Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1921, Page 6

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Make it rour duty t0/ ¢ Trivune know when your carrier missos you. FALLING PRICES AND LOWER WAGES. putation of the course of wholesale says the Boston Transcripts shows decli 45 per cent in the case of the forme # pe in the case of the latter since the peak of living costs in 1920. Unexplained, the cag oe < ment of the percentages. might suggest that the s in retail prices was being artificially retarded. ro | obtain a proper understanding of the situation, ov is| necessary to know something of the way in whic! pices went up. The charts which show their course since 1913 make it plain not only that wholesale prices climbed faster than did the retail, but also that they climbed much higher. The retail prices lagged be- hind the wholesale during the entire period of rising costs. It follows, of course, that for them to reach substantially the same level, there must be a greater fall of the one than of the other. That has not only ‘appened, but former relationship has now been re- versed. Recently the wholesale price level has fall-} en below that of the retail, but the difference is not yet marked. If prices are not following their down- ward course in close company, they may at least be said to be in sight of each other. f “Intimately connected with this question of the Te- duction in living costs is that of the reduction in wages. Prof. William F. Ogburn of Columbia univer- sity, calls attention to the fact that the average week- ly earnings in the factories of New York have dropped sbout 12 per cent from the maximum of $26.93. Wages in these industries have not fallen as fast as has the cost of living. The contents of the pay en- velope have a little greater purchasing power now than/ they had when wages and living costs were both at the peak. NatuYally there is suggested the prospect of further reductions both in costs and wages. “Because it has been generally recognized that war-| time wages were abnormal, it has been generally as- sumed that they would be reduced. The recessions that have already occurred were in line with a policy that was regarded as the correct one, even by a large proportion of the wage-earners. The attitude of the public with regard to it was demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt by the recent threat of a railroad strike. It is a’reasonably safe guess that in transpor- tation and other branches of industry there are to be} further reductions in wag either through direct cuts or by changes in working conditions, which to} scme extent amount to the same thing. “Tt is at this point in the statement of the case that the Columbia professor spesks a word of warning. He} addresses it particularly to those employers who in-| sist that reductions in wages should keep pace with reduced living costs. He suggests, for example, that in the case of the lower-paid employes care should be| taken to see that the standard of living made possible} by the relations of their wages to prices is now suit- able. Here ig warning, among other things, against the danger to the community of under-nourished chil- dren. It involves a question of humanity, and it in- volves in addition an economic question, because the children of today are the workers of tomorrow. It is also to be remembered that upon the boys of today reliance must be placed in the years to come for the national defense. ‘The position sometimes taken in the current dis-| cussion that “The latest com, and retail prices, seems to those who adopt it to be the sim. cal solution of the problem. But in re. y here is a question of many complexities, calling for much readjustment of the business machinery as| well as reductions of wages. Because it has been erally admitted that there should be recession in wages in many ind::ctries, it has been easy to set the process in motion. But where the descent should stop is a question that is harder to settle. It is certainly one that should be approached in the right spirit, and with 2 view to bringing about a condition that will meet the reasonable expectations of all concerned.” yee A CONCRETE PROPOSAL. It is fitting that the United States at the openin: session of the conference on limitation of armaments, should come forward with a concrete proposal for re- duction and a naval holiday in building of warships. This, Secretary Hughes’ did and the assembled pow- ers have something tangible to discuss from the out- set. The proposal is sweeping and asks immediate ac- tion. It contains eight principal points. 1. Complete abandonment of all capital ships now building or contemplated. 2. This would mean scrapping all of America’s 1916 program, which is not yet completed; Japan's famous eight-and-eight program, and Great Britain’s program of four new super Hoods. ri Scrap all older yessels beyond certain classes. in fen years—in effect, a 10-year naval “holiday.” id tons. That, subject to the 10-year limitation, ships considered fit for replacement at the end left should ars. pwers are tion of the “scrapp’ Secretary Hugi to inform each other upon com g” and also as to replacements made no specific recommen: t Department#! new ships of the Hood type and scrap all her second | qrice as second class! and first line battleships up to the King George V | Cuces®:| ting an end to foolish rivairy and lifting taxation bur-/ in| dens from the shoulders of their peoples. tors | | | of the comparatively few men executed under the/ } | Senator Watson hi | senator’s foolish stories