Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1923, Page 6

County, Wyo, Publication Offices, Tribune Building [Ene dying flome.’ Ga the British PAGE SIX. Che Casper Daily Cribune WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1923. aspet Dailp Cribunc ding June 30, 1921, the American fi - Nei ] a 5. he se (ttle read. ewadays— OE ea | to er cnt mee mecca tn ce ee —By Fontaine Fox crintine csvenec of our siate have "or ife ofthe Gaited Hole fekered BUSINESS TELEPHONES 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 meee CHARLES W. BARTON -------- President and Editor MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Phe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ¥ Publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Member of the Associated Press Advertising Representatives. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, Ui; 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City: Globe Bidg.. Boston, Mass., Suite 404, Sharon Btdg., 55 New Mont- gomery St. San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily ‘Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSORIPTION RATES By Carrier or By Mail One Year, Daily and Suncay = 08 © and the after subscription All subscriptions must be Daily Tribune will not insure deli becomes one month in arrears. Member of Andit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) Kick If You Don't Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m. #f you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be Ce- livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let ‘The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. a> The Casper Tribune’s Program Irrigation project west of Casper to be author zed and completed at once. A complete and scientific zoning system for the city of Casper. . A comprehensive municipal and school recreation park system, including swimming pools for the children of Casper. Completion of the established Scenic Route boute- yard as planned by the county commissioners to Garden Creek Falls and return. Better roads for Natrona county and more high- ways for Wyoming. More equitable freight rates for shippers of the Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for Casper. 4 First Learn the Cause. Y AROUSIN% of the nation over the incteas- ‘ ing death to! taken by the automobile is evi- flent in the man’ proposals to prevent fatalities. One municipalit, is subjecting all arrested for) reckless driving to sanity tests; an oculist suggests! that no person be given a license without an exam-, ination of the eyes and if glasses be found neces- sary, requiring their use; traffic experts devise, one way street systems; police chiefs urge more drastic laws and so on and on. Dr. Henry Lauden of Chicago, suggests that mathematics be’ given a chance. “No one knows,”| he says, “what causes accidents.” We know of | any individual accident that it was because of too ky speed, slippery streets, brakes which didn’t old, neglect of wignalling, etc., but not of accidents as a whole. We have no real accident statistics. If, for instance, we could say that of 5,000 acci- dents in a given period of time in a given section of a given city, 8,000 were caused by poor brakes, we could immediately make 1t mandatory to have all brakes examined monthly. If we know that of 4,000 accident, 4,600 came from failure to give, or vobserve signals, we would make the law more se- ‘vere on violations. If we proved that any larger percentage of accidents involved trucks, or taxicabs than the percentage of such vehicles bore to the {whole number of vehicles, we could insist on higher Standards of operation by such drivers. _.Here is a great chance for some institution with the money and the time to gather and work out the desults from such statisttcs.. And as avery large) #roportion of accidents involve children, on which the state spends much money to turn them into good citizens, it ems reasonable to suggest it as a federal or a state activity. Equipment for Public Life. EN in public life need three principal qualifica- tions. First of all they need vision, which €an cast itself far into the future. The problems which come before them for solution will many| dimes go with a haphazard solution, and the solu- tion may have some very dangerous results, a few years hence. Next to vision they need courage. A man in pub- lic life who does not have courage is like’a gun which is not loaded. It lacks the authoratative | power which makes it a weapon to be feared and Tespected. He should be known to those who Jnight subvert treasured institutions as a man who *won’t stand for it,” if they try to put over a nefar- ious’ scheme. Then a man in public office needs. to be willing to o through with what he sees as right. If he is not he is going to be negligent many times in his duty to the state. But these are not only the qualities of a man in public office. They are rather funda- mental qualities of all men who want to succeed in Jusiness or professional life. He needs vision more today than ever before, for without it he is going’ to find it difficult to keep abreast of progress everywhere. Without courage he is going to find himself made the butt of men who would upset his plans, and if he is aiming to further the inter- ests of a particular organization he is going to find that he is not giving them half what it is his duty to give them. His service is going to be badly wanting. ——- 5—____ Authentic Farm Figures. HE AVERAGE price of farm products is higher today than the average for 1913. It-is higher than the average for