Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1921, Page 6

PAGESIX be Casper Daily Cribune cept Sunday st . mi ation Offices. Tribune Bullding- Imusd ever? County EPHONES ...- Exchange Connecting A (Wyoming) Pestotfice as second clase November 22, 1916. BUSIN: Mranch Teiepho Latered at Casper, matter. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 3, &. HANWAX .... EARL E. HANWAY - W. Ho HUNTLEY R. B. EVANS .... THOMAS DAILY Business Ma ved Editor . City Editor Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, Sug: Bidg., Chicago, lobe Bidg., Bos lil,; 256 Fifth avenuc, New Yor ty; Uk; Wiss. Coppies of the Daily Tribune are on ine ia the New York, Chicago and Bost offices and visitors ‘are welcom SUBSCKIPTION BATES By Carrier One Year .. Sia Months . Three Months .. One Month Per Copy --- One Year .. Biz Mouths . Three Months No subsctiptio: be poid in advance and the Pelivery ater subsorip tion becomes one month in arrears. Ji subscriptions must Daily Tribune will not iusure Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. a Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to we of publication of all news credited in this paper and jo the local news published herein. Kick if You Don't Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and & o'cioek p- es if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be liveved to you by special messenger. r let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. IF HE COMES. Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain bes an- nounced his intention of spending Christmas with us. He has made previous declarations that he would go to America but each time something intervened to prevent. We do not know now that he will come on the 12th, although it is said steamship reservation has been made for him. His coming and his attitude when he does arrive are both important matters to the Washington con- ference, not that the British empire has not been properly represented by the delegates present; but that the vigorous little Welchman has a way all his own of expediting business and accomplishing results in just such bodies as the limitations conference. Then, too, Premier Briand of France has so far made the most telling address of all the foreign diplomats attending the sessions and Lloyd George cannot in the nature of things permit things to remain as they do with the increased advantage and prestige accruing to his old sparring partner. 5 ‘We shall welcome Lloyd George, when he comes, if he does and he can have his day before the arms par- ley and make as much world reputation as he chooses. ——0. BRITAIN’S “NO” MAN, “An English observer of politics and policies says that Arthur Balfour is recognized, by people who really know how Great Britain works, as the ‘no? man of the government,” observes the Chicago Tribune. “If the answer of the government is to be negative Mr. Balfour is delegated to make it. His appoint- ment on a commission means that with respect to whatever that commission is to do the government's attitude is negative. If it is to be affirmative the speaker will be Lloyd George. “Mr, Balfour has the prime qualifications for the office. He performs it so tactfully and gracefully that the quality of the answer may not be discovered for some time. He can combine the appearance of assent with the essence of negation. The appearance fre- quently endures a long tinfe; the essence may only be disclosed when the essential is needed. “Mr. Balfour is head of the British delegation in the league of nations, where the task of British states- manship is to suppress without seeming to suppress the interference which so inspired an assemblage might undertake in the running of the world. “When Lloyd George decided that he could not be present at the opening of the Washington conference Mr. Balfour was selected to take his place. Lloyd George already had said that the BritishJapanese al- liance was to be renewed. That was the ‘yes’ man speaking. Was, then, Mr. Balfour, the ‘no’ man, sent to Washington to use his graceful genius to keep any one from finding out that Great Britain, seeming ‘yes,’ was saying ‘no’? “The question is merely speculative, but if the English observer is right in his description of Mr. Balfour's particular function~the procedure squares with description even to the extent that after Mr. Hughes had shot a shell instead of a salute out of the first gun, it was announced that Lloyd George had reserved a cabin on three different boats for New York. We hope this means that Mr. Balfour now will talk to the Japanese.” MALADJUSTMENT IN CHILDHOOD. A subject that is attracting more or less attention among those who are interested in problems of edu- cation and the stubborn facts encountered in the chil- dren of the country in relation to their ability to learn, is what has been termed the “unemployable residuur:.”” Referred to by some as a social liability a group of the population unable to hold jobs on ac- count of disagreeable personality or, because of plain inefficiency. On this problem, which is bound to become an ob- stinate one as time goes on, a New York school prin- cipal, with unusual opportunity to study many phases | of the situation has given his opinion in which he says: . “If it were possible to make a study of a great number of these persons who are ‘unemployable’ I be- lieve that their history would show (1) an emotional instability due to poor adjustment in childhood and (2) faulty schooling in early life. “In dealing with the children of any large