Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1922, Page 6

PAGE SIX fhe Casper Daily Cribune THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1922. ARM €be Casper Dailp Cribune Iswued every evening except Sund«y at Casper, Covnty, Wyo. Publicstion Offices, Tribune Building. esse, 16 apt 16 ‘Ail Departments German mark today ir: worth one-fifth of a cent or 1-120 gf what it was worth before the war. In or- * der to be making the equivalent of his per-war wage a German working man who received 10 marks a day before the war must now receive 1,200 KENDRICK THE MYSTIFIER j Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second clase matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANWAY . Presidect and Editor HAN Business Manager Associate Editer . City Editor ing . EV THOMAS D. Advertising Representatives. 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Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. «Qi European and American Wages 'UROPERAN wage levels have always been much this showing of economy by the Republican admin- lower than those in the United States. That] !stration. is why hundreds of thousands of Eurepeans have emigrated to this country. They not only have been able to obtain far better wages than they were paid in their home countries but they could. buy more for a dollar in this country than they could for its equivalent in Europe. American wages have been maintained at their high level for the last 50 years solely hecauge of an American protective tariff system which prevented the inpouring of goods made abroad by cheaply paid labor, Quite naturally had this country per- mitted such goods to come into unrestrained com> petition with American made goods there would have been but two possible results—either our man- ufactories would have been put out of business al together or they would have been compelled to re- duce their wage levels to the level of Buropean wages. In pre-war days German labor was probably the best paid of any labor in Europe, and yet in 1914 before the outbreak of the European war, when German industry was at the height of its prosper- ity and production, the average German wage was but 60 per cent of the average wages in America. The difference between the wage averages of other Huropean countries and this gountry was even The world war made an economte wreck of En- rope. It left every European nation tremendously burdened with debts far in excess of anything ever before known in human history. It left Buropean industry ruined. It left the industrial workers in Under such conditions working men do not question the hours they are asked to labor, neither do they object to whatever wages are offered them. The natural result is that Duropean wage levels are lower today proportionately than at any time within the last half century, while on the other hand working hours are longer and European work- ing conditions are more exacting. There is no deny- ing these fgcts. All reports obtained from Europe agree the difference between wage levels in this country and wage levels in Europe is greater to- day than at any time within the life time of those now living. The average wage in eight leading industries in 1914, prior to the outbreak of the war, was 13 cents an hour expressed in terms of American money. These eight trades were building trades, chemicals, metals, rubber, shoe, soap and wood in- dustries and ~ae producers of food stuffs. In De cember, 1921, the average hourly wages in these same trades, expressed in terms of American money were 3.5 cents an hour or about one-fourth of what they were in 1914. On the other hand, wages in this country in 1921 were much higher than they were in 1914, What is true of Germany is true of other Eu- ropean countries in varying degrees. The average wages paid in four of the leading industries in (zecho-Sloyakia is 70 cents a day expressed in terms of American money. These industries are the shoe industry, smelting industry, iron imdus- try and cabinet making industry. The average wage of all the workers in the fron, and steel industries in France, according to thel latest information obtainable in this country by the department of commerce and department of la- bor is $1.17 a day. The average wage of all work- ers in five typical industries in France in 1921 was $1.82 a day. The highest wage paid in France at present is that paid in the glove industry: where the average is $1.72 a day. The latest available statistics from Italy slow that in 1921 the average wage of all workers en- gaged in four of the leading industries in that coun- try was $1.05 a day. These industries were iron and steel, chemical, textile and leather. The following quotation is taken from a report to the department of commerce: “Roughly speaking, two yen is an-average daily wage for male labor in an.” Expressed in terms of American money, this is an equivalent of 96 cents. The latest available data from China shows the average wage to Chinese laborers in seven leading industries is 31.5 cents a day. Free traders, international bankers, importers and others attempt to befuddle the public by quot- ing wages of European workers before the war and their wages now, expressed in terms of European currnecy. On the face of it, this shows a tremend- ous increase in wages, but the deception in these statement nd it is a deception made knowingly and with the purpose of deceiving is that European currencies have depreciated in value far more rap. idly than European wages paid in those currencies have increased. In other words, a German mark before the Euro- pean war was worth 24 cents. If a German work- ++-$7.80|-els in Europe and the wage level in this country, : red these ‘65| American products out of the market in this coun- 6) try. By driving ‘the American made product out $7.80 of the American market the American 3.90] Would