the five-year period, 1909-13 inclusive. This is a statement of fact based upon @ comparison of current. market quotations, and| the market quotations of pre-war years, as set forth in the United States statistical abstract,| prepared annually by the department of commerce,| and the report of the joint commission of agricul- tural inquiry made last year, considered by all au- thorities ‘to be the most authentic and comprehen- Sive review of farm prices ever presented, the re- x joint commission of agricultural inquiry. and vegetable fats, than he did for the fiscal year — ending June 30.1913. It shows he exported 35 per cent more meats, dairy products, animal and vege- table fats during the fiscal year ending June 30, ie than he did in the fiscal year ending June 30, b t These comparisons are based upon bushels for grain and grain products and ‘pounds for meats, dairy products and fats. ‘The farmer is not exporting as much this year as he did last year or the year before. Yet the prices he is receiving are higher this year than they were in either of the previous years. These three facts clearly demonstrate (1) the American farmer has exported more sincq the! year Guring the period of America’s so-called “iso-' lation” than he did prior to the war; (2) after fou years of this so-called “isolation,” farm prices to- day are higher than they'were in pre-war years; (3). the price the farmer receives for his products is determined not so much by what he exports as by the quantity of domestic consumption. The last-named conclusion is that reached by the After studying farm prices and their relations to ex-/ ports and domestic consumption over a period of nearly a quarter of a century, the commission sets forth that the price of farm products in this coun- try is very little affected by the quantity of exports but is very directly and appreciably. affected by the quantity of domestic consumption, which in turn is based upon industrial prosperity. j Taken together, these facts should demonstrate to the farmer that there is no ground whatever for the oft-repeated assertion that America’s “isola- tion” has proved injurious to the agricultural inter ests of this country. The plain truth is that from a selfish standpoint the American farmer has probably profited by Eu rope’s condition. This is borne out by the fact that in pre-war days Europe produced 95 per cent of her needs in food products. Today she is produc ing only 70 per cent of her food products re quirements. A large proportion of the agricultural exports from this country during the last three vars may be credited to the fact that Europe is not Yet back to a normal condition of agricultural pro- ductivity. The latest reports from European re- “2 i AFTER DELIVERING HIS SPEECH AGAINST THE Ku Kiux Kian AND .HAPPENED To ARRIVE JUST WHEN Witiie HAD FINISHED His | volunteerea to serve in turn as chap- ;lains in the legislature without com- | pensation. That is certainly a com- mendable spirit. ‘We confess that this idea of vol- funtary invocation appeals to us wholly outside of the question of state economy. The idea of hiring a man to pray for the legislature is mercen- ary. When you add to this the idea lof clergymen becoming candidates for the position of chaplain and mak- ing 2 regular campaign for the place it seems to us that the dignity of the sacred calling 1s immeasurably low- ered. * F “It has been suggested that if the offer of the Montpelier clorgymen were accepte, the legisiature would later vote the offictating clergy. a | gratuity. We learn that some of the | legislators who haye set out to estab- lish an example of econmy would in some instances oppose any after- thought of this kind. “Let us start out one. legislature's session with the {dea that while re- Igion is to be kept out of politics ana Interested religion in our law-making body." Where George Crossed the River. In New York 146 years ago the British made merry," states the New York Tribune. ‘The war was as g001 ne over, so they thought. Cornwal- s put his baggage on board a prcket for England. Washington had re- treated through the Jerseys and lay on the Pennsylvan'a shora of the Deluware with hix gAclant little half starved tattered urmy. ‘I will not despair.’ he sa'd. Others had lost hope. The Revolution seemed a lost cause. Tnen ‘came Trenton! The cross ing ef the Dalnware through the ico ioes and the rcut of the Hessians is of the supreme episodes of Amer- ‘ean history, dramatic and glorious, vice versa, we need more entirely dis- | lgite, ‘All our hupes* wrote Lord Ceorge Germain ‘were Dias by ‘Le unhappy affair at Trenton.’ “An appropriate memorial of the giest adventure, the turning point of ‘tke Revolution, {s by all means Cesirable. It is already well In hand. The States of New Jersey and Penn- sylvania have estabiished spacious parks on both sides of the Delaware \river a few miles. above Trenton where Washington crossed. The plan is, further, to connect these parks by memorial bridge in thirteen sections symbolic of the thirteen colonies. ‘The ald of congress is now solje- ‘ted to carry out this project, ap- pealing so strongly to national senti- ment. The bridge will cost $800,000; Pennsylvan'a and New Jersey) will bear half the expense’and the nation the other half, if congress passes the enabling resovution that is before it. lithe undertaking will be in charge of ‘a national commission appointed by | the president, and it ts hoped wil ibe connseted in/four years.” a Fruit the Year Round. One of the largest concerns grow- ing and handling fruit issues @ cai- endar showing what