Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1922, Page 2

wm 86a | Manne stra tobe PAGE TWO. fbe Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication O Tribune Building. BUSINESS TELEPHONES ........----- Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting A!l Departments ntered et Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as sesand class) matter, November 21, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President and Editor Business Manager Associate Editor “LL... City, Batter <T A@verusing Manager & & EVANS - THOMAS DAILY . Advertising Representatives. @rud@en, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg... Chicago, BL; 286 Firth avenue, New York City, Globe Bidg.; Bos- fon, Mass. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in (Pe Now York, Chicago and Boston offices and visitors : are welcome. — : SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Six Months z hree Mor < 1.95 Mont =e Per Copy “eS 7.80 One Year .. Six Months 3.90 Three Months 1.95 Ei el No subscription by mail accept: three months. All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Dally Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C) 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 You Don’t Get Your Tribune. C2ll 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m. if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be de- livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. a> BEG THEM ALL TO REMAIN IN. There is no good reason why, if the friends of John Hay, Robert Carey and Patrick Sullivan, enter these gentlemen in the race for the governorship nomination in the Republican primaries, there should be any disturbance of the present harmonious con-| ditions in the party. Should they all go in, any one of them or any of his backers who would fail to loyally support the successful primary candidate would be traitor and unfit to belong to the Republican party. Rumors of this import have gone about the State that in case John Hay defeated Robert Carey in the primary the friends of the latter would knife the ticket. Whatever the other two would do if Patrick Sullivan hopped in and beat them both, if the same rule held, would require a two-edged knife. Going a step further if Robert Carey comes under the wire first will John Hay and Patrick Sullivan hunt him down and scalp him with their tomahawks? All of it’s bunk. It is simply the enthusiasm of friends and admir- ers expressed in the circle around the grocery store stove in the early spring; the real event being scheduled for mid-summer. Far from conniving to eliminate any of these gentlemen in advance of the primary the Republicans| of Wyoming ought to welcome a campaign that would hold such interest. A contest for the nomination for governor in the Wyoming primaries would establish a new era in political history. For Heaven's sake don’t try to induce any of the} candidates proposed, to retire before the primaries ate held; but on the other hand do your utmost to keep them all in the race. Cee eee FOR OR AGAINST AMERICAN INTERESTS. The ‘introduction of the American valuation plan into our tariff system would quite naturally meet with the objections of the leaders of the opposition party of free trade and European valuation, therefore there is no surprise when Claud Kitchir minority leader in congress delivers himself of this| “We object to this new un-American scheme as a substitute for the honest, actual, fair price that the importer pays in competition in the open markets of, the world for his merchandise, which price is not at all within his control.” The characterization of the price in foreign mar- kets as a “fair price” is what commits the Democratic} party to a support of the general principle that Am-} ericans should buy where they can buy the cheapest regardless of the effect upon the American producer. ‘The Japanese wage is about one-tenth of that of the American wage; the Gefman wage at the present time is not much higher; the British wage is about half that paid in the United States. According to the Democratic theory, goods produced in Japan or China at one-tenth of the cost in the United States are pur- chased at what should be recognized by the United States producers as a “fair price” in competition with goods produced in this country by American labor. The great effort of Democratic congressmen is to look after the welfare of the importer. The im- porter, of course, is intcrested in the welfare of the foreign producer, for he is the buyer of the product of foreign labor and foreign capital. Those congress- men feel no apparent interest in the American pro-, ducer who must pay taxes to his loeal municipal gov- ernment, to his county, his State and the nation for’ the support of public institutions, for the preservation| of the public health and peace, and for the promotion of the general welfare. American industri the