Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1922, Page 6

PAGE SIX Che Casper Daily Cribune y evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona Pablication Offices, Trfbune Building. | NESS TELEPHONES 15 and 16) mech Telephone Exchange ‘Departments Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. | MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS E E. HANWAY ARL BE. HANW. President and BAitor j Business Manager Associate Editor | AN --. City Editor DAILY ‘Advertising Manager| | Advertising Representatives. King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger idg., Chicago, 6 Fifth avenue, New York City; Globe Bidg.; Boo- Mass. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in| the New York, Chicago and Heston offices and visitors | are welcome. B& BEV. EHOMAS — SUBSCRIPTION RATES | jf ese -on=-$7.20] -+ 3.90 aa nnenwweenenn none $750 3.90 s mecoeeeeesess 1:95 No subscription by mail accepted for less period. than @ree months ‘All subscripttons must be paid in advance and the Dafty Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- pro becomes one month in arrears. Member of Andit Burean of Circulation (A. BK. 0) Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press js exclusively entitled to the use for pub! ll news credited in this paper and also the loc Kick if You Don’t Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m. ff you fall to receive your une. A paper will be de- Itvered to you by special mens er. Make it your duty to Jet The Tribane know when your carrier misses you. PLAIN, HONEST, MODEST, EFFECTIVE. The editor of one of the country’s leading maga- wines, writing of President Harding has said that he/| {possesses none of the elements of spectacularity. This $s true. It wes true in the days of struggle in the business. In building a country newspaper! and keeping step with the growth of his home town of Marion he burned no red fire in his own or his news- paper’s behalf. He built solidly and wisely and was content to print a good average paper that was wel- omed into the homes of friends and neighbors of all shades of political belief because of its fairness and cleanliness, and absence of red headlines and yellow sensationalism. There was never a line in the Marion Star that could not be read by the children about the fireside or the evening lamps. His service in the senate was without a single ap- peal to the galleries or to the writers of headlines. His eampaign for the presidency was conducted with all the dignity that is becoming to a contest of that national importance. In private life Mr. Harding was a careful, enterpris- ing, dependable business man; in public life he has conducted himself in accordance with habits of thought and action formed in many yegrs of practical experi- ence in dealing with his fellow men. He has not pretended that he alone can save the na- tion from its ills nor has he assumed ttmt in him alone are all wisdom and virtue centered. Like the head of every great business concern in private enterprise, he called to his aid men of high ability and entrusted to them the duties and responsibilities of the several de- partments. No branch of the government service has ‘been compelled to delay its work while waiting word from him. Recognizing the limitations of time and thuman strength, he has been willing that others shall exercise power, and he has been generous in according them full credit for what they have accomplished. Mr. Harding has made the White House the center of a truly popular government, restoring full signifi- cance to the term that comes down to us with force from the days of Abraham Lincoln “government of the people.” Little of this could have been written concerning Mr. Harding if he had devoted himself to spectacular efforts. oe ee VICTIMS OF REGULATION. Secretary Wallace in his statement that “most of the farmers’ troubles resulted from government regu- lation as a war emergency,” speaks the language of truth and soberness. It is very true that deflation has been a world wide experience, but so far the farme has suffered more than taose engaged in other industries, his losses trave been due to the inequalities resulting from govern- ment regulation during and after the war. If all industries had enjoyed inflation equally and fad taken the losses of deflation at the same time and in the same degree, there would be no cause for com- plaint. The fact of the matter is, however, as shown by the records, that the government withheld from the farmers some of the profits of inflation and pre- cipitated its deflation program at the very moment when it would be most injurious to agricultural pro- ducers. It will be remembered that in an effort to en- courage the production of food congress passed an act which was supposed to guarantee a minimum price Zor wheat. Under the administration of that law dur- ing the Wilson administration, the minimum price be- nme a maximum price, so that when other industries enjoyed the profits of great inflation the farmer was not permitted to do so although he was still compelled to pay the higher prices which inflation of other in- dustries established. Thus the farmers’ profits during the war were limited. At the same time that the Wilson administration was holding down the prices the farmer could receive for his produce that same administration was adopt- ing cost-plus plans of having construction work per- formed with the result that wages were greatly en- hanced in the cities and the farmer