Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 15, 1921, Page 2

anpamnvenscennewonee smaaennanncneness PAGE TWO wT aa a eg fbe Casper Dally Cribune MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1921 be Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices. Tribune, Building. ter Fe 15 and 16 BUSINESS ‘TELEPHONES ‘ onnecting All Departments Branch Telephone Exchange ( Entered at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice am second class matter, November 916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER OF THE UNITED PRESS and Editor +. President +-.-- Business. Manager ‘lated Editor a City Editor --Advertising Manager HAD W, H. HUNTLE R'E. EVANS THOMAS DAILY Advertising David J. Randall, 341 F Ill. Copies of the York and Chicago offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year Six Months Three Months One Month Per Copy One Year Six Months Three Mont pS No subscription three months. * _All_ subscriptions Daily Tribune will not insure delivery Stion becomes one month In arres Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) Member of must be paid in advance and the after subscrip- 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 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 Hivered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you <a THE BIG WAGES OF YESTERDAY. “Tt is rather difficult to tune the. mind to the sob stuff that is going around in the interest of the great mass of ship workers who are complaining because they are having some short time,” observes the And- over Townsman. “To be sure all of us regret that such is the case. All of us feel sorry that business is not good, that curtailment has come, that men must be out of employment; and there are few employers who are not making every move they un to relieve the situation so that labor shall be given every pos- sible opportunity. “But what has become of the ninety dollar, hun- dred dollar, and hundred and twenty dollar a week income of these very same ship workers who for three years held up the government, gave as little work as they could unless they were put on piece work, and had enormous wages, placing the debt burden upon this great country that it will take generations to dis- pose of? What did they do with this money? Why is it that they should be in such hard sledding at the present minute, and why are they deserving of so much sympathy if in the days of prosperity, such as no people in the world ever before knew, they failed to lay by for the very definite rainy day which every- body with any sense knew was to come about? Why should the country be further taxed in order to pay @ premium upon the improvidence of thousands of working men and women who absolutely held up the country at large in the emergency ¢onditions of 1917, 1918 and 1919? : “Perhaps this is a raw comment; it may not be wise comment in the minds of some; it is tremendous- ly important comment if it leads even one: man. of those many who were profiteers during the fat years, to realize the enormous economic blunder that was committed by the inflated conditions of that period. ‘what ference there may be ’twixt tweedledum and tweedledee;’ and the sending of Roger Williams into the wilderness for objecting to the selling of Indian captives as slaves mto the West Indies, as well as for advocating freedom of conscience, wap only a mile- stone.on the way toward the witch-hangings of 1691-3. “The error inte which President Harding seems to have fallen is a common one enough; there is a tend- ency in the middle west as in the south to lump early New Englanders as narrow theocrats. But the late | Joseph Hodges Choate could have explained to 4 president that the people who according to his own phrase ‘came to America to worship God in their own way and to prevent other people from doing so’ were the Puritans, not the Pilgrims. And Choate was a na- tive of Salem, growing up among the historic struc- tures and in the Salem atmosphere which gave Na- thaniel Hawthorne his-literary material.” SE ESTOS a TE AN OVERLOOKED SOURCE. In casting about for new sources of taxation and discussing those already proposed in increased post- age rates, the Chicago Evening Post is moved to sug- gest that political tonnage sent out under congres- sional frank be made to pay its way. The Post says: “President Harding.