Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 17, 1922, Page 6

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A paper will be de- Jivered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to Jet The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. <o Making Good E ACTUAL COST of conducting the government for the fiscal year July 1, 1920, to June 30, 1921, was $5,558,040,689. During nine. months of this/ period the administration agencies of the government were wholly in the hands of the Democratic party. During the current fiscal year, which began July’ 1. last, and.ends June 30, next, it will cost $3,922- 372,303 to run the government. During this period ali the executive agencies of the government have been under Republican control. This is a saving of $1,600,000,000 which this Re- ‘publican administration has made in one year as com- pared with the last year of Democratic rule. These figures are not guess work. They are taken from the books of the government. They are s down, item by item, even to the last penny in a re- port just made to congress by the director of the budget. They answer conclusively and most em- phatically the charges of the Democratic party that Republican claims to public economy are not based) upon fact. Going into details, the report shows that the ordi-| ” mary expenditures for the operation of routine busi- ness conducted by the executive agencies of the gov- ernment amounted to $2,673,435,079 during the fircal year July 1, 1920, to June 31, 1921, during nine months of which all the executiy ffices were filled by Democrats. During the current fiscal year which ends June 30, next, the ordinary expenditures for the operation of the routine business conducted by the executive agencies will be $1,765,875,672. During all this period these executive offices have been filled by Re- publicans. This is a direct and very concrete saving of $907,- ‘559,407, which must be credited to the policies of the Republican executives. All of these expenditures are wholly subject to the control of the executive officers in charge of the several departments, bureaus and commissions which made the expenditures, Thie saving of over $900,000,000 in the conduct of the executive agencies is not as the Democrats charge, a ‘bookkeeping saving.” The saving is actual; it is concrete; it is expressible only in terms of dol- lars and cents; it is a saving which means $907,000,- 6000 less money ‘o he taken in taxes from the pockets of the American people. It is a saving which is set forth in the report of the director of the budget to the last details in dollars and cents. It is not imag- inary; is not “estimated;” it is there; it has been made; it is as concrete as a grindstone. The other $700,000,000 saved by this administra- tien as compared with the expenditures during the last year of the Wilson administration is accounted for largely by the abolition of the United States Rail- read Administration, the United States Grain cor- poration, the Sugar Equalization board and other war activities which the Republican congress elected in| 1818 made an end of as rapidly as possible. This is a 100 per cent, plus, fulfillment of the 1920 campaign pledges of the Republican party to put “more business in government.” It is the first and most important step in the program of reconstruc- tion. Getting expenses down‘and putting into effect systems and methods that will permanently keep them , down is the first and most important duty of every government today. Since March 4, 1921, the United States has made more drastic reductions in public expenditures and greater reductions in public taxes than any nation in the world. With the exception of possibly two others, it is the only nation which has made any reductions in public expenditures and taxes. All this was done*under a Republican administra- tion. The Republican congress made it possible by the early enactment of the budget law. The Republican executives, from President Hard- ing down, made the possibility a glorious reality by taking every possible advantage of the budget) act to install and compel economies. Testing Paving Construction s 'GHWAY PAVING construction has just received a test at Pittsburg, California, which offers val- uable information to any state or county now laying hard surface highways. Thirteen different types of concrete roadway were subjected to the same test. Between November 9, 1921, and February 1, 1922, truck traffic amounting to 3,668,100 tons was sent over this test piece of pavement. The five-inch reinforced concrete slabs now being laid by the Californie Highway commission were the first to disintergrade and at the end of the tests, plank had been laid in the large holes through this pavement: to enable the trucks to cross the worn out sections. An unbiased observer could draw but one conclu- sicn: the five-inch concrete pavement, whether rein- forced with steel or not, was unable to stand up under the modern truck traffic. The eight-inch concrete pavement costing upwards of $50,000 a mile was also showing crack under the pounding. The test proved beyond the question of a doubt that a permanent highway that will give the Service must be built in a manner to absorb the shock of road traffic. It is virtually a crime against the taxpayers to lay a fine base for a road and then fail a to protect the wearing surface by a cushion of asphalt or some similar schstence which would save the sur- face and thus prevent destru-tion of the foundation. Hard to Understand 1% IS DIFFICULT for the Rawlins Republican to find consistency in motives and actions occurring in politics. Assuming that all persons concerned in are honest and sincére and entirely governed by principle, the