Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 1, 1922, Page 6

ENTE O IRR * tures of the ‘ s PAXE SIX Che Casper Daily Cribune Josuet « e r Sunday at Casper, N na! ‘ ices, Trivane B in, BUSINES Bran Entered a Postatfice =- second c aber 23, ASSOCIATED PRESS 1916. CHAR “President an@ Editor BA uw n s ieckceds City Ea AILE JU) llaavertising Manage Advertising Representatives. Prud ng é Aden, 1780-2 Bildg., Chicago, m Globe Bldg Bor bune are on file to . ces and visitors i SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier By Mall Six : ‘ accepted for Jess period than ms must be paid in advance and the insure delivery after subscrip in arrears. Member of Audit Buresa of Circulation (A. B. C.) = ember of the Associated Press. ed in this paper and | Your Tribune, 6:39 and 8 o'clock p.m une. A paper will be de ger. Make it your duty to carrier misses you. ~ Kick if You Don't Ge What Is Living Wage? | qe TLWAY shopmen and the maintenance) organizations have asked the federal labor board for a ruling and a definition of the principle of a “living wage” as laid down in the transporta tion The board holds that it cannot go beyond the act which prescribes the establishment of “just! and reasonable wages.” | The framers of the law do not contend and the) public is well satisfied that the Esch-Cummins act is not a perfect one and calculated to fit all of the var s situations arising in transportation} employment, The men hold that a “living wage” is nothing Jess than 48 cents an hour, the minimum of the wage scale which maintenance men have asked the) board to establish, If the labor board is to take refuge in techni- calities and retire behind the act as written in words and has no power or authority to rule upon estions that arise, the quicker congress amends e act to give it the necessary elasticity the bet- ter for all concerned. As a general thing powers should not be dele- gated promisciously, Dut here is a case involving| the life of the country and the welfare of a great) and deserving contingent of the population, and) the issues hold back the peaceful adjustment of Jong standing grievances. Argument there has been in plenty. Action, and} prompt action at that is all that remains to be} done, | Grant the railroad board the power not only to enunciate the principles established for it, but! the power to fix the wages and adjust the con-! troversies that arise in the complex employment | of men governed by the act. | Declines to Usurp M? NY MANIFESTATIONS of respect for the) AU ancient landmarks of American government) have come from President Harding. These have! demonstrated hig wisdom as a statesman and have) justified the confidence reposed in him by the people. The president has never once lost sight of the fact that he is the servant of the people and not their master, and th@#t the constitution measures) his powers as it also fixes his responsibility. The) return to government by law instead of govern- ment by individual ipso facto, is the most promis-| ing as well as the most pleasing feature of our) effort to return to normalcy. The American people have the initiative, the en. terprise, and the resourcefulness to continue our| marvelous development 2s a nation unless their efforts are hampered by governmental repression or discouraged by a Socialistic policy which re. lieves the individual of responsibility and robs him of opportunity. The Harding administration very wisely instituted the policy of less government in) bus: Because public discussion has most frequently! directed public attention to Washington’s advice! on avoidance of foreign entanglements, many peo-| ple overlook other and even more important fea- famous farewell address. Before “aking of foreign relations, Washington pre- tve,two subjects, which he apparently consid re vi to the perpetuity of American lib first emphasized the importance of pre- aiVi the national unity which constitutes us one people, and then warned against the dangeres of usurpation of power. The text of this portion of his address is well worth quoting in these times: “It is important, likewise, that the habits of! thinking in a free country should inspire caution| in those intrusted with its administration to con-| fine themselves within their respective constitu- Ld tional sphe: avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of the department, to encroach upon an-| other. The spirit of encroachment tends to con solidate t e powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of goyern-' ment, real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it which pre- dominates in the human