-has. indicated favor for an in- crease in first-class letter postage as a means of in- creasing government revenue. Net income from the higher rate would be turned into the United States treasury for general purposes. “Congress, searching for sources from which new revenue may be procured, thinks favorably of the idea also. “So we may set it down as reasonably certain that the increase will be made. It will raise between $70,- 000,000 and $80,000,000 a year and without costs of collection. You'll simply pay the postmaster 3 cents for a postage stamp instead of 2 cents;,or 2 cents for a postcard instead of one. It is all very simple. “There will be vigorous protests, probably, from mail order houses and other businesses which conduct |? their advertising campaigns largely by circularizing. “The average letter-writing citizen, too, will growl and disagree. Here, to him, will be a visible evidence that the cost of government service has gone up, not down. For on its face there is no separation of the amount that goes to defray the cost of carrying his letter and the amount that goes to the treasury as a war tax. “Up in Canada they do it differently. They have a one-cent war tax on letters there. But it is a sepa- rate and distinct stamp. It is labelled as a tax stamp, and must be licked and placed alongside the postage stamp on each envelope. It is not camouflaged or concealed as an increase in postage. Still, most Canadians end up by using an ordinary three-cent stamp instead. “This letter tax leaves open only one tax-free form of communication. “We have a tax on telephone conversations, a tax on telegrams and are about to have a tax on letters, but we have as yet no tax on the weighty political com- munications of congressmen to their constituents. “The franked envelope, which carries no stamp, will evade payment of the new letter tax. “Yet the tons upon tons of free mail sent out from Washington is no small contributor to building up a postal deficit. f the new letter tax were made to apply to con- gressional mailings, it would hel, the government financially in two ways. “It would bring in revenue directly from all neces- sary congressional correspondence. “And it would cut to one-half or one-quarter the volume of political propaganda that now clutters up the government printing offices and the mails out of Washington. “That would be a tax that would please most of us!” ee SUPPLY OF TEACHERS NOW ADEQUATE. The national shortage in the supply ot school teach- ers, so serious a year ago that it forced the closing of many schools throughout the country, has now ceased |WITH OUR WYOMING EXCHANGES| A citizen asks that protest be made|Springs field, the Myrin, Ohio, Pro- against the too common practice on the part of many people, of leaving their cars standing on the ‘street with engines running while they go into|the Sand Draw field and an oil line stores or postoffice on short errands. | Of course, the cars are thrown out | COU: of gear when so left, but the con- stant vibration caused by the running |!8 coming into sight. engine often jars the gears into con nection and away goes the car. eral times of late this has happened |the oil fields making daily trips. This on the streets of Wheatland and that |"umber does not include the four or no one has been injured or damage |five that are hauling to the reclama- resulted has been due to the fact that | tion, each time someone standing by when | others the car started made a run for it and | work. stopped it. Women or children might | find it difficult or impossible to avoid a car thus running wild and serious | injury or death might result, & dangerous practice and the sometimes saved by leaving the en gine running is often more than offset by the gasoline burned up. useless habit that should be stopped in the interest of “Safety there is no law covering the practic it could and should be regulated by local ordinance. John W. Huston, accompanied by a daughter, arrived here yesterday from his home in Santa Monica, Cal., for a visit of several mother, Mrs. A. H. Huston, and va: fous brothers and in this valley. Mr. Huston was for many years a resident of this region, removing to California some John W. Huston is said to have been | of the first white child born in the ter: tory of Wyoming his birth having oc- curred at the frontier settlement of Laramie on July 9, 1866. are among the very earliest pioneers to come into east and after residing for some time at Laramie they came to the Platte valley, where the various members of the family have been prominent stock men and landowners to the present time. friends throughout this portion of the county and he will have a busy time for the next few weeks in renewing all his old friendships and acquaintances. More, tourists have passed through Worland during the past six weeks than was ever known of since the au- tomobdile first made Most of the strangers passing through are out the wonders to be found in the Yel- lowstone National park—‘“the world’s|* wonderland.” A great number of the cars are Fords and some of them are loaded with everything family cat—it is a) miracle how they get through, but- they. do. tourist park has been well patronized and the visitors here all have words of praise for this séction/of the Big Horn’ river valley. ; from the cars and people - traveling this year that the country was jsure prospering. Riverton i mer busy appearances, In fact busi- to be a problem. : Trained teachers of both sexes are flocking to get their old jobs in public elementary, grade and high échools in all but