Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1922, Page 2

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Associated Press is exclusively entitied te the lication of all news credited in this paper anc cal news published herein. Kick if Yen Don’t Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and § o'clock p. m. ff you fail to revetve your Tribune. A paper will be de- ivered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misees you. <- Striking Against the People AKING OF KATES, sett}iug of wage differences and even grouping railroad lines is made a function of the federal government under the Transportation Act of 1920, known as the Esch Cummins act. A strike against the government in a Democracy is, by every line of reasoning, a strike against the public and its paramount interests. Railway strikes now are directly against the orders or findings of the government represented by the Rairoad Labor Board. They are strikes against conditions for which the corporations are not responsible and which they are hepless to correct. A strike of railway employes, successful or un- suecessful, must be paid for by the public, which bears all the expense and all the inconvenience. These are the fundamentals underlying the strike of certain classes of railway employes now in prog: ress. The Railread Labor Board, a tal agency on which the public has equal representa tion with the railroads and the employes, is em- powered by the Transportation Act to hear and decide disputes between the railrouds and their employes.over wage scales and working conditions. In this particular it determines “just and reason- able” wages for the various classes of employes in the light of existing conditions. This board spent months in hearing from man agers of railroads and employes of railroads as to what would constitute “just and reasonable” wages under conditions at present governing operationfof transportation lines. : Decisions were handed down by the board cutting the rates of pay of several classes of employes var- jous amounts. These decisions have been signed by all the public’s representatives on the board. "It is clear that any strike action taken must be against rulings made by a governmental agency and concurred in by representatives o fthe public. The strike is called against the wage reduction orders of the labor board. The government, representing the public decreed, after a thorough investigation, that the wages of a few classes of railway employes should be slight- ly reduced because of the decrease in the cost of living and in the wages paid for comparable work in: other, industries. The leaders of the strike movement called for a vate to reject the governments rulings and to strike in protest. This all having been accomplished the action comes against the public, the innocent by- stander in the case. 3 eR eee! Pe: ot Objections Not Well Founded PPONENTS of the ship subsidy bill point out as one of their major objections to that measure the clause which stipulates that the funds—ten per cent of the customs receipts, all of the port charges and postal receipts “are hereby permanently appropri- ated.” The Democrats declare that this means “that the subsidy will be a continuing grant of gov- ernment funds” or as some of them express it, “a subsidy in perpetuity.” A subsidy in perpetuity is a large order, but that a “continuing grant” is proposed is probable and reasonable. It would be a fine kettle of fish if con- gress had to fight over once a year the question of devoting ten per cent of the customs duties etc., to the ship subsidy fumd. The Republicans have had experience with the Democrats in that par-cu Jar notably the tariff board provided for in the Payne-Aldrich law. About $250,000 was set aside for that organization yearly, and the second year of its existence witnessed the Fitzgerald filibuster in the house against the appropriation, brought on in the closing days of the short session of congress. The result was that the board went out of existence after being villified and condemned by every Demo- erat in congress. Two years after those same Demo- crats heard the crack of the Wilson whip and voted into existence the tariff commission, which was quickly organized by the president on the basis of three Wilson Democrats and two Wilsonians. The permanent appropriation of customs duties to the ship subsidy fund a safe and sane idea. Instead of the total receipts from tariff, etc., being covered into the treasury and then an annual squabie to break off ten per cent of the receipts to aid the ship bh ss, the bill proposes that this ten fund. Moreover, the protectiv- tariff bill and the ship subsidy bill are intimately associated with eac hother. One is for the purpose of protecting manufacturing and farming industries, the other is to protect the shipping industry. It is desired to round ont the system and remedy the condition de scribed by James G. Blaine in 1890, when he said: “Shipping is the one industry which the United States has refused to protect,” whereby he ex Pressed in a phrase the anemaly of British protec- tion