Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1921, Page 2

‘ 4 t 8 PAGE TWO Che Casper Daily Cribune ning except Sunday at Casper, Natrona -ublication Offices. Tribune Building EPHONES .........-- and 16 exchange Connecting All Departments fice as second class MEMBER MEMBER J. BE. HANWAY EARL E. HANWAY W. H. HUNTLEY E ; --Advertising Manager Advertising Ran Representatives 34 5 Fitth w ¥ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier By Mail 37.80 9 20 Scgketeh »sas 53 ee sts 1.95 iption by mail accepted for less period than ons must be paid in advance and the not insure delivery after subscrip. onth in arrears Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for put on of all news credited in this paper and also the ews published herein Kick if You Don't Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6 and 8 o'clock p. m. if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be de- livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. “Sip ENCOURAGING MERCHANT FLEET. Senator Jones of Washington has proposed an amendment to the pending tariff bill designed to en- courage the American merchant marine. It is brief but pointed. It reads: “Hereafter all goods, wares and merchandise im- ported in vessels other than vessels of the United States shall be subject to a duty of p per centum ad valorem in excess of the duties herein imposed, and all goods, wares and merchandise, excepting tea and coffee, so imported which are otherwise admitted free of duty under this act shall pay a duty of 2 per cen- tum ad valorem: Provided, That the foregoing pro- visions shall not go into effect as to goods, wares and merchandise if imported in the vessels of those na- tions with which we have treaties which said provi- sions contravene until the expiration of one year from the date when this act becomes a law, at which time said treaties are hereby declared to be duly abrogated unless the same are sooner abrogated by notice given by the president under the terms of such treaties.” Under section 34 of the present merchant marine act the president is authorized and directed to give such notice, President Wilson refused to take action under this section, a refusal which prompted Mr. Harding to declare in a pre-election speech at Balti- more on September 27: “‘It is useless to look for use- ful results if the president persists in his policy not to carry out the terms of that act.” In his Omaha speech of October 15, Mr. Harding declareds.“I am in favor of the enforcement of the Jones act which was iutended to make it possible to hold tat advantage,” that is, the advantage we had gained during the war. “TI have no hesitancy in giving full condemnation to the failure of an administration to put into effect the bidding of congress. I am for a growing American merchant marine . . . because it is the only protec- tion we have against discrimination in shipping and because it guarantees that America shall have one of the three great essentials to a vigorous, growing for- eign trade.” Something like 40 per cent of our water-borne im- port trade was carried in American vessels during the last fiscal year. Water-borne trade was about 87 per cent of the total, or, roughly, $3,200,000,000, of which about $1,280,000,000 paid freight to American bottoms, while the foreigner was paid for carrying $1,920,000,000 worth of the incoming traffic. Our total imports by land and sea were $3,654,000,000 in value. Assuming that under the pending tariff bill we should import $3,000,000,000 worth of goods next year, 87 per cent, or $2,600,000,000 of which came by water, of which 60 per cent, or $1,560,000,000, was carried in foreign ships, that would be the figure to which the Jones discriminatory rates would apply. As- suming, again, that the ratio of free to dutiable im- ports would be the same as during the last year un- der protection, or 54 per cent for the former, and 46 per cent for the latter, we would have $842,000,000 worth of imports paying the 2 per cent discrimina- tory, or $16,800,000, and $718,000,000 paying the 5 per cent discriminatory, or nearly $36,000,000 aggre- gating nearly $53,000,000 in discrimination in favor of American ships. To enter into competitive sub- sidization would be poor policy because the British board of control has plenary power. The discrimina- tory plan was in the first tariff bill ever passed by congress, and it worked successfully until the British hocussed us out of it following the Treaty of Ghent in 1815. ——SESe One of the leading supporters of the Republican administration bill for relief to the farmers was the Democratic leader of the senate. Now let’s have an end of that assertion in the Democratic press that the Republicans are accomplishing nothing. THEY WANT TO KNOW. What can be the meaning of the solicitude of other members of congress, all of whom have been invited to become members of a proposed country club, as to whether or not Mr. Volstead is to become a member. It is understood that Mr. Volstead is a respectable citizen and a good golf player, and is agreeable and companionable. Yet many of those invited to become members have withheld their applications until it is learned what Mr. Volstead intends to do. Washington does not understand the situation and is somewhat worried about it. There has been no suggestion to call it the Vol- stead club. eee AN EDUCATIONAL LUNCH COUNTER. Andrew Fleming West, dean of the graduate school Princeton university, whose experience in teaching covers forty years, openly criticises American schools with a candor that is alarming school authorities and doing no end of good in effecting reforms, where prin- cipals and teachers were previously unaware that their sthools were inefficient. Professor West recently said to a group of educa- tors these plain but wholesome and undeniable truths: “The importance of extended training in the funda- mental studies is what is required. Our present sys- tem of education neglects this and there is the root of the difficulty. “TI do not believe the people know fully how bad a product our schools are producing. They know some- thing of it; complaints of the product are too fre- quent to permit of total ignorance, but if the facts were known a change in system would be demanded. “The nineteenth century was the boastful century. ‘We were perfect; our schools were perfect. No other country could compare with ours in whet wes done here for education. Schoolhouses everywhere, with every modern improvement. Yes, on the outside. It was the age when we were counselled. not to knock if we couldn’t praise. “Now, in the twentieth century we have begun to ‘knock.’ High time, too. What are the facts? Are we a literate people? “As for the general illiteracy of the United States, the revelations regarding the four million men en- listed for service in the world war show that nearly one-fourth of them were illiterate, in the primitive, simple sense of the word. “It is fair to presume this represents a cross sec- tion of the wholes population and that approximately one-fourth of the people of the United States are illit- erate. “If we add to them another fourth, that lying near- est to the illiterate belt, persons of slight and insuffi- cient education, we shall have one-half of the whole population of the land either illiterate or very insuf- ficiently educated. “No matter where the blame for this belongs, the peril to free institutions is so great that our duty to remedy promptly the situation by a thoroughgoing primary education is imperative. It can’t be safely neglected much longer. “It is in this half of the population the agitator of discontent finds his opportunity. Here is the breed- ing ground of the ignorant discontent which is t gatural enemy of our institutions. “In this region of illiteracy we find the dislike or even contempt for the chief studies which afford a liberal education, notably to Latin or Greek, also to any other studies lying outside the range of petty in- terests. “This element has the same feelings of dislike to- ward ancient history, mathematics, philosophy and all the sciences except in so far as these serve their own material ends. Their indifference to knowledge is a large part of the cause of the failure of their own lives. “If once this class should learn that knowledge is power for good their lot would be brighter. It is the business of the schools to see that they get this help. It is the business of our country to see that the schools are euipped with specially fine teachers, so that this help shall be surely provided.” EE FORCED TO BE FAIR. The American shipping board has won a significant victory over the British commercial interests who sought to establish a boycott against American mer- chant marine in the carrying trade. It came in the Egyptian cotton case in which American ships bid 23 cents against the British shipping price of 69 cents on movement of the Egyptian cotton crop to the United States. The Egyptian producers commission was glad to avail itself of the lower American rates but was held up by the vote of one member who stood out for the payment of the higher British rate. And since the decision of the Egyptian commission must be unanimous under their local rules American ships were denied the business. The case was carried to a London conference and the ridiculous position of the British mercantile combination exposed. The re- sult was the allocation of 50 per cent of the shipments from Alexandria to this country, to American ships. Upon indirect shipments to the United States, by way of Great Britain the conference stood firm against a fifty-fifty division. There is yet the Galveston case of boycott to be threshed out before Great Britain comes clean in its attitude toward American rights to participate in overseas business. We. still have the means of retaliation which have not yet been employed, but which we will employ, if forced to it by the sélfish action of British commer- cial interests. r ——___o—_—___—___ OUR OWN COME FIRST. Before we start into a campaign in aid of Russian unfortunates, would it not be well to look about our own premises and see that our own dependents are as comfortable as we can make them. Shall we rush off to aid the destitute in Russia when we have destitute at hand to whom we owe everything. What about our brave ex-soldiers, who have no jobs and are driven into the bread lines of the cities? We are certain there were sacred prom- ises to them, when the government begged the peo- ple to buy bonds and leave the rest to it. The able-bodied and more fortunate can await the day when the country can reward them; but what about the sick, maimed and helpless and the others who have no work? Should we not do something about them, to place them upon their feet and on the way to self-support before we undertake to look after the unfortunates of ot!er countries? There is not the slightest opposition to relief of the starving in Russia or humanitarian aid wherever needed anywhere in the world, but our obligations to our own come first. Then we are ready to divide the last slab of bacon with whoever :s hungry. —_o—______ BOTH FEET ON THE FLOOR. Even the attitude of things but dimly remembered of the good old days, must be avoided if you would be clear of the penalties of the law in Wisconsin. It is so ruled and ordered that in consuming your near Schlitz, your cherry phosphate or even your ice cream soda, you must not rest your foot upon the polished rail. Not from any fear of developing a flat tire on the other wheel, but because of a peculiar new pro- hibition law that requires you to stand a certain dis- tance from the counter. Milwaukee, which has become accustomed to many strange things in the past few years, thinks the new regulation is carrying the joke just a little too far. ——$<$$_»> —_______ TECHNICALLY NOT GUILTY. The Chicago baseball players have been acquitted by the jury. Legally they are pure, but in the public mind they are guilty. Any group of respectable ball players who consort with a lot of