Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1923, Page 2

PAGE TWO. Che Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building a BUSINESS TELEPHONES --_---.--_----- 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoftice as second class matter, November 22, 1916 CHARLES W. BARTON -..----. President and Editor MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ——— ee Advertising Representatives. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, Til; 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City: Globe Bldg. Boston, Mass., Suite 494, Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- . San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and“San Francisco offices and visitors are weicome. 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A comprehensive municipal and school 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 Garden Creek Falls and return. Better roads for Natrona county and more high- ways for Wyoming. i More equitable freight ratse for shippers of the Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for Casper. Moving the Capital. ATUBALLY Cheyenne objects to the removal of the state capital to Casper or any other city Tikely to be considered in a removal proposal and just as naturally the Cheyenne Tribune voices the objections. A ‘ main opposition is because of the investment e state has in buildings and grounds at Cheyenne, Which the Tribune asserts could not be duplicated for three million dollars. ' This is an item, of course, if the state were called upon to dig down into the treasury to supply, and at present the state has no three millions to spend for this or any other purpose, especially in the face of the many other needs and the cries of tax- payers for retrenchment and economy. . . The inconvenience of the Cheyenne location is the strongest point against the present capital, and whether the measure now before the legislature brings the question of a vote before the people in 1924 or not, the day is certain to come when such a yote will be taken and the capital as certainly re- moved to some point near the geographical center of the State. In the light of the experience of other states of the union, the further question looms as to whether the state capital is a blessing or a curse to the community. In very few cases can it be pointed out that the capital city is the financial or industrial center of the state, and in fewer cases still that it is the largest and most important metropolis. In most instances the seat of state government is a quiet and backward town, largely out of date and given over to story-telling and reminiscences. It is that way because such an atmosphere and setting is more suited to the profound contemplations of Jawmakers. Speed and excitement ad the thrills of regular town are too distracting. S Talowsver, you never can tell when the public mind will change, and what satisfies it this year in state capital styles may not be the favorite mode next year. Of course, if the thing unexpectedly blows up and ‘we must vote on location next year and the capital is ‘presented to Casper, we suppose, we will have to make the best of it. We certainly can furnish as beautiful a location, even more picturesque, than the flat where the present edifice stands. That much is easy. We might be able to scratch around and find the three million the Tribune says will be required to duplicate the plant. This would not be the toughest job in the world either. _ Cheyenne may as well face the situation first as Jast. ‘The capital will be removed, because a yote of the people will do it. It may not be done next year, but the years that will see the removal are hot many. The development in the central and northern portions of the state have been so great and the population of these sections have so out- stripped the growth in the southern portion that the great preponderance of yotes is in the north half. And since people desire convenience of ac- cess to the place they have business they will vo' for a central location when the matter is sub- mitted to them. When the vote does come business and not sentiment will rule the voter. ————_—_o—_—_——_ Striking at the Root. y TH the army of officials and the numerous or- ganizations active in the suppression of the illegitimate use and sale of narcotic drugs, success in achievement might be expected if the task were not one of so many and so great difficulties. As it is one can only hope, and not too confi- dently at that. There is enormous profit in pandering to the de- mands of victims whose willingness to pay is lim- ited only by the difficulty of getting money for the satisfaction of a torturing need. That is why laws against selling to them can searcely be enforced, no matter how stern the pun- ishments threatened. Smuggling of the drugs through customs and other barriers also is almost fatally easy, so smal) in bulk compared to value, and, as is not the case with gems, the drugs do not remain long in evidence to convict the dealers in them. Recognizing these facts, students of the subject declare that little or nothing toward the abolition of this fiendish trade can be accomplished, other wise than by an international league for the pur- pose of attacking the evil at its root. If made, these drugs will be sold in whatever amounts pro- duced, and