to ships, although then a free trade nation, and of American indifference to the shipping industry, although a protective nation. The country has had trouble enough since 1909 becanse of its fluctuating tariff policy, which has demoralized business to the point of driving many factories out of the country. The necessity of set- tling down to something resembling a permanent tariff policy is .so well recognized that the south itwelf has grown to appreciate it and is coming into the protective fold. Few capitalists could be found to take up shipping enterprises if they knew that the subsidy fund would have to be fought over every year. The fact that this queston forms the prize objection of the Democrats to the ship sub- sidy bll indicates the weakness of their stand. BEEF a Challenge to Educators ‘©PRONOUNCEMENTS upon education, with whica the air has recently been filled,” notes the New York Post, the most notable is the one made by a man who is not a member of the teach- ing profession. In the details upon which he touch- ed, as well as in his general contentions, what Sec- retary Hughes said in the paper read at Boston be- fore the National Education association is worthy of the most serious attention. Everyone agrees that the American ideal in education, as in other mat- ters, is equality of opportunity, but Mr. Hughes was concerned to know what this inspring phrase means. Lately it has been employéd as if it meant chiefly opportunity for vocational training. Such opportunity, said Mr. Hughes, is included in its scope, but its full meaning is nuthing less than that “of giving play to talent and aspiration and to the development of mental and spiritual powers.” In these words he recalled educators from excessive emphasis upon one part of their task to a view of the entire job. If education needs anything more than another just now, it is a sense of proportion. Mr. Hughes’ address shonld do much to give it a keen realization of this need. “Another timely word dropped by Mr. Hughes was ‘discipline.’ Here again, without naming the quality, he pleaded for a sense of proportion, argu- ing that while it is important to make study inter- esting and to recognize individual gifts, “the pri- mary lesson for the citizens of democracy is self- control.” In stressing this point he struck out an epigram that statesmen no less than educators would do well to remember. ‘The sentimentalists,’ he observed, ‘are just as dangerous as the mater- ialists.” Mr. Hughes’ own course in office gives him the right to make this declaration, a declaration that comes at a moment when some educators of high standing are in danger of forgetting that there is a sdbstitute for fundamentals. Intentionally or unintertionally, these men and women are respon- sible fo: the impression that after all there is a royal road to learning. Mr. Hughes administers a corrective to this superficial doctrine that it is to be hoped will reach into every corner of our edu- cational world.” SE ia : : : Slight Margin of Profit UBLIC UTILITIES never make the profit ered- ited to them by the public. Oftentimes have hard scratching to show a profit at all. For instance one of the large transportation companies carrying in: terurban traffic across San Francisco bay, made last year a net profit of one-half mill per passenger out of the eighteen cent fare charged. z In other words, after paying operating expenses, inelnding wages, depreciation and bond interest, the company had to haul twenty people in order to make one cent which might be applied toward div- idends. On the package of gum which it selis from the news stands of its ferry boats, it secures as much profit as it docs from transporting fifty people from four to ten miles by rail and water. Fety industries operate on as narrow a margin of profit as do public utilities. Few industries pay as great a percentage of their gross earnings for la- bor and taxes, as do public utilities. Few industries in order to recure business, do the pioneering work which falls to the lot of the public utilities. No industry requires more efficient management inorder to earn dividends than do public utilities whose earnings are limited by law and whose sue- cess or failure rests on the shoulders of the man- agement. steer What Roosevelt Said |OLCNEL ROOSEVELT in his lifetime had deal- / ings with railway controversies and in the pres- ent situation it is well to turn back and quote from his expressed views: Seay “It must be a cardinal principle in dealing with honestly built and wisely managed railways that the investor, the shareholder, is just as much en- titled to protection as is the wage-worker, the ship- per, or the representatives of the general public. Unless the investor finds that he is to get a fair return on his money, he will not invest, and in such case not only will no new railways be built but ex- isting railways will not be able to repair the waste the wear and tear to which they are subject, and will not be able to make needed improvements. “The public can be well served, and the wage- workers can be well paid, only if the railway