Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1922, Page 6

PAGE SIX Che Caspet Dailp Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday et Casper, Natrona . Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building. © Exchange Connecting All Departments Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1816. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS J. E. HANWAY ... EARL E. HANWAY W. H. HUNTL . R. E EVANS .. THOMAS DALY Adver‘ising Representatives. Pradden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg.. Chicago, Ill; 286 Fifth avenue, vw. York City; Globe Bidg.; Bos- Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in ton, Mass. ; the New York, Chicago and Boston offices and visitors are welcome. One Year Stx Months Three Months ~ One Month .. Per Cops . One Year Six Months Three Month: No subscripti three months. All subseriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Kick if Don’t Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 Soxduee between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p.m. if you fail to recetve your TWibune. A paper will be de- Livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know wire. your carrier misses you. << HOW WILL IT GET BY? = If it is the expectation of the congress to hold tue respect of the people of the nation it will have to show more decision of character than it has exhibited inf the soldier bonus question. Politically, congress is located midway between the devil and the deep blue sea. {t will be damned by the soldiers and their friends if it dosen't pass the bill and it will be damned by the taxpayers if it does. The fiscal affairs of the government admit of no more drain upon the treasury for any purpose. Thanks to Wilson and his wasters we are as good as broke for some years to come. The taxpayers are even now round-shouldered carrying present burdens and are unwilling to have their backs broken by piling any on, No one expects congress to do other than take the Jine of least resistance. It will, of course, pass the onus bill because it means the payment of money, d old habits are strong. nit is unfortunate that congress does not contain men who would sef their faces against a proposal re- gardiess of its popularity when they positively know? that to make it the law at this particular time means untold hardships upon the people and a handicap to anufacturing and industry. ‘ 3 Since the boys are entitled to our highest considera- tion and their just dues will not be out of our minds, but when we are practically broke and hustling to meet our current bills, we cannot very well play the ®rich uncle. About the best that should be expected is to have us care well for those injured in the serv, ice of the country and to put over to a more prosper- ous day the matter of squaring with the boys who are able bodied on the compensation no one denies is due em. sats is only by.the strictest economy that the country is going to crawl out from under the wreckage and costs of war. Once out from ener aoe eames es ing ahead with the o! ime swing 2 poamaprick Sccraracia again and can stand the financial king the bonus will require. ar reese contained more statesmen of conviction and fewer politicians of policy the country would have em entirely different view of the bonus and kindred subjects. ee ee a EGGS FROM CHINA. An item in the market pages sf the New York news- pers says: “Nearly 100,000 dozen eggs were re- Saived = China last week and double that aumber will arrive this week.” It takes five weeks for egys to errive from China. They are sold to the cheaper elass} of retail stores and to bakeries, If Chinese eggs are entering the port. of New York at the rate of over 5,000,000 dozen annually, it is more than likely that they are entering other ports, particularly on the west coast at a relatively larger rete. In addition, millions of pounds.of dried and frozen egg products are coming into this country from China. Of course this has its effect on the American egg producer, The pending tariff bill places a duty of 6 cents a dozen on eggs in the shell, 4 cents a pound on prepared yolk or albumen, and 15 cents a pound on dried egg products, and the quicker that bill is passed the better it will be for our egg producers, and pos- sibly for the health of our egg consumers. - Centuries ago the philosophers engaged in a heated debate as to which came first, the hen or the egg. The question was not decided. If one of their number had submitted a Chinese egg as “Exhibit A,” the support- ers of hen primogeniture would have been over- whelmed at the first crack of the shell by evidence not; @t all circumstantial. And an egg which could drive out those stubborn old metaphysicians can do a good deal to put the American producer out of business. SS TARIFF’S HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. It was just a hundred years ago this week that a measure establishing the present system of determin- ing the value of merchandise imported into the United States was introduced in congress and made law after brief debate. It is true that the customs administra- tion act of 1789, passed by the first congress under, the constitution did provide as the basis