will not seem so horrible when vages should be reduced to pre-war lev-| 4 gen-| Great Britain, Japan and the United States to agree not to replace any of the ships they keep with- t when replacements are made at the end| ars no ship be built of more*than thirty-five | | dations concerning merchant ma: subject also had to be considered. This would throw into the scrap heap thirt; ships, fifteen building and fifteen now in service. $| Great Britain would stop construction on her four class. Japan would abandon plans for two battleships and | four battle cruisers not yet laid down, and in addi-| | tion would scrap three capital ships and four battle | cruisers in process of construction ‘and all ten of the/| i battleships of the second line. America, as to be expected, has pointed the She is willing to lead the sacrifice not only in| property but in pride and boldly sets an example that) | challenges the good faith of all other nations in put-| | The sincerity of nations will be tested at the out- | set of the parley and if the conference adjourns with- | out result there can be no question of America’s posi- | tion and willingness to do her fine part. 0 ee | AND NOW WATSON. | as Senator Watson of Geor- | 1 { Whatever erroneous ide: gia may have regarding military executions in France during the war can be largely Chargeable to the mis- | guided press censorship in existence at the time. The general staff holding the purely military view insisted | that all information respecting the death penalty in- flicted for disobedience of the rules of war, be sup- | pressed. ‘The reason given was fear of destroying | the morale of the troops. | The public’s view if expressed at the time would| have been to publish the complete facts as a warning to others against committing the same crimes. This is the American idea of preventing offense against the laws. The object lesson. Secretary Baker upheld the military view, and out) rules, grew numerous weird tales of hangings, shoot-! ings of large bodies of American soldiers for infrac- tions of military law. Such, of course, was not the case, The records are all clear and eomplete in the instances of the actual occurrencés. It is upon these belated and wholly false tales that founded his sensational charges against the American Expeditionary Forces. The the plain truth overtakes them. Had there been no censorship in such matters they would never have been born. Of late years the senate has had Tillman, whom it finally understood; Vardaman, whom it tolerated; Jeff Davis of Arkansas, whom it smiled at; LaFollette, whom it more or,less ostracised, and now Watson— wkat will it do with him? OSes TWO MINUTES WITH ETERNITY. p “In Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace,’” says the Church- man, “there is a scene which burns itself into the of the Judgment Day. It was after the battle of Aus- terlitz, Prince Andrey lay wounded, out under the open sky. He was only a boy and Napoleon had been his hero. The emperor, radiant with victory, was sur- veying the battlefield, and as he passed the Russian prisoner, he stopped to praise his bravery. ‘The boy stared fixedly at the emperor. All the interest which actuated Napoleon at this moment seemed so insignifi- cant to him ard his hero himself at that moment ap- peared so petty to him, with his petty vanity and joy of victory, in comparison with that which was now teking place between his soul and this high, endless heaven with the clouds fleeting over it.’ “Our President has bid the nation to pause on the war to spend two minutes in communion with God. It is a noble proclamation, and the American people will, with solemn and grateful hearts, next Friday, thank God for our soldiers’ sacrifice and ask God’ blessing upon the nation. Are we sure that we know what to pray for? Can our statesmen tell us? Are there any fitting words that come to our lips when we thank our Maker for the suffering and death of the men we send to battle? Master, teach us to pray! Well might we all, churchmen who know the language of prayer, and men and women who never kneel, spend hours and days of meditation before noon of Novem-| ber 11 that, during those two sacred moments, when 2 whole people will lift up its voice to God, we may know what we ought to desire and pray for. One won- ders, for one cannot be sure, whether, when the hour of intercession comes, we shouldy if our meditation profited us, say to God just the things which our President, quite fittingly, named. Perhaps the mood of the dying prince in Tolstoy’s greatest novel was the mood of the many battlefields of*the war. ‘All seemed so petty to him in comparison with the high, just heaven which he had seen and had come to un- derstand.” O God, teach us to see/our own little lives and the life of the country which we love in the light of those eternal things which Christ’ taught us to know and understand! The things that seem petty and vain under God's high, just heaven for citizens and soldiers as one by one we come to die, cannot be other than petty and vain when governments achieve them. “America is in the heydey of her making. What things shall our people pray for-in her behalf? Prince Andrey turned his tired eyes from the jubilant victor to gaze up at the high, just heaven, to commune with a more enduring greatness. The churches must teach America what greatne: he ought to desire. Two min- utes on our knees may show us the face of Christ. And then, what if we try to bring the vision out into he streets where our countrymen work and suffer and bh and sin! What transformation