Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1921, Page 6

PAGE SIX Cbe Casper Daily Cribune tesued every evening except Sunday st Casper, Natrona County, Wyo, Publication Offices. Tribune Building. WUSINESS TELEPHONES ....... .0+-2----15 and 16 ranch Telephone Exchange Cognecting All Departments Entered at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice as second class 2 matter, November 22, 1916. —- MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS L EB. HANWAY on . H. HUNTLEY R. BE. EVANS .. FHOMAS DAILY . Advertising Representatives den, & Pruddsn, 1720-83 Steger Bidg., Chicago, TT site avenues New York City; Globe Bidg., Bos ton, Mass. Coppies of the Daily Tribune ere on file in the New York. Chicago and Bost-u offices and visitors ‘are welcom< SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier three months. the becriptions must be paid tn advance and Tribune wil not insure delivery after subsorip- comes one month in arrears. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) Member ot the Associated Press z titled to tee The Associated Press tm exclusively en! use for publication of all news credited in this paper and ulao the local news published herein. Kick if You Don't Get Your Tribune. D5 Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o’closk p. m. ff you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be - livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty let The Tritune know when your carrier misses you. <i ———<—<—<$<$<_$ ———$s TOO MUCH SUPERVISION. i be enerally conceded that C. H. Markham of the Minos Central and W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania are two of the leading railway execu- tives of the country. Each have but recently reit- erated the assertion that government supervision of railways is a serious handicap to efficiency which the public expects from railroads. Mr. Atterbury. ad- vances the opinion that there must either be less gov- ernment restriction or the government must take over the roads entirely. The matter is placed in a little different light by Mr. Markham, who says: “The railroads orm a public service and it is er that thei: vice should be subject to super- vision of the public’s representatives. But when these representatives become so numerous, 80 powerful and go conflicting that they represent a burden upon the public, when their duties are so construed as to usurp the functions of management, then it is that the pub- lic itself must call a halt.” There will be general agreement with the Atterbury dea that if government supervision is to go on and be carried to such an extent that management is practically turned over to government officials—men ‘who have little practical knowledge of railroading— then the ultimate result must be government owner- ship. That the public certainly does mot want. The public will not worry much over difficulties the rail- read managers have with the government, unless, as Mr. Markham intimates, those tfoubles “represent a burden on the public.” There’s the ‘abst secret of public interest in raifl- way matters. If it appears that government super- vision, state and national, hampers efficient railroad operation and increases costs, which the public must pay, then the public will soon manifest a lively in- terest. It makes a lot of difference whose ox is gored. Mr. Otto Kahn recently remarked: ‘‘You can trust the public to decide a question correctly if you give the public all the facts.” Years ago the people were given certain facts which*convinced them they wanted government supervision of railroads, and the inter- state commerce commission law was the result. We have been getting more and more supervision from year to year, ‘until there are some people who would go so far as to abrogate all governmental supervision and return to private management without limitation. Those who would go to this extreme are, however, rela- tively few. The great majority will agree with Mr. Markham that since railroad transportation is a pub- lic service, there should be public supervision, but if too much supervision becomes a burden, then it should be modified to such an extent as to remove the evil. Figuratively speaking, most Americans are from Missouri—they are not only willing to be shown, but they like to be shown. The American public has a way of getting together frequently for conference— in meetings of chambers of commerce, farmers’ unions, granges, etc. An address delivered before one of these bodies is always reported liberally in the local press. Each one of these organizations is deep- ly interested in the question, ‘What’s the matter with the railroads?’ and it is a safe guess that they will be gied to receive, orally or in writing, any exposition of the railroad supervision problem in the clear style which Mr. Markham and Mr. Atterbury command and in the frank and honest spit for which both are noted. a A FEW OF THE ADVANTAGES. There would be no divided opinion upon the de- sirability of an independent refinery located in Cas- per. There would be no question as to the advan- tages accruing in the general industrial situation. So far as the people of Casper are concerned they are more than willing for such a consummation of their hopes. The accomplishment rests upon the shoulders of those who have the enterprise in hand. -It would mean a much larger use of natural re- sources and therefore a greater employment of labor, investment of large additional capital, increase of pepulation and greater development of the city. The population that would come would be df the skilled class and therefore permanent and desirable. The competition with established institutions in the same line, would make for stability in business and wages and abolish any monopoly that might exist or ensue where only one concern operated. Another refinery would bring prosperity in many different ways; to producers, to labor, to supply con- cerns, to developers, discoverers and to those who in- vested in the undertaking. In addition to interests directly concerned, another refinery would mean prosperity to every business in- terest within the zone of activity and add wealth and importance to the state. If the matter depends upon the people of Casper! there is a unanimous vote for the proposition. —— A REJUVENATED WORLD. “In the findings of Herbert Hoover’s committee on elimination of waste in industry,” says the Boston Transcript, “which reports that five years have been added to the average span of life in the United States | since 1909, the present favorable general death-rate, which was only'12.9 per 1,000 in 1919, is attributed i199 | ExPect to, and that each individual has the remedy ‘rather to a mitigation of the struggle for existence and a protection of the community from communi-| Hay cable disease than to an act 1 upbuilding of th « | picture people aim high to secure business talent and physique and undetlying resistance of the people.’| they hang up a salary of an even hundred thousand. The plans of the physicians, the sanitariums and the| hygienists thus link up with the plans of who believe they can prolong youth and delay old age by dealing directly with the organism itself. Medical Europe is still agog with the method of an Austrian physician, one Steinach, which is claimed to have es- fublished itself as a working theory of human juve- nation in a total of twenty-four. out of twenty-six cases experimented on. A few weeks ago the same specialists were discussing the Voron6ff plan for post- poning senile decay by the use of secretions from the glands of monkeys. . “The classical hypothesis in this field, properly so- called, is that of Metchnikoff, who wegarded patho- genic germs as an important cause of premature ageing, and still has his name associated with what has come to be known as the ‘Soul-milk Cure.’ Earlier still two French physicians, D'Arsonville and Moutie-, traced the gradual falling off of human capacity in advanced life to arterio-sclerosis; their scheme was to reduce the arterial tension of the blood flow by elec- trical treatment. But Jean Finot, another French savant, held that men grow old mainly because they within himself. ‘If you care to exert your will pow- er,’ he writes, ‘and concentrate the energies of your mind in such a way that they will react on your body, you can postpone your death far beyond what is known as the scriptural age—seventy or eighty years.’ “Is old age of this generous amplitude really worth while? Much has been written and many names cited to shuw its value to both individual and society. Mean- while there are ways of ‘keeping young’ and ‘grow- thg old gracefully’ easily within the reach of those who do not aspire to the new limit of ‘from one hun- dred to 150’ recently assigned as an attainable pos- sib by up-to-date physiologists. The hygienist lays stress on simple living, ample exercise and good hab- its; the psychologist tells of the virtue there is in a well occupied mind. A human life full of interests parts reluctantly with its opportunities. The war gave a new youth to many who were already nearing the ‘bourne.’ Men already old took up its task with the enthusiasm of boyhood; thousands of women long past fifty renewed their girlhood in its idealisms and its service. “There is now a new opportunity which ought to postpone the ageing process even more effectively than an elixir of youth. The problems of peace should so gtip us, old and young, as to make our concern and participation in them itself a rejuvenation.” AS Le CHRISTMAS TIME, A flurry of snow on the wintry air, A sparkle on trees that are lean and bare, A hurrying crowd, a jostling throng, A laugh and a jest anda snatch of song— Children counting the hours and days— How gladsome and merry are Christmas ways. —Katherine Edelman ee eee GONE TO THE DISCARD. As was pointed out.by this newspaper at the time of its passage, Wyomings eugenics law, while possibly a step in the right direction, was not a constitutional act nor even an enforcable law. The attorney gen- eral has now confirmed it by an opinion. The statute writer in this particular case held a pe- culiar view in that he subjected the groom, in a matri- monial venture, to physical examination but assumed the bride to be like Mrs. Caesar, above suspicion. Parties to a marriage who were denied license in Wyoming because of physical impurity on the part of the groom found.no great hardship in moving over the state line and having the ceremony performed and returning at their pleasure. The eugenics law was simply another instance of attempting to frame‘a law for a specific purpose by those vig did not know what they were doing or how to do it. oe WHAT TO DO. After a thorough examination of the subject which included painstaking analysis and abysmal delibera- tion the New York Herald