prosperity of which is essential to the prosperity of the nation, and the continued support of its institutions, may be destroyed by cheap foreign competition so far as Democratic congressmen are concerned. Fortunately Republicans are in the majority and their principles of national legislation are based upon far different considerations. Continued operation of every American industry, at the largest practicable capacity is one of the chief ends to be accomplished. Because, under the abnormal conditions now existing, prices of numerous commodities are so low in Ger- many and Japan that any ordinary ad valorem or specific duty affords questionable protection, the Republicans have proposed to adopt an American] valuation plan which will require the importer to pay # tariff duty based upon the price at which the goods) are sold in the United States rather than the price’ at which they are bought in foreign lands. The Democrats indicate their intention to make the tsriff an issue in the congressional elections of this year. To this the Republicans can have no objection, for, on the question of whether the welfare of the, foreign producer or of the American producer shall! have first consideration, there can be no doubt as to| the verdict the American voter will render. ee WHY ADD TO THE WRECKAGE. The attitude of the proponents of the Plumb Plan for government acquisition of the railroads is clearly exhibited on the question of railroad income and rail- road expense. ; The leaders of the Plumb Plan movement are «ither railroad employes or profess to speak in behalf of the men engaged in railroad employment. One of their demands is higher wages for the railroad em- ployes. If they were asking in good faith they) would also desire that the railroads have financial re- sources which would enabie them to pay the higher ¢ | wages they demand. But instead of advocating higher Ts and 16| mecessarily mean a smaller income. a common) and} { ee T incomes for the railroad companies they advocate a! redaction in freight and passenger rates, which would When these radical leaders advocate the higher, expenditures for the railroads on the one hand and a) lower income on the other, their ultimate purpose | can be only one thing—bankruptcy of the railroads) and their taking over by the government. The country is presented, therefore, with the question whether it prefers private operation of the railroads on a basis of income which will permit the payment of reasonable wages to employes, or govern- ment ownership with operation by a committee of employes who will fix their own compemmstion and turn to the government for federal appropriations to: make up deficits that may be incurred. The advo- vates of the Plumb Plan, who speak on behalf of the, employes, are thoroughly satisfied on one “point— that government ownership, with operation by repre- sentatives if the empliyes will mean higher wages and shorter Lours, both wages and rules of work being! fixed by political managers who will have in mind the votes to be cast by the employes at the next election. ¥ These a*--cates are consistent In one respect at least--they desire similar government acquisition of coal mines, timber resources, water power, ocean shipping, steel mills and other large manufacturing enterprises. They advocate for all these large indus- tries the same scheme of ownership and management they prescribe for the railroads. Practically the only producing industry they would not have taken over and paternally maintained would bee the farms. What the farmers’ wage or his hours of labor shall be have no concern to the advocates of government ownership. They want free trade in farm products in order that they may buy their food at the lowest/ possible price. They want agriculture and mall merchandising to be practically the only important industries not under government,management. How they expect the government to raise enough revenue by taxing the minority to pay the deficits that would be incurred by the government-operated industries it is difficult to imagine. This, however, is thelr program when carried to its last analysis, and it is this program the more con-j servative element of our citizenship must combat. MBA tS RESTORE FARMERS’ POSITION. It is agreed theoretically that the unbalanced state of industry is no obstraction to the restoration of prosperity, because, itis said, what the farmer has lost some one else has gained; if the freight charges of the farmer, measured in corn, are several times as high as in 1914, and the difference is distributed in wages to railroad employes, coal miners and others, the latter are in position to buy what the farmer cannot, so that on the whole consumption and trade will be as great as before. The weakness in this argument is that no such general readjustment and redistribution of income can be readily made. It occasions a general disor- ganization of