of valuation of imported merchandise the actual cost or market value “in the place or country from whence import- ed” just as the present law requires but it was the undervaluations occurring under that original law which led to the revision introduced in congress in 1822 creating the “consular invoice system” which provided that, ‘no goods or merchandise subject to zd valorem duties and’ belonging to persons not resid- ing in the United States” shall be admitted to entry in the United States “unless the invoices attached thereto shall be verified by the oath of the owner certi- fying its actual cost, such oath to be administered by @ consul or commercial agent of the United States” in the country or port from which the merchandise is exported to the United States. Complaints made by government officials in 1821 that the law of 1789 was being persistently violated through under-valuations by importers were quickly’ followed by the introduction in 1822 of a measure re- quiring that persons in foreign countries exporting merchandise to the United States should ‘atiach there- to an invoice and should make oath before a consul of the United States as to the accuracy of the invoice. | And this plan, which became a law in 1823, has been j while the @ characteristic of our customs laws from that date te the present. There was a brief interval, 1833 to 1842, when a system of home valuation was tn force. Because the plun was imperfect and the treasury department did tot favor it, the then pending uct of 1842 restored the 1822-3 system, requiring ad valorem duties to be based on the “actual market value or wholesale price at the! time when the goods were purchased in the principal markets of the country whence imported,” together with certain additions of costs, charges and commis- sions, and this system has continued with slight modi- fications down to the present time. | Under existing law the importer presents with bis! entry at the custom house an invoice certified by a| consular officer with a declaration by the exporter as! to correctness, showing the cost if the merchandise | was purchased or the market value if it was otherwise} ebtained. The appraiser (at the United States custom | house) reports to the collector what he deems to be| the actun] market value or wholesale price of the mer- chandise at the time of exportation to the United States in the principal markets of the country whence| the same has been imported. The tederal tariff commission says: “That the con- sular certification of invoices provided by the legisla- tion of one hundred years ago now accomplishes lit- tle to aid the appraisement at the custom house, since ‘because of Iack of time and for ther reasons it is not a check upon errors or frauds.’ ] There has arisen in the current tariff discussion of “he vending Fordney measure an almost country-wide demand for an American valuation plan more perfect in its wou.*ing details than the 1833-1842 measure pro- vided. The disturbed commercial conditions in Euroy> and the changing conditions at home furnish strong argument for an Amezican valuation system. The methods by which other countries determine the import values of the merchandise entering their ports differ greatly. A recent statement by our tariff| commission indicates that in Denmark, Sweden, Por- tugal, Argentini, Brazil and most of the English- speaking colonies systems quite similar to that of the United States are used; in Belgium and France duties are based on the valuation of the merchandise on ar- riving at the frontier; in Netherlands the current price| in that country at the ‘date of arrival, and in Great Britain the price which an importer would pay for the article delivered in bond ‘at the port of importation ;| 1 countries which levy no “ad valorem” tariff duties accept for statistical and commercial purposes | the general statements of their importers and export-| frs as to the value of the merchandise which they | bring into or send out of the country. In the United| States, which has no export duties, the records of ex- ports are based upon the wholesale or market value of | the merchandise at the por! from which it leaves the country. ————_0—___+_ ¢ AN EXAMPLE TO CHURCHMEN. “Very cordial respect is sure to go out to the ortho- dox rabbis of the Jewish faith,” says the Continent, “who have just voted that unfermented grape juice is an entirely acceptable ceremonial drink with which| to celebrate the sacramental feasts of their religion. There is much—thought admittedly not conclusive—| evidence for believing that the Jews anciently drank on their sacred occasions wines not fermented. But through mediaeval and modern times at least they have used alcoholic wines. And the decision of these American Jewish leaders is not made on historic grounds; it is an entirely contemporary action prompt- ed by a desire to put themselves in line with their country’s prohibition sentiment. They were moved, too, by the knowledge that in some cases the legal privilege granted rabbis to buy wine had lieen availed of by imposters personating rabbis to obtain liquors tor beverage purposes. Not even thus remotely were these men willing to have their faith associated in the popular