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PAGE TWO Che Casper Daily Cribune Issue€ every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building BUSINESS TELEPHONES --_---.-------- 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments, Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 CHARLES W. BARTON .-.--. President and Editor, ——— MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press !s exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited {1 this paper and| ° also the local news published herein. Advertising Representatives. Prudden, Kh 23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, Til; 286 Fifth Avenue, City: Globe Blds.,| Boston, Mass., Site 494, Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont-) gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Coples of the Daily| Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES + By Carrier or By Mail One Year, Daily and Sunéay One Year, Sunday Only ---. Six Months, Daily and Sun Three Months, Dally and Sunday One Month Dally and Sunday -. Per Copy All subse: Daily Tribune v becomes one month in arrears Member of the Associated Press Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) Kick If You Don't Get Your faint ate. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m. if°you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be Ce- livered to you by special mossenger. Make it your duty to let ‘The Tribune know when your carrier misses you, $9.00 2.50 The Casper Trbune’s Program Irrigation project west of Casper to be author- fzed and completed at once, A complete and scientific zoning system for the city of Caspor. fon = A comprehensive muniotpal and schoo! recreat! park system, including swimming pools for the children of Casper. \ Completion of the established Scenic Route boute- vard as planned by the county commissioners to Gerden Creek Falls and return. Better roads for Natrona county and more high- ways for Wyoming. More equitable freight ratse for shippers of the Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for Casper. The British and French Awards ISCUSSION of British and French acquisitions of former German territory in Africa is time- ly in view of the fact that debt and reparations questions are the only matters accuping internat-| ional attention at the present time. It must be re- membered that this particular territory is an em: pire in itself, embracing 930,000 square miles, Squal in area to all of the United States east of the Mississippi river with an extra state of New York thrown in. Attention is especially directed to the influence of those immense accretions of wealth on the ability of Great Britain and France to li quidate their debts to the United States. The former German territory of Southwest) Africa was turned over entitely to Great Britain) under the mandate provisions of ‘the Versailles treaty. The country has an area of 332,450 square miiles with 800 miles of Atlantic coast line. In 1921 the colony had a white population of 19,237, with 208,616 natives. A complete report on South: west Africa has been included in “A Review of the Trade, Industries and Productions of British | South Africa,” published in London in July, 1922. From that report it appears that in 1921 the im- ports of Southwest Africa toalled $5,570,000, and) the exports reached $7,300,000. The imports were} mostly cotton goods, foodstuffs, and iron and steel) manufactures, while the exports were cattle, cop- per, diamonds, and miscellaneous ores and min-' erals. The lack of water has interferred with the de- velopment of agriculture and mining, but appar- ently the countr no worse off in that respect than our own irrigated west, known a few years “igo as the “Great American Desert.” In spite of} the water defi the carrying capacity of the country is placed at 250,000 hdrses, 1,500,000 cattle, 800,000 goats, and 15,000,000 sheep, and it is offi- cially stuted that 160,000 square miles are avail- nble for cattle and sheep breeding. Various dis- eases hinder animal culture, but they are rapidly yielding to modern treatment. * “This country h never been properly prospect- ed,” says the British report. “The country needs opening up.” The absence of coel is a great hand-| icap to development, but, in spite of the inadequate prospecting, some coal has already been found, and it is thought that other deposits may be dis- cgyered “on the large areas of level grass country tdwards the Kalahari.” Despite the lack of water and fuel, 72,643 tons of copper ore were produced im 1921, together with a quantity of copper matte, vanadium, tin, lead, and marble. Gold and zinc jhaye been discovered as well as large quantities of iron. Fvom 1909 to 1921 diamonds were produced t@ the yalue of about $72,000,000, and the diamond amines are now under production. The marble is described as of “varied colors and good quality and exists in large bulk.” The total railway mileage is 1,417, about half of it narrow-guage, and there are 2,868 miles of tele- graph lines. The lack of suitable communication | is hindering the development of the country, but! with adequate railroads, motor roads, and tele-| graphs capital will be encouraged to seek invest-| ment there. 