Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1922, Page 6

. AGE SIX f €be Casper Daily Cribune «xcept Sunday at Casp- Natron County, Wye. Publica: ffices, Tribune Bi me BUSINESS TELEPHONES ................ 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Peterea at Casper (Wyoming). Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. MEMEER THE 7. & BANWaYr ASSOCIATED PRESS BARL EB HANWAY ~_.. Business Manazer iW. H. HUNTLEY .... Associate Editor iE EVAN ‘City Eaitor | THOMAS DAILY .- ‘Adverusing Manager Advertising a. King & Prodden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, ; 286 Fitth avenue, New York City; Globe Bidg.; Bos- Mass. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicaso Boston offices and visitors ; are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Carrier 3.90 fix Months 4) 1.95] “Three Months . \ No subecription by }three months. £._,,All_ subscriptions must be paid in advance end the {Defy Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- tien becomes one month in arrears. Mrmbet of Audit Burean of Circulation (A. B. ©) ——$—$—$$—$—$— Memnber of the Associated Press. _—_—$ $$$ j leased at high rental and consolidating the depart- |by for some emergency determined not to touch it, | except in case of great extremity. Not only does she! j live up to her resolution, but from time to time she | | adds a little to it until at the end of the year she no \only has not touched her emergency reserve but she | Ras increased it. This is real thrift, genuine economy, jand its successful practice under the Harding admin- istration is striking evidence that business methods are firmly established in the hnadling of our public af- fairs. | Every department and bureau in the government} Mas undertaken a reduction of expenditures all along | the line during the current fiscal year. This has been accomplished in hundreds of waye—reduction of per- sonnel and the accompanying saving in salaries and overhead, getting out of buildings which had been| ments under the roofs of government-owned buildirzy,| coordination of material and help and 100 per cent! utilization of the personnel of departments. | There have been a thousand different ways in which economies have been effected in the various) departments an4 bureaus. Some of these economies| have been very small, others have reached into the millions of dollars. Thy have not been made at the! expense of the efficiency of the departments or a| lowering of the quality of the work performed. The total amount of savings effected by the installation) of these economies aggregate for the nine months| from July 1, 1921, to March 31, 1922, inclusive,| $250,134,835. The United States shipping board is accredited with the largest saving, $96,407,509. The! war and navy departments each made a saving of over $41,000,000. | This $250,134,435 represents the difect actual re-! ; i The Associated Press is exciusively entitied to the! use for publication of all news credited in this paper andj also the local news published herein. Kick ff You Don’t Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and § o'clock pm. | if you fail to rece yo pune. A paper will be de-| tlivered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know w your carrier misses you. <> . Business in Government CONOMY IS EXEMPLIFIED in small things as 4 well as large things. It is the practice of economy fin all things that finally makes up the sum total of jsaving. The efforts of the Harding administration! Sexecutives toward the’saving of money to the tax-| {payers in large affairs have been frequently laid be- “fore the public to the everlasting credit of the admin- Sistration and its officers. To them also must be} igiven an equal credit in the small savings they have| effected in the various departments. Therefore let is turn to the small things that form so large a part| fof the government’s business. | + In the latter part of last year the veterans’ bureau| ‘needed furniture to equip one of its offices. Had it] gone into the open market and purchased the furni-| ‘ture it would have spent $1,114. At that time the ishtpping board had among its vast amount of surplus| fsapplies a large quantity of office furniture. Based| fupon the records of prices received by the govern-| tment for surplus property auctioned at forced sale, the shipping board would have received not in excess} of $490 for this furniture had it disposed of it at} forced public sale. f Under the system which prevailed prior to the in- éstallation of the budget system, the veterans’ bureau “would have gone into the open market and expended $1,114; the shipping board would have sold its fur- niture at forced public sale and received $490. There would have been, in other words, two transac- tions upon the part of the government—an expendi- ture of $1,114 for furniture; the receipt of $490 from the sale of furniture; repre diture of $624 cash. Under ‘shipping board transferred enough to the veterans’ bureau to eq government thereby saved $ of more business in government. | In the latter’ part of 14 the departnrent meeded some wrenches. They would have cost $96 Sn the open market, The shipping board had a sur-| plus of wrenches which w brought at] forced sale a sum not in exce: Under