Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1922, Page 6

PAXE SIX Che Ca spec Dailp Cribune Sunday at Casper, Ni n Offic: Tribune Bulldt: Profiteering on Children BULLETIN issued by the women’s department *f the Democratic national committee for dis- tribution among Democratic women’s clubs the fol- lowing appears: “If you do not want to see the little children of | America deprived of th: toys which make them | happy then vote against th- hill (the pending tariff excep trona cat - 15 and 16 LEPHONES oe : ecting All Departments Ex © Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class) ma: November 22, 1916. ASSOCIATED PRE: and Eéitor | Dill) which makes the price o: them prohibitive.” cos Manager| A few weeks ago the Republican members of the Associate Editor | City Editor |Senate finance committee, with the permission and “"aAdvertising Manager! authority of Secretary of Treasury Mellon, made an "—— | investigation 0! imports for the purpose of ascer- Advertising ives. | Bldg., Chicago, | Globe Bidg., bune are on file tices and visitors | <ing & Prudde nicago are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier $7.80) 90 1 €5 05] By Mail ° $7.80 | > 3.90] {1 accepted for less period than | tions must be paid tn advance and sure delivery after su arrears t Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) of the Associated Press. Press exclusively entitled: to the 1¢ws credited in this paper and lished herein. Member als ews fF Kick if You Don't Get Your Tribune. 6 time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m. Tribune. A paper will be de enger. Make it your duty to ‘our carrier misses you. <e John Hay, Plain Business Man OHN W. HAY is in the city for a few days. He is here for no camouflaged purpose. He is a candidate for governor before the Republican pri maries next Tuesday. He is here to state his case| to you and he brings a message worth your atten- tion and careful consideration. It concerns the State and the public affairs of which you are a part and have an interest equal to all other of your neighbors. Along with many other Wyoming citizens, Jor Hay believes our state government costs too much money for operating expenses. That the overhead charges are too great for the amount of business done and that this overhead should in all fairness to the stockholders be cut in half, and the share- holders relieved of a great portion of the assess- ments levied against them every year in the form of taxes. Joun Hay is right. He is sound in the view he takes, just as he is in about all of his views re- specting financial and economical matters. His analyses and conclusions can be trusted. Therefore when he tells you that Wyoming state expenses can be cut a half to three-quarters of a million dollars a year without in the slightest im pairing efficiency and the proper conduct of the daily business he is telling you the fact. It simply means the getting of a dollar's worth for the dollar expended. It means not over-manning the job. It means the performing of the public work by those elected or appointed to do the work. It means that duties wil! not be chopped up and parcelled out to helpers who are falling over one another be- cause of their great number. It means that men will stand up and assume the responsibilities of their positions and not evade those. responsibili- ties by passing the buck to understrappers. Joun Hay will tell you and show you how all these matters that trouble the body politic can be cured. He is a plain, unassuming business man, brim- ming over with good sense and plain rational ideas. Meet him and talk to him. He will be glad to know you, and you will be the gainer by knowing him. ee eee eae Robert the Guardian HE WORLD has been repeatedly told by the Carey press, how jealously the valiant Rosert will guard the waters originating in Wyoming and prevent their use for irrigation purposes until ‘Wyoming has no further use for them. In our mind’s eye we picture Rosert away up at the head of the gulch where the water trickles from the snow bank, like Leonmas at Thermopylae, with his trusty broadsword, defending the waters of Wyo- ming against the horde of Nebraska and Colorado irrigationists. Yes, Rosert is a great defender of the riparian rights of Wyoming after somebody else has won the battle and the courts have rendered judgment in the matter. Rosert rushes down from the head of the gulch long enough to give three cheers for himself. Wyoming understands just how much Rosent had to do with adjudicating the water rights as between Wyoming and