there would be iu the councils of the great, in Wall Street, in the cabinet, in the conference in Washington, and, per- | haps, in our churches too, if on Friday next we prayed for the things we ought to desire and God answered our prayer! WHAT A MAN OWES. HIS CITY. “What does a business man owe to the city in which business is located,” asks the Lawrence Tclegram, esides the payment of taxes? Nothing, some close. fisted and tight-lipped business men will say. “But they are not the kind of business men who | make the biggest success, nor are they the kind of \ business men who get the most out of life. | “The business men who make the biggest successes and who get the most out of life are the kind who be- | lieve they owe something more to the city in which | their business is located than the payment of taxes, | who believe they owe it what they can contribute of active aid in solving the problems that confront it, social, political or commercial. “Fortunately for the cities of this country there are many able business men who, aisregarding the ad- vice of the kind of business men who say that it may cause them to lose some trade if they take sides in a | city’s affairs, are devoting considerable of their time j and their talents to doing something for the general good of their city. “And the number of such business men is growing.” RR es eee If “Red” Carlisle of the city police department con- tinues the good work of destruction of bootleg poison and the eradication of bootleggers, we shall place his ‘name on the roll of honor along with Officers Reintjes and Oleson. “| | | hi yak Ne a n declared war on mail bandits. ar of which we all approve and will back, > the limit, and the disarmament conference | Will Hays has again -| This is one is ad- but said that thi: | were in their infancy, the most im- the yard goods reasons for this is that many of our memory, though it is as calm and consoling as thoughts | largest founded by men, who believed stoutly that “dra- pery goods,” British Isles, form the nucleus around which the remainder should be built, stores of this country, the yard goods departments will yei be found ff the most accessible space, and often the owner of Scotch or English extraction, will do more to push the yard goods sections than the other departments may, haps, think just!fed, Armistice day and in memory of those who died in| however, school of retailing than the founders of the business, thought to the yard goods depart- ments. compared with the sale of a ready-to wear frock at perhaps fifty dollars, customed to spending a great deal for nally. and so begrudge every line of space their apparel in “ready- for, advertising every promotio: that the buyer wishes to put over. does not see is that the purchase of a! merly, by the style. portant department in the store was section. One of the department stores were Scotchmen and English- as they are called in ti of any store So that, in many of'the finest the business, himself of per- trimmings so simple that the ama. teur seamstress Is rly safe in at. tempting them, the’ yard goods sec. tion of every big store in the country! is booming. And itis not alone the woman of | limited means who is buying mate- rial by the yard, and having seam-| stresses in by the day to make it up|. jfor her. Women who have been ac-! So many merchandise themselves of a managers, alfferent, do not give much They look at the sale of four yards of material as insignificant as The Boom in Yard Goods woolen counter the customer oes to ment. The consequent purchases final draft of the report of the W: . by the Weeks and later was laid before side of sewing activity, when styi are si 2 ted in the Tomes Dat sewing {s/he report was understood, to con: ANTI-URIC y wear shops and the kidneys made to do. their Mission Sent From The Dry Goods Economist. i T 4 7 —_—_—~| To Philippines Back in the times when retail stores dress pattérn does not stop at four PP yards of material. From the silk or! Makes Report the lining counter, and purchases enough silk to make a lning dice. She next goes to the notions dnpart. . ment, and to the trimming départ.. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 — The from her selection of a dress pattern Forbes mission which ‘investigated Pee many departments. conditions in the Philippine islands, @ chart could be made showing Monday Secretary the line of simplicity of style, shee aaa Spe ™ during the it Mr. Forbes dis- past 25 years, 1f would be found that sassed the ramet ith Mir. Weeks ond the two lines would mount and de- accompanied the secretary to the cline almost. parallel, For it is only White House. < attempted in the home. | dat: “This. year, .with Yatvie a: matser) at, 'ei She, uasinet: Fecomendexda tions gtraight line feom neck fo her, with Felesies. t9, Filipino. leas. for. ade: FOR Rheumatism must be treated inter ‘The blood should: be purified idea are this year going into the yard Work properly. ANTLURIC will do {goods departments and selecting their {ii8. FOU can get everything neces What the merchandise man often clothes by the yard instead of, as for- fir" Sold by Smith-Turner Drug Co. wonos MUNICIPAL CORPORATION mai GOVERNMENT LOCAL Stocks: INVESTMENT SECURITIES UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK BUILOING DENVER fintonides 6 Company | Octobe > Twens Sy-forrth 1921. Messre. Relnc- 406 0. S. Be Casper, Wyomins. Gentlemen: Attention Mr. 2. 2. Retmorth. 3 an @ - He icd occasion to go into the financial condition cf’ Sao Town of The>mopo¥isy. 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