Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 2

. muscle. PAGE TWO cae be Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evening except Sunaay at Casper. Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices: Tribune Building BUSINESS TELEPHONES-.-----. Se Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting A‘! Departments —— Entered at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice as second-class matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS FROM UNITED PRESS resident and Editor Business Manager . Ausociate Edivor me oh oe . City Editor ..-Advertising Manager a PI J. BE. HANWAY -——~- . H. HUNTLEY R. EB. EVANS - THOMAS DAILY Advertising David J. Randali, 341 Firuh Ave., New York City Prudden, King &’Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg.. Chicago lll. Copies of the Daily Tribund are on file in the New York and Chicago offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Carrier One Year - Six Months Three Months v be ‘All subscription: must be paid in advance and t! Daiiy ‘Tribune will not insure delivery efter subscrip tion becomes one month in arrears. ———— ——eeeSEeESEeEeSEee Member of Audit Bureau of Circutations (A. B. ©.) -. ee eeeeESESEeSeSSSSS—— Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news publishc? } rein. Kick if You Don't Get Your Tribune. CaN 15 or 16 any time between © and § o'clock p. m. if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be deliv- ered to you by special Messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you, —_— <> WHAT THE A. A. A. HAS DONE. The people of this nation do not realize what they owe to the American Automobile Association. It is altogether likely that they will not appreciate what they have received through this organization. To gain some idea you must go back to the day when the bicycle was at the height of its glory, when the League of American® Wheelmen was founded, and you began’to hear serious complaint of the public roads. Generally speaking the roads were poor in those days. ‘They were mostly dirt roads. True there were turn- ‘pikes and short stretches of stone paved roads, but no Jong stretches of surfaced roads such as you find today. The American wheelmen were the people who created the sentiment for better roads and in the years that they were pounding away at the dear pub- lic, the bicyele passed from first place and the auto- mobile succeeded it. The wheelmen became the auto- mobile association in due course of time and the ne- cessity for more and better roads hecame greater. The new vehicle could travel farther ard faster and the propelling power did not, depend upon human The investment, too, was itch greater. With the perfection of the automobile came its general use for most of the purposes fulfilled by the horse and many others the horse could not supply. Through- out these years the automobile association finally em- bracing a*membership nation-wide, grew correspond- ingly in influence. Included in its ranks were the ac- tive business and professional men of the country. It was purely unselfish in its objects; but it did de- mand better roads and it began to get them. The federal aid law is one of the big things the automobile association accomplished. The permanent road building in Wyoming and elsewhere is due to this law.. The Salt Creek concrete highway, the pave- ments from the city limits to the Platte river, the magnificent cement bridge across the Platte at the end of the pavement are all benefits right at home made possible by this law and the enterprise of the American Automobile Association. You may all ap- preciate these great modern facilities and if you do you’ now know to whom the credit is due. The federal aid bill necessitated the state highway commission which mapped and is now building a com- prehensive system of highways throughout Wyo- ming. The Townsend bill which is now before con- gress is a measure designed to further ald in the de- velopment of highways. It provides for a national commission to work in conjunction with the various state commissions. It carries an appropriation of two hundred million dollars available in 1922 and 1923. Another important measure, greatly to the benefit of Wyoming, js the Phipps bill, which has already passed the mikes and is expected to go through the house almost any-day. This act, introduced by Sena- ter Phipp of Colorado, provides that in the western states where there are large areas of public lands there shall be allowed a greater proportion of high- way funds than in states where lands are in private ownership. Which means that states like Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and other so-called public land states will receive for road purposes, in- stead of one dollar for each dollar provided by the state, three dollars to one or possibly even more, owing to the area of public lands which may be with- in the state. The Yellowstone Park, the forest re- serves and the many square miles of federal lands within our borders will provide a large extra fund for Wyoming roads. Last year we received three million dollars of fed- eral aid. This year in all probability we will receive something like three times that amount and no more will be required from the state as its proportion than formerly. The American Autor:obile Association is enthusias- tically for both the Townsend and Phipps measures and not only the country in general but Wyoming in particular is indebted to the association for the great public work it has done, but we should