prosperous railroads have been
milked and looted of such tremen
lous sums, that tho employes should
:iave to bear the full burden.
If only a small part of the enor
mous sums that are annually divert
ed from their proper uses could be
applied to the bettering of the con
dition of the employee, it would more
than offset any Inconsiderable In
crease which might come by the
granting of an eight-hour day.
If tou are itavliiK high interest
rote In the liuildinit & Loan call on
the Nebraska land Company ana get
the money at reduced Interest rates.
WILL ELECT SECRETARY
ninwinrii of- Alliance liuiuutitf
I an AswM latlon to Mtt I hi
Kvenlng.
a met In of the board of direc
tors of the Alliance Building & Loan
Association will be held Inis evening
to elect a successor to B. F. Gilman,
who died last week, aa secretary ot
tha aaanplntlnn
The board of directors, of which
Mr. Gtlman was a member, consists
of F. W. Harris, R. M. Hampton,
Jerry Rowan, A. D. Rldgeri. F. W.
Irish. John McDonald. Mrs. Blanche
Rousey and George Davis.
There are a large number of ap
plications for the office of secretary,
to succeed Mr. Gilman. R. M. Hamp
ton is president. i
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