Republican may well wonder. For, out of the experience of the years elder statesmen and observers in the watch towers have concluded that consistency in politics is a very fugitive quan- tity. You find less and less of it in the great Amer- ican sport each succeeding year. The Republican rather expected better things of the Wyoming Labor Journal than it finds and thus tells of it: “In politics things frequently occur that are éx- tremely hard for the average mind to understand. For illustration, the attitude of the Wyoming Labor Journal toward Frank W. Mondell. “In its issue of Friday, April 28, it openly espouses the candidacy of Senator Kendrick ‘because of the splendid record he has made in the senate, a record that requires no explanation, that needs no defense, ® record that speaks eloquently of his deep and abid- ing interest in the welfare of the people of the ‘state and nation.’ “In the Wyoming senatorial race, two candidates are presented for the people’s choice—one was an orphan boy at the age of six, whose early training depended upon the charity of a Congregational min- ister. He was a farm boy, a laborer in Chicago, a miner and a railroad builder in Colorado, a coal pros- pector in northeastern Wyoming, and then a repre- sentative of the people at Washington. From every | angle he is essentially a sympathizer with and a friend of the poor man and the laborer. He has been} part and parcel of that class of people. He has never been able to acquire even a competency because of is continued service in the interests of the people. “On the other hand we have a man who has become tremendously wealthy through work for himself; whose chief interest in politics has been in self-| agerandizement, as evidenced by the fact that in the middle of his term as governor he resigned that office for the purpose of becoming a senatorial candidate. One is a serving poor man—the other is a rich man seeking honor and power, “Tt is stated by the’ Labor Journal that it is for Senator Kendrick ‘because of the splendid record he has made in the senate.’ This is the first time that anyone has charged Senator Kendrick with any record yhatever in congress. Of the three Democrats Wyo- ming has had in congress, not one has passed any piece of constructive legislation. Their records have been nil. Mr. Mondell has more splendid legislation to his credit than any member of congress. It is rea- sonable to judge the future by the past. “In his congressional action, Mr. Mondell has been a consistent, earnest and capable friend of ‘the middle classes and the laboring man. He has voted for every piece of constructive legislation introduced in their interests. Hence the difficulty of under- standing just why the Labor Journal is assuming its present attitude. The men connected with that in- stitution have at all times been treated courteously and honorably by Mr. Mondell, and this is also true * to the attitude toward them of the Republican party. “We can only account for the position the Labor Tournal has taken by the fact that Mr. Kendrick has been flirting with it, and a Kendrickrflirtation means a diamond ring n’everything.” Rates Necessarily Higher ifs IS RELATED that Abraham Lincoln being asked +. how long a man’s legs should be, replied that they should be long enough to reach from his body to the ground. One is reminded of that in reading the re- port upon the tariff bill issued by the Democratic minority of the senate finance committee. One of the subjects of violent protestation upon the part of the Democrats is the fact that tariff rates are ia many cases much higher in the proposed bill than they were in the Payne-Aldrich bill. From the standpoint of the free trader, who does not believe in protesting American industries, any advance of tariff rates is indefensible, but the Democratic minority re- port engages in the sophistry that if the Payne-Aldrich rates were high enough to afford adequate protection to American industries in pre-war days, then it fol- lows that the higher rates of the present bill are much too hich. To expose this sophistry it is only necessary to work out a simple problem in percentage, which any school boy or girl can quickly do. If one wants to get a certain sum he miUltiplies the base by the rate. If the base is lowered then he must increase the rate in order to get the same sum. If the base is raised then he must lower the rate to get the same eum. That is all there is to the problem of tariff rates. ~ In tariff computations the base is the valuation of the imported goods. The desired sum, from the standpoims of the protective tariff, is a figure equiva- lent to the cost of producing the goods in the United States. The higher the valuation of imported goods in comparison to production cost of like American goods the lower the rate to cover the difference be- tween their valuation and the cost of production of like goods in this country; and the lower their valua- tion the higher must be the rate to obtain the same result. In brief, to apply the theory of Lincoln’s answer, the Republican party believes that tariff rates should be high enough to afford protection. In- asmuch as imports today are valued. in terms of de- preciated foreign currency, the base upon which tariff is computed is much lower today than it was in pre- war days. Therefore, to obtain the same measure of protection today as was obtained in the Payne- Aldrich days the rate must be higher. To give an illustration: in pre-war days, when inter- national exchange was normal, the value of the Ger- man mark was 24 cents in American money. An arti- | cle imported from Germany valued at 100 marks was worth, therefore, $24. In order to afford protection to the American manufacturer