Colorado. The city of Casper also understands just how|j much he had to do with the proposed plan of re- claiming the lands-west of Casper. So does the Casper Chamber of Commerce and the members who journeyed to Washington to lay the plans before the government and urge surveys and investigations with success. Ropert has not always been so faithful as he would now have it appear in the matter of protect- ing and preserving water originating in Wyoming, or else his foot would not have slipped when he wrote to Goy. D. W. Davis of Idaho approving and agreeing to the diversion of the waters of the Fall river meadows through a reservoir built in Wryo- ming to lands to be irrigated in Idaho. Neither was Ronert guarding and conserving the waters of Wyoming when he wrote Mr. Jerome} Locxe at Livingston, Mont., approving of the use of Yellowstone lake in the park for reservoir purposes to ruin the natural beauty of Yellowstone park and furnish water to irrigate lands in Montana. Whatever may have been Rosent's view as to the use of these waters in Wyoming or their use at all for any purpose he had no business telling people outside the state they were welcome to the use of them. It will be for engineers to pass upon the feasibility of the use of water and it will be for the people to say what disposition they desire to make of water and whether they desire the public playgrounds marred or destroyed to enrich Montana and Idaho land speculators. taining what the imports were merchandisers who were buying thei’ ting American r goods abroad. Simultaneously with this investigation they pur-| chased at the stores of importers or retailers who| had purchased them from importers, the identical | articles which were imported. At the time of the} purchase of each article the*representatives of the Republican members of the senate finance committee obtained a receipt from the sales clerk showing the retail price paid. Comparing this with the invoice filed with the customhouse as to the prices the im- porters paid for these articles abroad, the Republi- can members of the senate finance committee were able to ascertain what profit was being made by the importing and merchandising interests of the United States which are now fighting the enactment of the protective tariff. The following is a list of eight different toys, to- gether with the foreign price to the importer, the tariff paid, the total landed cost to the importer and the price at which it was retailed. The present tariff is 35 per cent of the foreign value. pears’ Wild West Stencil,” hought in Ger- 1 cents; tariff, 1 cent; total Janded cost (which includes in addition to the origin: cost and tariff the freight, transportation, insurance, etc.), at the United States custom house, 13.9 cents; ar- ticle purchased from the Terminal Toy Shop, New York City, May, 1922, for 50 cents; percentage of profit over landed cost, 206 per cent. (2) “Jointed Doll,” bought in Germany for 37 cents; tariff, 13 cents; landed cost at United States custom house, 10; article purchased from F. A. hwartz, importers and merchandisers, New York City, May 31, 1922, for $4.50; perceniage of profit over landed cost, 309 per cent. (8) “Little Basket Worker,” bought in Germany for 3.3 cents; tariff, 1 1-10 cents; total landed cost at United States. custom house, 7.3 cents; article purchased from Gimbel Brothers, importers and merchandisers, New York City, June 6,.1922, for 50 cents; percentage of profit of retail price over land- ed cost, 585 per cent. (4 “Union Stone Building Blocks,” bought in Germany for 21.7 cents; tariff, 7.6 cents; article pur- chased from F. A. O. Schwarz, importers and mer- chandisers of toys, New York City, June 6, 1922, for $4; percentage of profit of retail price over landed cost, 1,042 per cent. (5) “Baby Carriage,” bought in Germany for 3 cents; tariff, 114 cents; total landed cost in United States, 7.5 cents; article purchased from Onion News company, New York City, May, 1922, for 50 cents; percentage of profit of retail price over landed cost, 566 per cent. (G6) “Jumping Dog,” bought in Germany for 9 cents; tariff, 3.1 cents; total landed cost at United States custom house, 21.1 cents; article purchased froai the Terminal Toy Shop, Pennsylvania station, New York City, June 2, 1922, for 85 cents; percent- age of profit of retail price over landed cost, 303 per cent. (7) “Rubber Ball,” *bought in Germany for 10.9 cents; tariff, 3.8 cents; total landed cost at United States custom house, 15.75 cents; article purchased from F. A. O. Schwarz, importers and merchandisers