Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1921, Page 2

4 a f H es th anotltia atti ite roe} ronrote +4 MusdDaA ste teeA csareses meen aneervrueneeereveseenevetaerreroereveveereerrirvacvvevevrosnemseresessictsten forest MPUPUELNTUEFIH NLA PAGE TWO Che Caspet Daily Cribuns —_ $$$ national commander of that fbe Casper Daily Cribune Imsued every evening except Sunday at Cesper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices. Tribune Building. BUSINESS TELEPHONES ........--.----+- -15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Entered at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER OF THE UNITED PRESS President and Editor . Business Manager -Associated Editor +es+-- City Editor -Advertising Mansger . E. HANWAY THOMAS DAILY Advertising Representatives David J. Randall, 341 Fifth Ave., New York City. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, Ul. 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There is considerable confusion respecting what is meant by American valuation, by which foreign goods are to be admitted into this country under the Ford- ney tarf measure. Possibly the best authority upon the matter is the American Economist which explains and illustrates the plan in the following article on the subject: “There still seem to be some who do not understand the American valuation as a basis for the assessment of duty on imported foreign merchandise as provided for in the Fordney bill. In fact, we got hold of a prominent paper a few days ago which gravely in- formed its readers that the system provided that all similar foreign goods must pay such duty as to make them cost the same, laid down in this country, duty paid, as American goods of similar nature and qual- ity. That is absolutely untrue. What is provided for is that all goods of like nature and quality shall pay the same amount of duty and that such duty shall be based upon the American valuation of the comparable American goods. That is, no matter how the foreign market values, may vary in the different countries from which any certain kind of article may be im- ported, the duty will be the same no matter from what country imported. That is, the duty on an article which may cost $3 in England will be exactly the same as on a similar article imported from Japan at a cost of $2. The duty is based upon the price of the similar article of American production. “The difference between the American valuation and the foreign valuation may be illustrated as fol- lows: Assume that an article which is dutiable under the present law and under the Fordney bill at the same rate of d which we will say is 25 per cent., costs $2 in this country, $1.50 in England, $1.35 in France, $1.20 in Germany, and $1.10 in Japan. The duty will be based upen the American valuation, no account being taken of its foreign value so far as the amount of duty is concerned. The duty would be 25 per cent of $2, or 50 cents. < “But the articles imported from the different coun tries would not cost th ame, ay more than they do under the prevent system. The foreign costs would be the same under either system. That is the article from Germany would cost $1.20, in that country, whether our law provides for the assessment of' duty under the American or the foreign valuation. But the cost of the article laid down in this country, duty paid, would be different under the different systems. Under the American valuation the duty would be 25 per cent. of $2, or 50 cents, to which is to be added the German cost, making the price laid down in this country $1.20 plus the duty, of 50 cents, or $1.70. Under the pres- ent law the duty would be based on the German value, that is it would be 25 per cent. of $1.20, or 30 cents, which added to the cost would make it cost here, after the payment of duty, $1.50. “Let us illustrate by presenting in parallel columns, the different costs of foreign imported articles in this country, including the foreign cost and the duty, using the same article as above for example: Duty paid Duty paid cost Foreign costunder under American Country. cost. presentlaw. valuation. England —. 1.50 1.88 2.00 France - ; 1.69 1.85 1.50 1.70 1.38 1.60 valuation system will be to produce more revenue than under the present system, for the lower-cost countries will have to pay the same amount of duty on the goods which they sell here as do the higher-cost countries. The ultimate consumers will pay the same under any circumstances, the only ones who will not fare so well being the im- porters and the lower-production cost countries. That is why the importers are so anxious to defeat the American valuation system-—they want to put the dif- ference in their own pockets. “But there is another reason why they oppose the proposed system. Under the present law which pro- vides for the assessment of duty on the basis of the foreign valuation, the undervaluations have amounted to millions of dollars annually, because it has been im- possible to accurately determine the foreign market values. Nor is that all. Even when it has been shown that foreigners have sworn falsely to their in- voices and that they have deliberately defrauded the United States treasury out of vast sums of revenue, they have escaped personal punishment for their crimes, for they are not amenable to our laws, being resident in foreign countries. Ther do not care about so small a matter as perjury when they cannot be pun- ished for it. They do not care for the penalties which we impose upon undervaluers, when they are not un- der our jurisdiction. The most that we can punish is to impose additional duties which amount to but a drop in a bucket in comparison with the larger amounts of duty of which they, in other cases, es- cape the payment. “But, under the American basis, there can be no andervaluation. Even if there could be, there would be few who would care to take any