Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1919, Page 5

TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1919 HIGHPRIGES HERE TOSTAY, SAS ECONOMIST OF YALE UNWERSTY, 70 as Irving Fisher Explains How New Level Has Been| wich aa ver ea Fixed Emphasizin: g Fact That Postponement Red Cross by the bureau of internal 7 revenue last year. Sixty woesete, of Building Will Result in No Gain. dollars worth was taken from “dope” smuggler who was trying to bring “the stuff” across the Canadian ; ist i border. t By OSCAR E. HEWITT come, if we persist in our present Irving Fisher, professor of politi-|false hope.” |__‘Twenty thousand dollars worth of cal economy at Yale University, as-| The professor jumps down into ™0rphine, heroin ane cocaine, gather-| serts the high price level has come|economics and brings up this funda- ed from illicit ace ers is now stored to stay. It is permanent, in his|mentel reason for high prices: {in the bureau’s laboratory here. judgment. He thinks it may go down, Surplus Gold Raises Prices a trifle in a year, perhaps, but then; ‘The general level of prices is de-* will continue on a plane far above pendent upon the volume and rapid- the pre-war level. ity of turnover of the circulating His views are being distributed by medign in relation to the business to the Department of Commerce in the transacted thereby. este oe hope af stimulating private busi-|ber of dollars circulated by cash and! this classrot works is the most exact- facilitating the ness. |by check doubles, while the number in& of all the la Ora LOrmaeeceiyities: On whether the general level of|of goods and services exchanged’ To Miss Hilda Florence Simpson, prices is bending downward, he says thereby remain constant, prices will'o¢ Liverpool, has fallen the distinc- “it is not going to fall much, if at'about double.” tion of being the first woman in all.” Continuing, he declares: ‘‘We| | GONFISCATED DOPE IS GIVEN TO RED ss ® Encouragement as violations of the narcotic laws are followed by prosecutions, and, as the | nation: outcome of the cases frequently de-| and the sooner the business men of({this country from. abroad since and Auditors. the country take this view and ad-({1914.” This gold is going to re-| ————___—— eee just themselves to it, the sooner will! main, in his opinion. He asserts the|war began, and he thinks that prices they save themselves and the nation,rise in prices in Europe has been there will continue on a high level. from the misfortune which w: higher! than in this COUNETY, since the |——Chicago Tribune. ' conditions. — “BUILD NOW" Catigaien to Create Prosperity in Casper--More Homes Needed SEE BEN “FIRST” “A Look Means a Lot” Buy a Lot — Build a Home SEE BEN REALTY CO. Phone 74W 109 W. First Sign Today YOUR BUILDING CONTRACT Let Us Give You Estimates on Your Materials NATRONA LUMBER CO. 855 No. Beech Phone 528 HARRY FREE For the Lot Desirable Sites in all Parts of the City 157 So. Center Phone 968-W GEORGE B. NELSON i Eeal Estate :: Insurance 4 Townsend Building i Casper, - - - - Wyoming i Build With Brick | THE GALUSHA BRICK YARD ! Dry Pressed Brick | “A Home Product” | First & Washington—Phone 786M ; | | if ' | Furnaces and Boilers Refinite Nature’s Water Softener 229 So. Durbin Phone 43 | The Dead Weight of a Vacant Lot LARSEN & JORGENSEN Contractors and Builders Planing Mill in Connection Phone 219 See this vacant lot; perhaps it is your lot. In it you have tied some Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars from which you are not receiving a cent of profit. Is it good business to let money lie idle when it can be so easily made productive? Help Uncle Sam— BUILD NOW O. L. WALKER LUMBER CO. “Everything for the Builder” Phone 240 Phone 406W CASPER HOME BUILDERS CO. Casper, Wyoming Shon and Offices: Corner Railroad and Durbin Sts. | It is actually worse than idle money. It is a con- stant, annual source of loss—an expense. The tax collector attends to that. Is it good business to pay tax on property that is profitless to youP r work. [Let us build you a eee or do your mill work. §Qur prices are right. : : 3 + 3 Furthermore, this city actually needs more homes. You are holding a piece of ground which might be turned into some one’s residence. To this extent you are under moral obligations to the city to build. Mr. Citizen ! ’ Now’s the Time for You to Build. - - - Estimates Cheerfully Furnished KEITH LUMBER COMPANY Phone 3 s , : And by allowing your property to lie, unsightly and unimproved, you are hindering the enhancement of property values in your neighborhood. Thus you suffer still another loss. “HOLMES to HOMES” Paints, Varnishes, Builders’ Hardware Build Now — Paint Now HOLMES HARDWARE CO. Phone 601 aa ‘dividual investor and his dependents. To bring this about, all factors in- ‘ : terested in construction must co- of Building Speed Reconstruction Work in Nation; Banks Urged to Lend Assistance. In an effort to start a nation-wide | fundamental soundness is Analysis of narcotic preparations building revival at once, Secretary |question, and it was interpreted as must be made with exceptional care,|of Labor Wilson addressed the fol-' indicating that the government want-| lowing statement to the banks of the; ed nothing to interfere with resump- a _de-| “Inasmuch as the building industi If the num-| Pend on the testimony of chemists, |js regarded by many as the means of “Next to placing private funds in , government securities, it is desirable; heavyweight championship of Great |ter of Francis E. that they be invested in out J wealth like construction. The accum- |ulated earnings of the country should not be diverted into forms of wealth! \ing power. lof wealth will stabilize the moral and financial conditions of the country as ‘a whole, as well as benefit the in- operate. This statement was in answer to to banking institutions who had said thet they had been asked by the gov- ernment not to make any big build- jing commitments until after the | Fifth Liberty Loan, and it was this {statement which loosened the money market for building investors. Its beyond | tion of construction pReTEUCHICHEELOJ Ecce: ‘GODDARD 1S WINNER IN BRITISH TITLE FIGHT (By Ansociated Prean.) LONDON, May 27.