Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO. Che Casper Daily Eribune issued every evening «xcept Sunday at Casper, Natrona « ¥. Wyo. Publicado @, Tribone Sypiiding. < BUSINESS EPHONES 15 and 16 Branch siephone Exchange Connecting All Departments} Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoff tati Novernbe: as second .class| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | President and Editor | Business Monager | A580 £aitor | Ls Lb N -- . City Editor} F THOMAS DAILY pasesccaea Advertising Manager . Advertising Representatives. S Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chicago, | TL; 286 Fitth ave New York City be Bldg.; Bo: j — ton, Mass. es of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago and Boston offices and visitors tare welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES { By Carrier One Year : - Six Months Three Mc B vance and the after subscrip rtptions must be paid in ad wil not insure delivery me month in arrears. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) | Member of the Associated Press. ! Press is exclusively entitled to the all news credited in this paper and blished herein. — } ou Don't Get Your Tribune. time between 6:30 and § o'clock p. m.| ° your Tribune. A paper will be de-| pecial mi w. Make it your duty to} know when your carrier misses you. | | Base & -o28 CITY OWNERSHIP EXPERIMENTS. In spite of the costly lessons learned by govern- ments, from federal to municipal, there are still those who are attracted by public ownership of utilities. The New York Herald in relating what Detroit is about to do inclndes what has already happened to Seattle. The Herald says: “The voters of Detroit will decide at the ballot box on April 15 next whether the city shall buy the pri- vately owned street railways at a cost of $19,500,000. ‘The indications all point to an affirmative answer. In that event a contest which has engaged the attention| of courts and the legislatute for thirty years wili come! to an end and the way will be clear for Detroit to plunge into full ownership and operation of all her # treet railroads. . “Four years ago Seattle took a similar plunge. At | a cost of $15,000,000 the municipality bought out- {Tight all the lines then owned by a private compariy. ,; The investment has proved a heavy burden. The usual 9 political entanglements ensued. Operating costs in- creased until it became necessary to adopt a ten cent fare. Even then receipts failed to meet operating and maintenance expenses together with bond interest and the annual installment payments on the original purchase price. “But Seattle’s troubles did not end there. A rider fixing the street railroad fare at three cents has been attached to the ballot to be used in the next election. With the city running far behind in its street railroad enterprise at a ten cent fare, the deficit caused by a drop to a three cent fare would mean a heavy increase V° in the tax rate, an increase estimated as high as 60 ts per cent. ke “Seattle's tax rate of 70 mills is now among the so highest in the country. The prospect of an increase ‘a in the rate causes some anxiety. It is feared that it ya ~might drive away industries already established and {2 be a bar to investment from outside. At the last cen- ul sus Seattle had a population of 315,000. With the expansion of trans-pacific trade and with the devel- 2 opment of Alaska this fine city of the northwest coast = thas possibilities of growth and prosperity hard to ii Match elsewhere in the country. It would be a pity, ‘indeed, if an outlook so promising were to be darken- fa ed by the visitation of a socialistic blight.” 5) ————<—$$—_o.——_— WORKING AMERICA. « “In the role of special commissioner for the depart- na ment of labor,” notes the Detroit Free Press, “Lil- + lian Russell is rather a novel sensation. The country rs never has associated Miss Russell with serious parts. Ms Still there is no reason why she should be denied so- ac ber attention, and she says things not to be ignored, rs when she asserts that America is being “over-propa- gendeered,” and the stories of suffering humanity in Europe and of oppression ‘all have the dollar sign back of them,’ that it is her personal belief there are organ- izations financed for the sole purpose of ‘making money out of what they call humanity,’ and when, fi- nally, she warns against letting down the immigration bars. “It is probable Miss Russell will modify, or explain, some of her rather sweeping statements when she makes an official report to the secretary of labor, for we do not imagine she intends to deny the existence of.suffering and oppression in Europe. But there is one point where Miss Russell does not rate, because it is next to impossible to use even inperor in discussing it. Tie United States is propa- ida ridden today as it never was before. Not even when Mr. Creel was running his department of ‘pub- licsinformation’ for the benefit of the Wilson admin- istfation were the people of America, and the newspa- pers in particular, so bombarded. Anybody who wants anything, whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, or the tag ends of creation, makes a plea to the people of the United States, generally for finan- cial aid, frequently for political help, and sometimes for actual warlike interference. ‘Emancipators’ and lecturers and special emissaries tour the country. Magazines, books and pamphlets flood the mail. Spe- cial writers litter the desks and eventually the waste baskets of editors with ‘exclusive articles,’ for some of which they even have the effrontery to ask money. Agents of all sorts and degrees of subtlety pervade the country, and a part of the work they do is clever c a 0 ne e n€ 4) o z t aS PoOOus seme: plished, congressman from tighting over a almost single hand The following taken from the Colo rado