Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1922, Page 6

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All_subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subsecrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. Member of Andit Burean of Circulation (A. B. 0) Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to tho 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. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p.m. tf you fail to receive your Tribune. A will be de- livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. <> Digging Up Inefficiency NHE FEDEKAL civil service is getting its, Mr. Brown, the chief of the efficiency bureau, has sent a communication to the president in which he tears several large holes in the civil service sys- tem. Among other faults it is forty years behind the times and was built in the first place to keep the unfit out of the service, never jo secure the services of the fit r The whole country has known this during the entire forty years. And it has known the reason men. Hundreds of pages of testimony have been } taken by congressional committees on ‘the ship subsidy quéstion. | After this is all in, however, the fact will still | remain that previous to the world war, American ships had practically disappeared from the sea. We are rapidly drifting back to that position. We| cannct meet foreign competition while maintaining | | American wage scales and American standards of | living on American ships without some protection from our government. Our present laws act as a subsidy to the foreign ship owner. Will we refuse to pass legislation which puts the American ship operator on a basis of equality with his foreign competitor? - Rates Governed by Conditions AMUEL INSULL, president of the Common- wealth-Edison company, of Chicago, has been in the electrical industry practically since its in- ception, e began as private secretary and was later general business manager for Thomas A. Edi- son. Speaking of public utility rates he says, eco- nomic conditions, beyond the control of any indi- vidual or group regulate public utility rates. “Managers of public utility companies have no more control over rates than any other citizen of the community in which they operate. Public utility, public service, railroad and commerce com- missions haven’t any control over them, city coun- cils and village boards have no control. A utility manager can no more maintain a rate that is too high than he can push tack the Atlantic ocean. “Economics is the governor of rates. It is an au- tomatic adjustment that goes on relentlessly. Man- agers and commissions can influence it only momen- tarily. It will show you how it works. * “The Commonwealth-Edison company in Chicago twenty years ago had a rate of 20 cents per kilo watt hour. Everyone patted us on the back and marveled at its cheapness. If we charged 20 cents today, we would be the laughing stock of the util- ity business of the world. That rate has been vol- untarily cut nearly a dozen times in response to economic conditions. “The Peoples’ Gas, Light and Coke company was chartered with authority to charge $2.50 per thous- and cubic feet of gas. If it charged that today it would not be in business. “The street car lines in Chicago used to get five cents for hauling passengers one and one-half miles and you had to pay toll on many different lines if you traveled much about the city. Today you can ride 32 miles for a single fare—go from any part of the city to another part for a singie fare. “The telephone companies used to charge you $3 to $4 a month for the privilege of talking to 100 to also. Which can be found in the desire of the able senator or congressman to save what he could out of the wreck of the old spoils system: With gov. ernment positions no longer to be distributed by congressmen and senators to “deserving” hench- men at “home,” the next best thing was to have an “eligibility list,” from which government officials could make a choice, which “choice” might be in- fimenced by subrosa suggestions from the congress- manor senator, 5 Neves in the history of the government has it been best. those who. gave out its positions to these who work for the government. The best man or woman is not sought, merely a grade of man or woman who can pass the examination. The whole idea, anyway, that the man or woman who can pass an educational test with the high- est percentage-is therefore best qualified to fill any given clerical position is nonsensical. No busi- ness man selects a bookkeeper because he can pass 99 per cent in geography or history; no mercantile house selects a buyer merely because he knows or