be driven out of a job. There are no two © must be paid tn advance and the| @ profit if the cost of it due to his being better not insure delivery after subscrip-| than the European laborer, marks a day or 120 times as many marks as he re- ceived in pre-war days. While the currencies of Italy, France and other European nations have not depreciated as much as that of Germany, their de- preciation has been very great while the wages have not increased proportionately. > r { All Europe is doomed to be on the starvation wage basis for years to come. There is no other possible alternative. All articles manufactured products raised in Europe for the next gen- eration are going to be produced at a cost which it is impossible for American labor to ineet. Unlest American labor is protected from these cheap prod- ducts by the erection of a tariff high enovgh to equal the difference between depreciated wage lev- cheaply made products are going to drive laborer ways about this. The American working man can- not have a job unless what he produces is sold at is so high that Euro- pean goods undersell it. The only preventive of this is a tariff that will bring the cost of imported goods up to the cost of goods made at home. The Truth and the Saving yee PUBLIC DEBT has been reduced $1,014,000.- 000 since the incoming of the-Republican admin- istration March 4, 1921. The appropriations made by this congress for the fiscal year just beginning are $320,000,000 less than the appropriations made for the last fiscal year. Democratic leaders and papers are pochpoohing They allege that it is not much of a showing. Undoubtedly from a Democratic stand point the reduction of the public debt by a billion dollars and the reduction of the annual appropri. tions by $320,000,000 is a trifling matter. The Demo- cratic party has been accustomed to dealing with large sums. The Democratic administration under Wilson ex- pended: $1,051,511,998 for aeroplanes and received not a single fighting plane before the armistice. The reduction made in the public debt last year by the Republican party did not equal the amount of money the Democratic administration actually threw away in its scandalous aeroplane program. The reduction of $1,000,000,000 in the public debt is only one-third of the amount of money which the Democratic administration spent in the ordnance department under Mr. Baker and for which it re- ceived absolutely nothing. The reduction of. a bil- lion dollars in the public debt is $300,000,000 less than the Democratic administration illegally loan- ed to foreign countries without security after the armistice was signed and the war was over. The reduction of the public debt by $1,000,000,000 is oniy one-third of the amount of money the McAdoo railroad administration sank. ’ Of the $24,000,000,000 the Wilson adminfstration expended during the war period the records show that $14,800,000,000 if it was squaundered without the people of the country, the army and navy, the soldiers fighting abroad or the government itself obtaining anything whatever in return. This $15,- 000,000,000 of waste is now included in the $22,000,- 000,000 of the public indebtedness which the Repub- paid | | yy 525 7 of, tion of former Budget Director Dawes. They were so successful in securing co-operation of the execu- tive officials and resulted in such tremendous sav- ings that the prictice wiJl be continued at least during the dife time of Republican control of the government: President Harding took occasion to 5)introduce to the administrative officials present the new Budget Director, General Lord, and in- formed them that General Lord would have the ruption. It is no wonder, then that the Democratic lead- ers having squandered $15,000,000,000 without any- thing to show for it are not impressed by the say- ing of so small an amount as a billion dollars, The spendthrift and wastrel are never impressed with economy. Those who‘throw money to the birds al- ways poohpooh those who practice saving. For the same reason, Democratic leaders are not impressed with $320,000,000 reduction in appropria- tions by this Republican congress. That sum of money during the Wilson regime of criminal waste was merely small change. The Democratic. administration spent $316,000,- 000 for poison gas and powder and received no ggs and no powder. It spent $360,475,000 for artillery} and not a gun ever reached the firing line. It ex- pended $355,917,000 for small shells and obtained only 6,000. It expended $230,780,000 for larger sells, none of which ever reached the firing line. All told, it expended $828,000,000 on ammunition, none of which was ever delivered before the armistice. “It expended $176,000,000 on nitrate plants, coke ovens and picric acid plants and received no ni- trates, no product of the coke ovens and no picrie acid. It e ded $128,000,000 for terminals. that were, never used. It expended $1,200,000,000 in south- ern states for army sites, 40*per cent, or $480,000,- 000, of which was criminally squandered. It bought 41,000,000 pairs of shoes and 149,000,000 bread cans for only 3,500,000 men. It bought 611,000 sets of hfrness for 391,000 animals. It bought 945,000 sad- dles for 86,000°cavalry horses. It had at no time as many as 400,000 horses and mules of all kinds and for these it bought 2,850,000 haiters (seven apiece) ; 1,637,000 horse brushes (four apiece) ; 2,000,000 nose bags (five apiece). It bought 712,000 sets of spur straps, 36 sets for each officer entitled to wear spurs. It bought two branding irons for every horse and mule it had in service and ordered them to be made of expensive copper. Small wonder then, in view of the above record of criminal waste, that Democratic leaders and Democratic papers sneer at the Republican con- gress which saves $320,000,000 in one year. Harding Enforces Economy oT: SAY FRANKLY to you I will not send