therefore, production must be restricted within the limit of proper medical use. ‘The doctors of all the world could be supplied with but a minute fraction of the narcotic sub stances now consumed in this and in each of the itries. The problem would be f two plants polled. tine ire come the yarious deriva- ives of opium an ie other out of in its event forms is made. gigs acd That is the work which the reformers have un- | fronts them. tw ees National Retrenchment. ASERECIATION for the lifting of burdens and saying of dollars and cents for the people, is not readily shown and is soon forgotten; and as has often been said, and, unfortunately, with too great truth, that while the people of the country desire and demand retrenchment in public expen- ditures, they are seldom grateful to thsed who put it into effect. The present national administra- tion has the distinction of effecting the greatest retrenchment in federal expenditures in our his- tory. It remains to be seen whether the taxpayers of the country will show their gratitude in future support of the men and the party who have kept the faith and performed a promised task. This reference to reduction in expenses does not relate to peace-time expenditures as compared with expenditures for the prosecution of war. It is common knowledge that after the armistice, and while the Democratic party was still in power in the administration of the affairs of the govern- ment, it was only compulsion exerted by Republi- cans in congress that the Wilson regime was in- duced to demobilize the military forces and reduce the number of civilian employes. ie Wilson ad- ministration was as slow in getting out of military mobilization as it was,in getting in. The Republi- cans cut a billion and a half dollars out of Dem- ocratic estimates for expenditures. ductions in peace expenditures. The president sect the example by cutting White House expenditures, and then urged upon the head of every executive department to cut expenses to the bone. On the recommendation of the president, congress reduced | taxes in a number of particulars, well known | to the public, and this meant reduced revenue. Last July, at the beginning of the present fiscal year all indications were that in this twelve months to end June 30, next, there would be ex- penditures exceeding the receipts by almost $700,- ' 000,000. That was an enormous prospective defi- { cit, but it did not fease Mr. Harding, who has been up against prospective deficits in his private business. He called a meeting of business heads in the government service, and asked for help in reducing expenses. | The result thus far has been exceedingly satis- factory. Better in fact than was thought possible. It has been a surprise to the Democrats, who sneeringly commented upon Republican retrench- yment plans. In the’ first half of the fiscal year, which covers the last hal? of the calendar year, 1122, the pepe ive deficit was reduced approxi- mately $425,000,000, leaving the deficit in prospect at $275,000,000, stated in round numbers, when sta- tistics were compiled for submission to congress early in December, last. Since then there has been a further review of conditions in the business of the government and in his address to the meeting of bureau heads a few days ago the president was able to submit figures which indicated that the deficit will be only $92,000,000, showing a reduction thus far of about $600,000,000. The credit is due to what is commonly called the administration, the president, the cabinet heads, the congress and the employes of the gov: ernment down to the janitor. Without the co-op- eration of all of these the splendid showing of economy could not have been made. It is a big machine to handle but it was successfully handled because to saye was the first policy of the admin- istration. Economy became a necessity after the wasteful extravagance of the previous regime ard | the threat of bankruptcy that stared the govern’ {iment in the face. It not a question of pop- ularity with the Republican party and its metn- bers in the government it was a question of pre- serving the nation’s credit and honor. And it is not the first time by any manner of means that the Republican party has done this same thing for the American people. If the people are satisfied to have their taxes reduced, and both ends of the government finances meet, after the chaotic state in which these thing were left by predecessors, it-is no more than con mon every-day politeness to assure the president and his party members that their faithfulness is appreciated. | } | (aU SBM Sos ie a ae at What Shall We Do? CCORDING to the figures of the United States shipping board, the government on January 1 owned 1,379 merchant vessels, with a capacity ag- gregating nearly ten million tons. Of this number |964 were out of commission. This represented an idle capacity of practically six million tons. Of the 964 government-owned merchant vessels tied up at the beginning of the present year, 874 are steel cargo ships. The ship subsidy question is merely a question of what shall be done with this tremendous amount of idle shipping capacity. The problem could not be more concisely and accurately stated than it has been by Senator Nelson of Minnesota in a letter on the subject to an inquiring constituent. The senator