fruit and vege- | tabies are available each month. Ap- | ples are sold throughout the year, the winter crop winding up in May and the carly apples from California and southern states beginning ‘in June. Oranges and grapefruit are alao on the market twelve months, thanks to cold storage an@ shipment under refr'geration, Peaches begin in May and end in September and pineapples are of- fered each month except August and September. Cabbages, onions and the ubiquitous potato are also listel for each month, Lettuce is not scheduled for July and August, but tomatoes are marketed. the year around, Cuba and the west coast of Mexico supplying them in December presentatives of the United States department of commerce state that this year eastern European countries—such as Rumania and Southern Russia —will.supply Europe with only three per cent of its wheat requirements. Normally they supply 40 per cent. In this connection the department of commerce states: “If it had not been for the elimination of Russia as a surplus country, it would have been practically impossible to haye marketed more than a small per cent of the North American surplus in the four years since the close of the war.” To sum it up, (1) the American farmer has not suffered by reason of America’s “isolation” from European affaire; (2) and, if with the aid of this country Europe ‘is restored to normal pro- ductivity, it will react to the decrease of Amer- ican agricultural exports rather than’ their in- crease. Confusion of Tongues. COUNTRY like the United States with a pop- ulation of widely diyerse origin there is scarce-| ly a trace of the language trouble which is so} troublesome in Europe and not entirely absent in| the neighboring Dominion of Canada. It is diffi-| cult to understand the bitterness that marks the! quarreling in Belgium between the people who! speak French and those who still cling to the more nearly native Flemish, which is a close relative of the Dutch and not such a distinct one of German. The quarrel is an-old one, starting as far back as the first attempts of the several tribes inhabit-! ing the lowlands now partly covered by Holland, and Belgium to unite. against. their French and, German. enemies. Later came the Spaniards, to make what. use they could of tribal jealousies.| After Napolen, for a good while, the triumph of| French in Belgium was nearly complete, so far as official recognition went, and in 1880 Flemish was formally relegated to the, humble position of a peasant’s patois.. It never died, however, and! in the ’70’s its friends had acquired power enough} to cmpel its admission to equal rights with French in Belgian courts and schoois. The Germans, during the occupation did what they. could to divide the French-speaking part of the population from those that clung to Flemish. lt was the latter group that they chose to favor, and the recent controversy over the university at Ghent was due largely to an effort to compel the; carrying out of promises made by the invaders. To all except those who have a sentimental in- terest in it, the Flemish language seems a rather rude and barbarus one, at least in comparison with French. It has, indeed, a considerable litera- tufe, which is much admired. by those who admire it and it is of interest to philatoaists,. but it never was, is not and never will be of more than strictly} local use, and its competition with a real “world, language” like French in a small country like Bel- ‘ium can end at last in only one way—it must Claanpade into the libraries where the other “dead” languages are deposited. Be Fair and Truthful. T WAS to be expected that so emphatic a stand on the public school question as that taken by the electorate of the state of Oregon at the last election, when the compulsory public school at- tendance ineasure was made part of the law of the state, would cause much discussioa. What was totally unexpected is the amount of unfair comment given the law by those who write about it without understanding it. It is unfair, because untrue, to say, that the law is aimed at, or will destroy, the private schools, or the parchial schools of the Catholic church, or those maintained by the Lutherans, or the Pres- byterians, or the Episcopalians, or the Jews, or any other sect. There are twelye months in a year. The law requires attendance at public schools for but five months. It is unfair, because untrue; to say the law “in- terferes with personal liberty” unless it is also said that the laws against craeliy to animals, against non-support of children, against drinking and vice, against buying, selling, or using dangerous drugs, also are violations of personal liberty. port covering prices of all kinds of farm products from the year 1890, The reports of the bureau of foreign commerce show that the American farmer exported during the fiscal year ending June 30,1921 (which inciud- ed his 1920 harvest) over twice the quantity of grain and grain products that he did for the fiscal Year ending June 20, 1913- (which included his 1912 harvest The reports w that for the fiscal Year ending June 30, (which luded the 1921 harvest) he exported a greater antity of grain and grain products than be did in 1921 The same reports show that for the fiscal year rat | constitutional. et | It is for:‘no man to say, as yet, that the law is wise or unwise, good or bad, constitutional or un- It has yet to be tried. The voters of the sovereign state of ‘Oregon wanted | it, or they wouldn’t have voted for it. Presumably an Oregon voter is as good an American, as fairmind- ed a man or woman, as honest; as a Southerner or a New Englander, a Southwesterner or an Wasterner. To accuse him, through his new and untried law, of various high crimes, because he believes that five-sevenths of a child’s education should ‘be here where |And when their fev'rish race ts done.