school it is possible for us to single out these boys and girls who are likely to join this army of the ‘unemploy- able’ in later life. Such children do not seem to be able to adjust themselves to the usual school routine or to the normal social situations in their homes and neighborhood. Some are overexcitable and restless, while others are introspective, morose and unsociable. All of them are unhappy and believe that the whole world is unfriendly. In the large classes that are com- mon in the city schools such children require most of their teacher's time, and, failing to get it, they either develop into truants or become the disciplinary cases to be dealt h by the school officials or the courts. “Would i of be wiser to try to study such chil- dren at a time when we might be able to help them? Can we not by understanding their difficulties and the causes of their unhappy condition strive to meet their needs and thus greatly reduce the number of misfits and ‘unemp les’ that we find in such a situation 43 your correspondent so well calls to our attention? At this stage it is almost hopeless to deal with them. At best we can resort only to palliative or remedial measure Why not attempt to see how this condi- tion c: ed? “Space ia deta is fun- --.15 and 18) that we can recognize a definite number of children Departmen'#! belonging to this group. After careful study of such Premdent and E4itor} enced teacher who has made careful individual studies ‘Advertising Manager| ine is arranged especially for their needs. A psychia- Make it your duty te} damentally an educational problem, and we must begin with these ‘unemployables’ as if we are to expect any real solution. “At Public School 64, Manhattan, we have found pupils it is possible to classify them into a few recog- nizable types and thus know how to meet their needs. We arrange the children in small classes and put them iu charge of an unusually sympathetic and experi-) of her youngsters. “The course of study, equipment and general rout- trist has been indispensable in the selection of these! children and in guiding the school people in under- standing these cases. After about two years of care- ful study and experiment we have come to the fol- lowing conclusions: “1. We must have a more flexible school organ- ization, “2. Every school contains a definite percentage (about 1 per cent) of neurotic or emotionally unstable children. | “3. These children very early in life show well de- fined symptoms that indicate the kind of adults which our asylums, courts, employmen® bureaus, etc., later deal with as difficult problems. 4. The majority of such children, if dealt with in a fair and rational way, can be saved and made so- cially fit. We have been able to restore about 60) per cent. i “5, The earlier we discover and treat such pupils) the more hopeful is the outeom: “The above is offered as a suggested method of in-/| troducing a policy of conservation and prevention | through proper educational means.” ' Re Nee eee ee | | THE ECONOMIC CONFERENCE, Despatches out of Washington of recent days carry much more glowing ideas of an “economic confer- than is shared by conservative officials con-| corned in the affairs of the present administration. It/ is even difficult to discover official authority for the| statement that the United States will initiate or par-| ticipat largely in any such conference, unless plans! are d joped, which now may be considered simply | in embryo, subsequent to the present conference on limitation of armaments. Some confusion of mind may exist among writers! with respect to the conference of rs relative to | the exehange situation whi is to occur shortly in | Europe. This is hte only “economic conference” of | which anyone has any knowledge and which has bom | called for a limited purpose. The transactions inci- dent to the payment,of reparations by Germany have! been the hugest in the history of mankind; and the payments are made in the currency of the coun- tries receiving them, naturally violent fluctuations oc} cur, more especially in France, Italy and Belgium,}| every time the reparations money is distributed. With) a view to stabilizing exchange as much as possible it) has been decided that representatives of the banks of} issue of England, France, Italy, Belgium, and possi-/ bly other countries, shall meet in Europe and address themselves solely to the task of improving exchange conditions far as possible. i This is the only purpose of the proposed confer-' snee, nor can the conferees do much more than make such representations as they may please to the repa- rations commission, which, of course, is at liberty to accept or reject them. Nevertheless, it is evident that the question of monetary exchange, resting it does upon an unequal exchange of goods betw the va- ricas countries, involves very many fundamental con- siderations, and the discussion could be carried to almost any limit. But so far no proposal has been made except that relative to this meeting of bankers and for the specific purpose already stated. The United States has no official concern with repa- rations and it would appear that a broader program weuld have to be presented if this country is to par- ticipate to any extent in an “economic conference.” While it is true that the United States inevitably must be concerned with any great movement intended | to improve world conditions, it is of paramount im-| portance that our government shall first be empowered | to set its domestic house fn order. The first step neturally