heart, is sufficient to sat-| isfy us of power, Our Reduced Army the truth of this positior iprocal checks in the ding and distr The necessity e of political ng it into differ-| by diy i for the fiscal|(3) to maintain 980,000 « fled for ir | tutional authority and usurp the power i Press is exclusively entitled to the) | the fede: | war appropriations, | an aggregate population of 9,988,500 or $50.90 per| | fit of future generations.” |branches of citizen soldiery; |maintain the necessary schools for the training of officers and enlisted| ea of the decimation| men of the three components of the| citizens, could be distributed among ay caused by/army, regulars, guards and reserves; | tho several arms of the serv necessary to state | overhead for the three-party army; (4)| fantry, 46,42: sted strength of the army|to provide peace-time garrisons for our| tillery, 1 S$, on the score of economy, cut from | continental coast defe: the national! vide peace and war garrisons for our evt depositories, and constituting each the guard isn of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiment, ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. necessary as to Teo preserve them must be as institute If, in the opin th ion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be, in any particular, wrong, let it be corrected by way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free govern- ments are destroyéd. The precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can, at any time, yield.” It would have been easy for President Harding, in the strike disturbances, to overstep his consti- of the states in preserving peace and protecting life and property. That power, once sumed and con- ceded, would mean the devitalizing of state and municipal governments, and the weakening of the sense of responsibility of the people for the kind of government they havo the hands of their chosen state and municipal officials. President amendment in the Harding means more for good govern nt in Ameriea than his refusal to change the eral constitution by ursurpation. ae Only $5.18 Per Capita PPROPRIATIONS for the support of the fed-| rnment for the fiscal year ending! 747,000,000. If we subtract ount appropriated for the postal service — $565,000,000— which is payable from postal revenues, the total will be $3,182,000,-| 000. On the basis of 106,000,000 population, this} means a per capita tax of about $30. Included in| budget for 1923 are certain items which | cacidered in any comparison with per. These items include the inter est on the put debt— $975,000,000; the sinking fund—$369,000,000; the increase in pension appro priations to $252,000,000; appropriations for the Veterans’ bureau to provide compensation, voca tional training, and ymedical and hospital relief—| $418,000,000; the appropriation for the shipping hoard—$100,000,000; and the increase for the in ternal revenue bureau, including. prohibition en forcement, to $60,000,000. j Most of this represents the heritage from the previous administration, for war and for wasie.! It also represents an aggregate of $1 000,000 oyer pre-war appropriaticus (postoffice appro priation excluded as that department pays its own way). subtracting this sum from the total for the! year and we have $1,235,000,000 as the 1923 bill for running the government under Republican con trol. “Back to normale, The largest of the reductions for 1923 under 1{ are to be found in the army and navy establish ments, the combined reductions beeing $213,000,000. The enlisted personnel of the army has been cut per cent, compared with the strength authorized under the National Defense Act of 1920, and the personnel of the navy has suffered a corresponding reduction. War is a piker compared with public economy in reducing the military strength of the nation. { It is interesting to compare this per capita tax| of $30 for the upkeep of the federal government with certain examples of municipal and state tax- ation. For instance. the New York city budget for 1921 totaled $823,488,857 imposed upon a population of 5,620,000 or a per capita of $57.56. The New York state budget was $145,798,093, imposed upon a population of 10,385,000 or a per capita for the| state of $14.04. Of course the metropolis shared| in that also. The aggregate of the city budgets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Loyis and| New Orleans in 1921 was $508,469,521 imposed upon | must be capita. The aggregate of the states in which these} cities are located was $271,934,994 imposed upor a} population of 25,499,500 or $10.66 per capit If} we should set aside the