Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1921, Page 6

PAGESIX be Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evening except Sunéey at Casper, County, “Wyo, Publication Offices. Tribune Building. ee ee 15 and 16 BUSINESS TELEPHONES .....-. -----+---- Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments ‘ LS 4 class Ontered at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice es secon MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS J. BE. HANWAX . President and Editor BARL # Z bie R E. EVANS ... THOMAS DAILY Advertising Tepresentatives <i Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, ATae avenue New York Citys Globe Hid... Bos- pies of the Dally Tribune are on file in nieage and Bost7e offices and visitors ‘aro welcomt SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carter One Bin Mont Three n Month One Yenr ... Six Mouths No subscription by mail accept throe montha. must be paid tm adv ot insure delivery «i! th in arrears. exciusively entitled to Wwe credited in this.paper and in. The Associated Press for publication of all ne the local news vublished he: < if You Don't Get Your Tribune. eer ny time between 6:30 and 8 o’cloek p. m. your Tribune. A will be de by special messenger. Make it your duty t@ yune know when your carrier misses you. WRECKAGE OF POLITICAL EXPERIMENT. “One thing for which the people of Nebraska may be thankful,” says the Lincoln Journal, “is that this state is not now crawling out from under the wreck of an ill-fated political experiment as the citizens of North Dakota are doing. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the program as adopted by the lately re- called state government of North Dakota was the con- struction of homes by the state and sold to the citi- zens on the easy payment plan. It was a truly in- spiring picture, this plan of the officials to build homes with the state’s money and to sell them to poor fam- ilies who would pay for them like rent. “At a time when houses were in great demand and costs too high for the average people to build, this seemed like a heavenly solution of a very material problem. No house was to cost more than $5,000 and everyone would soon be living in his own home, The state began building homes, some fifty all total, and citizens moved in. But before the homes were even completed the trouble began. The cost of each house, instead of being limited to $5,000, ran up to nine, fit- teen and twenty thousand dollars, and the first served were men high up in the state administration's favor. Mr. Lemke’s home cost something like $20,000, and the home built for John N. Hagan, commissioner of agriculture, cost about $9,000, “The immediate result was that when the prospect- ive owners learned how much above $5,000 the houses were to cost, they decided to let the state take over the houses. The following excerpts from an editorial in the Fargo Forum gives an idea of the way-the plan has worked out: ‘ “Mr, Hagan’s discovery that his state-built house ——built in violation of the law, by the way—will cost him nearly $9,000 instead of $5,000, the limit fixed by the law, is a fair sample of the mess in which the affairs of the homebuilders’ association have been left. “(If Mr. Hagan’s house so far exceeded the esti- mates, and if Mr. Hagan was one of the directors of the association, what can the ordinary purchaser ex- ect? bat ‘It would not be surprising if every one of the 50. purchasers of homes built by the state finds himself in the same boat with Mr. Hagan, and it is very like- ly that the state will find itself with some 6¢ houses on its hands, all built at k prices and with no ekance of recovering the ney expended on them. The occupants of these houges are simply living in them as long as they can, trying to get back their ini- tial peyments in rent. They figure that they can walk out when they have to and charge off the sum they in- vested as rental, as Mr..Hagan has done. Most of them will do this rather than sign contracts at the greatly increased figure which will be necessary in or- der to let the state get its money back “ ‘Meanwhile no taxes are being paid on the houses, and no payments are being made for the reason that no contracts have been signed. “ ‘What will be done with the state-built houses pre- sents a rather complicated problem. The state may encounter some legal difficulties if it tries to enforce contracts covering the actual cost of the houses. The only way in which it can get any returns is to offer the houses for sale to the highest bidder if the pres- ent occupants take the course Mr. Hagan has taken. Also, there is just a possibility that the courts would hold that the present occupants of the houses are en- titled to contracts at the figures promised them. “Only one thing is certain—the state is bound to lose a very considerable sum of money in cleaning up the mess.’ “Test there be those who suspect that this is an unfriendly account of the state of affairs, the follow- “ing excerpt of an editorial inthe Fargo Courier News, efficial organ of the Non-partisan league in North Da- kota, will serve to convince the reader that the so- eialistic home-building plan was a complete failure: “Whatever may be the final figures given for the homes built by the homebuilding association, it is evi- dent that this institution constitutes the one failure of the league administration. There are mitigating cir- cumstances, of course, for the fact that the houses cost so much. Material was bought at the peak of prices, as.it proved, labor was high, the failure to sell bonds delayed the work and increased the cost. But when all allowances have been: made that can be made, it still remains true that only incompetency can ac- count for the wide discrepancy between the estimates of cost and the cost of the completed houses, and only ineompetency is accountable for the fact that even now, 18 months after many of the houses were be-) gun, contracts have not been delivered.’ “The facts of the case teach the lesson and further commer: is unnecessary. Today North Dakota is sad- ly but wisely riddjng herself of the extravagant or- gies of t defunct regime.” Gi SS i Sl el a GOVERNMENT ECONOMY. on of the budget system will serve to keep enditures within congressional appro- if departmental officials do not assume priations. Ar the respo ter of the Jaw and the regula- of overdrafts. The budget has disar- ranged the old looss method of creating s deficiency whe a depai nent desires to do things re-uiri per appropriation, The thing in present upon them and observe the| will find themselves up against | tive statute which will send them} Che Casper Dally Cribune moned to answer, will be separated from government} service and in all likelihood be prosecuted. The president, the director of the budget and the congress have all agreed that the government dis-| bursements shali remain safely within the amounts set aside for the conduct of the several branches of the government’s business. For the first time since Civil war days the United States government is enforcing economy. Not the penny pinching kind, but real scientific saving. —o DISCOVERED THE ORIGIN. | A modern investigator browsing about ruins of an- cient civilization, buried cities, pyramids and things} hoping to find something of value to mankind accom- plished his purpose in discovering the origin of all the mother-in-law jokes. He found ae zscord roughly pic- tured on the walls of the habitation of one of the aris- tocracy of the cave period and which carefully trans- lated reads as follows: One morning in early June Mrs. Cavewoman rushed into the abode, where the lord and master was gnaw- ing a bear bone and cried: “Quick! Get your club. ssbre-toothed tiger chasing mother.” “And what the devil,” nonchalantly inquired Mr. Caveman, as he tossed his bohe to dogs,” do I care what happens to a sabre-toothed tiger?” Upon this authentic incident and record are found- ed, with variations, of course, all the mother-in-law HEY FELLows — HOW MANY PLOWSHARES _'N 66 BaTiiesHiPs — Shonlasrs = tee Fresh Ham, half or whole .___....___....18e Fresh Side.._______18¢ Sliced Premium Ham —_....___30¢-40c Sliced Boiled Ham __85c Sliced eee ee VEAL CUTS stories that have appeared in the publications, grave baie a Shoulder Roast ...._18¢ and gay, in the world's subsequent history. oe cu se | Shoulder Steak “20 TOWN COMFORTS ON FARM. “It is general knowledge how the motor car abounds among the granger states of the west,” asserts the New York Heraid. “If it is not so common on the wide prairie as in the Fifth avenue canyon between 6 and 7 o'clock at evening, it is only because it has more reom by millions of acres beyond the Alleghenies to spread out. Loin Chops ........._2Bc¢ Round Steak __.._40¢ Stew -——10¢ Fresh jog lay tA Ev- ery Day From Our Own Liverwurst Smoked Liverwurst....15¢ Renepeon Roll ....