Springs Telegrapn serves to il- Justrate the appreciation in which ¥rank Mondeli is held by the people of as GoW HAS ot > other states. In the years of his pub-| We refer to the { lic service he has not legislated nar P rowly nor provincially, nor for fac P tions, cliques nor groups. Measures|the leasing system, that he has sponsored and guided through congressional jungles to safe ty bave been laws of general benefit for the purposes intended and are A Representative of the Whole People was due to long period” of yeara| natural resources of the west through/ ning to be felt. enough to dece:ve temporarily govérament oniciais ana veteran copy handlers; while the inexperienced pass over their wealth as though they were lambs in Wall Street. Efforts are even made to use the government, and make congress a tool for the furtherance of for-| eign political plots, schemes and plans. More than this, when Washington or the country at large shows. any decided disposition to balk, and declines to be a general ‘good thing,’ America becomes a target for) abuse. : | “It will be a good thing if the American people as a whole will develop a more or less ‘hard boiled’ atti- tnde, while continuing quick to respond to legiti- mate appeals and to pleas from real sufferers, will meke pretty certain they know what they, are doing before going down into their pocketbooks or giving endorsements. In fact, things have reached a pass where America simply must protect itself from adven- turing, and hobo organizations and governments.” 8 MORALS BY LEGISLATION. It has become rather a habit of belief among a con. siderable section of the American public that legisla. tion is the panacea for public ills. The Richmond) ‘Times-Dispatch takes a sermon by a local minister as a means of delivering to readers some excellent| conclusions, when it says: | “The community and the state are indebted to Rev. Dr. H. D. C. Maclachlan for a time’y and thorough-| ly sane discussion of the tendency toward reliance up-| on legislative enactment as a means of raising the) standards of human conduct. For a Christian people} the case made by Dr. Maclachlan against this tendency should be altogether conclusive; the Pharisaism that Jesus condemned is an inevitable result of ‘a too ex-| clusive reliance on law.’ “Perhaps the following brief extract will best serve as the keynote of Dr. Maciachlan’s dignified and con- vincing discourse: ‘Law is protective, not creative. It can punish you for stealing, but it cannot make thieves into honest men. It can reduce intemperance in act, but it cannot make the intemperate spirit temperate. It deals only with externals. Perfect external mor- ality might coexist with a great deal of inner laxity.’ “That is not the message of a new philosophy or psychology, but the easily recognize’ message of the Founder of the Christian religion. If He laid greater emphasis upon any single teaching, or upon any single aspect of His teachings than upon any other, that em- phasis fell upon the basic doctrine that there is no re- birth by the law, no regeneration save that which takes place in the heart. What Dr. Maclachlan fears, what many other thoughtfal men and women must fear, is that our zeal for so-called moral legislation may lead us to forget the limitations of the law, to be-! come indifferent to the vastly greater power of the means that go to the very seat of all human action. | “It may not be said that this discussion is lacking in relevance or in timeliness. The support of relig- ious forces is sought wherever any group undertakes the enactment of a law for which a moral purpose is claimed. No force is more potent; no force should be more potent. But it would be well to consider if this great gift of power is not being misapplied and dissi- pated when it is turned so largely to the uses of vain compulsion.” | lis SPR Oa Se MAKING A JOKE OF IT. “State's Attorney Abbott of Kana county, Illinois,” relates the Milwaukee Sentinel, ‘put a direct question to the national, state, county and city law enforce- ment officials gathered in Chicago at the ¢all of the at- terney general to discuss the question of law enforce- ment. | “He asked them point blank how many of them | would refuse to buy a quart of good whiskey if they |had the opportunity to purchase it, and the question | apparently stirred no general indignation. In fact some symptoms of amusement were displayed and the | question was received with an agreeable air of popu- larity, although it does not appear that Mr. Abbott in- tended it as a pleasantry. “Now if Mr. Abbott had asked his hearers how many of them would swear falsely to an’ income tax return if they had a chance to do it and get away with it, or how many of them would steal a pocketbook if an eligible opportunity for such an enterprise present- \ed itself, his hearers would haye been insulted, and | very properly so. “The incident illustrates the popular attitude toward prohibition. Men who could not be induced under any consideration to break the statutes to which they have | been accustomed, fare blithely forth and violate the | Volstead act, treat the bootlerger as a respectable and necessary tradesman rather than as a lawbreaker, and by these actions, although they do not cherish such in- | tention, contribute to the growing disrespect for all ]law and resentment of all authority. “The sooner the lesson is learned that prohibition is not a joke, that the laws on the subject must be obeyed so long as they remain on the statute books, and that their violation, whatever may be one’s per- sonal opinion of their justice or necessity, is just as discreditable as the violation of any statute, the bet- ter it will be for the country. If the sentiment of the nation is against the laws they should be repealed. Making a joke of them does not solve the problem.” CERTAIN TO OCCUR. The