of like articles there was, we will say, a tariff on the article of $4.80, and made the article. with the tariff added, cost $28.80 | laid down in this country. Today the German mark is worth one-half a cent. A German article imported into this country today | and valued at 100 marks is worth only 50 cents. A | 20 per cent rate upon 50 cents would be one cent, which would enable the article to be laid down, tariff paid, for 51 cents. | It is perfectly apparent that so long as imports are permitted to be valued in terms of foreign currency, the old rates are going to be not only inadequate, but absolutely ludicrous. In order to afford the Ameri- can manufacturer the same amount of protection that he obtained in pre-war days, one of two things must be done—either the imports must be valued on an | American basis instead-of a basis of depreciated for- eign currency, or there must be a terrific increase in | the rates. | To get back to the problem of percentage: if the | base is to be lowered then the rate must be corre- | spondingly increased; and the base (represénted by: | foreign valuation in terms of depreciated currency) has been lowered in the. case of nearly every foreign country. Therefore, so long as tariff rates on im- | perted goods are based on foreign valuation (which maximum | in many cares is only a small percentage of what iti was in pre-war days) the rates must be much higher than they were in pre-war days in order to provide the 1 same degree. of protection. ‘ OF STUFF AND HASN’T 2X MILK. NO GooD By Chance Somtimes I dream it over yet, And wonder what my life would be If you and I had never met, Or if the silly heart of me Some other hand had tethered fast Before our own love grew and bloomed, And thus within an unlived past Our happinesg should lie entombed. Our comradeship,, still ripening Like fruit upon an orchard bough, Has made of life a lovely thing— The knowledge of your gentle care Like some rich mantle folds me round, Your love the dindem I wear, And ne’er was queen so nobly crowned. And yet these deeps of joy we own So easily we might have lost, Each to the other all unknown, Save that by chance our pathway crossed. And so sometimes I cream it o'er, And wonder what my life would be With whom, and where, were it not for ‘That chance that meant so much tc me. Grace Strickler Dawson. Sas Se Downfall of Proud Intellect “*There are days when we cannot be proud of our intellect” reflects the Kansas City Star. “There are day: when it doesn’t seem to know it is heir to the ages, but acts instead like a.small boy at a fair. It darts from one foolish thing to another, wastin; its revenues on mere peep shows Such are days passed in bed, say w’ a broken leg or any other thing thai changes the whole face of the work for an active man made prisoner. “Such days will break down the strongest intellect and make it as fool ish as a kitten with a string. A bed prisoner may think ho is strong-mind ed, and under that delusign may set himself to tasks of profit; to reading, to whittling out a boat or to making @ scrap book for a little girl who is saving pictures of motor cars under the impression that somebody ha& of. fered a prize for a million of them. But ho will make no progress. Before |many ‘days are gone he will discover |that his strong mind is playing with jthe most trival things; with the visit of the doctor, the hour when his temperature is taken, the coming of a hated glass of milk or the passing of a sunbeam across the wall to the point where it touches the top of a picture of a boy driving a cow through a gate. He knows these things are of no im portance whatever. The doctor might be of some use if he'd stay around and ik to us, but the fellow arranges tc have somebody out in the hail call him after he’s been in the room two min utes, and away he goes. He makes his behavior worse by going in a way to indicate that he's coming back. But he doesn't. He's gone for the day. “Think, too, of a strong minded human looking forward to having his temperature taken! To holding a silly piece of glass in his mouth, as if it were an event in a world where men are steering ships across the ocenn and building 40-story buildings and calling up Australia by radlophone. What's a glass of milk that we should watch the clock for its coming, especially when we loathe milk? What is there to intrigue the human intellect, so- called, in the progress of that beam of. sunlight along to the wall to the top of the picture? Nothing happens when it gots there. If it would set the picture on fire and burn the blamed thing up it would be something. If we were going to be shot at the mo- ment it gets there it would be some- thing. “What profits it, too, to count the stripes in the wall paper from the corner to the window and from the window to the door? What profits it Only at Barnett’s Boss Canvas Gloves, pair... 5e€ EE ee to count them backward to see if the county was right? is depending. Nothing. No bet ‘Yet the question arises why should there be two more stripes between the corner and the window than between the window and the door, the distances being equal? calls for profound speculation. this in a world where scientists, with & concentration not deeper, are try- ing to isolate the germ of the flu. Undoubtedly this intellects of bed pi the fault of the doctor. come oftener and stay longer. He should take a more serious view of our or, case, and talk about it more and let Slant Oo OaN ce aan Lunt talk ‘abenitettsiiacacgitenh inet on hat most despicable of all things—becile, but cannot stay the ruin. This |by disturbances reakening of the oners is largely clear when a phrase comes to mind had body had left with us the plans of a was building. In the blue prints