Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1922, Page 4

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Make it your duty to ‘et ‘The Tribune know when your carrier misses you = Days Counted Lost | HE BEST THING the statistician does is to figure.) He figures anything and everything. He — tables that will prove almost anything he desires = gets away with it because he most a nas igina ree of the figures. a ; age table makers have lately been exercising their telent on the days lost to industry through iTiness, and it all suggests consideration of commonplace facts ‘which are generally ignored by statisticians when} come to dealing with millions. he ‘American engineering societies have See fhe conclusion that each of the 42.000,000 men am women gainfully employed in the United States loses on an average eight days annually through pseangperey resulting from iliness, making the tremendous a of 242,300,000 days. Now, the important thing ss that there should be nothing alarming about eho ~ uation even if all the deductions were correct, that} $s, so far as the loss of days is concerned. — 4 ‘There are just as many days lost in the eight legal holidays. Then there are the Jewish and Catholic} religious holidays in addition to the others, and no- bedy thinks of them as a liability, but generally as an} asset. Then there is the Saturday half hofiday, which} is rapidly becoming general, and that will soon count) up twenty-six more working days lost to industry to be multiplied by 42,000,000, which takes us into the billion class. And then think of the fifty-two Sundays/ without which, of course, we would all go to pieces! Multiply by 42,000,000 and it would seem like a con- gressional war ay priation. Of course, in "nis reference is only made to the Jess to industry. It goes without saying that. so far as the individual is concerned, he would prefer a holi- day to illness, although the Jatter may not be so ex- pensive in dollars and cents. Furthermore. there is no accounting for the loss to industry that generally ‘gccrues from a let down in production on the day Wowing 2 holiday. teens esiehatt of the statisticians, of multiplying wages by the number of days lost, thus landing them up in the millions, their favorite perch, is indulged in} more generally when dealing with the subject of strkes and lockouts. For instance, a very able pub- lieist declared recently that in one state alone in 1920 there was a loss ‘due to strikes of over 10,000,000 working days. Tt sounds disturbing but tm that case, the same as in the case of illness, when compared with the loss due to legal holidays, the matter was not alarming; in fact, only one-fourth as alarming, because any two/ of the eight legal holidays furnish as many days of unemployment as all the strikes. In other words, there are 6,000,000 wage-earners in the state referred to, which number multiplied by eight holidays shows that 48,000,000 days are lost to} imdustry through holidays as against 10,000,000 lost) through strikes and lockouts. | Whether figures lie or the gentlemen who make them, it makes no great difference; but the fact remains we are wasting a whole lot of time that ought to be devoted to the business of production. Railroads and Agricaltere = JOINT COMMISSION of agricultural inquiry has completed the third section of its report to congress. The first section was a general survey of the situation entitled “The Agricultural Crisis and Its Causes.” The second section covered eredit and finan- cial systems and their relation to agricultural mter- ests. The third section covers the economic relation of transportation to agriculture and industry. Crystallized to a single conclusion the commission finds that the farmer's dollar when figured in terms of transportation is worth only 72 cents. | The report m great many recommendations for a general o ling of the transportation ma- chinery of the It recommends not only a general reduction of freight rates but it recommends} preferential f. for agricultural products! and other basic « ndities. The report enters ve exhaustively into the subject of transportation serv and transportation rates and their economic relations to agriculture. It is learned that freight rates on perishables nor- mally take about one-third of the selling price and| frequently as high as two-thirds, In October, 1921,| farm products were at an index figure of 102 (com-| pared with 100 as the n al average) while railroad| trates were 169. It is from the evidence we have secured that the pu and the farmer s:e dependent to a marked degree upon the transportatio: charges of farm products. Specific examples show ferfilizer prices are now close to the pre-war basis| gxeept for higher freight costs. The transportation charges on agricultural implements including the freight on raw material entering into their manufac-| ture (such as pig iron, steel, coal, coke and lumber) | amount to about 15 per cent of the total selling price| to the farmer. A reduction in freight rates on these| basic raw materials which enter into the manufacture of farm implements will materially assist in reducing| the farmers’ expenses. Farmers ere the second largest consumers of tec] coming next to the railroads, and purchase annually} about 39 per cent of the nation’s steel output. They! ways | are therefore vitally interested in the transportation! provide a remedy, and i “charges upon steel and fron. According to iron and| ¥ steel makers. the freight element in a ton of steel is declared to be about 41 per cent of the selling price’ of the finished artic] The farmer is similarly inter | direct an interest in the maintenance of an American |can be imported into the United States and sold at al | the danger that will threaten the basic—Nordic—stock opinion of the commission. For example, while it is j the opinion of the commission that the spread between the recail market price for wool and the price paid te the producer is abnormally large, it is due primarily to disorderly and unscientific market- ing and in the steps taken toward the co-operation. grading and selling will rectify in a great measure the evil. The price of gasoline and kerosene is found} to be influenced little or not at all by freight rates. | i Canned goods prices are not materially sffected by | freight rates as the rates have a relatiwly small ratio| on the celling price of canned goods. Freight rates| on such articles as boots, thoes, dry goods. ty of all kinds are not materially responsible for the} price of those commodities, Where the freight rate | is not absorbed by the merchant but is made a par’. of the cost basis upon which margins and profits are figured. it represents only a small proportion of th: final sales price. 