nation-wide coa] strike scheduled for April 1 in all probability will occur in accordance with the program. So far as may be judged, there is not the slightest indication of miners and operators compos- ing the differences that have broucht on the strike, which may be summed up as a declination on the part of the miners to accept deflation along with other em- ployments of the country. It may be a long drawn contest and it may not. No one ventures a guess upon that point. In recent years strikes have rather grown unpopu- lar. The public has shown little syrpathy for either side in a disturbance of the usual economic regularity; and strikes have as a general thing failed. The peo- ple are unwilling and unable to pay the present high price for coal, and any walkout having for its object an inerease in price, or continuation of the present price will not be popular and has small show of win- ning. The country is not in a bad situation to withstand a holiday in coal production. The winter is over and there is a considerable supply of fuel stored. It is possibly just as good a time now to settle the questions at issue as any other that could have been selected. efforts of one mar. the Honorable Frank W. Monéell, for a quarter of a lcentury the representative of Wyo the atfocte o# q|ming im the house of representatives the efforts of @/and now Republican leader in that an adjoining state} poay. led? This unusual achlevement received nelusion, in the bill|less attention at the time than was providing for the development of the|its due, and its effects are only begin- Its importance recent- of the provision |ly has been brought into bold relief by ment of its coal, ofl, gas and certain|that court had before it the question other products. What this will mean|of the right of a state to tax ofl and time alone can tell. Che Casper Daily Tribune é A ROW IN THE KITCHEN Tn i | ment cannot be reached by the tax-|ities now in the course of development,! majority of European countries they imposing power of the state. The far reaching effect of this de- cision will readily be seen. Within the Rocky Mountain states are hun dreds of thousands of acres of land to which the government now holds and doubtless will always hold ttle. as they have been withdrawn from loca- tion. * These lands contain untold wealth tn coal, oil, oll shales and gas, which will be developed under the leasing law within the next few years This development will add great wealth to these states, and yet, no! matter how great may become the value of this domain and that which it produces it cannmct be reached by taxation or compelled to contribute its share to the sup,or: of the sovereign ty on which it depenas fur protection and perhaps existence. Notwithstand ing this, and due solely to the Mond proviso. each state will now share in the results of the development of the natural resources on the public do- mains within its borders. The story of the gontest which leads to the adoption of the leasing policy (of the federal government will be of increasing historical interest as. tho years pass. It started in the early days of the Roosevelt administration. The older and more populous states where what had once been public domain had ‘passed into private ownership, desired that that which was left in other states should be developed for the sole benofit of the federal government. On the other hand, the states whose na- tural resources had scarcely been touched, felt that they had a para- mount interest in them and that their best interests demanded that they should be developed through private cwnership, thereby adding to the wealth of the respective states, which wealth can only be measured by its taxable value. ‘The nationalists won and it has be- come and doubtless will continue to be the fixed policy of the government to encourage the development, through the leasing system of that part of the public domain which may contain coal, oll, gas and certain other products. Already vast areas have been with- drawn and more will be withdrawn in the future as development progresses. Mondell was one of the leaders in the fight for the state as against the national idea, and was, of course, bit- terly disappointed when the national- ists won out, but he was wise enough to see that a matter of policy is one thing and the detal! in working out that policy quite another. He is re sourceful, adroit and the embodiment of courage and tenacity. Long experi ence had made him the master of all ‘the Intricactes of parliamentary pro- jcedure and practice which is so neces |sary to the successful legislator. When others wero at home building political fences, ie was on the job. In ® quarter of a century of service in |the house, he has been absent but six legislative days, a record never ap- Froximated up to this time by anyone (else, and doubtless one that never will be equalled. Himself a product of the west, he knew her problems. worked on them by day and dreamed of them by night. And so it was that, defeated on one field of battle, he sought and pursued another with tenacity which is one of his chief characteristics. It was a long fight. It was one whicti at times @ man of lesser fiber would have abandoned. In the beginning, the old- er and more populous states were against him. When the Wilson ad. ministration came in, the public lands committee of the house was against him. Some of the western states which have no coal or oil deposits and wanted all the proceeds from the de velopment of the public domain di verted to the other purposes, were against him. But finally the fight was won, and the provision mention- jed became a part of the leasing bill giving to each state 37% per cent of|a decision of the supreme court of the and of the governmental policy on any royalties derived from the develop-|United States. At its recent semsion,| which