of toys, New York City, May 31, 1922, for 65 cents; percentage of profit of retail price over landed cost, 312 per cent. (8) “Schuco. Monkey,” bought in Germany for 19 cents; tariff, 6.6 cents; total landed cost at United States custom house, 30.6 cents; article pur- chased ‘from Githbel Brothers, importers and mer- chandisers, New York City, May 31, 1922, for $2; percentage of profit of retail price over landed cost, 553 per cent. From these official records it is easy to détermine what interests are charging little children extor- tionate prices for toys. It is the importing inter- ests, which are fighting the enactment of an Ameri- can protective tariff. The cost of toys abroad will be the same whether the Underwood law remains in force or whether a protective tariff is enacted. The cost cf transporta- tion, insurance, ete., would be the same, The only difference in the landed cost of toys under 2 pro- tective tariff would be whatever increase there 13 in the tariff. From the above official figures it is easily seen that the present tariff could be multiplied many times and the retailers could still sell at their pres- ent prices and reap enormous profits. The litera- ture of the woman’s department of the Democratic national committee to the effect that a protective tariff would’make the price of toys prohibitive and would deprive little children of America of their playthings is a flagrant piece of deception. It is issued not in the interest of little children but in the interest of importers who are assisting the Democratic party in this campaign to defeat, if possible, the enactment of a protective tariff, and failing in that to defeat the Republican party for putting a protective tariff on the books. It is litera- | changing intensities. Light Speaks Nature seems to have decreed that stupendous results in scientific re- search shall always emanate from the most meager beginnings. Also, that long struggles shall have been put forth before she consents to relinquish any of her secrets. Any inventor will testify to this from the facts of his own experiences. Many of these in- ventors or experimentere have been interested for some time in the won- Gerful properties of selenium. This substance, belonging to the sul- phur family, displays peculiar charac- teristics when exposed to light rays of Due to its mys- terious ‘ure, selenium has been made the basis of extensive experiments in the electrical field. Coils of wire, when treated with a compound of selenium and connected in an electrical circuit, can have their resistance raised or low- ered by exposing the treated portion of the coll to light. From this basic Principle, numerous adaptations of this astonishing material have arisen. Chief among these, in the past few years, has been the attempt to ottain @ synchronous rendition of sound and motion which would be applicable in the motion-picture field. In brief, their method of procedure is as follows: The vibrations of the voico are carried into a telephone transmitter and from there, as electri- cal impulses, they pass through a min- jature lamp connected in a battery cir- cult. The variations of the sound waves change the impulses in the bat- tery circuit, and cause a vibration of the tiny Nght. These vibrations, in- visible to the naked eye, are recorded be Casper Daily Cribune WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922. WITCHEGHAR™® AnD PIRA T FOR LITTLE, FRIENDLY= FOLKS) WHO. LIKE ADVENTURES . ADVENTURE TRAILS Blazed for You by Lewis Allen Browne exclaimed Ted of the things used for catching snakes aliv ‘Not dangerous if you are careful. 1 always had a box lined with wire screen to make sure Mr. Snake couldn't get out, and one end covered with glass. I tlink I'll take this fel ler home and see if I can get him to 30,000 acres are in production. It is believed that the ‘roduction of deep- sea shipping to t’.