a few sections. Nearly 600,000 in- structors, or approximately the normal force, are now preparing to take charge when the autumn term be- gins next month. Falling salaries in commercial pursuits and a big increase in salaries of teachers, coupled with lack of employment, is responsible for the rush of teachers back to the schools. “It is not the ordinary laborer alone who is to be considered in connection with this comment. The same comments apply just as definitely to the fat- tened bank balances of all of the great business lead- ers, who also swelled the burden which the children’s children of the present generation must contribute to the relief of. The world is full of pity at this time for the ‘rich’ men of 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1920, whose fortunes are now crumbling, but again why pity here? Did they ever earn the money they accumu- lated, and did they ever get it except because under ness is really picking up to a very, encouraging degree and everybody is) taking on a new smile. since the financial knock-out blow reached us have we felt so enthusiasic at at present. +; Our enthusiasm. comes because the reclamation service is spending thou- the stress of the times the public had to pay? No- body need fear about the adjustment of all of these conditions, as time does its work. History tells us that of the great fortunes made in the Civil war, hard- ly a single one could be found five years after, the few exceptions being so few as to prove the general state- ment. “Probably no people are suffering so much in the present depression as those who have been looked upon as very rich. In some cases genuine hardships, undeserved, serious, worthy of pity, aré to be found. Jn many cases, alas, the very rich, and those who be- _.came members of the new rich, silk shirt, limousine, | modern profiteering type—all are today reaping ex. actly what they sowed. It is a pretty tough crop, but it does not require quite as much maudlin sympathy as is so easily indulged in when a big man tumbles or a big group becomes idle.” \ wo CORRECTING THE PRESIDENT’S HISTORY. The common error of confusing the Pilgrims with the Puritans is made by many and those well informed in the country’s history are not immune in this re- spect. The Brooklyn Eagle rather takes the presi- dent to task for what he said in his Plymouth speech and makes the point so clear that even the school chil- dren may have an understanding of which is which. “If the disembodied spirits of John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow and Thomas Prince could have listened to the address of President Harding at Plymouth, they would have found some passages of it almost astounding. For example: “If the idea of religious freedom had little to hope for from the effort of the stern old fathers to set up a theocracy in New England, the ideal of political freedom found here a particularly fertile soil. . . Here with crude narrowness and unconscious selfish- ness hindering but with supreme intent impelling, there developed the accepted plan of emancipating hu- manity. “But if John Endicott, and Thomas Dudley, and Thomas Danforth, and Cotton Mather had heard these words they would not have been astounded, though they might have been hurt. The criticism applies dis- tinctly to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, not to. Ply- mouth; to the Puritans, not te the Pilgrims. Theoc- racy was not a Pilgrim conception. The Pilgrim Fathers governed themselves. They hoped to do so in accordance with the will of Divinity, as good men do everywhere. “Plymouth did expel John Lyford, and John Old- ham in 1624; and it did somewhat forcily persuatie Thomas Morton of ‘Merry Mount’ in 1628 that he would really be happier in England. For loose liv- ing the Fathers had little toleration, though they and their families enjoyed the good things of life. For créed differences they had toleration. Roger Wil- liams found his first asylum in Plymouth when Salem began to get too hot for him. The leaders of the May- flower band were mostly poor men, not used to lux- ury; not highly educated, not dialecticians. They never got a charter from the British crown. They But the had real independence tntil Andros came. Massachusetts Bay Colony was largely m: men™of wealth; some of high social standing, a few ¢* With titles; the ministery were gifted in discovering $ z] ‘The average salary of elementary teachers is gen- erally above $1,000 a year, according to a survey made by the bureau officials. The average salary. of high school teachers is $1,670 a year, the survey shows. This represents an increase of 52 per cent since 1918 for high school teachers. Salaries of elementary school teachers are believed to have increased in like proportion although the bureau has made no detailed survey of the situation in the grades. In 1918 the lowest range of salaries paid in ele- mentary schools was lightly above $600 a year. Now, however, state