the gid method the shipping board would have sold the| Mwrenches for $42 and the dep would) thave gone into the open ma a t like! iwrenches for $96. The governme e been jout of pocket the difference, or $54. Under the tbudget system the shipping board transferred the| dwrenches to the navy department and the govern-} tment saved the $54. The public health service needed some cord, thread, tmedical gauze, etc. The war department had a sur- plus supply of this material. Under the old system ithe public health service would have gone into the forcn market and pw ed it and the war depart- iment would: have offered its surplus at a forced sale. Wnder the budget system the war department trans- ferred to the public health service at a paving nav; ent The lighthouse service of the department of com- ,erce neeMed new boats. The commissioner of the zhthouses planning to spend $500,000 for three ears on a boat-building program. ‘The war depart- gment had on hand a number of vessels that were lused during the war as mine planters for which it jad no use and for which there was no demand in the open market. Under the budget systrm the war Mepartment tra essels to the lighthouse} jeervice in the department of commerce and the three- Wvear boat-building prog nvolving $1,500,000 has been abandoned becouse necessary } These are fonr illystrations taken at random jm list of thousands of transfers which have been made 4of surplus property from one department to another| under the operation of the budget system. These| %ransfers have run all the way from electric light! bulbs and washers wo-th 25 cents to ships valued at] 91,250,000. Practically every department, bureau and commission in the United States government has een affected-by these transfers. The total savings to the government by this system of transfers from July| 4, 1921, to March 31, 1922, was $27,209,406. ‘This is a concrete illustration of what if meant by putting uore business in government and thereby putting the Cerenninent on a business basis. i { Another business method wh nis administration | Ee in the government was the establishment of “‘sav- rn erred these v it igs reserves” at the beginning of fiscal year last Quly. The explanation of this is as follows: As the| hifairs of the government were run prior to this ad- fuinistration, appropriations made by congress have fiways been regarded by the executive agencies as fthe minimum amount which they could spend. As a} result. they made no effort to save anything out of their appropriations. On the contrary, the habit grew to spend even more than the appropriation, thereby jncurring deficits which congres? was called upon to Meet by the passage of deficiency appropriation bills. On June 29, 1921, at a meeting of the heads of the $arious departments, bureaus, commissions talled by President Harding, instructions were given to each executive to set by, out of the money appro-| priated by congress to his department or bureau, a fixed sum which he should regard as a “saving re- ferve.” This reserve should not be touched except in es of absolute emergency. The aggregate amount} ef “savings reserves” set aside was $112,512,628. On| March 31, 1922, these reserves had reached the sum 6: $125,942,975, or an increase in the “savings re- f $23,430,346. - i his is comparable to the housewife, who takes from ker hocsshol? allowances a sum which she puts | fought for all party measures, with only a single ex- J ete.,| ductions in public expenditures which have been made by the vafious departments of the government since July 1, 1921. That is, the various departments of the government since July 1, last. have pent 3250,- 000,000 less than they were given by congress to spend. To phrase it another way, under the budget system as it has been applied by this administration, the executive agencies in nine months’ time have saved over a quarter of a billion dollars out of the! allowances which congress gave them for use during| the current year. | peaks for Himself HE KEYNOTE SPEECH of Albert Beveridge when he opened his campaign in Indiana for the senator- ship is sufficient to silence all Democratic trouble| makers and others who profess to see in Mr. Bever-| idge’s nomination a slap at the Harding administra- tion because a friend and supporter of the adminis- tration in the person of Harry New suffered defeat in the same primary. On March 10 when Mr. Beveridge made his first address in the contest for the senatorial nomination| he said this: ‘Just as I stood by William McKinley, and not only| voted, but fought for all party mvasures while he was| in the White House; just as I stood by Theodore} Roosevelt. and not only voted, but fought for all party measures while he was president; just as I stood by William H. Taft, and not only voted, but ception, while he was chief executive, so if I am nominated and elected, I shall stafd by Warren G., Harding, and not only vote, but fight for all party measures so long as that patriotic. wise and kindly| man is president, which I hope and expect will be for even years longer. “On all matters of mere policy, should I differ from! my colleagues, I shall strive to convince them that my views should be adopted; bat if they decide #therwise, I shall accept their judgment precisely as I steadily) did for 12 long years. Party government is indis- pensable to the functioning of free institutions; there | fore, any person nominated by party voters as the ¢ party candidate, and elected on the party ticket, is portant in duty bound to act harmoniously, if possible, with others so nominated and elected. It would not only be wrong, but unintelligent to do otherwise.” | If, as claimed by the Democratic spokesmen, that the defeat of Senator New and the success of Mr.