't is estimated by the British inves- tigator that ihe white population could be increas- ed_ ten-fold. There are three great obstacles at present to industrial progress in Southwest Africa; absence of coal; scarcity of water, and lack of population. The indications are that they will all be overcome eventually and the fertility of the soil and the wealth that lies underground made to bring in a wealth that many equally unpromising sections of the United States have been forced to yield. Southwest Africa is bound to have n great in-| fluence on the future income of the British treas- ury, and must take a prominent place in all discus. sions of the ability of Great Britain to meet her! debt to the United States within the twenty-five} year limit fixed by congress. _ Republicans Favor Democrats Oppose WICE has the United States supreme court de clared unconstiutional legislation prohibiting child labor. In both instances the litigation at- tacking the legislation was started by Democratic mill owners in southern states. In order to strike at the root of the evil, Senator Lodge and Representative Greene, both of Massa | houses mills, canneries, workshops, factorics or manufac turing establishments of persons under 18 years of age and of women.” This marks the third attempt by congress to pro- hibit the evil of child Jabor, and in this instance as in the first two instances, the legislation proposed is initiated by Republicans. The Republican party has always led the fight to prohibit child labor. The Democratic party has always opposed such legislation. m to child labor is at once apparent when the us data relative to child labor is studied. Of the ten states which have the highest child labor rates, all but one,—Rhode Island—are southern states. The child Jabor rates are computed by ob- taining the percentage of the total number of chil- dren in each state, between the ages of ten and fifteen, who are engaged in gainful occupations. Those states which haye 12 per cent or more of their toal number of children engaged in gainful occupations are as follows, together with the per centage: Tennessee 12.3; Texas 12.5; Louisiana 12.9; Rhode Island 12.4; North Carolina 16.6; Arkansas 18.5; Georgia 20.8; Alabama 24.2; Mississippi 25.5. south is reflected in legis! mn in southern Demo- cratic stat where the 1 prohibiting child labor or limiting the hours of child and women la- bor, are very few and not enforced. Data regarding the number of hours worked in southern textile mills is furnished by the depart- ment of commerce in a bulletin just issued upon the subject of the cotton spinning industry for the month of November. The average number of hours per day in the mills of cotton growing states was 11.48. The average number of hours per day in all othe? states was 7.56. Massachusetts had twice as | many active spindles as any other state in the| union. The average number of hours per day in! Massachusetts was 7.28. North Carolina, which stood second in the number of active spindles, had a workday which averaged 11.96 hours, (practically a twelve-hour day), and South Carolina which stood third had an average workday of 11.52 hours and Georgia, fourth, in the list of active spindles, | had an average workday of 11.4 hours. It is these | southern states which employ from 12 to 25 per cent of their children and which have 11 and 12 hour days, that are the backbone of the opposition | to any child labor legislation. In this connection it is pertinent to observe that! Samuel Gompers, Democratic politician and his! clique of Democratic followers, are very vocifer-| ous in their professions of opposition to child la- bor, but they never get any further than yocal pro- tes Mr. Gompers carefully protects the Demo- cratic southern mill owners bacause they are the backbone of the Democratic party. While he and his clique expend vast sums of money organizing northern mills, they exert very little effort toward organizing southern mills. While they are very bit- ter in their criticism of the 12-hour day in’the steel industry of the north, there is nothing on record showing they have criticized the 12-hour day in the textile mills of the south, which is doubly vie- ious because little children are