industry, throwing so many people out of employment that instead of an increased distribu- tion in wages there is a reduction of actual wage- payments. Sales to farmers have fallen off and sales to wage-earners have fallen off also. The artificial shift of compensation which in theory appears pos- cannot be worked out except by a gradual process which involves time, unemployment and_ hardship. Moreover, any calculation which assumes that a per- manent readjustment may be effected with the farm- ers on a relatively lower basis of compensation than that which existed before the war will prove to be fallacious. Unless other things come down, farm products will be forced up by a decline of produc- tion, and the entire industrial organization will be working on an artificial basis, in a futile effort to improve living conditions by laying the emphasis upon wages and prices instead of upon harmonious pro- duction. Samuel Gompers urges strenuously that-gll wage | reductions will increase the prevailing staghation by |reducing the purchasing power of the wage-earners. This is the theoretical argument referred to above. hat he doesn’t see is that wages have been reduced already, but in such manner that the reduction does no one any good. They have been reduced by under- | consumption, unemployment and part time work. If} is true. as argued that a reduction in the compen- | sation of the farmer need not harm business because what he loses the wame-earner gains, it ought to be equally true thet a slice taken off the wage-earner’s war-time pay and restored to the farmer, will not weduce the aggregate purchasing power of the coun- try. In fact, it will benefit everybody, including the wage-earners, by restoring the normal equilibrium to which our industries have been in the past adjusted. ——1—___———_. WHAT A MAN SINGS. “The spirit of music prompts man to whistle and sing in odd places” observes the Toledo Blade. “It’s a cartoon fallacy that a man hums “Rock-abye Baby” when walking the floor with the first-born. “But who has not listened outside a bathroom door and heard amid the splashes from the tub the voice of a man who never dares sing in front of his family, raised in the luscious phrases of some ballad/ mellowed in the acoustics of the tiled room? Listen to the halting warblings of the man between swipes of his razor. He also sings. “The spring time brings the merry hum of the lawn mower. But like the plccolo’s shrill note above the rumble of the kettle-drums in the orchestra, one hears the whistling of the man at the handle. “Why do they sing? Tell me a man’s favorite song and I'll tell you when he was wed. The man in the tub, the man with the razor and the man be- hind the mower all are humming the popular ballads of their courting days. For these songs, the ones they hummed meaningly and feelingly over the piano on Sunday nights after the girl’s parents had retired, were the last songs they ever learned.” ot bai Ale SURE,—BUT WHERE’S THE CASH? France has replied to the Hughes’ note asking pay- on the Rhine. The claim of the United States is ac- knowledged, the only question being as to whether the allies or Germany should be asked for reimburse- ment. That query is easily answered. Germany, of course, is responsible for the amount under the terms cf the armistice, the Versailles treaty, and the Berlin treaty, but the fact is that the reparations commis- sion has taken charge of every mark the Germans are able to pay on the various war indemnities, and it is to that commission, therefore, that the claim of the United States should be addressed. The situation is perfectly plain, and it is up to the countries repre- sented on the reparations commission to acknowledge it. —— Whatever agreements may be the outcome of the ifinished and open to the every ment of the costs of maintaining the American army} fhe Casper Daily Cribune A CLOUD ON THE EASTERN HORIZON travel of all One Job at.a Time Now comes the Grant Highway and Proposes to construct & cement con- crete pavement from Chicago to Seat- tle by way of Casper. That would be mighty fine but tte a long dream. The building of highways, especially the starting of big new projects has always been a real task. Way back 312 B. C., when Appius Claudius pro- posed to build the world’s famous Ap- Pian Way, he had a most tremendous tusk, and altho he was Caesar. The had the power of the mighty emperor that he was the sovereign of all the people of Rome, yet, even he had to milions of contracted dig up fifty the aid of becomes a sible, cannot be worked out in real life—at least it dig down in his own personal purse for | Cast to coast. most of the money with which to build} The state this famous road. The Lincoln Highway association, backed by the greatest bunch of pro- gressive .manufacturers in America, has had a long hard struggle to get as completed far as they have toward the mking|Cheyenne to the Yellowsto1 