were the specifimtions, and these we idly read. Somewhere in the plumbing department we read the fa- tal words, “Stop and waste where sill cock branch leaves main supply.” The foolish meaningless words (for they cannot be ;curen otherwise in any court) kept comig back to us. “Stop and waste where sill éock branch leaves main supply.” We woke up in the night and repeated them. We sa- lated the dawn with them, and by slassof-milk time we had fitted them: to a rude kind of music. They filled the air and the earth. The sparrow on the window sill pecked at the glass and said, “Stap and waste where sill cock branch leaves main supply.” The spoon said it when we stirred our weak tea. The flat wheeled street car said it as it passed the corner. We knew now that mn a little while we would be taken from the house and be carried to one of those places where they keep people lke that.” ——_— GIVEN A DROP OF FARMER KEEPS ACOW THAT's A “BOARDER” GET RID OF nina Closing the Controversy Mills is over and the bond opponents have suffered defeat, please allow me space in your paper to officially close the incident. Mr. Hunt has said some people may association with filthy living consi tions. We have not all Itved that way nor do we desire to do so now. It is not plain whether Mr. Hunt reflected upon all of the people opposed to the bonds or just one individual, in this particular -onnection. If he referred to all of us I\desire to state that cleaner places never existed than those in which we were reared, Much cleaner and more sanitary than Mills. I was against the bonds and I don't know if Iam immune to disease and the same sam goes for Boyle for he grew up in the same identical place It 1s well to remember that people re siding in gtass houses should not throw stones. Now that the water bonds have been voted Mr. Hunt should see to it that the people who are no filthy and gone with his hat and a block up the|dirty clean up not only a little bit but street when we remembeer a question|a whole lot. | we wanted to ask him. He is gone.| If Mr. Hunt is so positive no citi He won't be back till tomorrow. (He/zen of Mills has ever paid a dime in| thinks this is an ordinary case; serve) taxes, will he kindly explain what be- him right if wo died in the night.)/came of the dog taxes collected at the Nothing now but to wait for the milk./rate of $5 and $10 per animal. There Is it possible the nurse has forgotten./should have been quite a fund since Clock says no—half an hour yet. Then/ sills is lousy with dors, temperature, when the nurse says,| I see a piece in the Mills News, about “Smoke this awhile.” That's her joke./ Mr. Wilkerson putting a man in the Ours comes when she put hot packs on|/new jail. He is sure some marshal us and we look at the cooked place and/to put a man in jail and leave the say, “Don't you think you'd better!door open so he could walk out stick, a ‘straw in now and bea 3 we're|. 3¢ wan all ixight toexplain the 4 Gone?" Next the mareh of the sun-/ter bond question but it was all wrong| beam across the wall. in @ mass meeting to prevent those| “We know we are becoming imbe-| opposed from expressing their views| vi i) be immune to disease through carly Effective May 8, 1922, the Excise Tax on United States Tires for absorbed by the makers and is not added to the selling price. tract with the buyer— Apricereductionmade in good faith—using all the U.S. advanced art of ire making, not only to the price down, but to the quality up. * # « ; Now let us say this to Today$10.90 is uncommon price it was last November. But the “Usco” tire is the uncommon tire value it always has been, notthe Casper—Casper Motor Co., Inc. Casper_S. Casper—Pat Royce, Center Street Filling Station. Casper—Coliseum Motor Co., Inc. NO WAR TAX A quality tire with defi- ards to live up to. coti- when it was sold at higher prices. Becausein carrying out the “Usco” price reduc- tion in faith, we uaene copeehins ut raising quality, too. United States Tires United States @ Rubber Compa Rubber Orgsmuaiion te the World . W. & E. C. Tull, Casper Sporting Goods Co. Casper—Ohio Oil Co. WEDNESDA’ Editor Tribune:—While the battle of} | Passenger cars, both casings and tubes, is United States Rubber Company. To the Purchasers of a30x3% Usco for10.90 A)HEN the“Usco” Tireannounced nite performance stand- its new price of $10.90itcar- Casper—B. I. Biggs, Independent Torpedo Ce. Casper—Ray McCleary, Rays Service Station. Casper—Wyaming Oldsmobile Co., Inc. MAY 17, 1922. The reference to one particular weit tried to forget. Some-|does not indicate the average purity of our water supply from* wells dug sinc. Early residents remember how |the town site was once strewn with jdead animals, and what became of them. In regard to the natural filter bed south of the river, w» only have the }word of @ few that it is so. Mr. Milis jhhs said there is a prrfect filter bed, under the town. Again we_are told it is untrue. Who knows. The figures quoted May 6 came from tie county assessor asg num. ber of people can certify. I desire to thank the good people of Mills who voted for me for mayor, I know their votes were sincere, and jnot due to any misrepresentation on my part. FLORENCE E. McCANE. Mills, Wyo. Vive La Flapper The tendency is To knock the modern girl As undomesticated, But ye pastor -notices That she gets married About as often | As her foreboars did— If not oftener, —. T. DAVIS. “College Days” rs Given by HIGH SCHOOL GLEE CLUB ORCHESTRA High School Auditorium Wegnestars May 17, 8 P. ° PPO409O0-0O-90999-000-0000605 BARGAINS IN REBUILT Underwoods, Remingtons, L. C. Smiths, Royals. Repairs and Supplies, Typewriters for Rent. CASPER TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE 112 E. Second—Phone 856