is successful, that is, if there is such certainty of rea- sonable dividends as to make investors content, and therefore willing and desirous to invest in further developments and enterprises. “Another way to destroy is to impose burdens, however necessary and proper, without facing the fact that some one must pay for the burdens, and that if the investor cannot pay for them and at the same time get a reasonable return on his in- yestment, then either the business will close or the public must share the burden with the investor.” Wilson Problems eee eaawe a While speaking of the scrambled and chaotic mess of problems in- herited from the late lamented Wood- row Wilson administration, Represent- ative Mondell said on the floor of the that awful burden house. it, because we went along and agreed | flags? “The Lord only knows when we|to the building of a great fle In} “Are you ready to dothat? We shall be rid of, when we shall get out}my opinion under another manage-| could try to sell it to Americans to from under the shadow of the awful problems laid upon us during the war and under the administration of Wood- Tow Wilson. I do not say that it was not imp. we sbould bend the ener, he nation toward e of ‘ships that we ht might be essen 5 across the seas less money in with it? (Mr. Garner) says sidy bill is ‘I do know t we spent $3,500, 000,000 of the people's good money know—and I say it with regret—that it was spent in the most wasteful way that public money ever was spent. Under your administration you laid ple, and we had our responsibility in ment than that of the Democratic Party as then constituted and offi- cered we would have spent very much the building. would have checked sooner than was done. spent the $3,500,000.000. fleet, and what are we going to do The gentleman from Texas a propositon private interests. The gentleman knows that it is. not an accurate or fair statement. The question before the American peopie is, “What are we going to do with this great fleet that cost us $3,500,000,0007 Shall we fell it to foreigners, taking what price we can get, to be sailed under foreign the fleet, and I do of cost on the peo- sail under our flag, with all the handi- caps that our laws and wage rates place on shipping, and we would not get far, because no one can afford to organize flects unless we make it pos. sible to operate them. “In trying to work out the problems of what shall be done to pres¢rve and We that building, But the nation We have the Che Casper Dailp Cribune ‘ MOVING PICTURE OF regu) ‘They were the Daddy tade from scraps of paper, bits peanuts and giggles. LITTLE BUNS CAN bunny home, she turned a cart wheel with joy—and Betty being a 1922 lit- tle girl, could turn very fine cart- wheels. And no wonder that the Friendly Paste Pot giggled! When you make these bunnies you'll giggle too, or you had better see the doctor at once. For those new bunnies hopped out of a Peanut bag! First they were nothing but piain, fat little peannts, as shown in Figure 3. Then, before a Gium, Green Grass- hopper Could Twitch His Eyebrows, they had grown paper ears, and paper eyes and cotton batting tails and were sitting upon tiher hindermosts, as who are responsibie for the problem, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gar- ner) characterizes the effort as a pur- Pose to give great privileges to private individuals. We propose to work out the problem that was bequeathed to us, and to work it out to the best of our ability; and if you gntlemen had any sense of responsibility touching the problem your party has placed upon the American people you would try to assist in the working out of that problem.” Divorce Statistics ‘We hear every day warnings being enlarge the American merchant ma- that the ship sub-|rine instead of geting any assistance to subsidize Juttered against our enormously in- creasing divorce rate by prominent public men and women of every de- » from the representatives of the party nomination and sect. Are such ex BE. Next they made the bunny home. .First they took a strip of stiff peper, about. 11 inches long and 3% inches deep. The Understanding Scissors cut out the top umevenly as if it were grass, and the Busy Brush painted it all green, dotted with dower shapes of eyery color, Then they cut a door- way, as shown in Figure 1, and pasted it together in back, and there stood a regular Bunny Castile, as shown in Figure 2. And unless I'm much mis- taken, you're already running after some peanuts. ‘Tomorrow—Adventure Trails “Horny pressions of alarm impelled by casual or exceptional conditions? Most em- phatically I say that they are fully justified by the conditions prevalent in our land today. Nearly everyone who has given the divorce problem the slightest study admits that it in| one which must be solved, and that! promptly. We must either destroy! divorce, or it will destroy us. | In the United States divorce is! spreading with alarming rapidity. It has permeated every walk of life and) is prevalent among every class of! people. The total number of divorces | in 1867 was 9,937, or 27 per 100,000] population. Forty