offers this seasonable ad- vice; “Do your Christmas shopping early, wrap your Christmas gifts securely, address your Christmas par- cels plainly, post your Christmas packages as soon as possible and restrain your curiosity about the bundles you receive until Christmas morning.” With perfect propriety it could have added: Keep your head cool, your feet warm, your powder dry and do not shoot until you see the whites of their eyes. a a COURTESY AND EQUALITY, “We are constrained, however to comment upon the general attitude of men at the present time toward women in public places,” observes the Andover Towns- man. “Undoubtedly there is less ‘old-fashioned’ cour- tes ach succeeding year, but is this to be wondered at, in the light of all the agitation that has gone on in the last decade in favor of equal suffrage? We are afraid, and have always felt this way, that the nearer men and women get to any equality in voting or in any other way, the pace will be just a bit more rapid toward an inequality in the grabbing of advantages wherever they may be seen. In other words it will not any longer be the natural thing for a man to rise and give a woman his seat, but it is much more likely to become the natural thing for the man to reach the empty seat just a bit more quickly than the woman, if such a thing is possible, in order that he may have the comfort that the seat provides. This won’t be confined to riding in the cars, either. ths 2 ae BAWLING A BIT. It will be alright for Mr. Borah and Mr. LaFollette to shoot-up the Four Square treaty if they feel that way about it. There would be no disturbance of sen- ate calm if these gentlemen did not uncork a few an- cient vials of wrath occasionally. They seem to hear in the Pacific agreement some echo of the League of Nations, a proposal that formerly produced symp- toms of hydrophobia in both of them. Let the agree- ment be an off-shoot of that famous but very deceased league, if the gentlemen insist. Even at that it is a step in the right direction. The world understands it to be a mere detail in the final settlement of the larger problems that go to form the Far Eastern ques- tion, and affects only the smaller but countless islands of the Pacific. It is but an agreement to settle dis- putes among four great sea power nations, by order- ly negotiation and friendly conference. There is no provision for enforcement of terms agreed upon by. military or other power. It is a gentlemens agreement backed by honor and good faith of the nations par- ticipating. The world fs certainly making up its mind to have peace in the future and if it becomes necessary to chuck Messrs, Borah and LaFollette into the peace melting pot and-assimilate them it will have to be done. That's all there is to it. 8 ai. ae Sa WHO WROTE THIS? “One ship goes east, arother west, By the selfsame winds that blow; *Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale That determines the way they go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, - As we voyage along through life, ’Tis the set of the soul that decides the goal And not the calm, ‘or the strife.” Oe } Now the movies desire the services of our able post- aster general as chairman of the board of a reor- ed producers corporation. Failing to secure Mr. they have Mr. Herbert Hoover in mind. The time, As his scythe swings back and forth—one, two, three— A thousand souls fal] into an earthen rime. At each stroke, never failing, always trus. Going, perforce, to thelr last rendezvous. You or I may be the next. December 14, 1921. ‘ee ‘The Cubans have launched a vigor- ous propaganda against the presgmt tariff on suger. This is a word for the domestic sugar producer, who is rate” as the Cuban. In 1902 with the United States, giving her a 20 per cent concession on any tariff on sugar which might be imposed. There is no suggestion of abrogating this preferential allowance. tion. In securing this concession in 1902 the Cubans maintained that,they had no desire to displace domestic sugar, but merely that they wanted prefer- ence over other foreign imports. They protested that their only desire was to fill the gap between the domestic pro- duction and the total consumption of ‘They doubted their the United States. ability to do that. The report. of the March 31, Payne, 1902, Teduction in eign countries.” ‘As sometimes happens, the prophets | = erred. By 1913 Cuba, with {ts produc tion of 2,500,000 tons, filled the gap and supplied alt of our, foreign 7e-; She had reaped to the monopoly of the imports which in 1902 was the goal of her am- quirements. full the bition. . Now she wants more. situation: reached | 4,000,000 tons, sugar supplies about half. “There ts no denial that this over. production jwas largely due to the nor that it ie] causing distress in Cuba, It is"caus: Ing distress in the sugar-producing states and posseasion of the United stimulus of the war, State: Manifestly some one must retrench. Whatever the price, the country can- not increase a 4,000,000-ton consump to a 6,000,000-ton consumption overnight. If Cuba must market her entire 4,000,000 tons in the Unitec tion States, and can make congress see that way, there will be no use of plant ing another domestic crop. The situ- ation would be greatly cleared, there- fore, if. we could get a direct answer |= to the following question: How much of her present produc: tion, of 4,000,000 tons must Cuba mar |3 ket in the