writes: { “The facts are that during the war and for two years subsequent to the armistice, at an expense of upwards of three billion dollars, the government constructed something like 600 wooden ships, hast- ily built, of green timber, nineteen concrete ships f cement, and something like 1,600 steel ships. “Of these ships, the wooden ships turned out to be utterly worthless and have been sold in a lump, for a mere song. The concrete ships are of no value. Of the steel ships, we have in the neighborhood of 400 in operation by the government, but we are operating them at an annual loss of $50,000,000. In round numbers, fe have on our hands, lying idle and deteriorating in value, somewhere around one thousand steel ships, varying from a tonnage of 5,000 up to 10,000 each. | “The question what to do with these ships that we now have on hand is of a three-fold character: (1) Shall we try to sell them to our competitors ir Europe, if possible? This would make it easier for our competitors in Europe to drive us from the ocean. (2) Shall we scrap them, throw them all into the scrap pile and mark it all as a dead loss? (3) Shall we make an effort to put them afloat un- der the American flag and encourage our own peo- ple to buy the ships and operate them in competi- tition with the countries of the old world? This is the real situation of the case. “Owing to the high cost of living and the higher wages we pay in this country to our officers and seamen, it costs more to operate our ships than the ships of foreign governments, and the object of the so-called subsidy is to make it possible for our people to compete with the various countries of Eu- rope by making up this difference in cost of opera-| | tion. “It is estimated that the subsidy proposed to one shipping will not exceed $25,000,000 a year. We are new operating such ships as we have in the service at a loss of $50,000,000 a year. This subsidy plan | will cut down the present loss of $50,000,000 a year jone half, and it seems to me that in view of the ituation—in view of the fact that we have a thou sand ships idle—it is our duty as good American dertaken, and it is not an impossibility that con- | But the present discussion has reference to re-| Che Casner Daily Tribune Vernon McNutt. i oe 1 AND = | | citizens to aim to put these vessels afloat and in the service under the American flag. “The government itself ought to get out of the business of operating ships. It has proved as ex- pensive a luxury as the government operation cf our railroads.” Fe ee a eT Good Form of Dividends. ( i are: MAN who lives up to his contract collects interest on his investment as long as he lives. He is the bird people are looing for to pay him the interest. He don’t have to go out after it when he has established the fact that he is a con- tract keeper, or that he is so rare as to be a cur- iosity. There are lots of people who keep their con- tracts, and their spoken word too, for that mat- ter; but there are not enough of them, So when word gets around that John Smith is addicted to doing what he says he will do either orally or in WHY, HES GoT A PaIR oF PANTS THERE AND SAYS HE'S GoNNA RoLL THAT TELEPHONE CABLE ONTO "EM PERMANENT CREASE ? —By Fontaine Fox GIVE 7EM A writing, and sometimes even a little better, John} Smith, has friends and admirers who want to do business with him. John don’t haye to worry. After a time he is in the: siuation meant when you say he is “sitting pretty.” His investment in so sound a security as honesty is bound to yield handsome dividends. This security does not fluctuate. There are no ups and downs. It remains steady and the old per cent ;comes as regular as the days roll around. It would seem that more people would follow the course of John Smith. They can scarcely help | noticing what his system does for him. A contract! |is not a difficult thing to fulfill unless it is a bad jone and that is the particular kind John Smith avoids entering into. Take old John for example and go along with thim, and draw down the same kind of dividends he is getting. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923. washy. money.” “The director of an economic foun- dation expressed his sentiments ‘Min- isters, ly minis- ters, don’t give me anything in their sermons; they fall back on stock phrases; they don't define terms, but Just keep on talking. They talk on the price of coal or industrial and economic conditions which they don’t know anything about.’ “A medical student adds, ‘Ministers aren't mocern; they lack moral cour- age to speak the truth.” “It ‘s of no use my protesting that, I have known hundreds of ministers, and that what these people say isn't true. Thousands on thousands are thinking as these people think; and that, being the case, they probaby have some ground for thelr opin- fons.”” They are preaching for Expecting Too Much of Your Watch. If you have a watch that does not gain or lose more than a day or so a Week, the wisest thing you can do is not to fuss with It. Leave well enough alone. °As soon as you beg'n to try to regulate a watch you are lost; you might as well throw it in the river in the first place and save your. | self the tears. Aman had a watch which lost seventeen mifiutes a day. It was a high priced watch, made by a famous house, and it lost those seventeen minutes just as