extraordinary appropria-| tions and consider only the appropriations for run ning the federal government the per capita would be $11.82, or not much greater than that of the five, states, | Included in the federal appropriations for 1923 are 256,000,000 for the military activities of the war department or a per capita of only $2.41 and! $294,000,000 for the navy, or a per capita of $2.77 —or $5.18 per capita as our national insurance. If we assume that the state and municipal budgets | cited are about the same this year as they were in 1921-—-they are probably larger—we should have 2 per capita tax for them of $50.90 plus $10.66, or} $61 plus the federal per capita, $30, or an ag- gregate of $91.56—or 55.6 per cent for municipal, 11.64 per cent for state and 32.7 per cent for fed- eral taxation; while the per cent of total average per capita for the army would be 2.63 and for the navy 3.02—or 5.65 per cent for both. Certainly this | is an emonomy in nation defense which strains the factor of safety to the breaking point. | A Bed Policy | COTING the Sheridan Post as authority for the No act of} Che Casper Daily Cribune RIGHT THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE i I isch ear WHE ofa: te a th U.S. PUBLIC) SURPLUS DEST CuT ONER ONE $313,801 4 mi: 1,014,068 gaa 7} ESTER gd iS ’ 651 it SS) ical Housekee in Wa 1S hington ( pin __MRs.NARRIET TAYLOR UPTON hkepublican Ieculive ozamittee la Crore SAVING THE PUBLIC’S MONEY of more than three million dollars a day in the admin- Ystration of the government is a gigantic feat of economic house- Keeping that cannot fail to interest the women of America. The gov- ernment of the United States is the Diggest job of housekeeping in the ‘world. Just what methods haye ‘been adopted by which the cost of running the government has been meduced nearly one-third in dpe year may well receive the atten- tion of the women of the country. ‘The answer les in the inaug- feration of the budget system. The mational budget is on the same plan as the domestic budget. A calculation is made of the approxi- gnate sum which must be ratsed ‘by revenue each year. This cor- responds to the income of the head of the family. The beauty of the domestic budget system is that the housewife must sacrifice in some places in order to gratify her wish to add some books to her library ‘or to give a child some advantage that might not be had otherwise. Her sacrifice will make her value all the more highly what she ob- tains as the résult of it. The beauty of the national budget is accentuated by the fact that with 4t the whole nation benefits. | A woman in trying to live within m= domestic budget does away with | all waste. She knows that when roasts, she must also bake, thus cutting down on fuel. She | sees how foolish it is to have hot! water heater, wood or cos! range, and gas range all lighted at one *yme. In keeping within the fed< eral budget the department ex- ecutives at Washington have prac- tised constructive economy on @ tremendous scale, not easily com- prehended by the keeper of a, small budget. A budget is a fixed thing. Every= body in the family knows just how mauch can be spent. The children’ amusement because they know there is none. In the same way a stop has been put to teasing in governmental housekeeping under the budget system. federal de- partment which formerly resorted to teasing tactics, when, for in- stance, it decided. it should have more clerical help, knows that un- der the budget system teasing is futile. It therefore turns it en- ergies to readjustment and co- ordination and in the majority of instances it finds it can get along very well without additional cler- ical hire. One of the first acts of the new Republican Congress which came into power under President Hard- ing was the passage of a bud- get law. This was promptly sign-. by the President. The saving under the federal budget system | is today as one of the outstanding achievements of the present ade ministration. United per- This leaves for use in the States 96,721; enlisted men fo: formance of the raany du under the national defens “In the distribut! mn of troops in the United States,” says the war depart-| ment, “the greatest reduction neces- sarily had to be made in our coast de-| fense and in the mobile force. By the| mobile force is meant that force used} for emergency purposes for the pro-| tection of our southern horder, as a model and demonstrating force for the citizen soldiers, and as a basis th |see that each tions an earnest effort was usually made to nominate a strong ticket; to section of the county or state was represented on that