join’ it in urging our members in the congress to lend their sup- port for these beneficial measures. a THE TYPICAL AMERICAN. President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern uni- | versity, says that the typical American 1s more often the descendant of steerage passengers than of the Pilgrim Fathers. The Pilgrim Fathers had nothing much on the steerage passengers who came later. We don’t hear so much about the ideals of the steerage passengers as we have heard about the Mayflower excursionists, but we are sure their ambitions in many cases were , fully as high. So far as we may be certain each sought the privilege to worship God in his own fash- ion and to make a living. The Pilgrims were the pio- | Meers and paved the way to American citizenship, those who missed the first boat came along later fell into step and became equally as good American citi- zens. The aspiratious of both were identical. , The early arrivals and their descendants and the later arrivals and their descendants have made quitu @ country out of the United States of America and they are still making improvéments. The melting pot has turned out some wonderful people. And the product has but lately journeyed back to the old home places to quiet a disturbance among their former people who had different ideals. And who was it that went across and put down the war. Strictly speaking it was not the Mayflower de- av seendants. From Massachusetts the were made up of Irish, Italians, Greeks and all other Eu- repean nationalities. New York did not send her Hol- land Dutch, The names of her fighters read like a combination European directory. Ohio did not pro- vide her descendants from her New England stock, the roster could easily be mistaken for a section of the kaiser’s own fighting forces. And so on through- out the other states. They were all Americans. All devoted to American institutions. But the reason they all went was because of the undying ideals of the old boys who made the port of Plymouth on an event- ful winter day. These things and a thousand others are why the immigration problem of America a difficult one. phot oP Se Rb a se ABUSE OF POWER. “Making warfare upon legitimate creations of the states,” is the way the supreme court of the United States pats it in a décision involving the coercion of certain federal reserve banks to compel state banks to become members of the reserve system. Although there has been hirlt of the facts in the past a full statement of the manner in which the fed- eral reserve board abused its powers has not hereto- fore come to public attention. It appears that the board undertook to use its official authority in an illegal way to force state banks to become mem! of the reserve system against their wishes. Various schemes were resorted to but in spite of these meas- ures many of the banks undertook to preserve their independence and their right to conduct their busi- ness in accordance with the laws of the state rather than of the nation. This right the federal law guar- anteed them. As a last resort, in its efforts to punish state banks that refused to become members, the federal reserve bank would have one of its agents gradually accu- mulate checks on the state bank until the amount of such checks exceeded the amount of currency said state bank w required to carry in its vaults. It would then send its men hurriedly and un- pectedly to demand payment of the checks in cash, in default of which the checks were sent to protest and the news spread about the community that the bank was being questioned by the government; that it had dishonored checks, and the result would be, very likely, a run on the bank and its destruction. The bank could save itself from this disaster by sign- ing an agreement to submit itself to the orders of the federal reserve system. To protect itself from the danger of proceedings of this kind the American, Bank and Trust Company of Georgia appealed to the courts to prevent the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of Atlanta from eee ae Oe cive methods, as indicated. In its defense the fed- od eral reserve bank asserted that the holder of checks| unis "y ug a Bi beg on Bob had a right to retain them and present them at his; nay so tao, we want the big money pleasure.” for Wyoming. So wire Mondell, The supreme court held that while en = true FRED PATEE. so long as the motive is an honest o: ut the a counet ba exercised for a dishonorable purpose. ‘th Lt ee eampae el Senay cur. court said: “Banks as we know them caw aot exist ae e tas 9 a beg eta c tied if they could not rely upon averages and len large part of the money that they receive from their de- & radius of- 59 mist sol attecttys: Zpue. positors on the assumption that not more than a cer- tain fraction of it will be demanded on any one day. If without a word of falsehood but acting from wha‘ we have called disinterested malevolence, a man by persuasion should organize and carry into effect a run upon a bank and ruin it, we cannot doubt that an action would lie. A r result, even if less complete in its effect, is to be expected from the course that the defendants are alleged to intend, and to determine whether they are authorized to follow that course it is not enough to refer to the general right of a holder of checks to present them, but it is necessary to consider whether the collection of checks and presenting them in a body for the pur- pose of breaking down the petitioners business as now conducted is justified by the ulterior purpose