Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1921, Page 2

PAGE TWO ie Che Casper Daily Cribune Imsued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo, Publication Offices. Tribune Building. BUSINESS TELEPHONES .........---.-.---15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments | Entered at Caspe: matter, (Wyoming) Postoffice as second class November 22, 1916. ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS MEMBER THE MEMBER OF President and Editor Business Manager sociated Editor . City Editor R. E. EV. we pee THOMAS DAILY Advertsing Manager Advertising Representatives 1, 341 Fifth Ave. New York City. -rudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, e Daily Tribune are on file in the New iuicago offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRE TION RATES By Carrier One Month Per Copy .. On: Six Mouths Three Months eames 2 Yo subscription by mi nths. riptions must be paid tr Daily Tribune will not insure del tion becomes one month in arrears. ndvance and the y after subscrip- Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C) 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 loca! news published herein. Kick if You Don’t Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 14 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. ec ae POLITICS AND TAX REVISION. “The Republican caucus evidently had an attack of cold feet when it reverseijthe decision of the house ways and means committee to mako certain tax re- vision apply to 1921,” proclaims the Chicago Tribune. “The attack is understandable if regrettable. There is no doubt that a sound and strictly scientific revision, if such could be evolved, would be ‘poor politics’ un- less and until its benefits appeared. In a field of legis- lation like taxation, perhaps the most difficult prob- lem of government, ‘good politics’ is bad economics, and good economics is ‘bad politics.’ Good politics may demand a form of taxation which seems to tax the rich, though the fact may be that the tax does not work out that way. “The excess profits tax seems to have proved to be that sort of a tax It was invented to make business which profited by war conditions bear the largest pos- sible share of the cost of the war. Nothing could seem juster than that. But so far as the tax operated its effect was to encourage extravagant expenditure in business and to give excuse for pyramiding prices. The higher surtaxes on income were devised to reach those most able to bear the abnormal burden of war taxa- tion, but they seem to have had the contrary effect of turning investment into tax exempt public securities. This avoids the intention of the law and turns a good deal of capital from private enterprise which needs it te public enterprise which may not be urgent and is likely to be wastefully administered. 7 “Yet to such of the public as accepted the theory upon which these taxes were imposed and have no Imowledge of how the theory broke down, repeal means the escape cf the profiteer and the very rich. “Party tactics and demagogy alike seize on such a misapprehension, and where the subject is as difficult as taxation it is easier to attack than defend. “Nevertheless congress has a clear duty to make such revision of ineffective and obstructive taxes as experience and the best expert opinion indicate. It isn’t pleasant to invite partisan attack and misinter- pretation. But the business of the country is in a condition in which restoratives are greatly needed and mistaken taxation is one of its burdens. The situa- tion is serious enough, in spite of the fact that the worst is probably over, to require action by our rep- resentatives even if it be misconstrued at first. Nev- ertheless if the right thing is done it should materially assist a business recovery which will answer misinter- pretation and justify duty courageously done. “But the most important thing now, it seems to us, is to come to a decision. It is a pity the tax problem was not attacked first in the congressional program, but that is past regret." Now business waits to know what it must meet and the sooner it knows the bet- ter. We hope the relief worked out will be effect- ive. Mistakes will be made. Disappointments are more than likely. The tax burden must continue to weigh heavily on us all. But uncertainty is the worst handicap and we trust it will be soon ended, so far as it can be by revision legislation. “We think when this pressing task is performed con- gress should begin to consider the knotty problem of tax exemption which defeated the excess profits tax and is bound to be occasion of justified discontent.” ee THE RETICENCE