gamblers and crooked ball players convict themselves by their own testimony. Regardless of acquittal the players who were on trial should not be trusted again. At least not until they have shown something more of Tepent- ance, than blubbering about the wife and kiddies, when they were caught in their disreputable practices. The acquitted players have disgraced the profes- sion to which they belonged. | ———— 7 JAZZ IS DEAD AGAIN. For the fifth time in annual convention dancing masters have proclaimed the official death of jazz. It has been jazzed to death. The increasing tempo year by year finally reached the pace that kills. To celebrate the passing of jazz, the masters are introducing the “culture walk,” said to be easy and fascinating. The instractions are to “keep the body line back, the forward leg straight. Bend the back leg, take a long, stretching glide and forget about the ball of the foot.” Sounds fascinating. We hope the shimmy parlors hereabouts introduce a few trial or- ders at an early date. a ee ee WHAT PROTECTION DOES, The zoo markets quote elephants at $3.34 a square inch, against $1.67 before the Republicans got in power. We fear jackasses have dropped to a nickel a square yard.—Houston Post. It is a sad commentary on the income tax law when a strong industrial concern goes into bankruptcy and its offices are taken over and luxuriously fitted up by a firm of “Income Tax Experts” who make their money telling people how to make income tax re- ports, fhe Casper Daily Crisune : Wrecked U-Boat Serves as Bathhouse ifornia, said today he was advised 5 Secretary Hughes that it is pro; to hold all sessions in Wash:, Conference On APPLAUDED BY... Pacttic Probe BELFAST UNION Acknowledges Receipt. of Con- WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — In to reqvsste from Sen Fran. coast gratilations and Beller 7 A Word About |S estae l=” BAUR’S CANDY BOX CANDY FROM DENVER * "NOTE—Anybody who's lived in Denver, stopped off in Denver, or camped near Denver knows Candy —Real Candy—not Sugar Soup— not Grease Cakes—but CANDY— Pure, Sweet Candy. Buar’s London, in which he criticized ‘activ- ities.of Sinn Fein sympathizers in the United Stateb, was made public here Monday. . x “It mag’ interest you to Mhow that) practically all the reputable newspa- pers in the United States are now in thorough approval of our condemna- tion of the activities of Sinn Fell Sweetly made Mie Weta es te eg Bo: Sweetly handled fe ¥ epee abe taot tas ne Seay pecies of opinion <oAsAicical people in the form of Sweetly advertised Assortment . Mr. PEP and Mr. SELL.’EM have con- . traced for BAUR’S. A Box ASSORTMENT aol we Chocolates showers of letters ‘and telegrams to all €oncerned. It is my hopo that it will exercise a wery considerable, in- Muence upon the.relations between our two countries.” ‘ pes abeaebe ARE oS § JAP EVACUATION POSTPONED. RIGA, Letvia, Aug. 9.—Ja postponed her promised gyacuat th t ular bathing stations on the south coast of England tsa eerented former sabensrina wtie wok seeeed en earine ths war. It contains many cabins sultable for rooms. grocvovensoestes sveneranerat | Lum be r Fir e d iOur Exchanges?) Veccccccccocscscoces cocccconecs ; 7) Skunks Lend Powerful Argument. ment of the Far Eastern’ republic of Nuts (Cody Herald.) LONDON, Aug. 9.—(By The Asso-} Siberia. ’ Fruits C. A, C. Snow of Clark, was in Cody |Clated Press.}—Disappointed over their 5, 4 p erg ieee ops ee We Have Received a FRESH Shipment. with the sale of the bonds for the new |in East London, which advertised for $5,000 school which the people of that|50 men, 5,000 unemployed. laborers district voted themselves in the last|today brokefnto thé premises and set election. je ‘one of lumber valued at Mr. Snow states that the need for a/1,000,000 pounds. ; new schoolhouse became mpre im-| Considegable damage was done be- perative after a family of skunks|fore 600 foot and mounted police made took up their residence under the|way for a fire brigade. floor of the old one last winter and bi SR RreR EE White to Run For Saved My Life With Eatonie - We Will Receive a FRESH Shipment EVERY WEEK. ON SALE AT PEP’S NEWS DEPOT 251 South Center Street Phone 256 them expressed thelr exasperations in such fashion that school was dismiss- An Institution for the People GUNNISON Rotten Candy is like the Highway East of Casper. Baur’s Candy is like the boulevard roads just north of Cheyer. ed upon several occasions. Also there was a rattelsnake that came up betimes and looked things over, while a nest of pack-rats at- ded the sessions with far more reg- city than some of the pupils. Democratic leaders who were close to Tho skunks, however, were the|the Wilson administration said today most powerful argument in favor of |it is understood definitely that Chatr- a new schoolhouse and the bonds were|man White of the Democratic Nation- carried by a good majority. They|al committee would be a candidate for have been taken by Kuntz and com-| governor of Ohio next year. Chair- pahy of New York City, and the|/man White himself was out of the school board will shortly advertise for] city. bids on a substantial building a short distance from Clark. when annoyed by the nolse above Ohio Governor WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — Some Projected a Hundred Feet. (Lingle Review.) Catapilted a distance of 100 feet by the running gears of a wagon when the team he was driving ran away Thursday afternoon, Sylvester Sherman of the Rawhide, son of for- mer sheriff, James Sherman, escaped with only minor injuries. | He was, unconscious when picked up, but soon revived. A gash on the head was his most serious hurt. The boy had come to town for a load of lumber and was riding on the running gear. When the team start- ed from somé unknown cause, he had no chance to hold them and they raced madly north on Main street, and hit- ting a bump, the wagon came un- coupled and the rear end went into the air throwing the boy with extreme violence. 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