in view. We do not need aid from the debates upon the stat- ute under which the reserve banks exist to assume that the United States did not intend by that sta‘ ute to sancion this sort of warfare upon legitimate creations of the states.” This instance of the dictatorship of an arrogant bureaucracy will discourage the granting of similar powers to boards created by the congress in the future, and is good argument for abolishing some of the numerous aid societies created for the purposes of handling war conditions. a 0 THE CLOCK PUNCHERS. “Back in the halcyon days of 1918,” says the Philadelphia Ledger, “an order emanated from the offices of the director general of railroads that dur- iz the period of government control railroads were “to allow employes one hour extra pay each week for punching the clock, regardless of the hours ac- tually worked.” All this was made under the cele- brated national agreements and during the first six months of 1920; this cost the railways $6,445,658! “For punching a clock once each week ‘nearly $6,- 500,000 passed from the railway strong boxes into employes’ pockets. No pretense was made that any work was. done for this money. It was-given to em- ployes because they wanted it, the labor unions asked for it and the director general was a most complais- ant soul. “This deserves td stand with that other classic of the McAdoo days—those aw Italian laborers who were ‘reclassified’ as machinists and paid $89 a week for inspecting engine fronts. There were many and various like these. 4 “We are just beginning to get light on the won- ders that were worked in the regime of the first di- rector general of the railroads. What a wonder that man was! What miracles he worked in turning com- mon, labor into highly paid, high-class, well-trained and finished products! Never forgetting for a mo- ment the high pay. “What magic there was in having everybody give one little punch to a time-clock and then straightway behold the results of a full hour’s work come forth! There is some kind of genius and wizardry in what that man did for and-did to the railways of these United States. “There are a great many people who would like to know who drafted the orders that came out of the di- rector general’s office in those‘ halcyon days.” pe I A GROWING PROBLEM. Heavens, but our American millionaires are a rest- less lot! Particularly in their marital affairs are they unsettled. We have been having a continuous per- formance for a year or more in which the names of the elders or the young people of our wealthiest families figure in newspaper columns and court pro- ceedings, embellished with scandal and immorality that makes the underworld seem rather pious and cir- cumspect. Sometimes we have had as many as three or four of these public washings of soiled family linen in operation at the same time. It has not been a pro- ceeding to inspire pride in the grest respectable ele- ment of our Population and the example it has set has been most damaging. If there were not enough already, the Drexel-Bid- dle-Duke disagreement will about complete the pro- gram. Wake Up and Get Busy! Eéitor Tribune: Now is the time for all good men who love Wyoming to get their friends together and send good strong telegrams to Frank Mon- dell to push the Phipps bill through congress with all possible dispatch. Hearings on the Townsend snd Phipps bills are concluded and it looks as thaagh both bills were scheduled for appearance within the next few days. It may, however, be several days be- fore they pass, in the meantime Wyo ming may be seriously handicapped unless the Phipps bill, which has al- ready passed the senate, is reported and passed by the house. I urge every man who wants good roads in Wyoming to wire Mr. Mondell urging him ta give the Phipps bill immediate clearance, The Townsend bill carries an appropriation @° two hundred mil- Hon dollars available in the next two years, and the Phipps bill -makes “it possible for Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain states to get federal aid through this bill, not of dollar for dollar as we have been getting @f fed- eral aid, but of from three to: five dollars of federal aid for every dollar that we have to put up. That means millions of dollars for Wyoming, and Wyoming must get busy and tele- graph Congressman Mondel! ta help us get that bill through immediately. This is an emergency that calls for immediate and positive action, an@ I hope every man who reads this will not only wire Mondell himself, but will get all af his friends to do the same thing. Do not be misled by the assertion of persons who are favoring still another bjll known as the Dowell bill, which is a purely political bill that that is what we want for it is not. It would not give Wyoming o! dd@lar and we must have money. The state highway commission have wired Mondell in support of the two bills we want, and I ask you one and all, to wire ‘him to support the Phipps bill. Under it we might get from six to ten million dollars of federal ai¢ money ta match the one million eight bundred thousand dollar bond issue which we voted last month, whereas, we can now get only one million two Ask for It By Name CREAM BRICKS WILL PLEASE YOU. OUR ICE other back and forth they cquld force any other player out of the pool. The good hand coukd then be called and shown, the confederate simply say- ing “that is good,” and putting his hand in the discard. Q.—What animal si office of the war department. 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