OF HISTORY. “The ‘unbelieving Thomas’ who said that history is in the main a category of accepted falsehoods was, of course, guilty of gross exaggeration,” says the Washington Post, “but that he had some justification for his cynical epigram any one who tries to get at the rea] truth even of contemporary happenings must admit. For example, despite a mass of memoirs on the subject, the public is as yet far from knowing all the facts as to what occurred behind the closed doors of the Versailles conference, or, to take another familiar illustration from comparatively recent events, what individual is in a position conscientiously to assert that he is thoroughly conversant with the true’ se- quence of the incidents from which sprang the re- volt of Panama from Colombia? “It is now pretty generally recognized that in all great wars in particular certain things happen which it is not desirable for the contemporary generation to know By the time that the veil of secrecy can safe- ly be lifted dist-rtions of facts are so firmly embedded in the popular mind that it is next to impossible to dislodge them. In such cases ‘tell the truth and shame the devil’ is a maxim more honored in the breach than in the observance. “An illuminating illustration is afforded in Lord Esher’s announcement in the preface to his work, ‘The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener,’ that he intends to seal up his diaries and correspondence and leave them in the British museum, to be made public only 60 years hence. Esher on Kitchener could not fail to be in the highest degree interesting, for if ever there was a man about whose varied roles and his discharge of them, as well as about his tragic fate, everybody is curious it assuredly was Lord Kitchener. Those who have been in the habit of regarding him as a forceful personality, grimly determined to have his own way at whatever cost, have been greatly per- turbed by the half-lights let in on him in ‘The Mirrors of Downing Street,’ in which he is shown as a man of much indecision, weakly surrendering his own views to those held by men of apparently inferior mental caliber. “The doubts thus engendered are tantalizing. It is pity that the facts about this picturesque historical figure cannot now be fully revealed. Lord Esher’s book does not deal with Kitchener as a whole, but rather with the psychological tragedy of his later years, when the tasks imposed upon him were greater than he could satisfactorily handle. It would be well worth while to have the complete and final verdict rendered about him by one.so well competent to judge, and particularly to have the oppo! ity of studying the evidence on which-that verdict was based. It may yet be forthcoming, for Lord Esher drops a hint that if the demand is insistent enough he may revise his present intention as to secrecy.” pe a BRE DE a SEEDS OF WAR. “Viscount Brice is a wise old man of world-wide vision,” observes the Philadelphia Ledger. “He sees the transaction at Versailles with a perspective un- distorted by passion, unperturbed by strife of tongues and the violent jealousies of chauvinist Among the hills of western Massachusetts he offers his views to an sudience of the Institute of Politics at Williams college in cool detachment far removed from the theater of European broil and friction. “The picture he presents is not a hopeful one. He concedes the difficulties of the task before those who took part in the peace council. They were called upon to reconcile irreconcilables. ‘Popular prejudices, pop- ular passions and cup ies had to be humored or gratified.’ They were not shifting pins on a map; they were uprooting landmarks and making lines of cleavage in a living population. Greed of gain was a dominating influence. Countries land-poor already, ‘drunk with sight of power,’ wanted more to rule than they were able to assimilate. “His conclusion is that much of the work done by the negotiating peacemaker, which has drawn cen- sure from every nation and been entirely pleasing to none, must be done over again. The enormous dif- ficulty of the conciliatory task undertaken is realized, in full view of the magnitude and the variety of the interests to be reconciled. “That, however, does not make it less imperative upon the world to face with courage and frankness the phases of the treaty that are still provocative of bit- ter controversy and that may, in Bryce’s words, ‘lead straight to future wars.’ He is not the one discoverer of these dangers. The world knows of their existence and is beginning, fumblingly, to try to set them right.” ————E CHECKING IT UP. Attorney General Daugherty desires to know what has become of all of the liquor captured by federal authorities from those who had no legal rights to its possession. Many hundreds of thousands of gallons came into the hands of prohibition enforcers and fed- eral marshals, and the attorney general indicates that he believes some of it may have leaked out or evapo- rated, or something. He wants to know bad enough to undertake an invoice and check up of stock on hand. If the attorney general proposes to have the ac- counting made to the last drop the books are not go- ing to balance and a whole lot of fellows are going to get into trouble. There have been from time to time some very ugly stories in circulation respecting the disappearance of seized liquors, the issuing of illegal -withdrawal per- mits upon bonded depots and other practices equally as flagrant involving the trusted servants of the gov- ernment. All we have to say about the whole matter is, that if there is as much as a half pint of this captured liquor missing from the storage places the enforcing officers must be led out in front of the stone wall and shot at sunrise. ————_o—_-. IT CAN HAPPEN. They have different views on the prohibition ques- tion in different sections of the country. Here is the Los Angeles view from the Times: “Without seriously fracturing the eighteenth amendment in the use of light wines and beer in America is possible. They are not intoxicating ex- cept where used to excess—as tea or coffee might be. The alcoholic content can be brought into the safety zone and yet supply the tang that seems to be desired. The point is that only in this way can the government get any revenue out of the traffic. With a tax of $10 a barrel on 3 per cent beer the government would be on easy street in a year and the ‘nuisance’ taxes could be dispensed with entirely. The people © are making millions of barrels of ‘home brew’ which may contain 8 or 10 per cent of alcohol. Experts argue that it would be better to let them have a good 3 per cent beer from the brewery—especially in view of the revenue that the government would derive.” ————o—————. . LET HENRY TRY IT. The Buffalo Express suggests: ‘(Perhaps Henry Ford as the owner of a railroad knows what he can do in the matter of a reduction of freight rates. In any event, he certainly has the right to try out his plan, no matter on what it is based. Perhaps he is trying to break down freight rates for purposes of his own, as has been charged, but to the outsider it would seem as though he would have to be more of a railroad own- er than he is now in order to make a very big splash in the puddle. “Anyway, it is rather strange that a coal associa- tion in West Virginia should protest to the interstate commerce commission against the proposed reductions on Ford’s railroad. What possible interest can a coal association, assuming that it represents coal pro- duéers, have in boosting freight rates? If it comes to questioning purposes, we fancy that the on-lookers will be more inclined. to question the purposes of this coal association in protesting against the reductions than it will to question the purposes of Ford in mak- ing the reductions.” ——— SUMMER SALES. Half a leg, half a leg, Half a leg onward! Into the Underwear Pushed the Six Hundred! Forward, but not afraid, Bent on a Bargain raid, None by the stays had stayed— Into the Underwear Shoved the Six Hundred! Forward the Sales Brigade! Was there a dame dismayed? Not though from friends they were Ruthlessly sundered; Theirs not to reason why Hatpins got in the eye. Theirs but to seize and buy; Into the Underwear Squashed the Six Hundred! Cammies to right of them, Shimmies to left of them, Nighties in front of them Asked to be plundered: Stormed at and cussed as well, Pinched—I regret to tell ‘ One or two ladies fell— Yet with triumphant yell Boldly they charged, and well— All ’neath the Bargain: spell Charged the Six Hundred! Say Opini and the. Nichi Nichi report that ac- ede Casper Dally Cribune SIBERIAN TRAIN. (672! Exports BLOWN UP,MANY coe. ALLED, REPORT === = WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Exports of beth cotton and wheat increased in votume but declined in value during TOKIO, July 28.