employed to a jarge per cent in these mills and are the ones who are compelled to work these long hours. The Democratic party is notoriously antagon- istic to child labor legislation and its enforcement. Under the Wilson administration the immigration laws on the Mexican border were suspended in or- der to permit the importation of Mexican childrea for the purpose of working in southern cotton, on- ion and sugar beet fields. This was a violation in spirit of the contract labor law which was made possible by an,administrative order for the pur pose of enabling southern cotton planters and plan- tation owners to obtain a tremendous quantity of notoriously cheap labor. There is nothing on rec- ord to show that Mr. Gompers at any time pro- tested against this outrageous action upon the part of the Democratic administration. During the recent campaign Mr, Gompers and his Democratic crowd made a lot of noise regari- ing what they proposed to do to remedy the child labor evil. That was demagogic talk purely for po- litical purposes, None of Mr. Gomper’s political friends have ever seriously attemnted stop child labor. Mr. Gompers always lines up the Demo- cratio party which is notoriously sympathetic with the exploitation of women and children. Mr. Gompers and his clique fought Senator Lodge’s election in Massachusetts. Yet when the time came to act, Senator Lodge and Representa- tive Green, another Massachusetts Republican were the ones who initiate the movement to amend the federal constitution so that child labor may be pro- hibited and regulated. None of Mr. G ompers’ Democratic associates in either branch of congress made a inoye to stamp out child labor in the Unit: ed States, The Nation's Retail Trade OP PRIMARY importance in any estimate of the business outlook retail trade comes forward for consideration, The bulk of the output of in- dustry, whether textiles, boots and shoes, food products, or automobiles is finally dependent on distribution through retail channels, #roduction, transportation, distribution, and the while com- plex structure of finance are-based on the pur- chases of the ultimate consumer, Measured by these standards last year was one of recovery. A comparison of the volume of busi- ness for the year us a whole with that of the pre- ceding year is hardly a fair measure of the de- gree of improvement, for during the early months retail trade was at a lower Jeyel than during the corresponding months of 1921 and even during the summer months it was not at all encouraging. Dur- ing the last months of the year retail trade was consistently better than during the same period of the preceding year| In most parts of the coun: try it compared favorably, in volume, with that of normal years. The outlook for retail trade during 1928 is good. Wages in most industries are high, and unemploy- ment is practically nonexistent. The position of farmers, while still unsatisfactory, is better than it has been at any time since 1920 and the char- acter of sales by mail order houses indicates that they are no longer confining their purchases to the barest necessities. Stocks of goods, already low, in many lines have been depleted to the point of exhaustion during the past few weeks, and retailers are coming into the markets to replenish them, Wholesalers’, job- bers’, and manufacturers’ stocks are not heayy, and any general replenishment of stocks by retailers will necessitate increased production by manufac: turers in order to supply the demand. The most important factor of the immediate fu- ture in retail trade is price. After two years of stinted buying and waiting for prices to come down, the public has at last come into the market not buying rashly and extravagantly, as in 1919, but to meet needs which long have been neglected. That inc#easo in prices of raw materials and rising labor costs will be reflected in higher re tail prices for spring trade is foreshadowed by the recent advances in catalogue prices amounting to about 10 per cent, by two of the largest mail order Only actual test can determine whether v general increase in prices will tend to curtail or chusetts, haye introduced in the senato and the house, respectively, a proposed amendment to the| al constitution which reads as follows: ‘he congress shall have power to prohibit or to regulate the hours of lxbor in mines, quarries, stifle the habit of normal buying which is only beginning to be re-established. ven if the public should be willing to pay high- { The reason for the Democratic party’s opposi- South Carolina | This prevalence of child labor throughout the! Che Casver Wally Crivune The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trai: ns. Crarasétt OTT AND LuciNDA WIMPLE. WERE BoTH WAITING