< neart of this valley will bring about the early cultivation of these other acres. ‘The route of the new canal, which is longer than the Welland canal, as long as the famous Manchester ship canal, and wider and deeper than either, will not follow th. course of the Sacramento river, which is maintained at a minimum dépth of seven feet for barge anc shallow-steamer traffic, but runs for two-thirds of its length south from the city of Sacramento, and then turns west of south, through Georgi- ana slough and into the wider and deeper San Joaquin river a short dis- tance above Antioch, incidentally, also will become an important deep-water port for the San Joaquin valley when the canal is completed. This route was selected as the best after an ex- haustive survey of several proposed routes. It will start at the southern part of Sacramento city, follow sub- stantially the line of the city drainage canal to Snodgrass slough, thence down the latter channel to a point near its juncture with the Mokelumne river. Thence it will cut through to Georgiana slough. At this point, the. natural channel will be abandoned, and a straight cut made into the deep- er waters of the San Joaquin river. The low water depth of the San Joa quin at the proposed point of entry is 31 feet, and all the way down to An- tioch this depth is maintained at a minimum, though much of the water is 60 to 80 feet deep. The depth off Antioch is 54 feet, but a short distance below this place the river divides into several channels which shoal, in places to a depth of only 18 feet.—Robert and beer loving people of north and western Europe do not come in great- er numbers; others see a deeper rea- son and look to economic conditions and labor troubles as the explana tion. Z Inasmuch as this country wants and needs the higher type of immt- grant as greatly as it desires to ex- clude the poorer and lower class, it seems to many thai an Impartial end thorough investigation of the imri- igration problem, looked at from ail angles and not merely from the ex- clusion angle, would well serve the United States at this time. Dream Country “There's a snake! The boys were trudging along a country road after a fishing trip up a trout stream, making their way to the lake shore where their boat was left. ed ran and found a heavy stick and was about to give chase to the snake when a farmer came along and saw them. He also saw the large black snake sunning himself by the roadside. “Don't kill farmer, “But he eats birds’ eggs, said Ted. true. But he also ts rats and mice and especially field mice that destroy grain. I wish I had a dozen of them around my place.” “But won't he bite?’ asked Ted Both Ned and the farmer laughed. ‘No he won't bite you. He's harm- hey told Tes. Do you know how to catch snakes alive?" asked the farmer. The boy did not. It's easy,” said the farmer, “T’ll show you,” and he began looking Splendors marching up the mountain, wonders beckoning down the dale, Marvels like the wings of morning winnewing the vasts of sky, Aad the midnight’s purple spaces. with the moon a silver sail. Call us, questing, to the Country of the Dreams that Never Die. him, boys,” said the Moths afiutter in the twilight, Payches dancing in the noon. And the winds that haunt beaches where the wheeling lews cry, Gushing wellheads where croon, Call us, questing, to the Countr. the Dreams that Never Die the eur. in the hidden dim places Wood doves y of t We may wander down far pathways to the utmost ends of earth, Triek the desert trafis of danger Where the strange cases lie, live around my barn and fatter: up on through a narrow silt which permits the ligtit to fall upon the swiftly moving film. The film fs then devel oped in the usual manner, the vibra- tions appearing as stated above, as lres of different shadings. For repro. duction, the film is passed between a selenium cell and a bright ght. The lines or shadings on the film cause a change in intensity of the light which is shining through them and on the selenium cell, thus causing a change in resistance of the sensitive coll when it is connected in an electrical cireutt. From this point, by proper radio- amplification methods, these varia- tions in the electrical circuit are trans- formed into sounds, which are the ex- act duplicates of those carried into the transmitter at tho beginning of the operation. By being able to record the voice at the same time the p'ctures are fiimed, on the margin of the same strip of film, and with the developing process being exactly the same, the absolute synchronism of the sound and action is clgarly apparent. And when the film is eventually pfojected on the screen, there is no possible chance for the voice and action to get “out of step,” which fault has been the! stumbling block of all other systems of this kind, heretofore.