| Beveridge constituted popular dissatisfaction with the Republican administration and the Republican con-| gress, how did it happen that constituencies of Re- publican congressmen in Indiana, candidates for re-| nomination in the same primaries, returned flattering majorities for these members, that left no doubt as to the satisfactory record these gentlemen had made as) their share in the Harding administration? | They Should Worry ; HERE IS NOT ONLY some talk but considerable| talk in New York state among the Democrats of nominating William Randolph Hearst for governor. | It seems that Tammany Hall is willing and party mem-| bers here and there favor the plan, including a few newspapers. Those favorably inclined are the only ones so far who have spoken, what the safe and sane members of the party may think about such a move| nothing is known. Apparently it is a choice between Hearst and For-| mer Governor Al Smith, and since Hearst is unequ ocally opposed to Smith and owns and controls quite a number of influential publications of one kind and another and will turn them against Smith in the event of his nomination, practical politicians see Hearst or certain defeat. It will make Tittle or no difference to the Repub- Iicans of the Empire state which of the two Demo- crats is selected. They have in Theodore Roosevelt ure wirmer and in Governor Miller a very likely! inner. They should worry over the Democratic sit- vation. The Roots of the Evil THIS IS A DAX when the people cry out against the burdens of taxstion. The valuation of property and the rate of levy have both risen to a point where property taxes are just about one jump behind confiscation. There is a cause for every effect, and as for bur- densome taxation it is not difficult to locate the cause. Fyrthermore the people have the remedy in their own hands—clean out the parasitic faddist. In dealing with social, political and essentially eco- nomi¢ affairs we have listened to the schemer, the dreamer, the exploiter, the faddist, with the result that'our statutes are cluttered with laws which event- uate in hehvy taxes with few if any compensating benefits. cial worker,” the “housing com- mission,” @‘child’s welfare bureau.” “minimum wage board,” so-called “health boards,” and a dozen and one such inenbi drawing fat salaries and giving pink teas at the taxpayer’s expense. Years ago we got along without such social inter- lopers and people were just as good, children were just as much loved and cared for by their parents, just as well housed, had no more sickness, and lived ust as long and just as happily. We have the direct primary, the initiative and ref- erendum, and the recall—making the taxpayer bear the expense of two elections where we used to get along with one. Years ago we.used to nominate candidates in town meetings, caucuses or conventions and the candidate: nominated were as good if not better intellectually and morally than under the present primary. Dele- gates chosen to nominate candidates for’their respec- tive parties recognized, first, that party success de- pended on good candidates; and second, that there was a fixed responsibility, and that no man could vote to nominate a bad man and retain public respect and confidence; whereas now voters go blindly to the polls and vote for candidates they do not know and never heard of. payer is frequently from $% to $4 for every vote cast. |A lamp, they sa A lamp ts better overcast; be Casper Daily Czibune HELP WANTED It is time for plain talk, time for heroic thought and action. We cannot lessen the burdens of the The old plan cost the taxpayers| taxpayer, we cannot even prevent them from increas- nothing. Under the new plan the expense to the tax- ing, by mcre complaint, We must take axe in hand end strike at the roots of the cause. |tries that go with them. But is this|he lai? with 4-inch walls and lined jenough?. Does not a city devote tolwith sound, hard burned,’ stiff mud should give a room|one interest grow narrow and stax-|‘fire-clay flue lining from a point 18 What subtlety lends to a lady, nant? Would not a diversity of inter-|inches below the lowest thimble, con- A something shaded, yet not shady!) eats and numerous payrolla more near-|tinously to a point 2 inches above the A Serehiae shadaded, yet not/jy fulfil! our ambitions? be of ‘the chimney.” aca The city council believes so at least,|. This company is not only prepared notwithstanding the attitude of minor|to manufacture chimney blocks but " | organizations in this respect. As a pro-|asbestos shingies as well, and the A wap ahoull have ney meant:| vision in its new building ordinance|sreat thing in favor of these impor- Sant |passed Tuesday and effective at once|tant articles hero is that they are But something |this recognition of a