algebra better than ether persons. The banker wants a Speer acd a) has, three things, ambition, honesty and a ledge of book- keeping. The mercantile house wants a buyer who knows goods, people, and who has honor and ambi- tion. Why shouldn’t the government select in the sameway? And why not select the best obtainable —not merely the common run-of passers of exami- nations? vena Mr. Brown has-dug up thousands of inefficiencies and he has by no means exhausted the pos- sibilities. Now if action can be secured to perma- nently cure the evils discovered, may be we can the government service-on a more modern and effective basis. Ee EE The Thing Reversed ee INIQUITY of the tax-exempt bond is wide- ‘1 ly known and recognized by business men and financiers and more and more they are coming to speak their mind concerning it and to denounce it as not only a robber of the government but as a robber of the humblest of taxpayer. Judge Lovett of the Union Pacific system says this of the work- ings of tax exempt securities: “The processes of common sense seem to be re- versed in our basis of taxation. Instead of a pre- mium on enterprise and industry by a lower tax on earned than invested income, just the opposite is the law. A salary or a profit made by personal ef- fort is taxed the maximum rate under the provis- ion for surtaxes, while capital escapes the tax al- together by being invested in municipal securities. The result is not only a sense of injustice suffered and discouragement*in the individual relying upon his own efforts, but an orgy of recklessness and extravagance in municipal expenditures unpar- alled in history. “These huge sums are not only going into tax exempt securities, shifting the burden of taxation to industry, but are being withdrawn from invest- ment in industrial enterprises of all sorts that em- ploy labor, and m thé building of homes for hous- ing the people. “But that is not all—not by half. Tax-exempt ‘bond issues by village, town, city, county and state, with other extravagances which attend wasteful habits, are increasing state and municipal taxa- tion to an extent that is truly alarming.” Will We Go Back? IN REVIEWING the testimony for and against the bills now before congress to aid American shipping, it is interesting to note that radical la- bor leaders like Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seaman’s union and such organiza- tions as the Non-Partisan league are the ones which offer the most strenuous objections to the measures, On Mr. Furuseth’s shoulders jmay be placed the principal responsibility for our present ship- ping laws which make necessary measures to pro- tect and encourage an American merchant marine. The Non-Partisan league represents the radical Socialistic element which would in one breath de- mand subsidies for its own organization and pro- gram and in the next breath fight any measure which was aimed to keep some line of activity in which it was not interested. Aside from the radical elements in our own cogn- try and the foreign element which largely domi- nates the International Seaman’s union, sentiment appears to be growing in favor of measures to ex- tend American shipping. 200 people in the community and you thought the service cheap. Today for the same price you can talk to many thousands and connected with your telephone are 13,000,000 other phones in the na- tion. “What I have said hbout the economics of rates applies equally to that relating to development. It cannot be controlled. It, is endless and grows as demand grows. ¢ “There are many problems of a private and pub- lic character in connection with the utility business yet to be solved but its progress and success are of such great consequence to the state that the one cannot possibly progress and be successful at the expense of the other.” io— Reasonable Protection THIS COUNTRY of high wages, short hours and high standards of living, we quite often face conditions which require government protection of certain lines of industry, if they continue to oper- ate under our America standards in competition with cheap labor, long hours, foreign production. We have seen this in our sugar beet industry and we ses it in certain phases of our mining industry. Various branches of our western mining indus- tr require certain tariff protection to place them on an equal basis for business as compared with the foreign product shipped in here. Particularly is this true in regard to our lead-silver-zine mines. The Coeur d’Alene district in Idaho normally produces about one-third of the nation’s lead, a jheavy zinc ouput and about 10,000,000 ounces of silver. Many other districts in the west produce important