Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1922, Page 6

PAGE SK [a © Casper Daily Cribuane ng except Sunday at Casper, Natrona bucation Offices, Tribune Buliding. eee ting All Departments. + (Wyoming), Postoffice as sec snd clase atter, Novemoer 1916. change MEMBER THB ASSUCLIATED PRESS HANWAT President and Editor EARL Advertising Prodden, King & Prudden, in. ton, Mass. Copies of the Dail the New York, Chicago and B are welcom SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier 286 Fifth avenue, New York City; Globe Bidg.. Bos Tribune are on file in One Year Six Months . Months Month Per Copy ---- One Year . Six Months Three Month: No subscription by mail accepted for less period thay three months. All. subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip tion becomes one month fn arrears. Member of Audit Buresn of Circulation (A. B. ©) Member of the Associated Press. The Aesociated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Kick if You Don't Get Your Tribano. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6.20 and § o'clock p. m tf you fall to receive your Tribune. A paper will be de ered to you by special messenger. Mako it your duty tu et The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. aS FARMING THE FARMER. One of the more popular of indoor as well as out- door sports is farming the farmer. It is largely engaged in by agitators, demagogues and politicians of the peanut breed. ‘ They seck to impress upon their farmer audiences that they are hopelessly in debt that the hand of every other interest is against them and unless they have di- rect help from the government they are sure to go into bankruptcy and lose their farms. As a matter of fact many of the more important, industries have suffered to greater extent than farm-| ing and today are infinitely worse off than thu people who live on fexms, where they at least have food and fuel. These willing little helpers and advisers of farmers usually have a dull little ax to grind. There is al- most invariably a matter of self interest hidden in their advocacy of measures of help. You never hear them explain the operation of the well known law of supply and demand, and they offer you no light upon the matter of business readjustment after a season of high priced production. There is too much of the taint of North Dakota in their program. Too much in endeavor to create new offices like farm demonstrators, farm agents, county nurses, child inspectors and other willing little help- ers for pay. An inclination to increase boards, com- missioners, aid societies, tatting associations and the like, all to offer the farmer aid he does not require and still must pay for in the form of taxes. All such frills cost money and are designed to be- come a permanent burden on the taxpayer. The taxpayer has all the burden he can carry for 3 long time in the future and especially the taxpayer who owns land. The present agitation is rather be-; coming a menace to land ownership. | If all the alleged help is granted and offices and jobs created to put it into operation taxes will go up alarmingly and the sheriffs will be kept busy selling farms and turning farmers out on the world to make their living by other means. Left alone to work out their salvation, the farms will be saved to present owners and farmers, now dis- tressed will later come out on top in the prosperity that is surely not far off. Whoever tries to make farmers or enybody believe that a change has come over human experience and that a share of the bitter does not come with the sweet and that Burbank has eliminated the thorns from roses is little better than a fool, and his advice is worthless. a AMERICANIZE THE TARIFF. } The unit price of imports for 1921 show an aston- ishing decrease compared with 1920 with respect to articles coming into the United States which are given in quantities and values. Twenty-seven com- modities are shown in the following list, of which 17 bear ad valorem rates of duty, i. ¢., rates assessed on the value of the article. Naturally, the lower the value of the article, as invoiced, the lower the duty, the less the amount realized by the federal treasury, and, since the importers price these articles for all the traffic will stand when they hand them over the coun- ters to the American consumer, the greater is their margin of profit. This table gives the average import prices in 1920 and 192i, per unit, and where indicated, the percentage of quantity increase in importation, 1921 over 1920: Quantity —Unit Price— Import 1920. 1921. Inc’ne,% 16 10% 18 16 160 Scissors and shears, each_-_ 6 160 Mentles, gasburner, each 04% 180 Wiectric lamps, incan., each. 03 decrease Window glass, Ib— 03 700 Sheets and plates, Ib— 068 10 in and terneplate, Ib______ az 14 x cloths, all ciasses average -~——. decrease embroideries, ¥ 16 laces, 53 gloves, 190 stockings, 230 Sea island cott decrease Woven silk fabrics, 31 Worsteds, yd. — my Woolen: i ‘same | ool, all grad 4 | decrease} 3 decrease 4 50 16 docrease In a sumber of instances the decrease in imports of| zgricultural commodities is due chiefly to the emer- kency tariff act which became effective May 28, 1921, while the decrease in imports of cotton cloth is un- conbtedly due to the industrial troubles in Great Bri- tain last year. Where these articles are subjected to ad valorm of daty, their low invoice price means the