to the congress estimates exceeding the probable re- ceipts of the government, and I must warn you un- less you use your pruning knives the executive will be compelled to cut deeply the estimates presented. “Our country is one of the few in the world which is now paying its way as it goes and I must regard with disfavor any tendency to interfera with this condition or to increase taxes.” In these words President Harding, addressing a meeting of all of the executive officials of the de- partments and bureaus in Washington, warned them that economy must be practiced during the coming fiscal year as strictly as it has been during the last fiscal year. The meeting was the third of its kind in the history of the United States: The two others were held during the last fiscal year. Those present embraced the cabinct officers, their assist- ants, chief clerks,, bureau heads, executives of all independent commissions and other administrative officers of the government who haye to do in any capacity with the expenditure of public funds and ing man received 10 marks a day he was receiving the equivalent of $240 in American money, The the preparation of estimates of public expenditures. The first two meetings were called at the sugges- ing will never go into training at all. same unqualified support of the president that Gen- eral Dawes had. . a President Harding recalled that at the first meet- ing called by General Dawes last summer it was predicted the fiscal year would close with a deficit of ‘approximately $24,000,000. Instead, it closed with a surplus of $313,000.000, The president attributed this to the hearty and intelligent co-operation of the administrative officials with the budget bu- reau and he impressed upon them the absolute nec- essity of a continuation of such co-operation in be- half of rigid economy throughout the coming fiscal year. He said— “We must here resolve through our efforts that expenses will be kept within incomes. . There must be the utmost economy. There have been establish- eé those business principles and procedures which are capable of bringing further economy during the current ‘year and I look to the government’s execu- tives for still closer scrutiny of their activities and attendant expenditures. If in your jurisdiction you find activities and expenditures that can be curtailed or eliminated I admonish you to do it. If the laws do not leave it within your power to do this, submit it to the president for recommendation. of congressional action. The business head of the government does not and cannot contemplate or ex- pect that expenditures this year will exceed in- come. * * * Every one of you needs to realize that) your services belong to the government as a whole and not to a subordinate part of it to which you happen to be attached. 3 * * * In a way it may sound prosaic and some- times a little wearying to be talking about econ- omy, but you are engaged in the-most ithportant work that can be pursued for your government. No less than a score of citizens of foreign govern- ments have said to me ‘We are watching your work of reducing your expenditures in order to apply the system to our country’ but more impor‘ant than this is the effect it is having in setting an example to the states and municipalities. There is no men- ace in America equal to the mounting of state, coun- ty and, municipal expenditures undertaken without sense of financial responsibility. This~ practice leaves us in g state of no one knowing whither we are going in expenditures.” 00T FOR LITTLE, FRIENDLY= FOLKS) WHO LIKE ADVENTURES MERRY MAKINGS Built for You by Elsinore Crowell “Oh, I wish I was an artist-person.”jon tif tree shapes. She cut one of sighed Betty, looking at the pictures in her new story book. “It must be such fun to build worlds on paper!” “Then why don't you Go it?” said the Paint Box Pal. t I can't” said Betty. it you can’ laughed the Paint “Come on, I'll show you So with the Understanding Scissors Brush all helping, this is what h jshowed her. First he took pleces of white paper which would color well, All paper does not color well, £0 he experimented until he found some that would. Then he cut many little tree shapes, exactly like the one shown in Fig. 1 which you may use for a pat- tern, and many sun ang moon shapes like the one shown in Fig. 2, After that they began to build their pictures. They were built from the © shapes, but when they were fin- ished they were all quite different. Fig. 3 was a sunny, springtime pic- ture. First Betty drew the Ines for the hill and the road. Then she’pasted determine the natural aptitude and musical talent of students. Many of these are now being practically ep- piled at the public schools in Evans- ton. Among them are instruments for measuring nerve reactions to discover the degree of susceptibility to pitch of sound, others for testing precision, and still others for testing free and PICTURE BUILDING DAY, BRING YOUR BRUSH AND COME) « LET'S PLAY, and the Polite Pencil and the Busy; the trees in two and put it peeking over the hill. Then she marked out little flower shapes, as in Fig. 4, and scattered “them over the hill. After this she pasted her sun in the sky. and then she was ready to color. The sky was a bright, light blue, the sun @ merry yellow, as all healthy spring suns should be. The roadway was bright yellow too, and the hills a bright, Nght green. The trees were a darker green, and the flowers were every color left in the paint box. Then she mado the tree trunks blue-gray and drow blue-gray outlines around the hills. flowers and trees. It almost smelled of spring. Fig. 5 was a winter picture and very easy to make. The hill was left white, the sky was dark blue, the tree black and the moon orange. “It makes my nose feel cold!” laughed Betty. And then she “framed” her pictures in strips of dark paper and hung them in