4 WRITER IN THE New York Herald opposing | +4 ship subsidy asks the question “Why should I, in my business, be asked to contribute to another bui ness with which I have nothing to do and which cannot | benefit me?” The writer means, of course, that there | could be but one answer to his query—he should not | be asked to make such contribution. That reply would | be the natural one if the premises of the question were correct—that a man not in the shipping business | has nothing to do with the merchant marine, nor is| it of any benefit to him. The opposite, however, is the truth and that is the reason the Harding adminis- tration favors and we hope the Republican congress is going to pass a subsidy bill that will keep the Amer- ican flag on the seas. It is not the Republican party’s policy to legislate for any privileged class, and the subsidy bill is not designed for the special favor of| ship owners and operators, but it is intended for the welfare of the nation. Every citizen of this country thas as great and as| merchant marine as has any other element that con-| tributes to national safety and prosperity. Our tax- payers contribute some $400,000,000 a year for the support of a navy, and almost as much more for the upkeep of an army. The merchant marine subsidy calls for a maximum payment of about $30,000,000 punually, and yet ships of commerce in time of war, whether overseas or nearer home, are as vital to suc- cess as the navy ot army. In the World war more than half of our men and supplies were transported in British vessels, and even in the Spanish-American war we were forced to purchase merchant ships from Great Britain. In both instances we were compelled to depend on foreign sources for the essentials of warfare. In the matter of preparedness alone, the country will derive many times the value of the sub- sidy that insures us a merchent fleet available in the! time of need. e “The flag that carries our commerce the cheapest is the one that will get the business.” is the idea of the writer in question. The inference being that America should make no effort to meet foreign com- petition in the matter of ocean freight rates. Pre- cisely the same argument could be applied to every other industry in which our citizens are engaged. Searcely a product that is manufactured abroad but} price that will soon put American producers out of business. If it is sound economies to permit foreigners to do our ocean carrying business for us, it is equally soun@ to let them monopolize our commercial markets and sell us everything we need. But we would then! be a dependent nation, absolutely at the mercy of alien profiteers. The Republican policy is opposed to any such sur- render. American production is to be protected and! American standards of ing are to be mnintained through a tariff that will compensate for the differ- ence in the cost of production at home and abroad. By precisely the sare economic reasoning the differ- ence in the cost of operating a merchant marine at home and abroad is to be met through a subsidy from the federal treasury. Then American operators can make sufficient profit to warrant them in keeping their capital in ships, and the American exporter will always be assured of a vessel in which to tran<rort his goods, free from the whims of foreign owners. The value of that independence in ocean shipping is impossible to estimate, and depends on the effect of future international relations on the supply of ships, | but in any case it is cheap at the price we are to pay. © The Flapper’s Confession T IS ASSUMED that the flapper, as we have come to know her, is not indigenous to any particular portion of the country but thrives everywhere equally | as well. Public criticism has had little or no effect upon her, for she goes on flapping and the pubtic| and the newspapers go on criticising and nobody is| getting anywhere. It has remained for a married flapper to tell us in a confession she has ‘made, where the blame belongs for the failure she acknowledges she is. Her story, in the main, is applicable to all flapperdom. and the) mirror she holds up for her sisters may be gazed into | with considerable profit. And while daughter is look-| ing at her reflection mother had better take a squint| also and then do some reflecting on her own account. | The flapper suys: | “The writer is an ex-flapper—Las been married nearly two years—whose husbahd is finding out that he has assumed the support of an expensive luxury| 1 become responsible in part for the upkeep of a! t wash laundry. As an assistant, a helper, a home maker for a steady, hard working husband I am out f place. As a wife I am a failure and it is not my fault. “The community spent hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dollars on my education, for I was graduated from high school, but persistently refused to regard me as a rational asset and insiste? that I become a cog in the immense wheel of commercial life. The commu- nity fashinoed me into an office assistant and disre- garded entirely