—H. A: Lane. The Deserted House Just south of Chug, a mile, or maybe two, it stands alone, weatherbeaten and desolate, beside the grayelled road, a grim monument of tragedy. On a shelf a broken shaving mug beside a rotting baby shoe. The wind in sad monotone whines, queerly articulate, a requiem ode for days that used to be. Just inside the door in sinister beauty, somonolent in the sun, is coiled a rattlesnake filled with birds and mice— gorged to repletion— From the dusty, littered floor wickedly stares up at me @ rust-covered gun beside a broken rake. ©, God! Who paid the price for this desecration? In the door-yard, where chipmunks, unafraid, quarrel and fight and play, half-hidden by the weeds, a baby buggy, on its side, shelters a horned toad. A raucous-voiced magple stands guard while multi-colored lizards parade. Back in the hill Uttle way & coyote bewails his misdeeds An old blind horse, with tick-bitten hide, stumbles haltingly down the road! God! ‘What a Dismal Graveyard of Blasted Hopes! —E. RICHARD SHIPP, gee eens! Another Ship Canal Surveys have been completed, and a report is being prepared for presenta- tion to the Federal government for another of the world’s large ship ca- nals to be located in California, and to connect Sacramento, the capital of that state, with the Pacific ocean, by way of San Francisco bay: The canal will be 35 miles long, 150 feet wide at the bottom, 350 to 360 feet wide at ture issued by Democratic party officials in the in- terests of those who are charging little children 206 to 1,042 per cent profit on toys sold today under the Underwood tariff. —_ Buying Trouble . Os IN Big Horn county the fair board is offer- ing a prize of $5 for the most sensibly dressed girl of 18 years or under, attending the fair. The board does not define “sensibly” nor give any hint of what points the judges may consider in awarding the five bucks. There are no doubt many young ladies contem- plating a day at the fair who deem themselves sen- |sible. But what will the poor things do in the cir- cumstances? Will they put on or take off? Pos- sibly the state of the weather at the time should have something to do with the matter, yet neither the weather nor the amount can be depended upon. Advertise a hot day and they will come with furs, hang up storm signals and they will appear in tis- sue paper. There is no fixed rule any more with reference to sense in dress. It is sort of a go-as-you-please | affair, The Big Horn fair officials could have laid down hard and fast rules but they did not, so all we can Rosrnr Caney assumes too much. &9 do his press agents when they hold him up as the great protector and defender of Wyoming natural resources. Spring something else, the sawdust has been kicked out of Roserr’s baby doll, see in it that these birds have bought into a whole lot of trouble, the surface of the water, and 30 feet deep, capable of floating all but the very larg&st of deep-sea vessels and is designed to convert Sacramento which is $0 miles from the Pacific, into an Ocean port. Out of Sacramento, on steamboats, barges and schooners, aro 8) every year 1,000,000 tons of Products of the grain ranches, fruit orchards, vegetable farms, and mines of 29 couaties. This production is valued at $95.95 per ton, the most valuable—and the largest—river traf- fic in the new world in proportion to the length of navigability of the stream about 200 miles. All this large volume of shipments have to be rehandled at San Francifco, Oakland, or other deep-sea ports on San Francisco bay, and the cost of this transshipment is so great that the saving in this one item alone by the bringing of deep-sea tonnage di- rect to the Sacramento wharves will pay the cost of the ship canal {n about 10 years. In addition to this, the deep channel, with the silt-bearing waters of many streams cut off, will eliminate the present expensive dredging of the channel which has to be kept up continuously the year around. There ar 3,000,000 acres of arable land, suitabie for cul- tivation and available for irrigation, in the Sacramento valley, tributary to the river and the city of Sacramento. Of this great area, only about 25.000 to ,of prohibition find in the eighteenth of the Sacramento river,|. Still ‘the lure and love of beauty that some of the mice that are stealing my is old as Eden's birth grain. Morgan. about for some proper sticks. He found —___ Call us, questiong, to the Country of /@ stout ash stick about five feet long!" The farmer jogged on, after the bs : the Dreams that Nevore Die. and carefully split one end of it back} noys iad thanked him for showing New Phases Immigration —SLINTON SCOLLARD. |*bout two feet. Then he cut # smooth|them haw to catch snakes, and of switch and peeled off the bark, A third stout stick was cut, not much longer than cane. “A pce of fine copper wire would be better, but if you have nothing else, ux> your shoe lace,” he said. Here's some wire,” said Ted, had it in my fishing kit." The farmer first made a snare