Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1922, Page 6

r SES om Ba =A amd &€8a87 he t ce PAGE SA €be Casper Dailp Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Ni Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building. ..15 and 16 Departments <ESS TELEPHONES ephone Exchange Connecting an Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class) matter, November 22, 131¢ j ASSOCIATED PRESS | MEMBER THE President and Editor) . Busmess Manager| .. Associate Editor] 3 City Editor . Aévertising Manager| Advertising King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Blég., Chicaze.| New York City; Glove Bidg.; Bos-} the Daily ‘Tribune are on file in| cago and Boston offices and visitors) are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier 1 accepted for less period than| | in advance and the} insure delivery after sabscrip- n in arrears. Member of Audit Burean of Circulation (A. B. C.) Member of the Associated Press. | The Associated Press ts ‘exclu ly entitled to the use for publication of all news credited tn this paper and also the local news published herein. Kick if you Don’t Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 und 8 o'clock p. m. $f you fafl to recetve your Tribune. A paper will be de- Dvered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. THEY ARE MUTUALLY DEPENDENT. One of the leading commercial publications of the country makes this assertion: “You cannot hit the rail-' reads without hitting everything else.” A very neat) and expressive way of stating a truth Basic indus- tries and enterprises are so dependent one upon the other that the exme assertion can be applied with equal fores to umy other of them. Farming could not be successful without transportation service. Manu- facturing is in the same identical situation. And rail- roads cannot prosper without both of the other essen tial industries. The prosperiity of each contributes to the prosperity of all. And therefore you cannot hit any one of them without the blow being felt by all the others. Failure to recognize these simple facts was one of the great faults of the Wilson administration. Mr. McAdoo made an arbitrary increase in the wages of railroad employes. No one complains of that by itself. Everybody rejoiced and wil! continue to rejoice over: pny increase in wages a railroad employe or any other employe can justly secure. But the fault lay in the fact that McAdoo used that wage increase as a means of hitting the railroads in the solar plexus. At the same time that he ordered the increate in wages he should have ordered an increase in freight and p: soenger rates, both increases to take effect on the same day. That would have been ordinary common sense and business judgment, but Mr. McAdoo was lacking in both. The Democratic administration limited the prices the farmers could get for their products, but it placed no Yimit on the wages the farmer must pay for help in planting and cultivating their crops. In fact the Wilson-McAdoo regime indirectly increased the wages farmers must pay at the same time that the profits of the farmers were limited. That is the way democracy hit the farmers at the same time it was hitting the rail- roads. There can be no successful price fixing by govern- ment unless the price fixing is universal and equitable, and since human beings are not perfect, there can be no just and‘ equitable arrangement of price scales. Satisfactory price-fixing is impossible, when men try their best to be fair, but Mr. McAdoo and the other price-fixers of the Wilson administration did not try to be fair. They boosted the expenses of the railroads at the same time that they held revenues down. They boosted. the expenses of the farmers at the same time that they held the revenues of the farmers down. They admit that they inflated in order to make it easy to sell Liberty bonds to the public and then they deflated until those who could not carry the bonds were com- pelled to sell as low as 85 cents on the dollar. It all goes to prove the statement that you cannot smite the railroads, the agriculturists or the bondhold- ers without ultimately finding the tender place in the anatomy of everybody and everything else. All but a few found this out in time to take a crack at the Democratic pa: and the Wilson-McAdoo outfit in 1920 and to do it by the largest majority ever record- ed in a presidential 1 contest in this countr; If any body is suffering from impaired memory it is not the voters of the land, it must be the Democratic campaign managers o a THE NATION’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The Veteran’s Bureau reports that.since the armis- tice $1,540,000,000 has been spent by the government for the