will be the creation by congress of the} world war foreign debt commission provided for in the administration bill which already has passed the| nd awaits action in the senate. arious foreign countries*with which we were as- sociated in the war now owe the United States some- thing over $10,000,000,000, or an amount represent- ing a per capita indebtedness to the citizens of the United States of about $100. : Z While doubtless our debtors would be delighted if America should cancel part or the whole of this debt, no intimation that such procedure is desired ever has} been made, officially or otherwise. It may be need- less to say that at present no suggestion of such can-| cellation would be received favorably by either the administration or the American people, despite thi impression, which may be regarded as a practical cer-| tainty, that some of our foreign debtors will be un- able ever fo meet their obligation in full. If there is to be an economic conference of world scope it would be desirable from every aspect; but! since we are practically the only solvent nation in the! group of larger powers and the only one able to be| of real use in any plan for betterment of world finan-| cial and economical conditions it would be a wise plan; to get our own economical situation in better shape before we devoted much time to revising and read- justing the affairs of the world. ee WHEN WAR WAS HELL, It was in Atlanta that the term “War is Hell” originated. So the Atlanta people say, Here is their story: In 1864 when Sherman captured Atlanta and had his headquarters in the outskirts of the city, officials | heard it was the purpose of the Union commander to burn the city. The mayor and a committee went to General Sher-| man and pleaded with him to spare them. “There are only old men and old women and young, boys and young girls left in Atlanta,” they declared. “Qur men are all with the army at the front, To burn the city would be a frightful visitation upon us after all we have snitered. It would be hell.” | “Well,” General Sherman is reported to have an-' swered. “That’s what war is.” And Atlanta, the storehouse of the Confederacy, was burned, { —__—_ Hi WORKING FOR PEACE, | A highly forceful peace point is made by Grit, pub- lished in Pennsylvania. Government, says: Grit—na- tional, state and municipal—requires one-sixth the! revenue of the United States. Which means that every man must work one day a week for the public, Had you ever thought of that? - has ruled that a bee has the right to roarf at will and no charge of “harboring vicious bees” will lie against the owner. Therefore the neighbors may get stung but the owner will not. Not in court. bs Ss TI ee King George, when a bill came in for $400 for a special train to carry two officials to London merely to consult him about a minor public matter, that it was a “damned waste of money.” A gentleman after General Dawes’ own heart. i lal _Poker terms and poker tactics still rule in the! Washington conference. Meanwhile everybody is! | sitting tight. Be Judge Johnson of the Kansas City circuit court! UROPEAN currencies are near- ing a stage at which it will be defined line at the crossing of @ currency becomes evidently ® cannot co: to preciate without reaching in time point where the public will re give anything for it. In Russia, old unit, the rouble, formerly wo! about 51 cents, now has a value so smal! that the old de- nominations have long since passed entirely gut of use. Even @ thon- sand rouble note of the new issues will not buy anything. As the de- preciation has progressed the denom- inations have risen, 10,000. 50.000 and 100,000 rouble notes becoming the common change in use. The Polish mark, nominally 238 cents in money of the United States, is quoted at .03 of a cent; the Austrian crown, formerly 20 cents, is only slightly higher; the crown ‘of Jugo-Slavia, which corresponds to the Austrian unit, is wo mere, about .36 of a cent; the crown of Hungary, of the same crown fam- ily, is worth about one-tenth of a cent, and the lei of Rumania, for- merly 19.3 cents, is worth 76 of a cent. These currencies are very near extinction, and live on only because there is nothing to take their places, Tt is difficult to see how business can be carried on with them, and par- ticularly how any agreements fof future performance can be entered into in terms of them. Currency Situation in Germany Consider, for example, the situa- tion in Germany, where six months ago the mark was worth 1% cents, and evefl three months ago was worth more than a cent, against a present value of about 35 hundredths of a cent. it is true that the mark has not de- das rapidly in purchasing power in Germany as in the foreign ex- nges. The relationship between nal prices and foreign exchange is indirect, but it is close enough to cause a steady decline in the value of the currency for internal use, result- ing in strikes and wage-advances constantly. The most effective in- fluence for bringing the internal value of the mark into line with its value in the exchanges is the cost of food. Germany is obliged to import grain, meats, cotton, wool and other necessaries entering into common ¢onsumption, and these imports must id for at the current rates of ex ge. Since trade in these com- modities is now free, the portions im- ported grown supplies, as well, and the de- Presses. a little the fix the prices for the home- of the mark in the cost of living. government in rope its way out of revenues this year, and not Certain that ve government of