chances, since the guilty parties would be under the jurisdiction of our laws and subject to swift punishment. “At first sight, these figures seem to bear out the contention of the importers that the American valua- tion plan increases the duty, but it must be remem- bered that the rates of duty under the American val- uation are lower than under the foreign valuation. We use the same rates of duty simply for purposes of comparison. In the illustration given it will be seen that, under the American valuation, the cost of the article made in this cowmtry and the duty paid cost of the English article are the same. It thus appears that the only real protection afforded is ‘against the Eng- lish product, the laid<down price on the products of each of the other countries being less than the Amer- ican price. However, under the foreign valuation law the difference is still more marked. “We trust we bave.made the American valuation system plain. The effect of it is simply to make the amount of duties which each country pays on similar articles uniform, instead of making the rate of duty uniform as now, with each country paying a different duty. ‘ “Under any and all conditions the American valua- tion is the fairest and most easily administered, while, under present conditions, it is the only way in which we can keep our treasury from being annually robbed of millions of dollars through the depreciation of for- eign currency. The American valuation system has no more earnest supporters than are we and we earn- estly recommend its adoption as the permanent: pol- icy of our government.” Bei ae ee What makes the waves wild? Possibly the influence of the wild women or maybe it is their bathing cos- tumes. Si See ae TACT IN STATESMANSHIP. “Extreme admirers of ex-President Wilson resent the absence of criticism directed at President Hard- ing,” observes the New Haven Courier, “because he seems to be able to visit the halls of congress at his pleasure and not provoke comment. They remind us that, when Mr. Wilson visited the capitol building to take counsel with his associates in government, he was accused’ of seeking to bring pressure upon them to do what he wanted them to do, and they declare them- selves unable to understand why Mr. Harding should eScape the same charge since that is exactly the rea- son why he visits the capitol. There can be no pos- sible dispute here as to the purpose of visits of this character, no matter what president makes them. All presidents have done this from time to time and, in order that the visits may be comfortably made, a room is set aside in the building known as the president's room. It is reserved for his particular convenience. Mr. Cleveland was no more successful from a social point of view in his visits to the capitol than Mr. Wil- son was. Mr. Harrison was no more successful than either. Mr. McKinley and Mr. Roosevelt, on the other hand, were eminently successful, and were able to de- light those upon whom they called for persuasive pur- poses, The same was true of Mr. Taft. The ques- tion of motive did not enter into the matter at all. It was entirely a question of personality. “The country at large was somehow pleased when they read in the newspapers that President Harding had called upon his old cronies in the senate and taken luncheon with them; that after the habit of years they matched to see who should pay the bill. Presidential austerity was left at home, if such a thing exists. Mr. Harding went to the capitol as a man desirous of talk- ing things over with the men charged with him in the task of managing the government. The’ result was that they talked things over and came to an agree- ment as to the course certain legislation should take. No one lost his temper, because it was impossible to lose one’s temper with a president who was seeking the best interests of all and was really anxious to know what his senatorial friends thought about it all. It just makes a difference how you do things. One does not have to sacrifice his convictions in a confer- ence of this character. Fully two-thirds of the ground is covered at the very start by showing and declar- ing a respect for the other man’s opinion. President Harding has not the senate eating out of his hand, nor is he eating out of the hand of the senate. A way has been found for them to work together, the cheerful consequences of which are being seen from day to day. What we may call the democratic germ has eat- en its way into a troublesome situation and deprived it of its bitterness.” a a The strike of 1,500 musicians in New York ought to be some relief in dog days. A NEW AILMENT. What about ‘motor spine?” Have you got it? It is the newest thing out. If you own a car you certain- ly ought to have motor spine. It is as necessary as the accessories on your car. Is in fact an accessory that marks you as a complete motorist. It is described as a fuzzy feeling that runs down your vertebrae and ends in a pain in some portion of your hip. Motor car seats do not as a usual thing conform to the shape of the spine. Muscles contract and liga- ments tighten from the continual pressure on the ped- als or the bracing rod. Those ligaments must be re- laxed before they can be gotten back to normal. Pushing back the thigh bones to brace the body against a jolt causes the sciatica nerves to be distorted. Pain results. Sometimes sciatica neuritis is produced. Tenseness of the body causes the whole trouble. This is motor spine, according to the osteopath. What the chiropractor might say would not agree ex- actly while the old school would have another explana- tion altogether. Ho hum! Do you remember that hard jolting farm wagon or that stiff-spring so-called spring wagon, or that rough riding plow horse of the long ago? They produced some rough sledding calculated to tear all the muscles, ligaments and vertebrae out of your sys- tem. Nothing