__-25¢ use ——.. 20 Home Rendered psf Hen,s Jb. .,......._ 2B e “But the western farmer’s modern conveniences are Preto tae curs 15c | Springs, lb. ______30c not confined to the automobile, the tractor, the talk- Loin RAPALA Ducks, Ib, ...........—.3Be ing machine and the lightning rod. Department ‘of Mp pana ota Turkeys, Ib. —......38¢ Fresh Fish Every Da; t from the Coast Lakes. Halibut Steak ___.....30c Salmon Steak .. 30 Silver Smelts —...25c Channel Catfish agriculture reports show that every other farm in Michigan and Oregon has a telephone. In Minnesota, Ohio and Missouri 62 per cent of the farms have tele- phones; the proportion in Indiana is as high as 66.4) per cent; in Illinois 73.2, Nebraska 76.4 and Kansas 17.9, Towa, the agricultural example of America in 8c many ways, reports 188,852 farms equipped with telephones, or 86.1 per cent. of all the farms in the st 306 Shoulder Chops .....20c Perhaps even more astonishing is how gas and elec- tric light have been carried to farms far from the at. 75e cnaek Caifich A0c seaboard and even from the traditional water power California Crab, regions. If Vermontean boast 11.4 per cant of her Around a Sage Brush Fire Large California Craby | | (whole) ——.....-2Be furms lighted by gas or electricity, Nevada counts 12.2 By RICHARD FORSTER each ....... os 26h toes OC per cent. New York’s are 12.9 per cent, but Wash- Large California Fresh caugh' Believe {t, you safely can, by many @ good God-fearing man And many a cheerful liar, Therq'’s many whopping story told in spite of storm and cold There may be a time in freezing clime When cold means danger dire, But you can scoff and laugh it off If you have a sagebrush fire. ington's are 13.8 per cent. Ohio runs 14.7 per tent, fowa, 15.3, California 25.9 and Utah 43.4, “A striking and a cheerless contrast is Arkansas, with 7 per cent of farms supplied with telephones but only 1.1 per cent with gas or electricity, while t Lobsters, Ib. ........40¢ Trout.......75¢ Smoked, Moun Domestic Cheese. and Pickled Fish. and Salt * i Around a sagebrush fire. South Carolina, where 2.7 per cent of the farms have] *°U "Ay be riding range and weather —_—_ Full Line of Delicatessen Goods. the modern light, shows only 5.7 per cent with tele-| ana horse apd man may tire, Fruits and Vegetables. phones.” 200,000 Rubles Worth a Dollar MOSCOW, Dec. 1.—(By The As: sociated Press)—The Russian ruble is still depreciating. It now requires 200,000 of them to purchase a dollar, in one day the dollar has jumped from 150,000 to 200,000 rubles, which is the most violent fluctuation since the free trade policy was inaugurated. It is attributed to the scramble of posses- sors of large quantities of*rubles to obtain foreign money at Sny_ price; accelerated by a recent decree for the issuance of new paper money on De- cember 1. , But ere kk ART AND APPETITE. “Canned goods no longer sell through pretty labels, according to speakers at the meeting of the Western Canners’ association,” informs the Chicago News. “Housewives formerly bought the can of peaches that had the most luscious looking lithograph upon the la- bel. “Now the canny, housewife, shutting her eyes to the pictured fruitage, picks her brands by her expe- rience of the contents. you'll find in good measure If you have a sagebrush fire. pleasure It may be your luck to be stuck When roads are deep in mire But you can bet you will comfort get If you have a sagebrush fire, y WE ARE OFFERING FOR SALE Wonderful Bargains in Second- Hand Building Material The Webel bathing ls being demolished to make way for the new Lyric Theater. ° AT WEBEL’ BUILDING You may be far from your goal and things may ball In a way to rouse your ire, “This seems to be the final phase in the emancipa-| But it will seem a joke when you tion of appetite from art, or art from appetite—the enjoy a smoke phrase works either way. By s enaebrush inte, “Most persons of the older generation remember the rage for the ‘still life’ in art. Baskets of fruit, creels of fish and hampers or game were esteemed fit iubjects for the masters of oil painting, and every art exhibition produced its instant effect in a run upon the fruit stands and markets. An especially typical subject was thee ‘spill life,’ a box of strawberries on end and pouring its appetizing contents into the eye of the keholder. Food pictures began to go out of the salon about the time they came into