ticket. | members of every party were brought together to talk over party matters and organize and prepare for the cam- paign that followed. The system was not perfect, and no other system ever will be, but the result was always bet- ter than it ever has been since the |change was made to the direct pri- Q statement coming from W. B. Ross, Democratic|for expansion in the event of an at-|™&@ry. The direct primary Is very ex- candidate for governor, to this effect: “The rents end royalties from the yas erties of the state should be used for th of intolerable tax burdens that the people instead of being laid it oil prop-} e reduction | are now pressing aside for the bene- The Cheyenne Tribune says this: “This statement may rise to plague Mr. Ross in the campaign. It is too much like the policy of the individual spending all of his income and placing none of it out at interest. The strength of Wyo- ming’s finances today is in its large endowment fund which is accumulating every year. “Mr. Hay’s policy of economy and reduction will| meet with more general approval. The thrifty in-| dividual spends iess al s SS and saves more. Apparently Tr. Ross would have us s vt i ing oil rentals and royalti pend everything, includ- ies SSF chairman of the Republican state com- sas enjoys the name awk. pasumiia of Hawk. They The new mittee of I say he i (2) to The first thing to do was to deter- mine how this reduced army, which Tepresents one soldier for each 8,800! | | e. The| the administrative! distribution arrived at is as follws: In- field ar-| 17) , 12,026; mses; (5) to pro-|air servic engineers, 5,020;! signal 84 deter 1920, t pet Rae a ¢ ) as at © possessins; (6) to maintain a| corps, 8,000; finance de , 393 n s is 102,000 ined force for emergency pur-| ordnance department, 1 for in the to serve as ® model and| warfare service, 445: medical depart 6 ting force for the two/|ment, 6,850; D. E. M. L., 5,704; unal n en soldiery, How to suc-|lotted, 104. ceed in these missio: The force held reapons!- with a force|ble for the ma aly ¢ enance of law a ne army, assigned by the/less than 45 per cent of that provided | order in our overseas poss: ns niet of 1930 were (1) to train the act assigning them was, of ber 28 apportioned ows: | serves, the two gitat war department had to meet. Panama ; Porte Rico, 1 174 tack by another nation or group of} nations. It was impossible to reduce to any considerable extent the .num-| ber of men allotted to the overhead of the three-part army, to the schoul; pensive. ganization It 1s disruptive of party or- It is unfair, for no pro- At these conventions many! FOR LITTLE, FRIENDLY Fo WHO LIKE ADVENTURES " (ADVENTURE TRAILS Blazed for You by Lewis Allen Browne “ > want target; sure it was water tight, and then sitiea gece ne ie teas | sisted that all was ready. Un eo do!” shouted Ted and his| eves seemed laughing» but cousin Ned, un unison. j nothing and they hauled + sited rat | down to the pond as near as the ho; “Hmmm!” murmured Uncle Ben,! °ONg get, then they got {t inte with a twinkle In his eyes, “and Mr. Dean the florist down to the harbor wants all the pond lilles he can get, and Mr. Stresier at the big hotel wants all the fine fresh fish he can get, and as both men are willing to pay for them, why—- “We're off!" declared Ted, eagerly, but Uncle stopped him. “The swampy shore of that pond is danger- ous,’ he said, “and you boys will need @ boat. On Uncle Ben's farm was a large pond with a shore so swampy that one could stand on it shake it. The result was that few 1 ever fished there or tried to get lies. Uncle Ben promised to help the boys make a boat. Like so many other things, it is easy enough when you know how but the boys were disap- pointed as they thought ‘t would mean weeks of work. Instead of that; it took them only two days. | ‘at pel 1 two boards 12 feet long nd 20 inches wide and cut| val” they shouted and they clr the bow from 1 to 2, 10 inches, elop-|0Ut of the boat, dragged it up, ing back from 2 to 3 three and a hait|*an for the team. feet. For the stern they sloped back “Why don't you boys go and p! two and a half fevt. This made the| your new boat?” he asked them sides. They made the boat three fect|a most innocent expression, but wide. The seat in the bow flush with, knew that he was having a fine j op they climbed into it excitedly, that they looked blankly at each ot while Uncle Ben on shore was driv away, trying to hide his laughter, ait! Oh, Uncle Ben, wait D were dropped down six inches and ish about it. under each of the middle seats were It right, laugh at us if you w: placed square oll tins such as oll