the fact that nature intended me to be a wife and mother. ; | “IT can neither cook nor wash. iron nor sew, and I fear to bear children, for I do not know how to care for them, even though I realize now that it takes| more than a wife to make a home for a man; it takes a wife and children. “Good cooking is a very tmportant detail of home life and good cooks are not born so but become such as the result of intelligent, thoughtful observation and experiment, and I have discovered that there is no royal road to becoming a good cook in a few months. ‘Fine sewing is an art of which I know nothing, and to speak to me of clear starching is equivalent! to talking in a foreign language. | “Multiply my case by hundreds of thousands and, in this country at some time should be apparent to all. “The nation, the state, the community should jointly it is a herculean task: as a tarter I venture to submit that overeducation at pub- lic expense tends to keep a large number of boys nd girls at school during the very years when knowl- i arts and habits of economy, thrift, edge of h believed this | industry are most readily aequired. and I believe there-| of his salary is needed to psy for service I should be fore that education above the grammar grades sho be a privute expense and not provided for by general | nership. taxation. “I realize that I am a pretty helpless piece of female machinery, that the maid I employ, who can d| able to render as my share of the matrimonial part- This outlay is necessary because the com- | munity failed to provide that the females of the human household managers and homemakers.” neither read nor write, is one of the aristocrats among working women. I pay her $70 a month, everytWing found, private bathroom, no washing or ironing. In- cluding her room and board the cost to us of our maid is more than $100 a month—$1,200 a year. My husband receives $4,000 a year and 30 per cent ‘Who passed the Packer bill? This newspapers. and who the praise. species in the United States should be developed as ques- a . burning tion of the hour is now being settled by the Sheridan At this stage of the proceedings it is somewhat uncertain as to who is entitled to the blame Quits Democratic Party A. A. Baerreson, prominent Chey- enne architect who two years ago was chairman of the Democratic County Central committee of Laramie| a: county, has made public @ letter ad-) not reflected any credit to the party. dressed to Dr. J. R. Hylton of Doug-| There also seems to be a tendency in the leadership of the party towards | Republican party. catering to and seoking alliances with undesirable interests which do not|do I hold any grudge tower the stand for the best interests of our! Democratic party or any of its sup- |porters, Having taken prominent ins, Democratic state chairman, un-| nouncing his withdrawal from the) Democractic party and his affiliation with the Republican party. The let- ter follows: “T have foett, for some time, out of sympathy with the Democratic party, mminly because of the national poli- cies. “In national matters the cratic party has been gradually ing toward too close an organization for the views of the party at large. “The revelations of nd inefficiency during the war has! country. “I do not wish to set up my judg-| Part in the counsels of the ment as superior to that of the lead-/cratic party I feel it is my duty to} ers in the Democratic party but my|™make a public announcement of my ideas run counter to the opinions of | decision. “At heart I am in favor of a pro-| many of those with whom I have la- {the party has never met with my ap-|nbout these matters it seems to me |the proper course to pursue is for Demo- Democratic committee extravagance after my me to resign as a member of the of Laramie county and withdraw from the party. “While I hope to preserve enough independent judgment to hell myself above petty partisan polities, here- affiliation will be with the “I Rave no political ambitions nor Demo- “I have endeavored to be judicial) tective tariff and the sectionalism of tored in the party. Feeling as I do/anc ‘air in reaching this conclusion. eee Taste is a matter of tobacco quality We state it es our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer quality (and hence of better taste) than in any other Liggett @ Myers Tobacce Co, Che stewicld “WE PAY THE LOSS” Pelton & Hemry Insurance and Bonds All Lines Eeom 24, Townsend Building AUTO TENTS Camp Outfits KISTLER Tent and Awning Co. 747 South Lincoln St. Phone 927-M CIGARETTES of Turkish and Domestic tobacco:—blendad saw 1 hocks nnees Dede are here develo to a further point of pa flow is even more of cylinder ‘CThe CHALMERS SIX. Regular meeting tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock. District Manager J. A. Pfisterer will be here. E. S. HIGHSWONGER, C. C. THOS. LONGHURST, Clerk . 33 YEARS OF SERVICE The directcrs and officers of this bank have had many years’ experience in vari- ous lines of business. Any of our officers or directors are at your service at any time. The Casper National Bank Member Federal Reserve System Capital and Surplus, $200,000.00 DIKE-CTORS Patrick Sullivan P. C. Nicolaysen J. DeForest Richards A. J. Cunningham Q. K. Deaver OFFICERS A. J. Cunningham, President J. DeForest Richards, Vice President Patrick Sullivan, Vice President Q. K. Deaver, Cashier C. H. McFarland, Asst. Cashier H. E. Smith, Asst. Cashier H. J. Walters, Asst. Cashier THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER C0. Everything in Building Material RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Office and Yard—First and Center Phone 62 Beginning May 5, the 30-minute park- ing rules will be enforced on Center Street from the Northwestern tracks to the Court House, on Second Street from David to Durbin Streets, on Wolcott Street from Midwest Avenue to First Street. Watch your lighis. A. NISBET, Chief of Police.