Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX. Che Casper Dailp Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo, Publication Offices, Tribune Building BUSINESS TELEPHONES werer~_15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting Al} Departments —$—<—<—$— Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 President and Editor MEMBER THE ED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusiveiy entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, | Advertising Representatives. CHARLES W. BARTON ASSOCIA’ ll; £86 Fifth Avenue, a9 | Boston, Mass. Suite 494, 55 New Mont- ? Iect 1 the Daily| Romery St., San Francisco, Cal. Coples of Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston} and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome, SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By Carrier or By Mall | | One Year, Daity and Sunca - One Year, Sunday Only - Sharon Bldg., Bix Months, Dell ig | poses, in 37 states, amounting to $#433,000,000. One Month Daily and Sunday ---- Actual advances totaled $266,000,000, of | which Per nee al ter subscript Men of the Associated Press Member of Audit Burean of Circulation (A. B. C.) Kick If You Don’t Get Your Tribune. { any time between 6:20 and 8 o'clock eive your Tribune. A paper will b al messenger. Make It your 4 en your carrier misses 3 The Casper Tribune’s Program Jon project west of Casper to be author- | made for a period not longer than one year, but | opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, expressed completed at once. zoning syatem for the Casper. mprehensive municipal and schoo] recreation 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 Is and return. Natrona county and more high- ple {relght ratee for shippers of the in region, and more frequent train service for Casper. Throtiling a Basic Industry. d hare TRIBUNE would be the last of all interests to urge expenditure upon the State of Wyom ing in present circumstance of depression or even in the day of affluence for that matter. We are of the school that believes that the people’s tax money creates a sacred fund, that is to be expended with intelligent economy, good business sense and judgment, faithful accounting and strictly for the ‘people’s benefit. i The State of Wyoming has a splendid exhibition plant, in a magnificent location at Douglas, equip-| ped for the showing and encouragement of each} and particular the activities to which our people) are devoted. The investment made from time to time covering a number of years is considerable. The investment must be protected and the property maintained. The State Fair is an institution in which the whole people are interested and take part. The an- nual exhibitions are an index to our growth, pro- s and development in the various lines of en Seaver. More particularly in the basic industries of agriculture, live stock, and manufacturing. The| things that are Wyoming should be encouraged by Wyoming. Those things from which we obtain our daily bread and which we are constantly striving to imprrove in quality and quantity. An annual comparison of results, a friendly rivalry in the things we have accomplished in our yearly toil, are altogether desirable as a means of education in methods and experience. Such things are vital to advancement. To the person of breath and intelligence, no ques- tion arises with reference to the propriety of proper financial support of the State Fair from the funds of the people. The people desire it and urge it. It is one of the broad benefits that ac- crue to them through taxpaying. It is of the high est business importance to the state and they recog: nize it as such. Wyoming cannot afford to recede from the po- sition she has won, by dint of hard and intel- ligent work, with her State F Those placed in} charge of our fiscal affairs must not assume to or-| der the concerns of the people with high hand.! Established institutions, necessary to the people must not be stinted through ignorance or captious- mess. They must be provided for properly and with due regard to growth and expansion. Agriculture, of all of our industries, must be fostered. It must have every opportunity that science and intelligence can bring to its develop- ment. It must not be retarded for the Jack of funds as is now threatened by the framers of the state budget. Governor Ross has recommended an appropria- tion of $50,000 for 1923-4 for agricultural extension work, a reduction of $57,000 in the appropriation of 1921-2. This not economy or good business judgment, it is suicide to the agricultural interests of the state. This appropriation dealt only with the state university activities and those of the county agents. It should remain at the same figure. The State Fair appropriation for 1921-2 was $50,000, and $5,000 for improvements. This session it is proposed by the governor that the appropria- tion be cut in half and no additional whatever for ry extensions. This is more false econ- omy. n a fair that has grown from 2,500 entries to approximately 9,000 entries in four years to cut appropriations sad of increasing them is short- sightedness besides being actual foolishness. The State Fair should have not a cent less than an appropristion of $50,000 for 1923-4 toget with an additional appropriation for the spec purpose of additional buildings and other neces- sary improvements. The State Fair is worth this sum and more to the people of Wyoming. Rather than a niggardly appropriation which admits of getting nowhere in s0 worthy a_ purpose, | let us nail up the gates and turn the beautiful| grounds into a ram pasture. If the state is to practice economy, and we all desire it to do so, et us practice economy not by squeezing the life blood out of the people's an- nual