found it impos- sible to secure farm help unless he paid wages on the government’s cost-plus basis. Thus the government in- creased the farmer’s expenses at the same time it cur- tailed his receipts. Moreover, the McAdoo management of the rail- roads, after they were taken over by the government, loaded upon the railroads vastly greater anual expen- ditures. There would pérhaps have been no com- | our entire national indebtedness is represented by the, now giving, is not class legislation or class favoritism,! but merely an effort to remedy m wrong which the government itself perpetrated. —_—_——o————_. AN ADMINISTRATION ACHIEVEMENT. With the enactment of the refunding bill, President) Harding has at hand the means for achieving one of| the greatest triumphs of his administration. Half of) $11,000,000,000 owed to us from abroad. No single stroke of executive management could have the im-| portance of an arrangement by which the United) States would receive regular interest payments and a| progressive reduction of the principal. Further to add| to the difficulties faced by the administration is the! propaganda of a clique of internationalists to bring| about the cancellation of the entire amount. Such/ action on’ their part is little short of treason, as it en- courages the debtor nations to withhold their interest payments and hope for a remission of a part or all of the principal. S ——— | | TACTFUL PRESSURE. | “Whoever was the author of the term ‘tactful pres- sure,’” suggests the Milwaukee Sentinel, “as a de-| finition of America’s attitude in trying to collect its $241,000,000 claim for expenses of our forces in Ger- many has coined a literary gem rivaling the most fe- licitious of Wilsonian phrases. “*Tactful pressure’ is now making the rounds of European papers, They are grateful to the American author, whether it was Mr. Hughes himself or some! other official of the state department, for that word.| If America can exercise tactful pressure, they arguc,! Europe can adopt exactly the same policy. So it re-! mains to be seen which side can put the most weight| and punch into its pressure. | “Tt has been evident for some time that Europe is) using all available pressu* to lug this cotntry, first| into the Genoa conferer od by that route into the! Versailles treaty and the league of nations. What France would like to achieve by pressure, as a cor- respondent puts jt, is to get ‘our help in collecting) reparations and making Germany behave.” Not only that, but it may be safely assumed that what all Eu- rope wants is to get the United States as its ction. | bocker and underwriter in economic reconstruction. “The other side is presented by the same corres- pondence as follows: “What the United States wants to attain by ‘tact- ful pressure’ is a little straight economic thinking on the part of European political financiers in the limi-| tation of land armaments, moderation of the reftara- tion terms and efforts to balance budgets generally.’ “This attitude has repeatedly been made plain to Europe. But when it comes to ‘tactful pressure,’ all the tact so far has been on our side, while the old world has been anything but tactful in its sometimes sneering, sometimes brusque comment on American policy. We never undertook to dictate to Europe; we merely pointed out our unwillingness to pour money into the all-ievouring chaos of European militarism.| The allies continue to portion out reparations among themselves, and the moment this country presents her| expense account there is an outery of amazement. “In a game of ‘tactful pressure,’ the chances are} that this country can bring mote tact as well as more! pressure to bear on the situation.” = Ta - VOTES RIGHT—TALKS WRONG. When he was in congress, Cordell Hull voted with| the Republicans to over-ride President Wilson’s veto| of the War Finance Corporation bill. Now that he is| chairman of the Democratic national committee, he is| denouncing the Republicans as responsible for the, business depression. The Republicans have been do-| ing everything possible to get the country out of the! predicament into which the Democrats got it, and Mr. Huli’s vote in congress was a partial testimonial to! that effect. —_o—_______ FAILURE OF PRICE CONTROL. The failure of government control and price-fixing for any great national industry was never so com- pletely demonstrated as in the case of sugar control. ‘This industry was under some form of artiticial gov- ernmental control from August, 1917, to the end of December, 1921, and was shifted from one department to another. \ Consumers were called upon to pay hundreds of millions of dollars unnecessarily and financial wreck- age overtook all branches of the industry in all sugar- producing sections. The Royal Commission on Sugar Supply in Great! Britain closed its operations with losses of $100,000,- 000 annually, and the same was true of government control in other countries. The efforts of the government at decontro! were as disastrous as the attempt to control prices, and in Cuba swept into ruin most of the banks of that coun- try while stimulating production. The sugar industry of the United States, both pro- ducers and refiners, has paid the price of government control almost with its life, and proven again the fu- tility of setting aside the effect of economic law. ——————_o-—_____ THE BASIS OF CREDIT. Few people ever stop to think that insurance is the basis of modern business. This is true because busi- ness activity is predicated upon credit and credit