legislatures, school boards and local officials in all states are hastening to boost salaries, the reports show. This movement began. about a year ago. In California high school teachers receive more than $2,000 a year. This is the state of lowest salaries in high school work There are about 70,000 teachers giving their entire time to work in high schools, This\class of school suffered least from the shortage of instructors when the war began to draw thousands from the school ros- trums. Salaries always have been higher in the high school service than in the elementaty schools. When the high schools began to lose teachers there was a drift of teachers in that direction from elementary grades. This, it would seem, would have discouraged the increase in salaries in the high schools. Govern- ment officials are unable to explain why high school salaries took such a big jump, In the elementary schools when the shortage of teachers was greatest more than 20,000 teachers were needed. Schools were forced to close in some dis- tricts because there were no teachers. In several sec- tions of the country students received au average of but ninety days’ instruction in the school year of nine months. ee eee eres THE LOVELY MILLENIUM. “Dr. Wilbur Crafts, the pilot of the International Reform Bureau,” we are reminded by the Los An- geles Times, “is going ahead with what he calls his constructive program for regulating the morals of the world. He is going to have community croquet grounds to take the place of the boxing arena. Like- wise, he will have young folks playing bean bag in the parks instead of finding damnation in the dance hall. Just now Dr. Crafts is going to see that the ladies get their share of the good things of this world. He wants the government to fix things so that every woman shall at least have during her husband’s life the one- third of his property and income which the law and custom would give her after his death. That seems fair enough. If the only dissipation the husband can’ have is to go down to the park and watch the preach- er picking*dandelions he can spare two-thirds of his pay envelope just as easily as one. We will have a lovely world when Dr. Crafts gets through with it.” SSR fly Runnymede meadow, the spot where the barons forced King John to agree to magna charta, seven cen-. turies ago, is for sale at auction. There is ‘no spot on earth more sacred to human liberty than this meadow. It should not pass into private ownership but become a public shrine where all liberty loving people of the earth could worship. 4 Res %& Mint restate atee| BELL Will Be ASSORTMENT ing loose thousands and employing a TANTALIZINGLY large force of men at the tie cam! Passed, Report SWEET PORTE FRESH People’s Forum ae es ae a Editor Tribune: the people of Casper, thing that if more people stopped to eer ene TE 2 consider, would be a great help both| Miss Sarah Emily Davies, whose ||} 751 Soutn DE PO I to pedestrians and traffic. death is announced in England at the . In crossing a street, look first to then to the right. This would be a In Virginia high school|simple thing to teach children instead teachers receive only slightly more than. $1,000 a year. | f letting them run across the street > Mas 2974 4 yee |depehding on speed for safety. DISARMAMENT | PLEA VOICE BY EDUCATOR Nations That Gain by Sword Must Lose by Sword, David Starr Jordan Tells Pacific Conference. Shut Off the Power. “(Wheatland Timer: is releasing many trucks and men in their development of the Maverick, ducers and numerous other oil com- ranies arc also spending large sums Then, prospects for.a gas line from from Maverick Springs are very en raging; the crops _ate coming in and money for our drainage distric Twenty-two large White trucks are Sev-| Row employed in hauling materials to to Dubois and miscellaneous camp those te te HONOLULU, Aug. 14—Dr. David n “ Starr Jordan, chancellor of Stanford Why shouldn't we feel_optimistic?| \viversity, im an address here last night before the Pan-Pacific Educa- tional conference of nations bordering on the Pacific, declared that no na- tion ever gaine@ anything by the — FLAT TAX FOR sword which it did not later lose by the sword. He cited: as examples Prussia and Fran€e during the time of Napoleon. Dr. Jordan, who is president of the educational. conference, made a plea for disarmament. He urged peace be- tween all countries through an ¢du- cational understanding and a mutual He declared the “built Repeal of Express Tax Also Adopted by Ways and Means Committee in Re- vision of Program. It is time | It is a First.” If The First White Child. (Saratoga Sun.) of war materials to be the greatest danger to peace.” He added “if no- body loaded, nobody would explode.” Prof. M. Anesaki of the University of Tokio, who was another speaker urged that a co-operative psycholog- ical investigation be made of the principal racial traits of the people of the Occident and the Far Bast for the purposeof