harvest festival, let us rather use judgment to build up the interests from which they derire their substance and give their state prominence in worth-while accomplishment. —— War Finance Corporation’s Aid. | but if there is anything loose around the country the corporation had made advances to assist the exporation of agricultural as well as manufac- tured commodities when, in May, 1920, the activ-} ities were suspended. Sadi Activity wus resumed by the corporation in January, 1921. Its powers were broadened by the) Agricultural Credits Act of August, 1921. It was | authorized not only to finance the carrying of ag- ricultural products until they could be exported or sold for export in an orderly manner, but to make advances to banking and financing institutions| and co-operative associations of producers for agri-! cultural purposes; that is, for purposes connected | with the growing, harvesting, preparing for mar- ket, and marketing of agricultural products, or} the breeding, raising, fattening, and marketing of | live stock, Advances for these purposes may be extensions may be granted, with the restriction that the time for payment of any such andvance is not to be extended beyond three years from the date when the original advance was made. | From January 4, 1921, to November 30, 1922, the! corporation had approved advances to banks, live| stock loan companies and co-operative marketing associations, for agricultural and live stock pur- 5156,000,000 remained outstanding. Of additional adyances, for export purposes, totaling $38,654,000, about two-thirds represented advances on cotton, and less than $5,000,000 was on other than agricul- tural and live stock products. The volume of the corporation's advances recently has been affected by the approaching expiration of the period, up to , 1923, during which under the existing law, make advances. h such comprehensive credit machinery func- tioning in the country to meet the special needs of farmers, there are many who subscribe te the in his last annual report, that “the farmer's dif culty now is not so much lack of credits as it is lack of markets, and recovery of markets depends rather more on world conditions than on domestic credits.” Without further legislation, of course, the War Finance Corporation will soon cease to be a factor in supplying the needed farm credits intermediate | | between those represented by short-term bank} | loans and those represented by long-term mortgage | loans. It is desirable that the corporation should | | not be terminated without some other provision; |for the particular credit needs which it is now meeting. The corporation is an emergency organ-| ization and it should not be made a permanent feature of the country’s credit agencies, Moreover, its loanable funds are supplied from the treasury. Whatever may have been the necessity for the gov- ernment’s participation in the granting of credits to farmers and others during the war and subse- quently, private agencies, if properly organized, can mobilize credit resources for farmers as for others. Coming Our Way. A RISE in crude oil prices, a north and south railroad and the removal of the state capital, is all that came Casper’s way in one day. We can safely, and with becoming modesty and truth- fulness say, that we were holding up no tin dippers when it rained all these things. They all came as a pleasing surprise. Still when they began com- ing neither did we hasten for umbrellas to shed them. If the good people insist upon presenting valu-| hable tokens of this kind what else can we do but} accept them. In the first place there is logic in these gifts, so long as we are calling them that. Casper, and all that she is and stands for is necessary to the givers. Jt is quite appropriate that not only these things but many others should come to us. We are not undeserving, and besides we have so many other things that fit in or go with the other things that the whole situation is ideal. There is no reason why we should not have an increase in the price of crude oil. In fact it was away over-due. And when the Wyoming North and Sonth rail- road is to be built in this state, it wouldn’t be much of a railroad if it avoided Casper, and it would have some trouble digging up revenue if it did not get a crack at the Casper tonnage. You can’t blame the people of Wyoming for de- siring the capital removed from the extreme south- east corner of the state to a point nearer the center and accessible from all sections. Casper offers the best solution in the capital matter. Here is where it should be and the people will doubtless so locate it. We have no notice of anything coming tomorrow, that ought to come to Casper, the wind will bring it in in due time, -—~¢ — a ane Necessity of Economical Marketing. (FaSes prevails, not only among farmers but umong competent students of marketing prob- lems, that in the distribution of farm ucts there is an excessive duplication of middlemen, with a tendency to depress unduly the prices paid the producers and to raise the costs to the con- sumers. Doubtless much can be done to eliminate unnecessary services in the distribution of farm products, und of other commodities as well. Successive percentage increases in freight rates have brought about a relationship between the rates on raw comWfodities and those on finished products which many farmers believe, repre- sents disproportionately heavy costs of marketing their products. No new machinery is necessary to correct any harmful inequalities in freight rates. But with or without additional aids to orderly marketing such as haye been suggested, and a) from the question of relative freight rates, there are important problems of credit with reference both to the production and the