isto,” said Ned with a grin, “I'll ad: shipped in to the Ortent, shown ati we were hasty. (G) and the cap at (H) soldered, These|to make any oar: madg tho boat non-sinkable. At (E) are the eyes and at (i) the hooks, showing how the rudder was fastened on. At (1) is shown the block of wood that is screwed to the side for the thole-pine or wooden oar-locks. ow," exclaimed Ned, ‘we'll hitch up the horse to the hayrack and haul it to the pond.” “And watch {t fill with water,” said ision’ is made for minority represen- ‘tation. Can you imagine a state con- |vention of any party nominating al- |most every candidate from three or four of the larger cities of the state) or a county convention nominating) all of the candidates from one pre- cinct? At the recent primaries most of the Republican state nominees are from Casper and Cheyenne and the, in his la make wasn't ughter. He helped #0 very long before they for their target rifles, venture Trail Tomorrow—Merry Makinys. ‘Even the old-time party boss, when he controlled @ convention through) proxies (which, in our opinion, should |}be ruled out always) would make! we're ready,” he said. | every effott to induce capable menAo| “Are you sure?’ sald Uncle Ben. . #4 become candidates, for he knew that| ‘Tho boys looked the boat all over— ue test. "Wood, the enipen | he could nominate winners. The con-|they poured water inside and made 8 | vention system means strong, well- | balanced tickets. The direct primary |means party disorganization.” } ee Feat of a Blind Man Classified ads in the Tribune tar. winners and possibly the keys Ted made a hinged box of the bow seat for their fishing tackle. “Now win you a big prize. | do not tease for extra money for | Some years ago the London Lancet | cited a remarkable case in which ex-| traordinary ability in arithmetic cal-j culation was associated with general mental inferiority 1¢ not actual insan | ity. H The patient was completely blind |and was able to make elaborate calcu- | ations such as the square root of any number running into four figures. in an average of four seconds, and the square root of any number running yinto six figures in six seconds. These| are mere trifles, however,, compared | |with the folowing: He was asked how many grains of corn there would be in any one of 64 |boxes, with one in the first, two in | the second, four in the third, eight in the fourth and so on in succession. He gave the answers for the four- teenth (8,192), for the eighteenth (131,- 072) and the twenty-fourth (8,888,608) instantaheously, and he gave the fig- ures for the forty-eighth box (140,737,- | 458,365,328) in six seconds. Further, on the request to give th total in all the boxes up to and inciu- \ding the sixty-fourth, he furnished |the correct answer (18,446,744,073,709,- /851,625) in 45 seconds. Always the Same A perfected blend, always maintained in every can of Nash's Delicious Coffee—constant | care during every process of its manufacture— | air-cleaning—“hot roasted” crispy freshness. Resutr: a clear, smooth, satisfying cup of fragrant coffee, that makes friends wherever served. You'll love the deli- cious flavor. At your grocers — in one and three-pound containers. | Wood, the sign man. Phone 1980. | 8-23-6¢ “WE PAY THE LOSS” Pelton & Hemry Insurance and Bonds Room 24, system, and on special duty with thes im national guard, organized reserves, and R. 0, T. C.” This force which, under the national defense act was to consist of 107,000 men, must operate with 43,000, a substitute being found for the divisional organization in the reinforced brigade, and the training centers abandoned. If public opinion the whittling doy with respect to n of the army wa reflected in the appropriatin act which slashed tt 55 per cert, the public will at least be glad to know what the war! department has made the loav: | fishes perform miracles in the distribution. Certainly the tim rant no further reduction in our ta ces unless we wish to blow} ps” over the remains of the — lishment. Should Be Repealed “Last Tuesday's election has clearly} demonstrated one thing—that t Wyoming primary should be pealed,” declares the Douglas E prise. for ma ‘3 that the only w: bosses was to p gates were elected from each pr who met in county fonvention to r ket or send ga n nate a 138 S. Center Phone 18 146 S. 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On the county ticktts tarred.” He showed them how to ja Jarge majority of the nominees on| force shredded rope inte the cracks |both tickets are from Douglas. and how to cover it with a coat of are we gtve with every 500 paid at office will 5 8-12-tt our