To RIDE Bur THe SKIPPER SAID HE COULD “TAKE JUST ONE. MORE PASSENGER ANO IT LED To A HAIR- PULLING SESSION WH. ich WAS So Goop THAT No ONE KICKED ABOUT MISSING THE. TRAIN. you get your —By Fox 30) Waiter for the bill. MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1923. Winds. Ob, do you know ‘Where the winds go? One bright day I ran and ran And followed the wind A little way, But I could not Keep up with him— He left me behind, So I do not know ‘Where the winds go, é Nor what they find. dessert. You turn to She is standing there, a seraphic grin wreathing her honest but simple face, and a cup of steaming coffee in her triumphantly ‘outstretched hand. ——. Sunset Through an Office Window. The westerng sun sends warning shafts To bid men lay aside their crafts And follow where he gilds a way Beyond the!r world of workaday. Yet stiil they toll; so he, in pity For folk so cumbered by the city, Pours splendor through the murky glass And brings a miracle to pass. The dimming rooms are drenched But since the wince That hurry by Always seem 6 ‘To me to try To tell me something That they know Before they go, I try and try with gold! The typist’s hair {s aureoled! ae awe oe stay The clerk who drones the day's mg enoug! Plainly to say What they whisper And they cry— As they go by. accounts Thumbs gilded columns and amounts! The ledgers now with fire are tipped, The toiler in his dusty erypt Intent on traffic's dul! epistles Beholds them changed to burnished mlesals Such as, in mediaeval cell, A patient monk {illuminated welll Yet who in all th’s rooms expanse Spins dreams from this irradiance, Sometimes I hear Them sing'ng low About peasant Things they know, But just before I understand Or ponders what celestial dress They bave escaped Has fallen on bh’ weariness? My eager hand. —Daniel Henderson. st ‘ T cannot make The wind stay, I_ never learn What the winds say, But I am sure That, as they pass, ‘They tell secrets Twixt Hip and Lip. { With ice on the land. If you happen to slip, A pint in the hand Is worth two un the hip. <2 er Important er prices there is danger that as a result wide- spread demands for higher wages will arise on the plea of necessity because of the rising cost of iving. A race between prices and wages would like- ly bring to an end the present period of compara- tive prosperity. It is to ie hoped that this will not policy is desirable. Sufficient confidence to take advantage of expanding business is necessary if much needed profits are to be made but experience has demonstrated that overconfidence based on an expectation of indefinite expansion (of business through a long period at rapidly rising prices will Karo—the best syrup for pancakes, Twenty millions of families last year served Karo—the great energy food- occur, but under the circumstances a conservative sooner or later be followed by disillusionment. Not Cruel But Unusual ) The Lack of’Bad Habits |sy*, “Yersts, gurely sir" and trota “Nevada's laws previous to March, | 1921, gave condemned men the choice of being hanged or shot,” observes the New York Sun. “Then very auletly in a wave of freak legislation a law was passed creating a new don’t amoke?” as though this were method of execution, ‘The prisoners most extraordinary. It scarcely seems were to be kept in a specially built| possible to them. cell; during some night of a desig-) ‘They ask questions. ‘They ask nated week the warden would shut! whether you used to smoke and swore off the alr and turn‘on the gas. off, and. if -s0. why). or whether you “Support for this new method has never started, and if not why -not. been steadily growing. People ‘weem They look at you with big wondering to have believed that the exercise of eyes. In short, they cause you to choice in the matter of death showed fee] decidedly like a two headed man, the State either as a torturer cr gnve or a bearded woman, or a Siamese Justice the appearance of stage play! twin, allowing the criminal to die as his, fancy happened to dictate. Also tho appeal from the death sentence by a Caudal! ss : ae Chinaman on the grounds of “cruel Peeves him, “You don't drink! Aw, or unusual punishment” has served font Uy yelper oe niliniae. seo: to advertise the idea and to stimulate (ine. pes owaliiee Seat haat a Giscussion | since | January; | 1933-/ 01, to feet’ at least faintly insulted, Judges, lawyers and legislators have tiinking, aa he does, that you are approved the principle generally. And ginions na to the composition of the how the state supreme court upholds {iit hy ie offering, the constitutionality of gas executions, | A “Certainly people cannot consider; But paramount among the exacer- passing away in sleep a cruel death bating non-habits is that which relates