ever happened though. Nobody de- veloped any buckboard spine or any other fancy com- plaints. It is the luxury of traveling on rubber tires that brings on these ailments and the more costly the car the more severe the case of motor spine. Ford owners are not going to hospitals to be treated for motor spine and as long as they are showing no symptoms of the epidemic, we rather incline to the view that motor spine is the bunk. ooo TO TEACH THRIFT. “The American people spent five billion dollars for non-essential things,” notes the Milwaukee Sentinel, “for commodities and amusements and excursions and what not, which were not necessary for them. “And, aroused by this terrible news, the thrift di- vision of the freasury department is said to be pre- paring a campaign against nonessential spending. “It is undeniably true that the American people need a little instruction in thrift. It is equally true that the present era of industyial depression, with its diminishing payrolls and increasing unemployment, is performing a considerable educational function of its own. “In recent years the American people spent money like the proverbial drunken sailor. The wiser heads perceived the situ:tion and urged the spenders to slacken their pace a little, to do without a few silk shirts and expensive shoes and $100 suits of clothes and put by a little of the surplus earnings in the sav- ings banks or in good bonds, against the inevitable hard times. “No heed was paid to these well meant efforts. The spending carnival was on and everybody blew - his money as fast as he could. The profiteer and the re- cent millionaire were just as bad as the laboring man who for the first time found himself able to enjoy lux- uries he had always craved. “Probably, whether the thrift division intervenes or not, the expenditures of the United States for 1921 will show a much smaller amount spent for nonessen- tials. And a good many men who spent all they earned while they were working at high wages, when they get back on the job, will know enough without government intervention, to save a portion of their earnings.” The reason Lloyd George always wins is because he plays the king. in- England, 7” SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1921. organ, ization, arrived in Paris at 4:45 o'cio-, military and cheered by thoy. sands of Parisiens who greeted them as veterans returning in triumph. Doctor Goes to Jail to Study PARIS CHEERS LEGION MEN PARIS, Aug. 13. — (By The Ansb ciated Press)—Two hundred and fifty representatives of the American Le- ——_—>—_ gion, headed by Maj. John G. Emery. 2. WHITE RIBBON DELEGATES ON WAY TO COAST Special Train Bearing 150 to National Convention Stops in Denver; Law -En- forcement Is Cry. DENVVER, Aug. 13.—One hundred’ and fifty delegates to the national con- vention of the Women’s Christian Temperance union to be held in San Francisco next week, passed through Denver on a special train Friday. The delegations included the national officers and directors of the organiza- tion. Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford, state president for Colorado, left with other delegates as representative from this state. The keynote of the convention, cording to Miss Anna Gorddn Evanston, Ill., national president, will be prohibition law enforcement and the extension of the activities of the organization on other fields. “We must continue our ant!-alcohol Miss Gordon said, “to see that the laws do not fall into disuse and also to extend prohibition to other parts of the world. “We feel that the proper progress is being made in the fight against alcohol but we cannot afford to stop working.” The W. C. T. U. has, been erron- cously credited with festering a cam paign to revive the blue laws and with conducting a crusade aguinst to- bacoo, according to Mrs. Gordon. Mrs. Gordon who is successor to the late Frances Willard, denied the organization she heads is trying to make Sunday a dull blue day or snatch stogies from adult male mouths. “It's simply a part of the propa- ganda of the ‘wets’ to discredit the work of the W. C. T. U."" Mrs, Gordon sald. “Of course, we believe in ob- serving Sunday and we also realize that nicotine has harmful effects, but Not a Morgue ‘A man goes into a bank on an er- rand—to deposit, cash a check or something else. Whatever it is, he has to deal with some individual in the bank. When he gets through with the transaction he has secured the only thing the bank has to sell— service. K That’s the way The Wyoming Na- tional Bank looks at it, and that’s why a man who comes into this bank is treated as if he had come in for some- thing and wanted it. He gets it, and gets it with a smile. Why notP A bank is not a morgue! Failing to obtain incarceration as a pretended prisoner to carry on his studies of criminals, Dr, dames J. Finley, deliberately committed forgery and welcomed his sentence to the Los Angiees jail to await the determination of his case, Dr. Finley is held on tho charge of forging a check for $210. Bulgen Is Made Labor President By Coloradoans Ed Anderson was re-elected secretary. Trinidad was stlected for the next meeting place. The convention will assemble in June, 1922. Sars a PRINTERS FIGHT CUT. LONDON, Aug. 13.—London print- ers yesterday voted overwhelmingly aginst accegtance of the proposed reduction of 10 shillings a week in their wages. Some people come in to deposit $1,000, others to be identified so that they can cash a check for a couple of dollars. They all look alike. They COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 13.— James C. Bulger, of Denver, was re- elected president of the Colorado State Federation of Labor on the second ballot at the closing session of tht Do You Know that the highest grade of honey is produced in Na- trona county in sufficient quantity to ; venti here. 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