care of disabled soldiers of the world war. The expenditures e been under the following heads: Vocational tra Insurance - Compensatio: Allotments Allowances --. Marine and seamen Medical and hospital service. Administration —- Total______. ——-—-$1,541,446,982.58 It is estimated that the total expenditures for the current fiscal year will amount to over $450,000,000 5 | because they were so contrary to what everyone un- dollars @ year on the rehabilitation ed and disabled soldiers. The government out of that sagging income a on war debt interest. In a war charge of a billion and a not to mention the cost of keeping np the navy which some day might be held down quarters of a billion of doilars, though not future. These colossal war charges cannot We are unescapeably and indefinitely the creat bulk of these charges for long years te come. “But when such war charges are devouring from €wo and a quarter to two c=d a half billions of dol- la}s of the government’s already inadequate and rap- id.y dwindling income, and when thre already is an i fill E if Ha i ‘o9 8 A | annual deficit in sight of $300,000,1100, for anybody to talk of adding arother $425,000,009 a year to that shortage for bonus purposes, making the government's deficit approximately three-quarters of a billion of dol- lars a year, is either cheerful idiocy or pure humbug.” yal limitations treaty, shows what little practical =| knowledge the labor leader has of what he is talking | about. Mr. Gompers urged that twe of the battleships now building in navy yards be completed, rather than two which are nearing completion in private yards. The fact is that the vessels building in the government yards are of the 42,000-ton type, a size that is not permitted under the treaty that has been nogotiated with the other powers. There are three ships build- ing in private yards of the 35,000-ton size, two of which will be selected by the navy department for com- pletion in accordance with the terms of the treaty.| Mx, Gompers also asked to have navy yard workers} assigned to the task of scrapping the ships on the dis- carded list, quite ignoring the fact that such work calls) enly for unskilled labor, while most of the men at the yerds are skilled machinists. Of course the president and secretary of the navy will do all they properly can for the discharged navy yard employes, but the armaments treaty puts a duty upon them that they cannot escape. ee THE GRE4Y AND GLORIOUS WEST. The world consumption of oil has reached 700,000,- 000 barrels and experts say this will go to 1,000,000,- 000 barrels in five years. While other nations are struggling to corner the oi! supplies of the world the fs t remains that our coun-} try is producing 70 per cent of the total. Capital by the millions each month is searching for new oil wells in all the possible producing territory from Mexico to Alaska. The west also has 90 per cent of the potential hydro- electric energy of the world and capital is beginning to turn attention to that. The west has great riches in natural resources of | | timber, oil, mines, and undevoioped agricultural lands} reaching into hundreds of millions. | “he future wealth and manufacturing power not only, | of ont country but of the world? | With lumbering, paper mills, itfigation, power de- potash, fisheries, fruit growing, and agriculture going forward by leaps and bounds, who can over-estimate the resources of the country west of the Mississippi. ment and our loss. ooo SIMPLY CONSPIRACY. The stage is being set for the greatest labor up- clerk—half the people we meet in heaval in the history of the United States. The pub- daily contmet ure each a part of what But when we begin agreements of anthracite and bituminous coal miners to shoulder our executive responsibil- ities for the day we forget the variou: lic is daily given a hint of what is in store for it. Wage expire the last of March. In the effort to resist any decrease in wartime wages, the coal miners’ organizations and the railroad labor unions are already preparing to combine if a strike be- comes necessary to enforce their demands. At the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor it is stated for President Gompers that the fed- eration “stands back of any attempt to combine among workers to combat possible wage reductions.” Conferences are now taking place between tho heads of the coal mine unions and the railroad unions as to! their course of procedure. The rights of the publiic are being completely ignored. After the smoke of a gencral strike clears away (if it is ever called), labor organizations will find that the public interest was paramount to-their own selfish test of strength can never stand against an