quantities of the same metals.) Over 12,000 people in Shoshone county, Idaho, are direct- ly supported by the operation of its mines and many more are given employment in other western states. The import tariff provided in the Fordney tar- iff bill will enable our domestic mining industries to compete with the cheap labor products of Europe and Mexico to the great benefit of American labor and capital. It is essential that when necessary our industries be protected sufficietly to allow them to meet this competition but not to kill competition. Direct Dealing Yh DISCUSSING the relations between, employer and employe Whiting Williams lays down these truths: “Irregulariiy of work is driving more men to Bolshevism than anything else in the world. Irreg- ular work makes an irregular man, and an irreg- ular maa makes an irregular citizen. “There is no gap between employer and employe that caanot be bridged. The sooner we get his viewpoint of the dignity of a job no matter how mean, the sooner will he come to an understanding that will make the Goldeu Rule effective.” Organized labor and organized capital have both grown so rapidly that the element of personal con- tact between employer and employe ‘has. gencriully speaking, disappeared. Both organized industry and organized labor have delegated the manage- ment of their protlems on questiors of employ- ment to third parties who have dealt in too ab- stract a manner with the questions involved. The employer and employe have been pitted against each other in tests of strength rather than in tests of intelligencs. In an effort to solve their problems without vio- lence, mutual respect, personal acquaintance and discussion between the workmen and the employer must eventually supersede third party control or dictation in the settlement of our labor questions. ‘Absorb the Shock: {BE ACTUAL, normal and continuous use is the only real test of anything, including roads. An automobile motor stood all the tests in the experi- mental category, yet in actual use a small but im- portant fault developed which cost $800,000 to rec- tify. 4 It is a known fact, established cehituries ago, that any unyielding substance such as ‘stone will event- ually crumble under sustained pounding— there is no elasticity to absorb the shock. This is be- ing illustrated today in aur experiment in road building. Unyielding surfaces unable to absorb! the shock of traffic soon crumble where a cushion or elastic road surface or base will be unaffected by the same traffic. Taking the shock off from the road base or sur- face is as important to long life for highways as is taking the shock away from automobile machin- ery by use of pneumatic tires and advance type of On record favorable to the passage of proposed legislation are endorsements of commercial organ- izations, merchants associations, banks, flouring mills, boards of trade and last but not least, unions of marine workers numbering more than 25,000 spring construction and shock absorbers. In these days when retrenchment in public ex- pense is essential time tested and scientific meth- ods of road construction should be insisted upon in order to prevent heavy losses to taxpayers. €be Sunrise to Sunset From Sunrise Land, ~ creeping, standing, walking, you came to face the Silver Flame (Why, you do not understand). Long and rough is the road, burdensome your load and irksome the toll, yet Lillies of Love, Roses of Friend- ship fragrant bloom beside the way. Take them while you may lest Regret, with her stinging whip, shall scourge your cringing soul. ‘The road you walk winds in and out, side by side with other roads that twist and turn, millions of other roads, and men and women wi with seeming unconcern, ever walk’ on and on (They will never understand) trampling the Flowers down, walk here and there and roundabout, up a hill, then down to Sunset Land. —E, RICHARD SHIPP. What About Secion 15-A? The action of the interstate com- merce commission on May 16th, in reducing freight rates’ 10 per cent re- sulting in the lowering of the nation’s freight bills annually by from 300 to 400 million dollars, must have come as a distinct surprise to the, folks who have been saying that freight rates conld not be reduced until sec- tion 15a of the transportation act was repealed. Nevertheless some of them have sufficiently recovered from their sur- prise to claim credit for the freight reduction as well as for that part of the decision of the commission mak- ing permanent the 20 per cent reduc- tion on livestock shipments made last September, which would have expired July 1. ‘That phantom bill of Sénator Ken- drick’s for the repeal of section 15a has not yet appeared—but