or comparable in cruelty to the sus-|t0 coffee. pense of choosing between death by! For the coffee abstainer never has a hanging or a firing squad. Gas would chance, He is beaten before he starts. even seem to be more human than The whole world Js in league against electricity. It of course seems un- him, subtly plotting the downfall of usual, just~as the first electrocutions his will power. aroused wide discussion. It is un-| You dine at the home of a friend, usual from novelty but law has made and you are given coffee. Rather it the custom, the usage, of the State; than undergo the od, weary round of! and that law fs affirmed by the high-|oatechizing, or rather than be chal- est State court. lenged to a duel, you dis@reetly allow | “Nevada's problem differs from that the stuff to remain untouched, en- In most States. The previous rule deayoring to detract attention from of lethal choice doubtless prejudiced your abstemiousness by toying with juries; the conviction of a woman, the cup as though you had just set it for instance, Involved the vivid ple- down, or were just about to lift It to ture of the victim either at a rope'’s your ips. Sometimes this ruse is It {s annoying to lack bad habits. If you refrain from nicotine, for ex- ample, men are constantly offering you cigarettes or cigars, and when you refuse exclaiming amazedly: ‘You For the non‘drinker matters are equally embarrassing. Nobody ever off to the kitchen. She returns with a cup of coffee, which she genially presents to you. You less genially present it back, ox- plaining again that you do not want palate and every meal: coffee. You explain this very care- fully, and she seems to comprehend 1, Golden Syrup—Biue Label Karo at last. 2 inept eyes Flavor A moment later you look up to see = a: Lg your waiter emerging from the rid Spy “alg erate kitchen. She is making straight at 4h haligtiont Mate ip ‘B' you and beaming Ike Cheshire cat, a = Oreagen ; aret In her hand tsa large cup of coffee. You spring to your fect and catch her before she can reach your tabie. You hold her firmly by the arm and ‘tell her many more times that you Positively do not want coffee. ‘At length you return to your table, tired but happy, and the waiter once more transports the hated fluid back to the kitchen. All goes well for a while then. You get your ice water, your ribs, your soup, meat, potatoes and vegetabl ee (be feng Be eed OF ac anloe. | effective. But most times it isn’t. Phas Satay woman's yftione AL leat Worse still is the restaurant. ono Justice has declared that the new Whether its cups be of egg shell scheme will heraten the laws ana china, or whether they be thick and in se the percentage of | convie. cracked and very like shaving mugs, tions among cases of tmurdec ang they serve coffee, They serve it asa manslaughter; hence criminals will matter Of sourse. they assume it hestitate before acting. Granting the iy * fe taranet familiar proposition that the moro )n° Same manner as ico water an certain the penalty the lass. activa, Dread and butter go with the meal. hia! eben fateh Goabh eab' TAtetea a ¢ te You say to the walter when first another strong reason for retaining YoU sit down: “Now let's have this her unique method of executing con-|Underptood right here and now—I Aeinned people.” don’t want any coffee.” You have some difficulty at first in convincing her that you are in earnest and later Then and Now In convincing her that you are sane. In olden times the woman was A clinging, ivy vine, But at last she grins amiably and And man the most convenient thing Around which she could twine. Ee < , ASK for Horlicks \ The, ORIGINAL ; Malted Milky; He waited on her hand and foot; | She couldn't do a thing— | She wasn't strong enough to work, So made him fetch and bring. But things have stronger now, And never sick or lame, But man, ho hasn't changed a bit— He fetches, just the sane, —Bert Adair Seelhoff. changed, she's ‘The Original Food-Drink for All Ages. Quick Lunch at Home, Office Fount RichMilk, Malted GrainExtractin Pow- der& Tablet forms. Nourishing~Nocooking. Moot me at the Smoke House. _t/ S@”Avcid imitations and Substitutes | BURNS’ ANNIV ERSARY CLAN STUART NO. 248, O. S. Owing to limited floor accommodations at the Burns Anniversary on Thursday, January 25, 1923, in the I. 0. O, F. Hall, no person will be admitted WITHOUT PRESENTING A TICKET. Tickets can be obtained from Alex Marshall, Nisbet Realty Co., 812 East Second, Phone 101M. J. GLENDINNING Because it gives such instant relief | from any itching rash or more severe sooth- lerskin, ino! Soar tt does wonders for poor complexions. Evcry home bould have Resinol Ointment onhand _ case of eczema. 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