in turn rests upon insurance, particularly fire insurance. When a man goes to his banker to borrow money on either real estate or merchandise, the latter will be found to insist upon the protection afforded by a fire insurance policy, otherwise the destruction of the physical basis of the credit would leave the bank with- out any security for its money. One of the first things called for by the man who loans money upon improved real estate is a fire insurance policy to pro- tect his interest in the property. If commodities in storage or in transit were not protected by fire insurance, the merchant, providing he were willing to risk his capital, would be able to operate only upon.a scale commensurate with his cash resources. Under such a system, commerce in its modern proportions would be unknown. Se Sea POOR ENCOURAGEMENT. If the allies really wanted the United States to send representatives to the Genoa conference, they would have stood a better chance to realize their wishes if they had promptly paid to us our due share of the money they collected from Germany on account of our troops on the Rhine. Their course in withholding the plaint of this if the McAdoo regime had at the same time increased the passenger and freight rates to be collected by the railroads so that their revenues would be increased in proportion to their expenditures. This Mr. McAdoo did not do, with the result that following fhe war it hecame absolutely necessary to increase some measure fhe revenues which the railroads were unjustly denied at the time when the government in- ereased their expenses. This blow of larger freight rates fell heavily upon the farmers, for farm prod- ucts constitute a large proportion of railroad traffic. The farmer would have had no complaint whatever to] time and in the same proportion that wages were in- cieased, if his prices had been permitted to vary in the same degree. tary of Agriculture Wallace, is that there was dis- ezimination in government regulation and that the! farmer was hit at every turn. Since all thi true and unquestionable Secretary Wallace is sound in his assertion that federal aid is due agriculture. That aid, wh the government ig i freight and passenger rates in order to make up in| 15,000,000. Well, great as was the loss, perhaps the make if freight rates had been incrr ased at the series the fire. His grievance, as indicated by Secre-| board will maintain its own offices in Great Britain. meney is not likely to make us more ready to incur new obligations or extend our degree of confidence jn their spirit of fair dealing. eee oe, A STERN TEACHER. It is estimated that victims of the bucket shops lost | experience was worth all it cost. Great as was the | loss to the people of the United States by reason of | the waste and extravagance of the Democratic admin- |istration, we sometimes think that perhaps it was worth to the people all it cost. Experience is usual- ly a dear teacher. . It is only the burnt child that fears een eens Chairman Lasker says the United States shipping That is certainly “bearding the lion in his den.” paibeencsteets A aS res ee H. G. Wells, British author, tells us that George Washington was indolent. Wonder what he would have to say of the men who were compelled to sur- render to Washington. he Casper Wally Cridune GLADLY, UNCLE—AND OVERLOOK THE. PUN On board T. 8. S. Fort St. George Furness Bermuda Line, March 9. Continuing the story of our trip in the West Indies, my last letter left us entering the harbor of St. ‘Thomas. Although it was as carly as 6 a. m. the preparations were being made to dock, everybody was on deck to see the first land since leaving old New York and the statue of liberty, We considered it quite a trip for land “lubbers” and when our feet again touched terra firma it was a real sensation. St. Thomas is one of the Virgin Island groupe formerly owned by Denmark but which was purchased by the United States before the world war in order to keep Ger- many from acquiring it. There are about 100 islands in the group of which St. Thomas, St. Croix and St @ohns, are of the largest area. They are governed as a protectorate by Uncle Sam, who appoints the gov- ernor with full administrative, exe- cutive and judicial powers. The gov- ernor has a local council that is elected by the people on the order of @ state legislature except that he is vested with power to dissolve the council if he sees fit. We called on the governor and had a very interesting visit with him. He is Admiral Kyttell, former- ly of the U. S. navy, but now a civilian. He is one of the brightest 1 best posted men that it has been r good fortune to meet since leay- ing Washington and we enjoyed the visit with him yery much. Being a newspaper man, and in- quisitive, I was armed with ma long string of questions and the gover- nor answered them equally as fast as they were propounded. He ex- plained that the people of the ts- lands had many problems to work out, due to the change of condi- tions, such as abolishment of the tariff, which was a big source of revenue, and the prohibition art which takes effect on May 1, and will probably work a hardship on the people on account of the pass- ing steamers, which, no doubt in the future will make their stops for repairs and supplies at other islands where prohibition does not exist. Some of the islanders think thet it is not fair to impose the eighteenth amendment on them without giving them tho constitu- tion and full citizenship. Governor KytteN hopes, however, to