marketing of ag- ricaltural products. The kinds of credit which farmers seek are yari- ous! Many of their needs can be met by short-term loans for periods of not more than six or nine months. Much of this borrowing meets the ordin- ary requirements of commercial banking. On the other hand, there is a large field for long-term bor- rowing of the investment kind. Intermediate be- tween these are credit needs whose periods range from about one to three years. Each of these classes of credit demands has all along been met in some degree by one or another agency, but often at unnecessarily high cost to the borrowers, which a better integration of the credit machinery might obviate. The aftermath of the panic of 1907, with its ad- yerse effects upon business in general, greatly stimulated interest in the problems of bettering rural conditions. The appointment of the Country Life Commission, which made its report in 1910, was one of the many manifestations of the growing appreciation of the peculiar difficulties encoun- tered by the rural dwellers. In this report and in that of the National Monetary Commission, evi- HE War Finance Corporation, a government in-| dence was presented of the need for other provi- stit has rendered considerable aid to the) sions for agricultural credit than were then avail-| busi g. In March 1919, an amend | able; and it was evident that in any general re- ment t law ereating the corporation author | vision of the banking system which might be un-| ized it to n c ot exceeding a billion) dertaken some attempt would be made to meet the| doll exporters and to American’ peculiar credit needs of farmers. The present Da exporters who would extend agitation, therefore, does not originate in entirely to ign buyers. Accordingly new conditions, Gbe Casper Daily Cribune Mickey (Himself) McGuire. Micker MSGuirne's GANS suppeNLY APPEARED FReM ACROSS THE R.R. TRACKS WITH A SorT of AMMUNITION FEEDER So THAT Mickey’, WHoSe AsiLitTY WITH A SNow BALL 1S MARVELLOUS, DIDN'T HAVE To WASTE A GIT OF TIME DOING ANYTHING BUT THROWING. rin Winter Sunset. Desolate prairie of dust-brown grass, One black tree ‘gainst the sky's steel gray; No bit of color in all the world— Just vast dullness stretching away. But now fn the west the Sun God sinks, ‘Waving his banner, flaming red, And windows burst into living flame, That a moment before were cold ané dead. The somber pond where the cattle drink, Changed to a poo) of blood red hue Radiant, pulsing, touched by fire, Is the cold and wint'ry world we knew. Touched, too, our hearts with cour- age high, And thrilled our beings into tune By sunset, on this winter dey, As could po fose in Janguorous June. Blanche Sage Haseltine. Sacred American Rite. There are @ certain few minutes every night that the average Amer- ican cltisen holds sacred to the rite of putting out the cat, and those few minutes are the unhappiest moments in the citizen’s life. There are va- Fiations of the ritual according to the Geography of the house through which it is necestury to chase the cat before ho can be put out, but in| effect the sad process is the same all Over the nation. Halt an hour before bedtime a cat jumps down off a sofa, says “rarrr!" —which means “It’s time to put me out. Try to do it"—and shoves out ef the room as if it were late for an appontment somewhere far away. Then erys Father, looking over the edge of his newspaper, “There goes that nine-lived son of a sea-cook. For seven cents I'd chloroform it as dead as an egg.” And Mother answers, “You chloro: form that cat and I won't speak to you tor a week. Put ‘t out and let’s go to bed.” And Father remarks, “Lite {s just one cat after another” and gets a flashlight out of the writ- ing desk ané the yardstick out of the closet and begins to put the cat out. First he looks under the piano. No cat. Then under the chest of draw- ers in the front hali. No cat. Then he goes upstairs and looks under ali five beds, but atill he finds no more cats than if he didn’t own one. “Liszy!’ anys he, now rapping on the hired girl's door. “The cat is un- der your bed. Give it a shove with your umbrella or something.” “AN righty,” says Lizzy. Just then the cat comes silently down the hall, says “mrr!—meaning “Look at the poor fish"—rubs against Father's leg, and suddenly goes sky- hooting Cown the back stairs, with Father after it, thundering along like an avalanche. It now goes under the kitchen range. It hunches up, away back beside the wall and begins to purr. It {a very happy. Father gots down on his stomach and squirts his flashlight in and sees it there. “Come, kitty, kitty, kitty.” “Purr, purr,” says the eat, taking another hunch towards the wall. Father reaches in one arin and scrapes it around. The cat pre- tefids that ft thinks he wants to play with ft. It remches out a set of claws and hooks him. Father lets out a yelp that rattles the windows. Then he takes his yardstick and reaches in and gives that cat a boost that helps it out from under the stove in considerable of a hurry. Father climbs to his feet. around. No cat. He takes a shortened grip on his stick and goes galloping through the dining room {nto the sitting room like ® race horse going home to supper Plenty of cat there. It is dozing on Mother's knee. “Purr, purr,” the cat. ‘Give me that hyena, Father, and reaches out to te The hyena geta down and aray He looks says Koes from there, heading through the parlor toward the hal and the front stairs, “Ha, ha, ha!" says Mother. “Wow.” But Father isn't saying anything. ‘When he gets half way up the stairs the cat has turned around and is walking back down to meet him, smiling and nodding and buzzing like a tea kettlo, But Father now is ruled by his ani- mal instincts. It is now a large ant- mal against @ small