—(Delayed) — Dis-| $44,000.000 a year ago. 4 patches from Vladivostok to the Asahi) ports aggregated 25,000.00 bushels at $37,000,000 as against 24,000,000 bush- cording to official reports from Ni-|els at $70,000,000 last year. kolsk received by the headquarters of MERE 35 FR ae the Japanese army, a military train carrying Colonel Miywa and 20 other| grade officers and men was blown up by Partisans when the train was near a wooden bridge in the vicinity of Ma- zsovka station north of Nikolsk. When the train was overturned and the par- tisans attacked the Japanese, Colonel gh ag BE pac oe Miywa, chief staff officer of the eleventh division, was killed fighting with the enemy, Two other officers and many others were wounded. The Japanese command has decided to take decisive measures against the partisa: A machine gun company has already been sent forward. Other press advices report that the Viadivostok provincial government ar- | rested about 200 workmen on July 26. / Tram car employes, .longshoremen, telegraph operators and workers of | the Far Eastern Machinery works jointly declared a general strike. easnsiacasiae carseat Originality Of Einstein U pset NEW YORK, Aug. 20—Professor| Albert Einstein, widely heralded as| the father of the theory of relativity, was but a small boy when the funda | mentals of the theory were first ad- vanced, according to Hudson Maxim, inventor, author and publicist. ' Speaking at Carnegie Hall last night, Mr. Maxim said that he had set forth the basic principles of rel- ativity in 1889, He cited a magazine article written by him for a scientific | publication in that year in support of his claim. i SET YOUR MARK FOR BIG THINGS Tell the world you are going to make something of yourself. Put out a sign that you are.a “comer,” and most of the world will take you at your own estimate. Any man whocan convince himself that he is going ahead will go ahead. if he persists in the effort. Luck favors the lad.who is always trying. She has no use for a quitter. : If you have not started the battle, give notice to the world right now. Money is your best weapon. Take what you have and start a bank ac- count. Putall youcaninit. Pay your bills by check—that gives you pres- tige—and save all youcan. The start is the first step on the ladder. After that your progress will be easier, and the limit is what you want to make it. Will you put out the sign? Start a checking account with $50° and a savings account with a dollar, Resources Over $4,000,000 Wyoming National Bank Casper’s Popular Bank Ch hhh heh he hk K| GRAND FROLIC OF Powder River Legion No.99 SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, AT 7:30 P. M. MOOSE HALL All Legionnaires are empowered to rop one candidate. Lady Mooses your Bull Mooses will be home in the morning. J. N. KRAUSS, Herder. hdd hdd hdatatiahad, \ Tay, N La ISS Ii sT iD Daim. MMF MT TR The Spine of Methuselah Methuselah lived 969 years. Chipper than a sparrow in his nine hundredth year. Imagine! But, then, he didn’t have to spend his vital energy worrying about germs or antitoxins or apendicitis or anything like that, and it is doubtful whether he was ever pestered by a life insurance agent. i DID you ever wonder about the sort of bodily machine Methuselah must have had? Man’s body is a machine. It must be kept well oiled, elastic, smooth running. Elasticity is life. Rigidity is death. The motive power of the bodily machine is nerve force. The main artery of the nerve system is the spinal cord. As they branch away from the spinal cord, all trunk nerves must pass through and between the movable bones of the spine. z AS LONGas the spinal bones stay in their proper place they do not annoy the nerves carrying the body’s motive power. But let some of these bones get out of place, even a little, and the flow of nerve force is interrupted. Then the bodily machine suffers. IT WOULD seem reasonable to suppose that the bones in Methuselah’s spine stayed put. However, that was be- fore the day of pavements, cement sidewalks, joggy street cars, trains and automobiles, It was in'the days when a man would just naturally have to jump up and down on-a rock or something in order to jar the spinal bones out of place, TODAY spinal bones WON'T stay put. They get out of place, bother the nerves, and our bodies suffer because of the interruption: of the nerve force, The science of Chiropractic concerns itself solely with adjusting spinal bones so that nerve force can flow freely. Then the body takes care of itself. It retains ELASTICITY—death’s greatest foe: GO TO a Chiropractor today. Let him adjust your spinal bones. It doesn’t hurt and it will give you a new lease on life. And will you live as long as Methuselah? Probably not. You've got a lot of things to contend with that he didn’t have. But your life span will be considerably. lengthened. Drs. J. H. and A. G. Jeffrey - CHIROPRACTORS Midwest Building, Suite 318 to 323 Office Phone 706, Res. 93 Drs. B. G. and E. E. Hahn. CHIROPRACTORS Townsend Bldg. Phones: Office 423, Res. 1235- SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921. AS y