the United States will do it, The war raised the costs of pbehyo ce as well as ail indus- trial costs, and di ized the en- tire social and industrial system, isting in a large part of Europe. where inflation has continued until the money is practically worthless, Inflation is practically the same in essence and effects whether it comes through paper currency or credit that passes by means of bank checks. In either case the mischief is done b the increase af circulating credit without relation t@ the production of cpmmadities enteiag into trade. Inflation had its start in the United States during the war, when great amounts of bank credit were brought into use for the flotation of govern- ment.loans and in response to the de- mands of business, which was over- stimu! . After the war, following five months of slackening’ demands, business was it The demand ies ap- peared to exceed the supply, prices Tose, more credit was wanted from the banks, and the latter at first thinking it necessary to support the revival of the peace industries re- sponded. It soon developed, Rowever, that the increase of bank loans was financing a competitive struggle for labor and goods and forcing both wages and prices higher, in the same manner that issues of paper money would operate, the In other wor amount of purchasing power put into ed, the reserve banks fy increasing bank Es ® amount by which these reserves fall below the regular limit. and also that the rate of the tax shall be added to the regular discount rates while the deficien continues, These pro- visions clearly show the purpose and wit ok ee law. inking situatian at the close of 1919 had practically reached the Position where the law required these Provisions to hecome effective. and the steps gradually taken by the Fed- eral en pnrsb¢ cay to ara dis- count rates were for that purpose. There was no sudden stop in the ine crease of loans; in fact the aggregate continued to grow until the fail of 1920. Moreover, the record shows that thé prevaili impression that is have discriminated against the agricultural sections is not berne out by the record. An analysis of reports from about 9,500 meniber basks throughout the coun- try has been made by the Fi Reserve Board, which shows that be- tween May 4, 1920, and April 28, 1931, the borrowings from the Fed? eral’ Reserve banks in agricultural counties increased 56.6 per cent: borrowings by banks in semi-agri- cultural counties remained practic-' ally stationary; and borcowiied by $s in non-agricultu: i degined 285 potheilngale le Gertie] Mondes" that the United The Treaty Power JOSEPH WHITLA STINSON. The opinion of the ‘Revue des Deux ,nation should contribute to the wi States, | fare. the perfection and the happine: through the indirect path of Asia, was}of others." (Wilson J. re-entering a new European concert|~ of powers is important, indicating the estimate of the clearest thinkers on the Continent of American policy ‘The fact, is however, that no con: stitutional authority subsists by which, without regard to the accept- ed principles of international law the treaty power or Congress may commit the future relations of . the American Republic with other nations to the uncertain arbitrament of any association of powers in which the free discretion of the people of the United States would be constrained. The one road to intern@lonal ac- cord fs in recognition of the strict legal obligation under the Constitu tion of the law of nations and its en. largement by exercise of the treaty power, such that {ts competency will be adequate to the adjudication of pressing international controversies. In the broadest terms the supreme court of the United States has affirm- ed its lawful obligation, whether writ- ten or unwritten; whether io be found in decisions of the courts or in the writings of publicists; so far as it has obtained that great sanction, “the universal consent of nations,” it is part of “the law of the land” and of paramount authority, binding on the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government alike. Its constraint {s internal upon the con- stitutional agencies of the govern- ment. ‘We became responsible to other na- tions, declared Jay, upon the estab. Ushment of the United States, “‘fo: the observance of tho laws. of no tions.” The treaties of the Continen tal Congress and those framed carly in the history of the United States apught amplification of its acknowl- ecged articles. Such is the need of the hour. The mandate of the con- sutution will be heeded: “The law | nations is obligatory * * * To this universal society it is a duty that each —_—_—_— in Henfleld’s altijance. case, 11 Fed. Cas, 6360.) These, con siderations, dominate the ji of any international trijunal vhich the United States may enter, Thus the fathers pointed the dhigh story inte way to international peace and jus- tice, free of the menace of entangling jot follow? Low operating cost COLISEUM MOTOR Co. Donse Brotners SEDAN W and well. Judge Johnson's |= Ae GET VESTERNIZED” Where Investigation Carries Conviction If you will come into our lumber“yards and see for yourself the well selected stock from which you can get anything from rough lumber to the finished inside material, you will be amply con- vinced of this company’s exceptional ability to serve you promptly Western Lumber Company 4 Yards and Office, 300 No. Center a 5 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1921. — if it isnt Take Yeast Vitamon Tablets To. 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