min- mum of revenue and protection is nil. For example the average price af pocket knives would throw them in the class of those payiog a 55 per cent duty, which wonld mean less than 6 cents per knife, while razors dan avera: euty of about 9 cents ench in 1 d shears must have 2veraged about 4 ' oe | irresponsible people would give no heed, but which n -¢ ‘ auty e pair. But if the man or woman who Suz vs Uiese articics irom the mail order or large de- partment stores wiil vox over this list of import prices, he will ciscover that not only he, but the American producer, got stung. The house has provided in the Fordney tariff bill and j the senate is now considering what is known as the j American valuation pian to assess duty rates on the wholesale selling price of American-produced articles comparable with those imported and to apply these rates to the imported merchandise. We have the American standard of living; why not the American standard of valuation, based on the American dollar? a BLOW FROM A FRIEND. If Woodrow Wilson ever had a devoted and consist- ent admirer, David Lawrence is the person. In dis- cussing the agricuitural conference in a recent, letter to his paper Mr. Lawrence said: “Behind the dis- content of the farmer that he has to borrow money on short time paper is the knowledge now, too, that the federal reserve system can hurt him immeasurably by passing the word along to the banks not to lend any ; More money.” This is an admission one would scarcely expect Wilsonite to make. The Federal reserve act is the on measure enacted during the eight years of Wilsonism to which th Democrats now point as an achievement, and it must be admitted that so far as it followed lines marked out by a Republican currency commission, it has much merit. But, as Mr. Lawrence intimates, it is in the administration of the act that the farmers find a grievance. Assuming that Mr. Lawrence is cor- rect in saying that the farmers “have the knowledge now” as to the damage the Federal Reserve system can do, they must have acquired that knowledge dur- ing the Democratic administration, for it was then that the farmers sustained their great loss. Far be it from _us to assert that the Federal Reserve board would deliberately hurt the farmer. We are confident they would not, under the present manage- ment, for the whole Harding administration {s striv- ing in every way possible to get the agriculturists on their feet again. Sut such eminent Democrats as John Skelton Williams and Senator Owen have made the accusation, and now we have an almost direct cor- roboration from the man who was one of the closest and cleverest. supporters of Wilsonism among the syn- dicate writers. If the farmers “have knowledge now” that the Fed- eral Reserve board can hurt them, they must have gained that knowledge by experience. If they gained | that knowledge by experience, they must have gained | te during the Wilson regime. If they gained it then, | there is no foundation for the statement of Mr. Bryan that the farmers hold the present administration re- sponsible for their financial troubles. a COMPENSATION AND TAXATION. There is no question of the feelings of appreciation and gratitude, on the part of the American people for the men who served the nation in the day of her need. The Republican party, as the chosen authority to express the will of the people has endeavored to tive expression to the nation-wide spirit. It is true that for two years or more after the stice, there was a manifest failure to adequately for those who were injured or were disabled uth disease, but this was not due to lack of sym- hy or recognition of the obligation that rests upon : nation. The administration then in power was de- nquent in preparation for peace as it had been in reparation for war and the returning soldiers found o proper provisions for their caré. Immediately upon aking charge of the administration of the government n 1921, the Republicans began reorganization of sol- | dier relief and rehabilitation agencies and made larger provision for hospitals and vocational training. The need of all this should have been readily apparent long before the war was brought to @ close and adequate hospital space should have been ready in advance of return of the crippled and disabled. With few exceptions, the returned sojdiers fally un- dorstand the actual situation and know that delay in caring for the injured was not an evidence of the lack of appreciation on the part of the people. They know the record of the Democratic administration for mis- mrnarement from beginning to end, and they do not hold the nation in general responsible. In its endeavor to manifest its gratitude toward the veterans, the Republican administration does not be- lieve in “saying it with flowers.” So far as money can voice their acknowledgements, the American people are willing to “Say it with dollars.” No one assumes, however, that the measure of our gratitude can be ex- pressed in dollars, or that the veterans will so accept it. Such an assumption would be an insult not only to the veterans but to all the people. So-called “bonus” legislation, or “adjusted compensation” is not an at- tempt to pay the veterans for their servicys—it is an effort to render additional help to those who need help in getting “back to normal.” When the nation has done all that {t can do, it will have fallen far short of what