two days after the interstate commerce com- mission decision the senator sent out letters to his Wyoming constituents assuring them he was laboring to have the September rates continued, and nine days after the decision of May 16th the senator wired the news to Wyoming papers and claimed much credit for tt. [The Wild Flowers ‘The time of year has again come when it is necessary for every thoughtful boy and girl and every thinking adult to consider the con- dition of the wild flowers and the policy for their protection. When one sees people coming back from the hills with arms full of withered mountain flowers, he cannot keep from wondering what they are going to do with them. “Those flowers belong to all of us and are for all of us to enjoy. One or two blossms carefully picked so as not to destroy the entire plant are all that any one person has a right to, or can enjoy. “Why then go through the moun- tains pulling up, and tearing to pieces plant after plant just to get an arm full of blossoms which soon wither and are thrown away to be forgotten? ‘Why not look ahead toward next year's crop of blossoms? Why not look out for the future? Why not let conserva- tin instead +f vandalism be our aim? “A mountain trip is much more pleasant when the hills aré covered with blossoms than when there is nothing in sight but bare rocks. And yet on account of a thoughtless group, these wonderful sights of an acre or more of columbines, tiger lillies, mar- iposa Illies, the pasque flower, or fire weed are fast disappearing from our mountain parks, and it is even be- coming hard to find them. In places where the summer campers can get to them. “If the destruction of our wild flow- ers is to be ended it will take the united efforts of every thinking pa- triotic citizen, Let's all get behind and work for the conservation rather than the destruction of all of our na- tural resources.” Editor Tribune: The above clipping! « is from a Denver newspaper. sentiment exprassed is as applicable to Wyoming as it,is to Colorado, so I thought you might desire to republish the article. oration day I saw so many great bunches of flowers picked and thrown away, did not even bother to take them to town. In 10 years there will be no flowers left. at Garden Creek Falls.. That means that children now in the cradle when they are in the fourth grade at] offenses while on earth.” school beginn: SAT TIS ATE ested in few ple have begun beautifying their yards and homes by setting out potted blooming plants and other flowering shrubs there has*been an apparent persistent effort on the part of some- one to defeat that purpose. Whether it is the work of children or older Persons has not been learned, but whoever it may be certainly has lit- tle enough to do. money required in this country to im- Prove a place is a heavy drain and the sufficiently slow without interference of the sort mentioned, parent that the bloom or flower is not sufficient, but the entire plant is ruth- lessly uprooted and then thrown aside to wither and die. Prehend what possesses people of that turn of mind—who wantonly destroy the werk of another and especially when that work is not alone for the beautifying of the owners’ grounds, ee ee pe = Pa, Re =s = +» Casper Daily Cribune BLOKE The On a trip to Garden Creek Falls Dec- ‘Vandaliam I call’ it. ly sharpened tool of and just ing to get inter- wild flowers will see mighty close to Casper. MARY ALLISON. Queer Questions With Hidden Answers Look Vandalism Elsewhere If You Can't Answer Them, Among Other communites struggling to add the Want Ads. a touch of beauty to their surround- ings have met with similar experience to that of Casper home owners in the destruction of flowers and shrubbery. Lovell is one of them and the Chron- icle of that thriving city complains in no uncertain tones when it says: tion to catch ifsects for food? ‘What is a drupe? What causes dsy rot in wood? What is a dub? “For the past few weeks, since peo- used? What is the smallest of all coins. What is a fathead? ermine and the polecat? What is a fid? The time and Progress of that development is “In many instances it is very ap- “WE PAY THE L088” Pelton & Hemry ineatane and Bonds Lines Room 24, Townsend Building ‘We cannot com- A wonderfully efficient spring sus- pension gives the good Maxwell a degree of riding comfort rarely if ever found in cars of its size and weight. Cord tires, non-skid front and rear; disc wtee] wheela, demountable 3 Sivan cece es surest ng tpetage 4 windshield. Prices F. O. B. Dewvits revenue tar to be addeds ‘Touring Car, $885; Roadeter, $885; Coupe, $1385; Sedan, $1485 C. E. Kennedy Motor Co. 230 West Second Street Phone 909 =. but a