establishing points of contact for the harmonizing of re! tions. Dr. ¥. B. Tsai, chancellor of Pe- king university, expressed the belief that education is the panacea for all weeks with his sisters who reside years “ WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Repeal the express tax of one cent on every 20 cents of value was decided upon today by the ways and means committee. The committee also yoted to levy a flat license tax of $10 on all re- tailers of soft drinks and to fix the manufacturers’ tax on cereal bever- ages at 12 cents a gallon in place of the present manufacturers tax of 15 per cent on*the sale price. His parents this region from the “The whole tax reform program contemplates freeing business from what have been found paralyzing, and exasperating restrictions, encotirag- ing to the utmost the resumption of enterprise and business. ‘The committee also voted to impose @ manufacturers’ tax of five per cent on the following articles, the whole- sale price of which exceeds the amounts given: Carpets and ru Mr. Huston has a host. of Worland’s Tourist Travel. (Worland Grit) $3.50 per square yard; trunks, $30; valises, travelling bags, suit cases, etc., $15; purses, pocketbooks, shopping and handbags, ; portable light fixtures, including lamps of all kinds and Jamp shades, 310; “umbrellas, parasols and sun shades, $2.50; fans, $1; house and bath or Jounging robes, $3. This tax would become effective im- mediately upon passage of the new pill, The so-called luxury tax on these articles and on wearing apparel, oW. collected by the retailer, would ‘6 repealed, as of next January 1. | "The committee wound! up its work ‘today and drafting clerks immediate- fics cae ty began putting the new measure in Riverton’s Prosperity. shape for presentation to the confer- (Riverton Review.) ‘J@nee on Monday of house Republi- fast assuming her for-| ©&ns. 5 Repeal of the $ per cent on the amount,paid for the transportation of oil by pipelines also was voted by the committee. By this action all of the transportation taxes were eliminated. Grain Gambling its appearance GENUINE “BULL DURHAM tobacco makes 50 Sood cigarettes for 10c @xzz. _BAUR’S CANDY sight-seeing and taking in except the ‘Worland’s A person would thin’ fad At no time WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — Com- plete agreement on the Capper-Tich- er bill to prohibit gambling trans- actions in grain has been reached by senate and house conferees who addpaed the senate substitute bill with minor changes. Final enact- ment of the bill next week was mid to be assured. PEP’S "zs" NEWS Simple Rule to Remember. For the benefit of here is a little age of 92 years, was a pioneer woman suffrage worker and one of the founders of Girton College, England's most famous schol for the) higher education of women. Put It Over Pep Sell It While It’s Candy GUNNISON left until the center of street. ee TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED ADS BRING RESULTS. GRACE FUNK, Casper, Wyo. WRIGLEYS ~s “AFTER EVERY MEAL” S 10Fror5¢ The new sugar coated ~ _ chewing gum. which everybody {ikes—you will, too. the ills of humanity. “The problem before the world and before this con- ference,” Dr. Tsai said, “is how through education may spread inter- Rationalism and ‘We must put an end to national greed. | Boh Rigg oes Crna east te icdking toward” the| NEW YORK, Aug. 15=-witian west. ‘The great forces which awak-|Tilden I, William M. Johnson, We ened Europe a the the |son ‘Washburn and R.: No ri renaissances are now taking place in|liams II, were named by the Uniic the Far East. The realization of the|States Lawn Tennis association « idealistic value of civilization is dawn-|members of the American team ing.” defend the’ Davis cup. —_—_>__ SLAYER HELD IN CALGARY CALGARY, Alta. Aug. i elael here arrested a man who, after ques- tioning, said he was Dr. R. M. Brum- field, a dentist of Roseburg, Or. ‘wanted in his home city for the mur- der of Dennis Russell, a laborer. Brumfield was arrested on a murder; warrant and said he would not fight extradita. American Davis Team Named Essex Always Read a few of the expressions -we get from Essex owners: “The thing I like most about my Essex is its unfailing dependability. It’s always there when I want it and it will do what I want it to do like an old friend.” “In May, 1919, I purchased my Essex sedan. I have never had a bit of trouble with it and after two years’ usage it seems'to me that it runs sweeter than ever.” “My Essex that I purchased from you in September, 1919, has been driven over 20,000 miles. This car has given excellent satisfaction and the upkeep has been very *. slight. It has been driven under all weather conditions and is still free from rattles and squeaks.” Let Us. Demonstrate the Ficceus You TAKE THE WHEEL YOURSELF And if You Are in the Market for a Car You Will Say Essex Always MOTOR TRUCK & CAR SAL CASPER, WYOMINGe. 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