it is based. How much this will mean to Colorado Up to this time can safely count on these sources of wealth as perhaps her greatest re- sources for the imniediate and more distant future. This is written as a deserved tribute to an unusual public servant who Is destined to occupy a high place in the history of the Rocky Mountain west and with no thought of detmeting from the merit of those who sw with in the fight, and certainly not from the splendid work which Colorado's representatives in both house and senate have done and are doing for their state each day. They would go further than any otherg:to Pace the credit where it is due. It is that the occasion aroso, and with it the man. Foreign Travel Passport and visa fees collected by the department of state under the in- creased rates set by the Act of June 4, 1920, have been suffclent co render these services self-supporting and | show an additional profit of over $2,- 00,000 for the first year. An American going abroad finds it necessary to provide himself with a which costa $10. The vary, but for the Invigorates Not Inebriates Your cup of good cheer, if Butter-Nut, pleases to the last drop. What can be more delicious than a cup of Butter-Nut Coffee with just the a are $10. In some cases, if his wife is included in the passport a double fee must be paid and a proportion- ate increase for each child, if any ac- company him. If he is going to a country in the interior and must cross the borders of other nations, he must have their visas although he may nev-| er leave his railroad train throughout bis journey’s length. | The passport and visa charges im-| posed by congress under the Act of June 4, 1920, ars frankly intended as @ source of federal revenue. At the hearings before the house committee on foreign affairs preceding the pass- age of the present act the director of the consular service stated that the | expenses of the state department for its passport business then approxi- mated $150,000 a year. In addition, the expense of the entire diplomatic and consular service amounts to some $8,000,000 yearly. In the committee's opinion the man who goes abroad and gets all of this protection that we throw around him should contribute a fair share of the cost of maintain- ing that service, just the same as the taxpayer in the city pays a small tax for the maintenance of the police force. ‘The visa charges, on the other hand, dded quantity to suit of rich cream and a lump or two of domino sugar? THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1922. The High Hills American consu! officer The river’s edge at noon; petlig die allowed to ona Ea The meadowlands for eventide; United States now charges $9 for, Fur sie} beneath the moon. visaing a foreign passport, Dileation fee of $1. PiNE-82 S|here's glory on the high ile At the then existing rate And friendship by the stream; <p: hg There's love upon the meadowlands— Beneath the moon, @ dream. \Thy high hills for the young feet, The stream for me and you— And for the fair, green meadowlands Dream through the wonder-blue! —North China Herald CRAMPS, PAINS AND BACKACHE new rates, amounted to $1,421, This was an increase of $8 258 Simflar results have followed the hi er visa charge. For the fiscal ended June 30, 1920, under the $1, the consular bureau of the 33 Te raising their own fees against Amer- feans to the same amount. As a re- sult, chargen against Ainericans in some cases are five or more times the fees paid by other nationals. —— A manuseript Bible now being com- pleted in London will be the biggest Bible in the wofld It is 6 feet 2 inches n height and -3 feet 6 inches in breadth, and when opene? out flat will measure 7 fret 10 inches across. ——____ nso Clgars—tniton Made. Tra With Mazola there is no odor or flavorcarriedfrom one food to another. After frying fish and onions all you do is strain it and use Motor Truck Transportation CONTRACT WORK AND PIPE LINES We Do All Kinds of Hauling. Largest Operators in the State. Building Materials We are equipped with the stock to supply your wants in high grade lumber and build- laws that will stand the test of time. Selfishness, except in the interest of the whole people, does not mark the congressional career of Frank Mon aah. ‘The Teiegraph says: How many of our people know that the greatest single thing ever accom- plished in Washington for the benefit of Colorado and for the Rocky Moun- and probably the greatest that ever will be accom- , in dollars and cents within the next|gas produced from Indian lands in| Wyoming has been the principal bene- few years cannot be known at this|Oklahoma which were themselves ex-|ficlary. That state received over $750,- time, but if Secretary Fall's estimate|empt from taxation. The courtyheld 000 in one payment. It seems certain of the value of these resources is ac-|that the lands belng so exempt, tho|that in the very near future its reve- cepted, it will run into the hundreds | products thereof were likewise exempt.|nues from these natural resources will of millions, and Colorado will be ane|It must follow that when the question |care for all the.reasonable expenses of af the chief beneficiaries. jof the taxation by the states of coal,|the government. But Colorado, with This provision of the leasing bill/gas and ofl produced from the gov-/her great coal fields; with the most came at the end of a legislative con-|ernment domain under lease shall extensive ofl shale deposits in the test extending over a period of moro|arise, as it doubtless will, the right to| world, which the government figures than 10 years. And that it was suc-|impose a tax thereon will be denied, as the great oil reserve for the future, cessful was cue almost entirely to the as the property of the federal goyern- and with her tremendous oil possibil ers’ supplies. Rig timbers a specialty. KEITH LUMBER CO. Phone 3