| oo every Its hope and fears, Ku Ktux SNow MAN. lover which farmers themselves’ must exercise control. Thralldom. How oft men alg! And simple joys, A lUfe spent in some quiet spot Far from the noiss Of sounding marts, the city’s din, Where tranquil days. (Perchance, will let more sunshine ‘n Than crowded ways. for a Uttle cot jin tarmers’ co:onerative marketing aa- Sociations, and more of them are be- ing organized on a sound - business basis, . / Aside from the help which has teen given by legislation and by ad- ministration activities, strong eco- jnomic forces are at work to restore a more normal relation between agri- culture and other industries, The peril in the agricultural de- press'on is more keenly realized by jother grouns than eyer before, and hane a sincere desire is be- ling evidenced to do what can done safely to help the farmer bet |ter his. condition. Yet still pursue the weary round, Those far-off gipams, .” For all their radiance, But idle dreams. are found The city's roar still fals upon Their ‘heedless ears. Spi enn Shee ere Everything . considered, we have |good reason to expect still better 7 .« |things for agriculture in the year Agriculture, Its Improve \1923.—enry ‘Wallace, Secretary "of ment and Prospects. | Asricutture. ae REE ed Twelve months ugo-most of . the - 6,000,000 farmers of the. United Dance Impressions. States were starting on;the long hard climb out ‘of the valley of eco- nomic depression. They have not yet attained the heights which are bath- ed in the grateful: sunshine of pros- perity. Some, indeed, have fallen, by the way, Others are stil in the val- Tall, well ‘groomed yuths and pretty maidens stand In vivid groups, their brisk and gay. Huge palm-plants negro band; The: dance floor glows like moon- light on a bay. laughter half conceal a ley. : Nevertheless, as we stop a bit and lovk backward we can see that very considerable ground has been gained| There {s a stir, for borne upon the by the great majority, and we can air enter the New Year with renewed Comes the s'y wailing of a saxo- hope and with that courage which phone. comes from the realization that we| The trombone issues forth its stri- are really making progress. dent blare, ‘Then dies before shrill tones. A year ago, when speaking of the prospects for farming in 1922, I’ said that while there was no reason to ex- pect’ boom times for the farmer in the . clarinet’s Some mad suggestive potion seems the near future, there was promise to creep ot better times, both for the farmer|~ Into the writhing. couples on the and for those whose business is large- floor. Reserve is slain, and modesty asleep While many matrons gaze on and adore. ly dependent upon him. The year has brought fulfilment of that ~ promise. Speaking generally, times are better, much better than a year ago, both for agriculture and for industry. Crops have been good, on the whole. Prices of the major crops are mostly considerabily higher. While there has been a corresponding advance in. tho prices of the things the farmer must buy, the total sum which farmers will receive for the crops of this year is greater by a billion and a half dollars or more than that which they re ceived for the crops of last year. This will certainly mean better, times on the farm and farm folks will be ablé to ease up a little on the, grinding economy they were forced to prac: tice the preceding year. The labor cost of producing the crops of 1992 was still further re- duced. There were some substantial reductions in freight rates. .Much helpful legisiation has been enacted and more will be this\winter, Inter ext rates are lower and the credit strain ‘has been eased. This has made it possible for many farmers who were rather heavily involve to Jazz, the great god, sits leering on his throne, And as I lea hina Faintly there drifts to me a wistful moan— Ghosts of old waltzes, dying in the wind. —J, Philip Stack. - Lullaby. Sleep, and may the stars abve you Tell the moon the wonder of you, Tell the Carkness of the beauty That makes love a simple duty. ing If tn {t my love’ ts beaming: But if some one else {fs in it— Do wake up this very minute! —Harry Philip. refund their abligations an® get themselyes in condition to win through. There are still some dark spots. In some sections ‘weather conditions ‘were unfavorable and crops were short, and farmers in these section are having a very hard time of it. Freight rates aro stil too bigh, espe- clally for those who must pay for a long haul to market. Taxes are high, but this is largely due to the increase in local taxes, LOOSE LEAF MEMO. 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Most of our churches remember our chiet magistrate, (our g?vernor, and other men in authority when addressing supp-ications to the throne of grace. “When we select a chaplain for Jeech branch @f our logislature, it {must mean that we feel a special ‘fitness of prayer. In any event the position of chaplain has become one of the features of our “lawmaking! body. i | ‘Be all this as it may, the Mont- | pelior ministers, responding to the I SEEI-PEP PisTON RIncs Proof of the Pudding Drive in where see the sign of ‘nga ep and amine the oil groove, tool- ed a oe oo — | ures ©}! -Pep piston | rings and then try them in } your car. 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