general addition for the attract- portion of it hotter than another, we hope the vandals who steal and de- stroy flowers will be consigned to the were roady the coffee was made and hottest part of that nether region, have @ cactus plant for a chair upon which to sit down a thorn bush for a & bed upon which to repose, and that Just to: make a rough stone fireplace,” | ¢ his satanic majesty has an especial- torture with which to remind them daily of their What plant exudes a sticky secre When was the ducking stool last ‘What crustacean swins on its back? ‘What animal is related to both the here’s a nice place by this stream.” Ned looked at his watch. “It's only kept. insisted | Ned. he removed his pack and began ready. The boys had been on hike since early morning, and food with them. So stones in place fireplace. “Don't bother with that—Make an Injun fire,” said Ned. “But we've got to get our dinner,” g . And then came a cold night and and said he was sure he would just an icicle in the morning. ‘Ted, the inventor, suddenly to dig @ hole in the middie of tent. “You can’t kindle a fire with green| wood, Ned,’ said Ted, puzzled at) what he saw. Ned laughed but said nothing. Then he scraped out 2 narrow little hollow Place in the sofl os shown at A in fig-) ure 1. His next move was to stick his/ green hardwood sticks around this| like the frame of an Indian tepee as shown by 1, 2, 3, 4,and 5 in Figure 2. “Get some kindlings and soft and| hard wood,” he ordered and Ted got them together. Ned piled them into the little hollow in the soil under the green twigs until the place was full. He lighted this. The green twigs held the soft wood together and it was only a couple of minutes before there was a hot little fire. They broiled some trout ona green "twig as shown in Figure 3 and by the time these were broiled the green twigs were burned down and there was a good bed of coals in the little ‘hollow—because Ned had added dry| hard sticks. He placed the coffee pot wer these and it fitted as the dotted ine F in Figure 1 shows. A couple of potatoes were thrust into the coals at each end and by the time the boys actions when he began to “i he grinned and watched. “I know!" shouted Ned. going to dig down to the middle of earth where everything is all hot, get some heat!" “Something Ike that,” said as he finished the hole and caref |measured the diameter with a Then he went out fo the camp fire them into this hole. Then he put the potatoes baked. “Why we got dinner all cooked and ready almost as quick as it would take * he said. Figure 5 shows how he did it. said the admiring Ted. But why dolana B is the ground line. C is you call-it an Injun fire?’ “I don't know except that Indians used that to make smoke signals and campers how handy it ‘was.’? which Ted filled with live coais. and F are sticks he stuck under D is the bucket. “Uncle Ben taught me a lot about] within ten minutes their tent \Sifferent camp fires,” said Ned and jthat night he showed Ted how to ‘make a “wheel fire” or one that will|the next morning. ‘urn a long time. After the fire is} “1t' Started, logs are used and placed about tent,” like spokes of a wheel as shown in| Arrow! Figure 4. By pushing each log up as! fortably. fheads."") ‘Tomorrow- ips. Round Trip on Steamer alone $50.00 and up. Bermuda Is Cool in Summer Average Summer Temperature 77 Modern Hotels—All Outdoor Sports. Sailing, Bathing, Golf, Tennis, Riding, Driving, Cycling, Fishing, Dancing, etc. Sailings via Palatial Twin-Screw Furness Bermuda Line 34 Whitehall St., N. Y. Or any Tourist’ Agent & (OTEL, Bermuda Renovated and Refurnished. Swimming. Pool. Bookings WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1927 “Time to cat!" declared Ted, “And jit burns away, @ small fre ts easily “It's great to dry clothes as it wii) burn all day with just a little atten. yy,|tion about once an hour,” explainei . . . e boys had left thelr main camp and gone to another ‘sland for a few days ‘ishing, using a small tent. They haa traveled light and tu:en but one blanket each. Ned began to shiver Ned was used to his cousin's queer “You're |bucket they had brought with them. gathered up ail the coals and dumped tin bucket bottom up over the hole. “That fire ouside was no good to hole, just smaller than the bucket, bucket so as not to smother the coals. as warm as toast and they slept com. It was still slightly warm the only safe way to heat a agreed Ned. (Friday—“Indian Finest Ber- the be the the and Ted fully tia and the A the the was A Sun Visor that protects your eyes is just what you have been looking for. We have them and we know they will please you. 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