outraged public sentiment. RENE SERRE Set RECOGNIZE CONDITIONS. There have probably been more arguments for and: against the tariff question than on any other public is- sue except taxation. Regardless of our personal opin- ion, certain facts confront various industries of this country which, while ‘paying American wages under American working and living conditions, must meet foreign competition. No wise man would suggest closing our doors to for- eign competitors for the simple reason that we must sell certain of our products in the foreign market. On the other hand, we must recognize the fact that certain commodities manufactured under foreign wage and working conditions may be landed on our shores at a price with which no American manufacturer can compete. Sugar, and paper are typical western indus- tries that can be wiped out of existence through Jack of protection. American wages and working conditions cannot be retained on a foreign commodity price “basis. Bo BE es a a McADOO'S RECORD. E “The efforts of William Gibbs McAdoo to white- | wash the government administration of the railroads during the war period,” says the Manufacturers’ Rec- ord, “were interesting but unconvincing, interesting | prejudiced realized as to results, and unconvincing because facts are stubborn things. The proof of the pudding is in the eating; the public and the railroad companies ate and it didn’t taste good. with a similar sum for the fiscal year 1923, appropria- tions for which are now being made by congress. For many years in the future those #tems of expenditure will reach hundreds of millions of dollars annually. eee TALKING PURE MOONSHINE. “The congrees bonus politicians,” remarks the New York Herald, “who driven to desperation, are now talking of passing the bonus measure and ordering the United States treasury to pay what it costs out of the ordinary revenues of the government are talking moon- shine, and they know they are talking moonshine. “If the national treasury’s income were going up or even holding its own there would not be enough money coming in, as a matter of fact, to meet what the gov- ernment is now spending. But the treasury revenues re not going up. The treasury revenues are not hold- ne their own; they are steadily running down. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, as it is, sees ad of him $300,000,000. “One reason the treasury already is so heavily short of what it needs to balance its inceme and outpo ic: dous war charges that already have to come It income. The government is now income half a billion of an annual deficiency of about hat sagging “Of course no one who does any thinking or who | has any knowledge of the facts aceepts McAdoo’s statements as being anything more than a very trans- | parent coat of white wash for the government mis- | handling of the transportation system of the country, |a mishandling brought about not only by lack of fa- | rwiliarity with the subject, but because of the impos- sibility of getting through with the job without play- | ing politics along the lines of the Adamson act, which |was the beginning of the great troubles of the rail- | Toads in the last several years. | “The public learned to its sorrow that Mr. MeAdoo’s | promises in regard to railroad management sadly fail- ed, and as the Manufacturers Record said when he resigned, he got out just in time to unload upon others a broken-down railroad system for the whole conntry.”’ Oo |. Garlic is said to be a preventive of fiu. Still, it is ‘well to remember that there is no compulsion in the} matter and there are worse things than fiu. j a | Which is the worst for the country, congressional) | extravagance or congressional notions of economy? | SaaEanEEEEEERanEEEEEEE | ) It is suggested that the beotleg business has brought great prosperity to the leather trade. ~*~ Tift | | . | : int What Does Labor Want? What does labor want? The ques: tion is a popular one, It has been an. But gener. Swered dozens of times. ally the answer misses the mark the width of the target. The trouble is that we do not define what mean by “labor” stereotyped answer—“The earth!" Suppose you put the question Who so blind he cannot see that the west is to have/the ‘irst worker you meet; but be careful, if you want the real answer, how you frame your question. Don’t ‘What do you fellows want, any. velopment, shipping, sugar factoriés, precious metals, 0W?” but say, in a perfectly friend ua bg di rin 4 “What do you—Bill Smith— say, 1y way want?” | Bul Smith, machinist, ts labor. The try ¥ i mechanic in the garage is labor. The Let us lock to our legislation and taxation and not conductor on the trolley is labor. The place a handicap upon this great empire, to