—Frank God- dard beat Jack Curphey in the tenth round of a 20-round contest for the indareriel transition to a peace basis, it |have the encouragement of all ee ests. Public construction will be help- ful in mitigating conditions, therefore ; The Yale authority says that “over Great Britain to be admitted to the ‘t is evident that private as well as are on a permanently high price level | $1,000,000,000 in gold has come into Society of Incorporated Accountants (Peas pee a ae oe Resumen | enduring Britain here last nig! Give It a Chance to Work for You Build a house upon that vacant lot and convert it from an expense into an asset. owning idle land which brings you zothing, you will have valuable property which will always be a source of income. One of the greatest needs of America today is the need of homes. Read the opinion ‘handed down by the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly on the sub- ject of building conditions: “The best authorities at this time state that the United States is short on practically all character of buildings. As _a whole, this country is Forty Per cent underbuilt.” This being the case, don’t you see that you are actually Josing by not building? Because the de- mand for homes is so great at the present time, rents are higher than ever before. Why don’t you build a house and rent it? By building on that vacant lot you are increasing the value of all real estate in the neighborhood, your own along with the rest. Build now! easily consumed and without earn-| Permanent investments! 'HAMMER,REPORT LINCOLN, CLAIM Then instead of Authorities state that you can build as economically today as at any future time that can yet be foreseen. BIG ESTATES IN. '200 MILES NEW ENGLANDUNDER WIRE LINES IN LONDON, Mz A number of KEMMERER, Wyo., May 27.— the big country estates with which Earl Hathenbrouck, local manager Efigland abounds are going under the for the Mountain States Telephone & auctioneer’s hammer, judging from Te legraph_Co. is entertaining a party the advertising pages of real estate of company engineers who are here journals. One advertisement of a to decide on-certain extensions and ‘country house for sale s the house improvements in the territory under contains fifty bedrooms. Old timers his supervision. The party consists are sadly asking whether the “fifty of Murray McNeil, Elmer Cover, bedroom” scale of entertaining ever Marion Steck, Jack O'Neill and C. will be seen Eft Hummel. After a careful survey of the field, which was gone over in automobiles, it wes decided to build a permanent ROMANOFE WG T f line from Big Piney to Rock Springs, taking in Daniel, Pinedale and Elk- horn. This will involve the construc- tion of about 200 miles of line and will add grea’ of the public ered. to the convenience thin the aera cov- (By Associated Press.) BOISE, Idaho, May —Konstan- tine Romanoff, Omaha heavyweight wrestler, defeated Nick Decourt of Los Angeles, in two straight In her capacity as secretary of the falls Association of Government Labor Of- last night. of the United States and Cana- ; ——.—___— da, Miss Linna Bresette, of Topeka, Chey e is to have hospital to be ing the program for the or- built and named in memory of the! yanization’s annual convention to be wife of General Pershing. Mrs. Per-'held next month at Madison, Wis. shing was a Wyoming girl, the daugh DS a oa a nite In six states women are now eligi- ‘States senator from that ble to sit on ju Hardware for the Builder WEBEL COMMERCIAL CO. “The Big Busy Store” Housing Conditions in Casper are Strained! Your Buildinz will Help Speed Reconstruction Build Now! CASPER REALTY CO. Ground Floor Henning Hotel Phone 381 HANDBURY-~JOHNSON co. Plumbing & He. Let Us Figure on Equipment Help the Government and Build Now 226 N. Center Phone 983 ————— ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING No Job Too Large None Too Small Let Us Help You Plan Your Wiring in Your New Home ELECTRIC SUPPLY AND CONSTRUCTION CO. Phone 969W MARION P. WHEELER Real Estate and Inserance Townsend Building Casper, - - - - Wyoming ———— J. L. CUNNINGHAM Contractor and Builder Estimates Cheerfully Furnished South Center : St. 430 —_—————S$ ELECTRIC FIXTURES AND APPLIANCES NATRONA POWER COMPANY Phone 69 BARTHOLOMEW-KEMP CO. Lynch Building 111 E. Second Phone 370 Realty Brokers General Insurance The Government Urges Us to Build Now, Paint Now — _ Repair Now Start the Ball Rolling Today with Your Contract JOHN JOURGENSON Paint Dealer 245 W. Second Phone 33 KEEP TIME GOOD es by BUILDING NOW The CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE When Contemplating Building SCHULTE HARDWARE CO. Can Furnish Everything for the Builder