Casper industry | Produged at haif the cost of the same “lis given to the Asbestos Chimney |articles elsewhere in the world. | Blocks: With the proper local encourage- “Except as heretn provided, afi|™ent there is nothing in the way of chimneys in every building hereinaf-|@dding another fair sized payroll to ter erected and all chimneys herein-|C@sPer's revenues through this means. after altered or rebuilt, shall be con DE VTE Some day and at no distant time structed of brick, stone, reinforced) CAN YOUR STRAWBERRYES NOW. ther, Casper will bectme more im-jconcrets, Casper Asbestos Chimney Pg teary tee ry Lice sors sigher! Led in manufacturing industry! Blocks, unlined, or other material ap-|the canning eeason advances Can than it is today. Oil and its by-pro- proved by the underwriters. All flues your strawberries thi ic. " B-18-2t i | FIFTEEN In a new package that fits the pocket— At a price that fits the pocker-book— The same unmatched blend of Lights and Shadows Jaucts we have with all the indus shall be laid with 8-(nch walls or shal! ‘ Encourage Manufacturing one-eleven cigarettes ‘avenue to Fourteenth street; Walnut Street from Rall: venus to CY avenue; Chestnut from = Rail- road avenue to Thirteenth street; Cadar street from Railroad avenue to Thirteenth street; Thirteenth street from CY avenue to Cedar street; CY Fifteentli street; West Eleventh street for 140 feet west of Chestnut street. I. D. ALEXANDER, Scrapping Warships AMl the giamour, romance, and best traditions of the United States navy are bound up in the dismantling and scrapping of the many units pur- chased by the Henry A. Fitner's Sons company, of Philadetphia, and now belng junked at tts huge yards there on the Delaware River. From the old and tiny “A-1 Plunger” sub- marine, one of the world's first suc cessful undersea boats, to the monitor “Monterey,” built in 1887, and on through the list to the former queen of the navy, the battleship “Wiscon- sin,” al! functioned in the creation of history’s'second most powerful navai force. ‘The Limitation of Armament. con- ference at Washington restricted completed er under construction na- val program of the United States from approximately 1,370,000 tons to 525,- 000 tons. This necessitated tho scrap- ping or sale by the government of 845,000 tons of all types of its mari- time defense to maintain the 525,000- ton first-line naval-strength ratio ac- cepted by the United States as a a: THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922, matory to the terms of the narallim!- tation treaty. The sale of this Suge tonnage total from our naval list nar created a new indistry and thrown upon the market for purchase by the highest bidder hundreds cf completely equipped fighting craft. Powerful oxyacetylene torches gnomes are cutting through the 11- inch nickel-steel turret armor of the “Maine,” while a giant 125-ton cranr, is snaking out of its barbettes one of the mighty 12-inch 40-caliber rifled guns that once maintained the prin- ciples of this felerated republic, But the process of converting our one-time defenses into peaceful uses must go inevitably forward. The armor is thrown into open-hearth fur- naces, and emerges as one of the most valuable by-products of this big scrap- ping job. Its alloy content of nickel steel makes it sdxptable to many peaceful uses, particularly in the au- tomebile industry, into which most of it will find its way. Complete destruction ts not neces: sary in the case of all the craft. The hulls of some of the torpedo boats will & transformation to adapt them to peaceful pursuits. This has already becn done with tho des- “Whipple,” which will ply between the United States and Central Amer- lea, carrying cargoes of fruit. Eng- gined with kerosene burners, they aro large cargo carriers, and of such light draft that they can navigate shallow rivers on high tide and He off plan- tations for loading, thereby eliminat- ing lighterage ‘cost. Their clean lines give them great sted, which makes unnecessary the expensive refrigerat- ing system used in slow fruit boats t the states. { Junking of ships on a, scale of such magnitude as this has probably never befr.e been undertaken at any one ard in the world, and certainly not here, although ‘this yard has for 30 years specialized in that husiness.— H. G. Layton. een eee eee STRAWBERRIES AND SUGAR are cheap this week. 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As they enter the circulation their marvelous, concentrated energy seems to stimulate the processes of me! dolism which méans that in rl matic affections the impurities, body wastes and irritants are dislodged. They are changed into products for easy elimination and are quickly pass- ed out through the regular channels. Their places are taken by new and healthy material and thus pain and disease disappear. Nuradium can now be had at $1.50 a vial, of leading druggists and should ‘be given a trial. Their tonic influence in nervousness, shakiness, tremblings and the invalidism of old age is truly remarkable. Nuradium can be had at most drag tores and is kept in stock by Kimball Drug Co., two stores, Casper Pharm- acy, Smith & Turner Drug store v. $0600 STORE FOR RENT In Ideal Location ARKEON BLDG. 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