years later, in 1906, there were 72,062 divorces, or 86 per 100,000 population. Fifty years later, in’ 1916, there were 112.036 divorces, or 112 per 100,000 population. Thus in actual numbers there were more than | JOHN Yt ow 4 FOR GOVERNOR 11 times as many divorces granted in 1916 as in 1867, or, allowing for the increased population, divorce had in- creased 415 per cent. To put it in another way, in 1867 there was one divorcee ‘for every 3,666 people, while in 1916 there was one for every 895 people. A comparirnn of our divorce statia- ties with those of Japan shows that In Japan the number decreased from 282 per 100,000 to 100, nearly 200 per cent, in the last 30 years, whereas in the United States the number in- creased in 50 years from 27 to 112 per 100,000, or more than 400 pes cent. This is certainly a very favorable comparison to Japan and one of. which the United States can well be ashamed. If divorces multiply at the same rate in the future as in the past—and there is every indication that they will increase faster—then before the middle of this century we will have annualy in the United Stat HAY’S CAREER ; “ps YG OWN W. HAY” CANDIDATE FOR NOMINATION divorces per 100,000 population, or one divorce for every five marriages. In 1887 there was one divorce for every 17 marriages; in 1906, one for every 12 marriages; in 1916, one for every nine marriages, and at the same rate we will have in 1946 the appalling figure of one divorce for every five marriages.—J. BE. Ransdell. en Making Live Campaign Hon. John W. Hay, who came to Lander with his family to remain for the celebration and the Episcopal con- vocation, has remained over for a few days to meet as many Fremont county people as possible in the interests of his candidacy for the Republican nom- ination for governor next month. While here he has had so many promises of enthusiastic support as to amaze him, and he is more than pleased with his very cordial recep- tion. Thursday noon he made a non. uy SS TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1922. No commonwealth is sounder than the judgment of the people who con- stitute its citizenry. ‘That judgment is exemplified by the neagure of wisdom with which the peaple select from among themselves these who are to direct the affairs of their commonwealth. Wyoming this year is given a rare Opportunity to demonstrate its wis- dom in this respect—it is not con- ctivable that the Republican voters, first, and the state's electorate, sec- ena, will misjudge the advantage to the public welfare which is to be founé in the candidacy for the gov- ernorship of a citizen of the charac. ter of John W. Hay of Fiock Springs. -~Lusk Herald. aS Dies A dove as white as the driven snow To my window ledge came day by da: It t me with appealing eyes ja I wondered what it had to say. Thm s subtle something bade me know, A divination gave me the clew, That the dove a loving mesage brought From the white and tender heart of you, —Clinton Scollard. Is Chinese money on the gold or silver standard? Between what cities does the Roose- velt highway run? In what position should a fainting Person be placed? Z When is an American citizen not al- lowed to quit being a citizen? ‘What is the most. costly building in New York? ‘When was the Edison gold medal first awarded? What is the highest price ever paid for a seat on the New York stock ex- change? ‘What is the average depth of the ocean? About how many black persons are there in the world? Are there as many white persons lack persons in the world Doctor at 82 Finds Mothers Prefer - His Formula to New-Fangled Salts And Coal Tar Remedies for Babies 1 known to ublic since Batdwelt's Syrup Pepsin. stipalica, diliousness, : es, mental depression 1D laxatives, herbs and Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup P which is a combinat Egyptian Senna and oth laxative herbgwith pepsin. have bee of various purges, many of them dan: ous, and the medical prof $10,000 Worth of Judgment of 1892 vindicated by world’s * a simple vegetable compound for ‘So it to babes in arms—Now has largest sale in the world. aman is in the 83rd change sinos I left Medical College in nor since I placed on the the laxative prescrip- tion I had used in my practice, and the 92, as Dr. Then the treatment of con- head- ion, sour stomach ani other indispositions that result from constipation was entirely by means of simple Sepeuabie root! These are still the basis of my epsin ion of er mild Recently new medicines n bi it pee for omel, which is mercury, salts kinds, minerals, and coal tar. These’ are all drastic is warn the public against them. Bing, aay tar products will Seoress, the heurt; certain salts give rise to intestinal min; rupt Ppoisoi impaction and -upture of the ini es. If grown peo- In remembrance of my 83rd bi n remembrance of my Bard bihdy T have set aside the sum Lowest Storage In Casper Guaranteed Repair Work. Gas, Oils and Grease. _ Day and Night Service. 363 S. Ash—Phone 1891W Reasonab! TWO FINE OFFICE ROOMS RIALTO THEATER BUILDING Formerly Lyric Bldg. ? Webel Commercial Co. Rialto Building le Rent.