it would like to do. In an undertaking of such large proportions, there are limits determined by economic laws beyond which the nation cannot go without a reaction which would do the soldiers mor harm than good. To pay adjusted compensation hecessitates raising enormous sums of money, and the only way to raise money is through taxation. Taxation must eventually fall upon pro- ducers and when taxation passes certain limits, it be- comes repressive of production and injures the whole nation, the soldiers among the rest. It would little profit a returned soldier to be paid a bonus if the taxa- tion measure destroyed the, profits of the industry in which he had been employed and eventually cut off more from his salary than he received in bonus. This « A campaign of organised retiet among the poor of this city and coun- ty will be conducted during the next hree weeks. Its object is the rehab- Mitation of the destitute families who through adverse circumstances are unable to help themselves. It is @ thing of merit; an act of mercy; @ deed of noble purpose; it is charity’s ideal. It 1s for. the men, women and children among us who are facing. the bitterness of empty days, who have known hunger and the feelings that follow from it. > Even looked at from a strictly utili- tarian standpoint, and it has one, this campaign is a matter of necessity. It is a veritable fact borno out by ex- perience that the helplessly poor in any community are a blight upon it. What they contribute to civic better- ment and progress is more in the nature of harm than of good. Victims ef circumstances, fortuitous or other- \ Push the Yellowstone H: BY FRED PATER. ighway Inasmuch as John L. King, county | Read the following letter from Mr. Be attorney of Thermopolis, is going to talk at the chamber of commerce ban- quet next Wednesday evening; it be hooves every man in Casper who is interested in the future growth of our city to be present. Mr. King will have some interesting things to say. He will thrown some light on what the Yellowstone Highway, means to Wyo- ming, and to Thermopolis, and more especially to Casper. It is a most propitious time for this talk to take place too, for we have been racked and tortured because of the fact that the Lincoln highway as sociation in the publication of their big wall map of the United States, which shows the Lincoln highway all the way from New York to San Fran- cisco, has seen fit to leave off the most important feeder to the Yellowstone National park, 1. e. the Yellowstone highway. They do condescena to show the highway as far as Douglas, at which int it is supposed to run into a and end. Casper is shown in very small type, and Graybull is not on the map at all, and neither is the east gate to the park. Wouldn't that jar you. It did me, and I was all boiling over, and then Charlie Stafford ound a date on the map, and we sup- vosed from that it was an old time map, and let it pass; but the following letter from A. F, Bement, executive secretary of the Lincoin Highway as- sociation, shows that this was and is their latest map, and it does not show hat there is a gate to the Yellowstone irk on the east side of the park at il, although all other gates are vhown. Even the south gate which vas not opcned for two years after the map was published is shown, and wonderful road as shown by this ment, and then you will appreciate why we must be on the job every min- ute until we have paved the Yollow- stone highway and made it so good that no motorist can resist trying it. a nee: Mich., Jan. 24, 1922. of Commerce, Casper. Gentlemen: ex We have your letter of January 21 referring to a letter we wrote under Mondell's first term in congress be- gan in 1895. At the Casper convention in 1894 he was backed by many friends for the position of governor, but it was finally decided to send him to con- gress and to put W. A. Richards in the governor’s chair. The lean years of 1885 and 1896 caused much discon- tent throughout the west and there were thousands who believed that Rry. an’s free silver panacea was the thing that would lift us out of all our mis- eries. There was just enough of this sertiment in Wyoming to elect John B. Osborne a member of con- Mondell’s First Big Job By W. E. Chaplin. 13 to Mr. Fred Patee, It was the most important a Oneal piece of constructive. legislation that|rich as they are in liquid gold. The writer bas never @riven_from|has ever been enacted for the people Rawlins via Lander to the Yellowstone semiarid region. second and is, consequently sending a copy|only to the original homestead act and Nephew of Houston. ef your letter to our vice president.