its detri- ticket collector on the train is labor. Your chauffeur {s labor, and a0 is the when we ask the question, and of course we get the though so far as indpstry at large was concerned, it was scarcely noticeable, We were establishing proof that 1mak- ing the job decent was economically 2 t sf ih | Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets Get at the Cause and Remove It | Dr, Edwards’ coated tablets are taken for bad breath by all who know them. ' H : t He if iH aH a f it : BAD BREATH jive Tablets, the sub- The sugar- hea aor fifty or sixty years—probably con-| worth while. With the Introd: ca) Siccrde caséeered ery ein’ luction + . . gqurTent with (the enormous influx Of /o¢ personnel work some ten years ago.| ¢.,7F. FM. Rawards discovered the e by | violous system of labor exploiting as |iuguatry Pesan to provide the mechan: ticeamong patents sfticted minted || American Hotel a nation We forgot the essentials of ty ing boomerang futile, because not only, through its records, does the Ppersennel depaitment assist the work we Jastice and fairness in our relations with’ our social Inferiors. We threw a boomerang. Tte result—on the surface—justified the method, Indus- trially, the country expanded and be came prosperous. : Labor unlons—in theory, at least never Justified in this free and equa) mation— Were organized perforce, & ‘lefend by mob action, at first, th: correctly termed downtrodden worker The boomerang turned in its tight and I think American saneness conscience, partla!ly dormant throug! these years, wil! ward the blow. For twenty “years we have been groping for a return path to earlic: ive ae whose duty it is to listen to the work-| er’s grievauces. Sknuultaneous!y( industrial experi- menters have mute another discovery. They have learned that the complex and. @elicate mechanism © composing decent job and opportunity cannot be cept in safe adjustment by the old-bull. yzing type of executive. The new sxecutive must be capable, tactful To Cure a Cold gardener. The plumber, the carpen industrial life, when strikes were uy ter, the painter, your newsboy, the/known and workers were measurab bootblack, your waiter, your cigar|contented. We have inaugurat : we call labor. individuals wit but plhasant ‘conversation, and mand truculently, want, anyhow?" And the fight Is whom we have brief “What does labor honus systems of reward for increas ed effort; we have studied motions » as to decrease fatigue and increase ef loeney; «we have embraned welfare work in its varying forms, hospitals, visting nurses, athletic fields, clubs and s0 on; we have been making over the factory, making it light, sanitary and comfortable—a pleasant place tc de on. Whether Bill Smith is twenty forty, whether single or whether union o¢ American, ‘“Dago," or Polack, his jswer will be briefly, “I want a decent job, and a chance to rise.” What does any man want—capital- ist or unskilled worker? A decent and a chance to rise Foreign govern- ments may be overthrown by a ram- national politics may be corrupt, city politics rotten, Mrs, Terwhilliger Jones may wear a ends and that the power of organized labor in a final king’s ranson in diamonds, and Wall street may be in fact ¢ den of thieves, but none of these will ruffle my seren- ity for two consecutive moments if I have a decent job and a chance to pant labor uprising, rise, icate from our minds vidual workers, we will find that are dealing with a bunch of men each of whom is acuated by desires identi: cal with our own and differing only in degree. reading when he says he wants a cent job. He does not mean merely |good working conditions—clean and sanitary; but he means especially cent companionship and, above all, a decent boss. Somewhere in the course of the last married, non-union, whether In other words, if we will only erad- the abstract term labor and think instead of indi- BM Smith means « little bit more than the words may indicate on first or) work; and all the time the worker has looked askance at us with his tonguc in his cheek. But wo made some progress, A Song Cycle © I'm sitting in my little hallroom In Seventeenth street, And I'm thinking of my boyhood, : And our house in the country— °o The flowers and the birds, And mother, going about her duties, Singing softly to herself, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul.” an: al job Be sure you get And later, after I was married, Another house in the country, And the happy. happy days, ‘And my wife, softly singing, ‘The genuine bears this signature “Go to sleep, my baby, my baby, my ‘ We} baby”— Fr %, And then it’s ali gono, Vf And I feel so very, very old. e COVeYw Price 30c. 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