thought with bootlegging. “Confronted with this example, what are Catholic priests and Episcopalian rectors going to do? Will they continue to insist on the preposterous proposi- tion that alcohol is required in the wine of the mass cr eucharist to give the sacrament validity? Of course as long as they do so insist, the law will pro- tect them in their right to have alcoholic wine. Amer- ican religious liberty will not fail. But how can the clergy of any church retain public respect while con- tinuing to affirm that only in grape juice aged enough to have acquired the poison of intoxication can there be found the sacredness which the God of heaven’ is| willing to bless? Do they really mean to say that the | liquid as he made it in the grape is not holy enough for God to accept in the service of his worship? There is no theological reason, even in the most extreme Ro- taanist theories, for insisting on an intoxicant liquor at the altar of God; nothing but precedent can be thought to require it. But no Christian precedent in that line is so strong as Jowish precedent. And the Jews have let their ancient habit go because they see\ it outworn in a new civilization. Are not Romanists, end Episcopalians ready to be as good Americans?” ———o. A WRONG IDEA. A recent announcement conveyed the “information | that every resident of the United States is $3 Poorer | by reason of the fact that there has been $3 per capita| deduction in the amount of money in circulation in the /We dare not leave the world’s highway! SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 192 Put American Standards in Tariff at the expent, © eur own country . short-sightd economy. ‘Wat can be dane to meet this a: ation? Today we are confronted with @ temic weakness in our tariff policy which is affecting, injuriously, * the whole industrial fabric of the nation. Finctuations in foreign exchange are playing hayoo with wases. prices and orders. Bermuse our present tariff time when foreign moneys werp normal, they are teday actually inoperative as far as protecting labor and industry or yieid- ing revenue are ‘Two examples will suffice :o fllu- strate and prove these statements. An ounce of gold today in the United States pays the American worker for 17.22 hours of labor as against 50.16 hours in Great Britain, 975 hours in Japan, 117.31 hours im France and 201.55 hours in Germany. Last year congress passed a bill restricting tm- migration to protect the American worker from the millions of foreigners ‘who would have flooded our labor mar- kets an¢ caused a panic in wages. But what advantage is there today to} (tive the American worker to have zestrict- ed immigration, {f, through defects in our tariff, the products of these mil lions of men and women abrocd are now glutting our markets and forcing miilions of workers out of their posi- tions? What better employment in- surance could we have than a, tariff law which insures the American worker his job in. competition with the workmen of the world? In 1915 it required the work of 5,000 men for one day to make 1,000 tons of steel rails. Let us suppose that today an American railroad placed an order for fifty thousand tons of rails in Belgium, Germany or England because these rails might be bought for less monty abroad than at home. This would mean that five thousand men in our own country would be idle for fifty days. It would mean that sev- era] thousand employss of our rail- roads would have less work because the railrozds would be deprived of havling these rails and the raw ma- terials such as coal, coke, iron, etc., which come from the mines to the cur. rency. It will prevent. the cheape currencies of the world from saddlins us with economic stagnation. MUSIC LOVERS. This is your last chance to hea- the famous master pianist, Leopold before his departure fo- Godowsky, The Highway BEES Ss JT saw a wide, »an-beaten strect Where through a throng, with hurry- ing feet But downcast and unlustrous eyes. Swept by—in search of Paradise. The street stretched on, a long straight . line, To the horizon's far confine, Undeviating, shadeless, bare; And the poor souls that plodded there Were blind with sun and choked with dust, Yet toiled on in the joyless trust ‘That somehow, somewhere, far or near ‘Tho haven they longed for must ap pear. And all along this barren way Were walls to guard the lands—that lay Green-wooded, cool, on either side. “Ah, lift your eyes and look,” I cried; ,"Behold, where close beside you lies The flowery vale of Paradise! One step, one leap, and you are free ‘To wander through the shadowy lea, Or le outstretched on Nature's breast And sinke your troubled souls with rest." But words were vain, for few pees ‘The thousands in that hurrying throng Stayed even to answer; and those few Said: “Nay, we do as others do! We follow on, we may not stay; Go pipe your song, and dream your dream, And feed your soul on things that seem; But be our haven near or far, ‘We place our trust in things that are.” ——CHARLTON M. LEWIS. Not Even Silk Ones “Next summer some women will not wear stockings,” declared Mile, Anita Peraquard, a fashion expert of New York. She claims nothing start ling in this statement, but looks upon it rather