of Const to Coast highway. They|Park. No have done wonders too, beginning inj highway is }1913 with only a dream to start with,|to Park highway, the master highway have now a concrete highway | of America, day tive that of automottie manufacturers. Not thatthe automobile manufacturers are going to do anything to handicap the |Grant Highway association, for they jare not, but they believe tn finishing one thing before they start another, and so they are going to keep right > on with the Lincoln highway unfil it in sticking to one thing until it is fin- lished, and so the state of Wyoming as |n state ts' roing | Yellowstone high" peoplé from Clinton, Towa, | insist that all of our money to New York city. More than fifty|be spent on any highway, be dol: for bas been spent, or! this one. n this highway. It| The Lincotn highway will be a long time before the Grant; Mountain highway will Highway association will be able to/that we are showing great partialit millions of dollars without that wonderful association towards the Yellowstone hundredth part as ipertant to people of. the state of Wyomin, the Yellowstone highway. The to Park highway will be the highway to be recognized by the hard surfaced road from of Wyoming, also believes tire Nation. stana behindythe| ne National |the Yellowstone highway a real high w, that the a part of the great Park itis all the more impera- of the suite ot Wyoming MONTHS. SEE PAGE 7. The Famous Buick Valve-in-Head = Buick Sixes Three Pass. Roadster $1365 Five Pass. Touring - 1395 Three Pass. Coupe - 1885 Five Pass.Sedan- + 2165 Four Pass. Coupe- + 2075 Seven Pass. Touring 1585 Seven Pass. Sedan - 2375 Buick Fours Two Pass. Roadster - $ 895 Five Pass Touring - 935 Three Pass. Coupe - 1295 Five Pass. Sedan- - 1395 All Prices F. O. B. Flint, Michigan Genea conference, the United States can never be charged with being a party to them, and therefore more or less responsible for their successful execution. Europe will make its own bed at Genoa and must lie in it. a Ireland and Egypt and Armenia and Poland and‘in- numerable other countries are gradually working out their destiny——with much trouble and some bloodshed, it is true. If the United States had gone into the League of Nations we would be expected to work out their destinies for them. J CASPER P WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES Motor Powers the Buick “Four” Thepowerful Buickvalve-in-head motor has been an outstanding Buick feature for 20 years. Its un- failing dependability, stamina and certainty of performance have justly earned for it the unstinted admiration of the entire motor- ing public. The Buick “Four” is equipped with the reliable Buick valve-in- head motor. Thisismerelyanother indication of the fact that the Buick “Four” maintains Buick standards of quality throughout every element of its construction. It is Buick through and through, Ask about the G. M. A. C. Purchase Plan which provides for Deferred Payments C-35 Bidlacs* x MOTOR CO. ae hone 909 ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM init- ed States government, and taken over cunnecting link e€ the Nation's Play- grounds. It is the highway of the en. It is the highway that will bring millions of people through the very heart of Wyoming. Work is now progrezaing toward the opening mete jot the Wind River canyon, which is EN w ay Un tased frien Teally our first step toward making Yellowstone|W#Y, and the state highway depart. 145 PER CENT CASH 1" VIDENDS IN FIVE (5)) ment. will probably advertise for bids|their mext meeting. [to open tie wonderful canyon —FRED PATER | putida road through it at| Casper, Wyoming. : —_ | Cece: ae Why not have your Sunday Dinner here? Table d’ Hote Dinner served from 12 A. M. until 8 P. M. A place to bring your friends for diner Service and quality at a reasonable price Merchants’ Lunch served on week days, 11 A.M. until 2 P. M—40c. Quick Service Table d’ Hote Dinner served week days, 5 P. M. until 8 P.M. A la Carte service at all hours POPULAR PRICES PREVAIL E. B. ODELL, Proprietor | % PROMPT FOREIGN EXCHANGE. SERVICE When you send money abroad through the Casper National Bank you know that you can depend upon receiving prompt service because this institution has one of the most completely equipped foreign ex- change departments in Casper. We are always glad to give information at our command regarding foreign ex- change markets enabling us to obtain the facts for you without delay. Ra 32 Years of Service ; May We Serve You? Casper National Bank CASPER, WYO. Under United States Government Supervision. | At a Glance You Will Be Able to i the Difference Our Method of Pressing Clothes and the “Old Ti ods Used by Others.” one Mae || ‘Tis Easy Enough | we give your clothes the natural body i tol sapere baa oe and a thoroughly the Difference CLEANING Wardrobe Cleaners PHONE 124W 121 W. 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