animal. The large animal wanta to kill the small ani- mall and eat it for Cinner. The large animal raisos his yardstick and fetches the smal! animal a clip across the spine that makes the dust fly in clotds. The smal! animal says “Awk!" The large animal says, “Say it again!” and lets fo another clip. But just then there is a kind of a misunderstanding between them and they xet mixed up in each other's legs and they roll all up together tn a ba‘l, and go down the stairs that way and stop at the front door. Whereupon Mother comes in and picks up the cat and puts it out. Then she comes back and picks up Father. He is now just coming to. “Where am I?” he inquires, “Am I ead? I~I can’t seem to get things straight. Is it time to put the cat out?” Metering the Mail. Business firms are printing thelr own postage now, with government approva}. That is, a firm can print postage stamps on its letters, all be fore the correspondence is sent to the postoffice. The amount of postage used is recorded by an ingenious in- vention, a postage stamp meter. Quick Quaker Oats Cooks to perfection in 3 to 5 minutes You Can Sleep Longer now, if you wish Quaker Oats now comes in two styles, identical in quality and flavor. Our experts have perfected Quick Quaker Oats—the quickest cooking oats in the world. It cooks in from 3 to 5 minutes, and it cooks to perfection. Now your oat dish can be read or coffee, ly, if ypu wish, before the eggs Now two great supremacies Now Quaker Oats in two ways excel any other oats in exist- ence. Long ago their flavor won the world. It has made Quaker Oats the dominant brand wherever oats lovers live. Quaker is flaked from queen grains only—just the rich, plump, flavory oa We get but ten pounds from a bushel, but those ten pounds are the finest oats that people ever get. Now comes quick cooking. Quick Quaker is flaked from the game queen gra: But the oats are cut before flaking. They are rolled very thin and are partly cooked. So the flakes are smaller and thinner—that is all. And those small, thin flakes cook quickly, If you want exquisite flavor you must get Quaker Oats. want five-minute cooking you must get them. A If you Get either or both, . as youlike, But get Quaker always if you want this dish delightful WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1923. invented. It was approved by the post- offico department, and now about 4 per cent of the United States mail fs inetered. ‘The meter fs used in connection with a mel‘ing machine to print a stamp, post mark, and canceliatian mark on envelopes at the rate of 250 a minute. The machine also seals the envelopes and stacks them in a pile. | As each piece of mail! is stamped the meter registers the amount of post: age used. The imprints made by the stamp meter are not like adhesive stamps. ‘The machine prints an oval design labeled “U. S. Postage Two Cents | Paid,” or whatever the amount may be, together with the number of the permit and the number of the meter, At the sides of the oval are wa rr ‘Two years ago a stamp meter was! lines which the postoffice uses to in- dicate that a stamp is canceled. At the same time the machine also makes a circular imprint showing the name of the city and the date and time of mailing—similar to the post mark ordinarl'y stamptd on mall at the postoffice. Danger Ahead. She rent the air with piercing note. She found a hair upon his coat, Her poor heart bled with grave concern. ‘The hair was red and wasn't her'rn. —Youngstown Telegram. Jewelry and watch repairing by ex. pert workman; all work guarantéed. Casper Jewelry Manufacturing Co., OS Bull¢ing. L9-te ———>—___ try Anticipates Your Needs $40,000,000 represents the the ue cement —finished and nearly fin- ished—which manufac- turershad in reservestorage Og mills on April ] 1 in anticipation o our summer needs. This de on the aver- age I ill price rey by U.S. Geological sa Carrying such stocks in ad- vance of actual demand means: Heavy financing. As most cost items represent actual casf- outlay. pact g chances on future de- Large fixed investments in stor- age bins, amounting sometimes to more than half a million dol- lars in even a medium-sized plant—for cement is a bulky material and has to be kept dry. As things turned out, last year was a record one in the demand for cement. Government figures show 116,563,000 barrels were shipped, yet that was less than 80 per cent of the industry’s produc- ing capacity. And nearly 70 per cent or 80,000,000 barrels of this total was called for by cement users in the six-months’ period, May to October inclusive. This shows the seasonal nature of demand for cement. Most people still believe that the “building season” meanssixorseven months of the year instead of twelve. Last year more than 14,000,000 barrels of cement were shipped during August and less than 3,000,000 barrels in January. Cement being a basic building ma- terial is a prime mover—in other words, the demand for cement immediately creates a demand for all other building materials. And this comes at a time when crop and fuel movements are already overtaxing the railroads, In anticipating future demand and in educational work to lengthen the so-called building season, ce- ment manufacturers are always trying to serve your best interests, PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION . EE. ct Ey Eo. New York Building Materials Regular Quaker Oats Come in package at left —the style you have always known. Quick Quaker Oats Come in package at right, with the “Quick” label. Your grocer has both. Be sure to get the style you want. Wane Os x Saree Packed in sealed round packages with removable covers We are equipped with the stock to supply your wants in high grade lumber and build- ers’ supplies. Rig timbers a specialty. KEITH LUMBER CO.