|has passed into the 88 el Fi Dead Mfr. Harry B. Joy, who may wish to|tion as an enduring monument to omment on it. He has driven many/ genius of the Republican party. exas, igure ea times between Rawlins and the Yel-} Under the reclamation act millions , lowstone. At the suggestion of Mr. Joy, the route from Rawlins to Lander to the Yellowstone was put on our last is-' sue of wall maps, which was published late In 1918, at which time we got such ‘9 large quantity that we have not since then been required to publish another edition. As we wrote Mr. Patee the next edition of such maps we have Printed will show the Yellowstone highway completely from Cheyenne to the Yellowstone. While the writer has never driven the Yellowstone highway from Chey- enne to Casper and on to Cody, he hopes to do so next season. We do not make any pretension to showing all of the other important highways in the United States on our wall map of the Lincoln highway, or suarantee that the routes shown as feeders to the Lincoln highway are ac- curate, as of course, our officials have not the time to drive all of these feed- er roads. The map ts primarily for the pur- Pose of accurately showing the Lin- coln highway. The main connections north and south are indicated as a convenience for anyone desiring te branch off from the Lincoln highway ai any point and anyone wishing to do so can secure detailed information in regard to the other roads from the organizations interested in them. A. F. BEMENT, Vice President. work for his constituents and the peo- ple of the arid region When Roosevelt became president, with his progressive ideas relating to the development of the west, his knowledge of irrigation and water rights and bis quick methods of doing things, tho hoyr had struck for the passage of legislation providing for the reclamation of arid lands. Mondell was connected with every move in that matter. Ho was at all preliminary meetings, aiding, suggesting, and formulating the bill that finally was MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1922. more wealth than all our ofl fields. GALVESTON, Texas. Feb. 13.— Samuel Moore Renland. prominent in Texas Masonic circles and a nephew of General Sam Houston. famous fig- ure in early Texas history, died at _}his home here. He was 77 years o!d. ee Jewelry and w=tch repairing by ex- time to come will bring to the state ——————— Save American Eyesight Urges San Francisco Mayor Need National Campaign Battle with Dangex- of Defective Vision, He Says Phate by Deshaeti James Rolph, Jr. Mayor of San Francisco \VERY individeal with ‘‘a love for in the proper earo of their vision—ts the well-being and happinces of his fellow man’? should co-operate a campaign against evils of defective the promulgation of facts and figures in along tho lines of eyesight couserra- tion of the utmost importance, gress. Major McKinley was chosen|®greed to by the house committ president, however. and he appointed| irrigation. He had shown such com.| YD i. —— ie peared = $* There is no end te the evils thas Frank Mondell to the position of as |Prehensive knowledge rplating. to| a7°F James Rolph, Jr, Fran- riso from defectivo vision. Those of sistant commissioner of the general land office. Mondell had already giv- en much attention to land matters and it was easy for him worker that he|0n the floor of the house, which he did| terms conservation of eyesight a na- God and man—we should feel the most a“ was, to grasp the detail of that won-/@nd the bill was passed. It soon went| tional problem of vital importance. profound pity for that person congeni- 4 derful complex branch of the govern-|through the senate and was sicned ¢©"Time was when measures to allevi- tally blind or sightless from accident, ment. He served in the position for sbout two yeurs and was elected in 1898 to return to his seat in congress. His one term had given him acquaint- ance among the members and his serv- ice in the general land office had made map extends from Rawlins via Lan-jhim familiar with the workings of the ter to the south gute of the park. How would you like to see a fine highway built from Denver for in- stance to the park which would cut off all the tourist business from Cas- per, and have our own splendid Yel- owstone highway ended at Douglas? Vould that appeal to you? I know it would not, and Mr. King will ont line to you what it means t the Wind river canyon ro- p which is going t’ .uprove tne xei- lowstone highway very much indeed. From the Rest of Us TO) I have been reading and hearing a | so0d deal the last few days of how the merchants of Casper are tel%ir the rest of us why wo should b hings from Casper retaliers. Belng of an old Wyoming family and therefore withou: prejudice against anything in this old state, I rise to inform the aforementioned as to just why we hug Monty Ward to our forty-four inch bosoms. ‘The fault lies absolutely and entirely in Casper rents. When you mer chants, and bankers and other pro- sressive business and professiona’ nen get together and give us a chenc: © rent a house, or buy one, at a re: sonable price, we'll have enough lef: to buy Casper goods,—and not untii There are « whole lot of us who demand clean decent houses for cur wives and children to live*in, and we have to pay too blamed high for the privilege of living that way in Casper Most of us prefer to wear mail order clothes if our little families ean have Proper homes, than to have it the oth- er way around. Salaries and wages are coming down now, and as long as rents still stay dangling in the tree tops we're bound to buy less and less here when we can lop a nickle or two is n feature of the problem to which thoughtless and off by buying somewhere else. tional legislators must keep constantly in mind. | I'm buying a lot of furniture next month, and I'd like to get it here, Lut Passing a bonus law means passing a tax law. Every if I don't find a house I want and pay man who supports a bonus must, if he is honest, also/ What I'd pay in any other town in the support a tax. The question before congress is not therefore, one of patriotism or of gratitude, but the intensely practical task of devising a tax that will pro- dute revenue for a bonus without doing more harm than good. THREE TIMES OVER. ‘The most recent issue of treasury notes was over- subscribed three times. The call was for $400,000,- 000, but subscriptions aggregated over $1,200,000,000. It is announced, however, that an additional $200,- 000,000 may be allotted to those who offer to pay for them in Victory notes. The issue is part of Secre- tary Mellon’s plan for gradually refunding the big Victory note issue that falls due May 20, 1923, and spreading the maturities over a longer pviod of time. |The confidence manifested by bankers in the present administration of the treasury department assures the success of the plan, unless congress creates new emer- gencies that will have to be met. eee A BOOB STATE. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the resolution reviving the War Finance corporation. Thereafter the state of ‘Texas cast its vote in favor of the Democratic candi- date for president, whose mind was at one with Wil- son’s. Since then the War Finance corporation, re- vived by passage of the resolution over the president’s veto, has loaned more than $8,000,600 on agricultural securities in Texas. One of the most aggressive advo- cates of a protective tariff is a Texas man who has made his voice heard repeatedly at the national capital in hearings before the ways and means and finance =) tees. Strange that Texas refuses to vote in ordance with its own best business interests. state for it, I'm going to hold cut my ardearned shekels to Kansas City, and pay freight. ‘The war's over—and so’s the boom Let's get down to earth and work tb gether. BOB DAVID. | Feeling Grippy? Cold Coming On? New Dis For Colds and Coug. ine seguletly. Tay Pas for sluggish bowels, You'll fit for work. At all druggists | departments. every detail that the committee, al- though he was not the chairman di- rected him to take charge of the bill by President Roose Congressman Mon: of the reclamation act,” handed him the pen with which he signed it and it is now one, of the most valued relics in the state mu secur, } cisco. The chief executive of California’s largest city, in an interview just issued, ate defects of vision wero far more erude than they are today,’? Mayor Rolph stated. ‘Modern optometry accomplishes feats littlo short of the miraculous, ‘Particularly in a pre- ventive way—in educating ehildren and young manhood and womanhood us who daily drink in the great variety of sights that come to us in tho bustling world, who see tho beautiful works of disease or neglect. “Let us all co-operate in the dix eemination of useful knowledge that will tend to lessen the eye troubles of the world, and we will be doing a work most valuable in promoting the wel- fare of mankind.’? He was ripe for big That was Mondell’s first big job in GROCERIES AND AUTO SUPPLIES SATISFACTION OR YOUR MONEY BACK The Associated Stores Co. A SPECIAL ORDER DEPARTMENT MAINTAINED THROUGH WHICH WE CAN SUPPLY OUR CUS- TOMERS WITH THOUSANDS OF NECESSITIES. | 4 Casper, Wyo., Feb. 13, 1922. | Dear Sir: H In reply to your letter of recent dace wi fruit and other departments of the Associated the respective sole owners of these departmen' ous departments will be in actual charge. Stores will be represented by the departme: money will be invested in the business. 5 : It has been proven many times that the persona interested is the tnost satisfactory management of all. the manager of the Associated Store, who is obligat and prices possible. + In every case possible local Casper men will be sele managers, perhaps you are trading with some of them you ask more than Casper men conduct the Associated wholly owned by local capital, thereby making the Ass Casper owned and Casper managed? The grocery, meat market, fruit, bake and managed “by tule lee Colgin, who ai cery store ai Sout pruce street, which is being remod the needs of hundreds of our club patrons. In the qatuee an checker ee cards will be made payable t - C.G. i i Geen e pir li yanie o Mr. C. G. Colgin. This letter from date, cancels all We have abandoned the ori; street for the following reasons: First—Because the present store building at 903 modeled and enlarged very quickly, much Boonen than paee anaes concn Bee: Second—Because the store is established, the only thing necessary to make it into an Associated Store is more ro " cent iil prices! € room, more stock and a reduction of about 25 per Third—tThe rent is cheaper, and there i, 7 ii ii service, from this location and the one paeneee Bees We want you to patronize home men on the Associated Stores as an outsider. It ' pa tons can purchase merchandi: ollar. ll state that the grocery, meat market, Stores will be managed and owned by ts, and that the owners of these vari- The entire ownership of the Associated nt managers, and not one cent of outside 1 management of those financially No outside man can dictate to ed to give you the best service ected as clerks and assistant at the present time. Could Stores, and that the stores be ‘ociated Stores a Casper store, ry and other departments will b t the present time is conducting aomned ginal plan of locating the store at 412 East Second iffere; Second street. and home-owned is entire] ise at a saving of a Yours truly, mee in delivery businesses. Don’ ly a Casper store, at whic Pproximately 25 per cent "t look h club on the THE ASSOCIATED STORES Co.