Untted States in order to relieve her present distress or to be prosperous? words “in the United States.” howéver, Memorandum © to United States. ‘Why does not Cuba, as the cheapest sugar producing country in the world, sell her surplus in the world markets, instead of dumping it on the American remedy for colds. No harmful drugs. All druggists, 60c. Dr. King’s New Disc For Colds and Soe, =" Make Bowels wa! jature’ way is the of Dr. King’s Pills— eliminating waste. At all PROMPT! WON'T GRIPE ’s Pills ir. Kin For That Good CHILE 108 N. Center St. Cuba secured reciprocity On the contrary, Cuba, falling a reduction in the tariff rate of 1.60 cents, would like to increaso the preferential from 20 per cent, which would be simply an- other way of accomplishing the reduc- committee on ways and means submitted by Mr. specifically etated that-it was impossible that “the duty should stimulate the production of sugar in Cuba to: such an extent that she should in- crease her product and be able to sup- ply all the sugar we import from for- We are now facing the following Cuban ~production has practically »qual to the entire consumption of the United States, Our domestic produc- tion is 2,000,000 tons, of which beet |= It would be well to emphasize the For the domestic producer there is no al ternative; he must sell in the United States or go out of business, Cuba, as» claimed in her official the secretary of state, 1s the cheapest producing coun- try in the world. As such she should ée able to command the markets of the world, instead of which she is ap- parently bent on forcing substantially all her immense production on. the FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921. Mr. Phoentx]a uttle while ago. People down tron: information | got frightened and rose to push thei: + way out, but the excitement subsided when an usher enrcveced: “It's all H t § i i i 4 { 2 B #8 | i i iy i i | | j F [ il i | gE | Se | : i i | ge “being have neglected and and still neglect and refuse £0 AMERICAN VALUATIONS ~— FOR TIFF ARE URGED ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Assesa- ment of tariff duties on the basis of the Anierican valuation “is the only present law that will in any way pro- tect American industry," John J. knit goods manufacturer of Wis., declared before the senate finance committee. Declaring that those who opposed the American valuation plan should be made to produce thelr books to show the difference in the profits on Amert, to do.” Opposite Coliseum Garage 122 East Fifth Street We Deliver to Any Part of the City Wrekeeneer a ee market at a loss, forcing a consequent loss on the domestid producer? It is conceded that Cuba was obliged to absorb the entire recent increase of tariff from 1 cent to 1.60 cents against her sugar. That, indeed, ts the bur- den of her complaint. Had she been able, as confidently predicted by thw refiners’ journals, to “add the tariff to the price’ and meke the American consumer pay it, she would have no grievance. ‘The domestic sugar producers are asking: only suéh a tariff as will equalize the average cost of produc-/ tion, or, what {s more scientific but| too technical for’ detailed discussion | here, the. “marginal cost of produc-| tion.” With such equalization, in times of stress like the present, the Do Your Christmas Shopping Early—Shop in the Morning and Avoid the Rush Extraordinary Holiday Reductions on Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS Take advantage of the wonderful low prices we are quoting. Youcan shop here with safety. Suits and Plush Coats Any Suitor Plush Coat in the House at ° Half-Price One Lot of Dresses Values up to $50.00 at Any Other Dress or Wool Coat in the House One-Third Off Furs and Muffs One-Third Off SILK HOSE : Values up to $5.00 $1.95 Per Pair Odds and Ends in Ladies’ and Children’s Hose. Broken Sizes. 29¢ Per Pair WATCH THIS SPACE FOR XMAS SPECIAL PICTURES and FRAMING Phone Me to Cail GEO. LA LONE Phone 8425 $10 St. John Street Ten Blocks From High Prices it Canton crepe, georgette, pongee, duvetyne, at 20 Per Cent Reduction 3 Breakfast Coats and Kimonas = = 25 Per Cent Off One Lot of Boudoir Caps at One-Half Off Children’s Coats and Wool Dresses One-Fourth Off We are continuing our special sale on IVORY GOODS. One lot of mirrors, calendars, powder puffs, powder boxes, etc. Regular values up to $8.00. Your Choice $3.45 Dishes For Children One special lot China Dishes imported from Japan. ‘$1.75 Per Set siexeas Aluminum dishes, cooking sets, dinner sets, tea sets. Something new and unbreakable. 30c and Up Just Received Heather Hose with Plaid Tops. Sizes 6 to 10. Doll and Toy Department Is complete with most every toy imaginable. A beau- tiful selection of dolls. All sizes. We have some un- 3 usual toys, such as the Baby Bug and Turtles, a safe and sane toy for the baby. The best train made in America, $5.50, $7.50 and $9.75. Pressed Wood Toys, hand painted. Come in and see our Moving Picture Machines. Complete at $6.00. Only a lim-- ited number. Before you purchase your toys, come in and see our selection. x. $1.75 Per Pair SILK UMBRELLAS They make a most practical Christmas gift. We have a wonderful selection. We also carry the fa- mous cyclone frame Umbrella-——“Born in Baltimore and raised everywhere.” We Make Exchanges but No Refunds on Christmas Merchandise. Richards & Cunningham Company “THINK RICHARDS AND CUNNINGHAM WHEN YOU WANT THE BEST”