or |noose of the wire and fastened it to jthe cane stick, Next ho inserted the |small end of the pooled switch in the slit of the long ash stick, which held open the pron wide. “Now, o said, “we're ready. | Watch me.” : The man crept up bebind the snake which was half asleep in the sun. He took careful aim with his split stick and suddenly jabbed {t down over the neck of the snake, and at the same time he pulled out the switch. “Get him!" ho exclaimed as the jsnake thrested about. Then he |slpped the noose over the snake jhead and secured him, which enabled him to remove the spilt stick from the snake's neck. All he had to do was to carry Mr. Snake dangling in the noose from the end of the cane. Ned and Ted were deeply interested in this. ‘When I was a youngster I msed to jcatch rattle snakes like this,” said the farmer. “I used to sell them. Some people bought them to get the rattle- snake ofl! and some store keepers bought them to put in their windows.” course they made an outfit just Ike ft and had an exciting day catching snakes. They let. them go again catching them just for the fun of the thing. Ted's sketch shows how it is done. A is the end of the stout five foot stick, split, and B ie the tip of the svitch inserted to hold the split open. € the right hand holding the big stick, D the left hand hold ing the switch, E the way it is jabbed down over the snake's head, then the hand at D yanks out the switch al lowing the split stick to closa on the snake and hold him until the neore F can be slipped over the snake at G. (Friday—"Trenshing One's Tent.”) Copyright, 1922, by George Matthew Adams. THE WOMAN OF POISE, Once a rarity, is now to be observed and admired upon every hand. Indeed, no other woman caf flourish long in the midst of this modern, complicated life. In the home, in business, In so- clal life, the woman who fs serene and confident wins, while the “nervous, flustered individual wastes ber talents and gets nowhere. Of course, poise is dependent mainly upon sound health and steady nerves. If you feel that you-are being kept back in this way, why not turn to that great woman's remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound, which was »manu- factured from thorough understand ing of the nervous system of w:men? A survey of immigration statistics just made in the department of 1a- k~, Presents some puzzling figures for those who have thought the immi- gration problem entirely one of ex: clusion of undesirable aliens from the United States. Under the three per cent quota law the following countries have sent to the United States all the immigrants which could be admitted: Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxenburg. Poland, Roumania, Judgoslavia, Pal- estine,, Turkey, Syria, the miscellan- cous European and Asiatic countries Africa, Australia and New Zealand. But Germany sent us only 28 per cent of the possible number which might have come; Sweden 43 per cent; Norway 48 per cent; Netherlands, 66 per cent; France 75 per cent; and Eng. land, less than 20 per cent. Secretary Davis of the department of labor reads from these figures that the three per cent quota law suffices to Hold back the horde of tmmigrants from the south and east of Europe, while working no hardship on the countries of the north and west of Europe, since they 4idn't send us as many as they could. But he does not explain why they sent us so few nor has any one advanced any good reason why the countries which used to send us their thousands now offer us so few desirable immigrants. Foes Over in Platte The Guernsey Gazette is strong for John Hay and never goes to press without a lick of some sort struck. pat § Mst of state departmen which the Carey campaign committee 'sts and asks John Hay which he would abolish they fail to list the commissioner of {mmigration. It seemed a very ticklish proposition and 80 long as they couldn't make a clean breast of the issue they should havo kept off the ‘rau. it might be well i Zovn to brass tacks on a few things. Elut wha’ the use John has the nomination.” : “Reading the editorial column of the Wheatland Times this week remin: us of the nigger shooting craps and his Iingo—'read 'em and weep.’ Don't take to too hard Ed. just because Hay is the winner.” oo CARD OF THANKS. We wish to take this opportunity to, thank our many friends for their kind-| ness during our recent bereavement and for the beautiful floral offerings | to our beloved son and brother, Fred W. Short. MR. AND MRS. GEORGE SHORT, GEORGE B. SHORT. 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