as the evolution of style, or fashion or whatever it is. women ‘ol- low when on speaking terms with the voice that dictates what they , shall or shall not wear. United States. The statement is manifestly incorrect but it may undoubtedly mislead a great many people. | The fact of the matter is that regardless of the amount! of money in circulation the wealth of the country is| exactly the same as before, except to the extent that tangible property may have been destroyd by misfor-| tune. If there be $3 less money jn circulation the| total amount of that money will be approximately of} the same buying value as the greater amount, Dur-| ing the war the Federal Reserve system was operated | in such a manner as to produce what was called in- flation. We had a larger number of dollars but'a greatly diminished buying power. The people of the country may be in the aggregate richer or poorer to- day than they were then but the difference is not due to an increase or devrease of the number of dollars in circulation. \ The wealiz of the country is not deter- mined by the amount of money in the pockets of the people. German printing presses have neither added to por detracted from the wealth of the German people. —— eee HELP YOUR BROTHER. We may not all take the view that we are our brothers’ keeper, yet to a certain extent we have more or less responsibility to our fellow that we cannot well avoid. In the matter of unemployment we owe to those out of work any effort possible on our part to Place a brother into situation to provide for his de- pendents. In times of stress when anything in the way of employment {s welcome it is quite natural to turn to public works, when the usual industries cannot provide and it is a good time for municipalities, coun- ties and states to accomplish necessary public im- provements than it will be at a time when labor de- mands are more pressing. Two good purposes are accomplished by speeding up public works in dull times. Helping the unemployed and saying good citizens from entering into allianee with wild and undesirable organizations like the Non- partisan league. A hungry man with a starving wife and children is desperate and will do desperate things and it is a whole lot better to save citizens from folly | by assuming responsibility for being their keepers | than it is to let thenf drift into things that hold out} promise, even if impossible, of better things than the things they are by force of circumstances compelled | for the present to undergo. | Therefore do what you can to help the man out of work and the bread thus cast upon the waters will re- turn in the way of public good if it does not other- wise. “There sre perhaps some prudish people who wiil greet this announce- ment with surprise and who will do all in thelr power to prevent women from following the dictates of fashion, but those will be in the minority, as we shall see. For the simple reason that stockings in past summers have |, attained a degree of thinness which permits sights of the bare skin, the: should be nothing shocking in a total view of the lower limb, even if it is bare. The only objection I can see to the new styles should naturally come from the silk manufacturers. “As a matter of fact, I myself was somewhat surpriged when I learned in Paris that the modistes and design- ers of women’s fashions had decreed for a stockingless costume. Surely they had not talked over their plans mean to the silk trade. Why, some of the stocking makers will positively put up a howl. Of that I am sure, but they, too, shall find that women when they want something usually get it. Women want to discard the stocking in spected. It will be cooler and more mills. It would mean that thousands of miners would have lest work it the product of their labor were not used by the mills. It would mean that the workers of the mines, mills and raflroads would have less money to spend for the necessities of life with the baker, the grocer or the re- tailer. ‘This tendency to buy abroad stylish, For the soothing effect it might have on the nerves of the stock- ing manufacturers, I would say that the stocking will be discarded only for two months during the hot period of summer—from July to the last of August. Then the stocking will come again into its own.” summer. Thelr wants shall be re- 46 PACKARD announces substantial reductions in the prices of Packard Twin-Six cars and Trucks Price eight months ago Feb.13, 1922 The Twin-Six Touring . . . $6000 $4850 ° : Other Twin-Six models show proportionate reductions ; In addition to the reductions made in the price of the Twin-Six, Packard Truck models EC (2—234-ton, solid tires) and EX (2—2!4-ton, pneumatic tires) are retluced from $3500 to $3100 and from $4000 to $3500, remains unchanged, with the probability of an advance later. 5 No motor car in the world: today offers equal value with the Packard Twin-Six, the new low price of which represents a total reduction of more 35 per cent in less than eight months. All pric ive Fe 13, 1922, prices fe © pay ats Price eo ee ee THE PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY iy DETROIT JOE E. MANSFIELD, Inc. East Yellowstone and Kimball Phone 346 * * ASK THE MAN WHO Owns ONE