get the poople back to the soll on St. Thomas and other islands as they are on_ St. Crotx. The city of Charlotte Amelia with its new street paying and won- derful school system that has been established since the Americans have been fn control, creates a very favorable impression on the trav- eler. While the architecture of the princtal buildings is Danish and the shops and stores and people are all very crude and old-fashioned, the people as a whole are pleased with the American administration. We engaged an automobile, that was driven by a boy about 20 years old, who was a native of the island. He mid that his name was Yance and that he owned the machine, which was one of Ford’s but re- painted a vivid yellow. Yance was quite a trikative follow and drove us all over the island and pointed out the principal places of interest. Charlotte Amelia has two daily newspapers, the Emancipator and the St. Thomas Notes. I visited .ue former office and found the plant equipped about like the Trib- une was eight years ago, except that they have no cylinder press in the Emancipator office. We visited the original Blue Beard castle and saw where this brute is said to have slain his wives and where he waa finally killed by two brothers of the thirteenth wife who was saved. We saw the grave where his body is sald to have been $ 1000. PRIZE for the best ODE To TRANSPORTATION EDITOR OF THE TRIBUNE DESCRIBES FURTHER HIS TRAVELS IN WEST INDIES (BY J. E. HANWAY.,) buried. The four-story castle on the top of a high hill is a prominent landmark, It has been recently re- stored. and painted and is now in charge of an old colored man who tells the travelers the gruesome story. Our storekeeper of the Fort St. George is an amateur prize fighter and he met the champion of the West Indies at the Apollo theater tonight, The sailor won the match on a fout in the first round. Many of the passengers on the cruise at- tended the fight, whic’: jas rtaged to settle a grudge of long standing as on a previous trip there had been a dispute over the decision. (The Preliminaries were better than the average in the States. Several color- ed aspirants fought like tigers and were as quick as lightning on their feet and in delivering blows. There was no atalling or hanging on to each other to kill time, but a red hot fight from start to finish and the best man, won. A dance at the hotel in the eve- ning was largely attended by the ladies and gentlemen from the boat. Near midnight and at tho end of a perfect day, we bearded the steamer and sought our staterooms, well satisfied with the first day on land in the West Indies. St. Croix. ‘We awakened this morning in the bay off the town of Fredericksted, St. Croix island. St. Croix ts unlike St Thomas. It is not mountainous, the highest elevation, I am told, be- ing 1,100 feet and it is for the great- er part under cultivation. As seen from the sea it resembles a pano- rama of beauty and interest to those unfamiliar with tropical sugar cane scenery. The planfations stretch for miles and miles over level and rolling land, with wooded areas scattered here and there. After a hurried breakfast our par- ty, which now ¢onsists of seven peo- ple, George Ll. Crooker and his daughter Helen, of Providence, R L, and Mr. and Mrs. A. 5S. Mazzur of Boston, having joined us in our au- tomobile excursions, we engaged an Oakland “Six” automobile, which was driven by a nicely dressed, well- educated young native. We then drove through miles and miles of beautiful plantation country, giving us a splendid opportunity to see the people, their mode of living and the beauties of the country to good advantage. Here, as at St. Thomas, we found the distinctive mannerisms and customs af the Danish people. Many interesting and novel sights came within our view such as see- ing two-wheeled carts drawn by stow-moving but much prodded oxen. We learned that although this coun- try was formerly governed by Den- mark it was settled and practically controlled by Irish plantation own- ers who were quite progressive in their cultivation of the soil. We saw one large tract of land on which steam tractors were being used which was indeed, in marked con- trast to the crude carts and oxen which were used by most of the oth- er places. The roads were generally good, and, for the most part, were bordered by tall, straight cocoanut palms. From Fredericksted to Christian sted, on the other side of the island, is 15 miles Dut this distance was quickly traversed and upon reach- ing Christiansted we were all.of the opinion that we had never seen « more picturesque sight. The old Danish architecture is very quaint and this, combined with the setting in which the old town ‘is placed, made a remarkably pretty scene. ‘The harbor on this side of the is land_would be much better than the one in which we anchored if it were not for the dangerous coral reefs that prevent a safe passage for a ship of any size. ‘We ware Drtmate in mecting a Captain Powsll, who f erecting an electric plant in Christiansted and Wonver. IF 1 WROTE ACHECK O&8 WHAT TRANSPORTATION, \F THEY’D GIVE who was very kind in showing us the interesting points of the village and explaining them to us histori- cally. One old fort overiooxing the bay was particularly interesting in its construction. It was built Rom- an style and of brick which traders had brought from the old world long ago and which they had -used as ballast until their return cargo was loaded. They were then sold at a trifling price in order to