the grocery. Possibly it was because the Tintorettos of tomatoes and the Rem- brandts of radishes commercialized their talents. More likely it was the fault of the public tha. refused to buy a barren panel of fruit, vegetables or fish when an equally lifelike iithograph was available with a can of the real’ thing. “Now that the still life is said to be going out of the cannery it may very well come back in the studio. The notable vogue of the old-fashioned flower pieces lately gives ground for hope that the fruit will follow.” You may be old and the/night'be céld And far from your desire, But many a wight has passed the night a sagebru: firs. Keep Posted POST URS as leh Shoes ™ PROTECTING THE MAILS. “Governor Blaine of Wisconsin has asked Postmas- ter General Hays to take the marine guards off the trains in that state,” says the Chicago Tribune, “and has served Secretary of the Navy Denby with a re- quisition to produce in court a marine who shot a man stealing a ride on a train, The marine thought the man was a mail robber. “The marines were put on the mail trains because outlawry was making the security of the mails a joke. Mail robbers were holding up trains and were looting the mails in the terminals of large cities. They were running off with hundreds of thousands of dollars. The marines were put on the mail cars with orders to shoot. They were instructed that they had to fight no matter if the robbers got the jump on them. ‘The man shot by the marine in Wisconsin was do- ing an illegal thing in boarding the train. The ™ma- rine thought he was trying to commit a criminal act, the very act against which he was on guard. He is answerable to the authority which gave him his or- ders. The navy department may have to adjust the case with the civil authorities and reconcile civil and military justice, but Mr. Hays cannot be influenced by parochial protests against the méthod used to safe- guard the mails. Governor Blaine is not responsible for the security of the mails.” The federal govern- ment is. The federal government cannot train its sol- diers to expect that if they obey orders they will land in a county jail. It cannot train outlaws to look for. easy money every time they see a mail bag.” Many an opportunity has been lost to you by not being in touch with the market. . The Petroleum Industry Made and : : Has Recently Shown a Decided Improvement Guaranteed by ; ‘ Royal Baking . In order that we may find a market price for you that would meet sone wishes it is necessary that we know what stock you wish to sell or buy. Powder’ Co. Contains no Alum List Your Stocks For Sale List Your Orders For Purchases Use if and Sa —$— =o. PUSHING ASBESTOS. The Building Trades News of Chicago, speaks of a Casper industry in the following manner: vigorous campaign through newspaper adver- tising, circulars and personal salesmanship, has been in progress in Casper, Wyo., by the firm of Fred Patee, introducing asbestos blocks for chimney con- struction. Already 900 homes in that community have adopted this form of chimne Asbestos rock is taken from the earth right at Casper and is, therefore, espe- cially adapted to projects in that’ section because of its econom: But asbestos rock for chimneys has other qualities that not only make it a valuable mate- rial where it is produced, but everywhere in the en- tire country. Asbestos rock stands 2,500 degree: higher fire test than asbestos fibre, it is claimed by Mr. Patee. As a great deal of the fire loss each year is attributable to defeetive chimneys, this fire-resist- ive feature of asbestos rock can be appreciated to an even greater extent.” x B¢ « Ok- [ts free Write for New Dr. Price Price Baking Powder Factory 1oo3 Independence Blvd. Chicago,Hi The Nicolaysen Lumber Co, Everything in Building Material BIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS If We Can Serve You We Trust You Will Not Hesitate in Calling Upon Us Taylor & Clay Inc. f STOCKS BONDS GRAINS Ground Floor, Oil Exchange Bldg. ——_—_——o. SOLVING UNEMPLOYMENT. As a direct result of President Harding’s recent! conference on unemployment, about 6,000 miles of public roads are about to be constructed, invo ig an expenditure of $76,400,009, and the employment of a rds of 200,000 meri. In addition to the men ac- engaged on the roads, many more will be set vork in the preparation of t ding materials. Phones 203-204 Phone 62, Office and Yard: First and Center | a