mother’s room. Tomorrow—Adventure Trails: “A Gem Collection.” controlled rhythm)—Popular Mechan- ics, ———. __ NOTICE. I wif not be responsible for any bills for. Mrs. Anna Hylton. PAT HYLTON, ate Salt Creek. “Meet _me at the Smokchouse.” GIFT It aw BREAKFAST FE Fruit Jar and Save Money No Justification for Criticism Ninety-nine per cent of the criti- cism which is belng voiced here and there against the relief agencles of the Veterans’ bureau is wholly unjustified. The major portion of it emanates from disgruntled individuals who refuse to comply with the reasonable regula tions of the veterans’ bureau or who have found it difficult, 1¢ not tmposst- ble, to “work” the bureau. The rest of the criticism comes from those who are misinformed or from partisan ene- mies of the administration who seek to play politics and arouse a spirit of, resentment and hostility against every: activity of the administration. Proof of the unfairness of the crit!- cism which hes been launched against the rehabilitation and vocational work of the bureau is furnished by data of the bureau's work up to April 1, 1922. Upon that date this, division of the veterans’ bureau has completed the rehabilitation of 16,485 vocationat’ students. This compares with 5,793, the number rehabilitated up to August 15, 1921, when the veterans’ bureau took over the work. Before the pass- age of the Sweet act, the rehabilita- tion work was under the control of the federal board for vocational -edu- cation, and ‘the 5.793. rehabilitated cases covers the entire period between January, 1919 and August, 1921, a to- tal of 31 months. In contrast to this is a record of 10,692 cages rehabill- tated in the seven and one-half months that the division has been consoll- dated with the veterans’ bureau. The total number of disabled vet- erans in training on April 1, was 130,- 738. In addition, 68,646 applicants who have been declared eligible have deferred their training. 38,498 of these deferred cases in what fs known as Section 2 training, that is, those who receive maintenance and support pay in addition to their tuition and books, while 20,148 are in section 3 training, that is, training which af- fords tuiton and books but not main- tenance support pay. It is expected that a great majority of these 20,149 who have deferred their section 8 train- 4 ‘There are at present 63,390 voca-|also for measuring musical talent and tional training cases pending eligibili-| classifying it. ty, that is, their eligbility for train- Ing has not yet been established; 45,- 824 veterans whose eligibility for training has been established are now in process of induction into training 9,488 of these are in section 2 train- ing and 36,335 are in section 8 train- ing. These statistics compiled by the veterans’ bureau also show that 180,- 199 applications for vocattonal-train- ing have been dropped after investiga- tion and 20,938 yoeational students have interrupted their training e‘ther through sickness or inability to carry on through other causes. Agriculture leads the employment objectives of these vocational students, having ‘been elected by 14,576 students. 1,228 veterans have already completed their. training in agricultute and are now, employed in agricultural work or engaged in conducting their own farms, 1,296 men are training as jew- elérs, 728 in plumbing, 475 in carpen- try, 1,078 in furniture construction, 11,420 as mechanics, 1,705 in dentis- try.and dental mechanics, 440 as phar- macists, 6,129 as electricians, 234 as foresters, 389 as metal workers and 2,924¢as shoe and leather workers. These trades and occupations men- tioned are merely a small number of the hundreds of vocations which these men in training have chosen. Substantial increases in salaries have been made by the men who have completed training over tho salaries which they recefved prior to enlist- ment. Theso increases range as high as two and three thousand dollars above their pre-war wages, and the majority of veterans who have com- pleted their training average between three and four hundred dollars in- crease above their pre-war wage. abi aa eh Saket Ads Measuring Musical Talent Modestly but earnestly there .have been in progress at a few educational centers of this country during recent years most interesting efforts to de- Apart from the psychological ele- ment, an instrument for visibly regis- tering tonal vibrations, known as a tonoscope, has been under develop- ment for some 20 years, though it is only within the last few years that it has been practically applied. This instrument indicates the exact number of vibrations a second of any tone tested by it, and as, of course, the number of vibrations of all tones is known the instrument determines whether the pitch. is correct. It con- sists of a perfectly balanced drum that rotates horizontalty, making ex- actly one revolution a second. The white face of the drum fs covere4 with black dots arranged in rows, which, in connection with a scale, enabie the cperator to read the number of vibra. tions a second mads ty a sma!l gas flame in front of the drum, which s| caused to vibrate in accordance with the tone of a voice or instrument con- ducted to it through a speaking tube. Other instruments have also been eveloped for making various tests tt Queer Questions With Hidden Answers If You Can't “Answer Them, Look Among the Want Ads. What state has no recognized na- tional guard? In how many congresses have there been more. Democrats than Republi- cans? Who was the first justice of the su- Preme court? 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The method is based large- ly on psychology, and various instru- ments have been devised not only for making tests of nerve reaction but Caesar named it after him? Is the moon as dig as Europe in| area? When were the first written caien dars made? M. J. FRANTZ The Frantz Shop ®