get rid of them. The old style canon, watch towers and the torture dungeons were places which carried us back to the times when pirates and bold buccaneers were rampant in this part of the world. We saw where Alexander Hamfl- ton, the first treastirer of the United States, spent his early boyhood and the store where he received his first business training. It was hard for us to realize that this pretty, drowsy old: place could ever have been the scene of activity both socially and commercially in its prime. It is now Very dull in both capacities—so- cially because of the lack of white people and’ commercially because of the absence of rain which has caused the crops to be very poor. The is- land depends entirely on {ts rainfall for its water supply and 80 any shortage means a great loss to the sugar plantations Then, too, their only crop is sugar cane and it has been for many years and as a con- sequence the soil is nearly worked out and does not produce very satis- factory results. Very few of the sugar factories are running on ac- count of poor crops. St. Kitts. From St. Croix the steamer pro- ceeded to the island of St. Kitts, passing en route the islands of Saba and St. Eustatius, eight miles from the north end of St. Kitts. Both of these islands belong to Holland. ‘We were lying in the harbor the next morning when we were awak- ened by the jabbering of coin divers ‘who were shouting, “‘Here boss, I'm your blackberry,” and much other talk along the same line. These div- ers perform some really marvelous feats in the water. You can throw a coin 25 or 30 feet from their boats and they will dive into the water and swim beneath the surface, and catch the coin before it has sunk to a depth of more than 15 feet. If you throw in a penny one or two little pickaninnies will dive for it. If you throw in a shilling five or six will do the submarine act and should you feel exceedingly philan- thropical and toss a four shilling piece into the water the president and part of his cabinet will dive eagerly after it. The only cause for losing any coins thrown in the water is the inability of the diver to.see it and this is very rare. After breakfast we took a row boat for shore. The sea was quite rough in the harbor and it reminded one of the old song, “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.” The pier at the town of Basse Terre, the principal town on St. Kitts island, is built like a depot with a cement platform .all around it. The building contains the cus- tom house and offices. This being the first British island we had vis- ited we were surprised at the differ- ence in the style of architecture of the buildings and the mannerisms of the people and while the vegetation was much more prolific than on St. ‘Thomas, the people seemed to be very poor, not only financially but their bodies looked undernourished and there were a great many beg- gars and cripples. If we stopped on the street to take a snap-shot, almost immediately a dozen or more black pickaninnies ‘would swarm around like bees to zet into the picture and then each one | would want a coin for his. work. We changed our money into small | pieces at the bank and tried to treat. .them all alike but a person ‘would have to be a millionaire if he took many pictures. ‘The natives all speak and under- stand English but they have a way of joining their words together and of speaking so fast that it is quite difficult to get their meaning the first time. We visited their homes and shops, some of the latter being good sized stores that were very in- teresting, but most of them were years old, to act as a guide through the old fort. The heat was quite se- vere and I did not go all the way ‘to the top and while waiting for the others to return I had an interest- writing and it was as plain and bust!- nesslike as the average America n school teacher could display. She showed me a picture of an adopted daughter living in New York that was really interesting as she was dressed as well as the usual woman on Fifth avenue and her husband's picture was equally as good. Mrs. Hanway and the rest of the party returned from their visit to the old ruins very much in love with Frances and the little girl wanted to come home with us. She was really the smartest and cutest pick- aninny we had seen for her age and it would have taken little persuasion to have brought her along. How- ever, we expect to see that Santa Claus remembers her. MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1922. Glorious Spring Ob! I love the glorious springtime Ditter biows the biast. It’s nioo then in evenings Through the sagebrush sweet to rove With your best girl listening eager ‘To your tales of ardent love. | Ob! It’s fine to watch the busy bee As she wanders to and fro, Seeking honey from the ~ blooming flowers, Deep buried in the snow. Oh! It's grand to hear the sparrows sneeze, ‘When in the back yard they appear Busy picking up the rows of peas; ‘Then we know that spring ‘* ne: —Tom McMillan, Casper, Wyo. 4 BUILDING TONIC To those of delicate con- stitution, young or old, ‘Scott's Emulsion is nourishment and tonic that builds up the whole body. Scott & Bowne, Boomfield.WJ. 20-18 GORDON SETTER FEMALE PUP RETURN TO 1135 S. DAVID. REWARD —. MAZOLA . You can always be sure of perfect results in short- ening when you use Mazola, which is 100 per ure. Being a liquid, it is ready at all times for in- i ‘and until thoroughly mixed. Fold in ‘efeed redients. 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