regularly and as sure- ly as the going down of the sun, and the man had no reasonable cause to complain—he always set the watch at 7 o'clopk in the morning, and there was no time in the day that he could not figure out the exact hour by get- ting pencil and paper and using the formulas for permutations and com- binations. If his watch had been tn the habit of adding on twenty minutes one day and dropping off sixteen minutes the next, like so many watches, that would have been a different proposi- tion. But his watch wasn’t in that habit; it was a perfectly reliable time- plece, and he had no cause to get ex- cited and do what he did. One day, when he did not have a pencil and paper to figure out the time he got provoked and took the watch to a jeweler and sald: “Did I buy this piece of Junk in this junk shop?” “The baby has been driving nails with it,” answered the jeweler. “I can always tell.” no baby,” said the man. “I haven't even a wife. I cannot take on any more worries than this watch. One more worry would split by skull.” “Come back in two weeks with a five dollar bill,” argued the jeweler. In two weeks the man came back and got his watch and wore it away, DO YOU KNOW THAT ‘3, The conduct brakemen, engi neers and firemen of the Burlington railroad are compelled to have the right time? DO YOU KNOW THAT They have to carry ‘watches of Preachers as People See | Them. think of ministers; and he found out. It\is interesting to know. how the other half lives, even more intorest- had enough of them when I was a) girl.’ “Ministers are fakers,”\ answers ‘2. thinks. Writing in the New Republic. says this: “What are the opinions of the av- erage person about the church and the ministry? A fqv days ago I asked a young friend to find out!/ater. They talk what men and women on the street won't give a man wife. REBUILT and Look “6” 39 PAIGE TOURING Refinished in deep wine color. One new tire and three good ones. Original cost $1,735. Pay $240 down and $39.25 for ten months, including interest. 1922 BUICK “6” ROADSTER Completely overhauled in our shop. Has Be been repainted in maroon and acts and looks like new. Priced to move at $850.00. Pay $300.00 down, balance easy. Casper ing to know how Here is what they say about the church: ‘The ministers are clever Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts| at siding through; they don't believe what they say,’ says a tradesman's ‘They keep telling you what you mustn't do; that you can’t do this and that—play cards, go to the the- “ Paige Mr. Used Car _ Buyer You're wanted at the Doud-Weaver Motor Co, right away to look over the greatest val- ues in used cars ever offered in Casper. Some lent mechanical condition, some used a little, some used some more, and all priced to suit everybody’s purse. We also have some exceptional buys all the way from $200 up, and we will promise you your money’s worth in any or all of them. BUY NOW AND SAVE MONEY THE DOUD-WEAVER MOTOR CO. 434-436 Weat Yellowstone the other half) Syrian shoemaker, a. member of the Congregational church. ‘They look after Americans and think the rest of us are duds. In Syria the m‘nisters! are pastors; they, know every child;| they are friends of everybody—nvt so here.’ “i "A manager of a machine works about charity and accent ora job. I does not hesitate: cent of the ‘Ninety-eigbt per ministers are — wishy- 7 > REFINISHED, some in excel- At These LATE MODEL DODGE SEDAN New tires and tubes, Car in perfect shape. Front seat lets down, making bed in car. This car is in perfect condition. Will sell for $600 less than new one, and you pay $400 down with balance easy. LATE 1921 ESSEX ROADSTER With six good tires and perfect motor. is an exceptional buy at $750.00. Pay $300.00 down and $88 a mont for ten months, inclu- sing terest. This is a good one, so act quic! Phone 1700 STANDARD MAKE, that will not vary more than 15 seconds in a week either fast or slow? DO YOU KNOW THAT. ‘They have to bring thelr watches to AYRES JEWELRY Co. twice every month and have them inspect: ea? WHY AYRES JEWELRY CO? DO YOU THINK That the Burlington railroad guess who they want to be their official watch inspector? NO. They INVES- TIGATE FIRST. DO YOU THINK ‘That if our watch repairing meets with the exacting requirements of the Burlington rallroa¢ that we are the firm that you want to have do ‘your watch work. Phone 1364-W AYRES JEWELRY CO. 133_S. Center Street. ° Hay, Grain, Chicke Alfalfa, Native, Wheat Grass, Pra! Wheat, Barley, Rye, Bran, Oyster and two or three hours later he pulled it out and looked at it and knew it was gaining like u race horse simply by comparing it with the sun. He took it back to the store, had pons words with the Jeweler, and lett it. A week later he came tn and got it again, and that night when he went to bed he looked at it and found that it Was running away back in the day- lght somewhere—it did not even seem to realize that the sun had gone down. Next morning when the jeweler came to open his store there was the man sitting on his doorstep, holding his’ watch in his hand and trembling Uke a poplar leaf. “Take it away from met!" said the man, “It's haunted.’’ “Listen,” said the jeweler, “Ti tame that watch if it can be tamed by a human being. In the meantimo I'll sive you another one to carry.” And he gave the man a dollar engine weighing a pound and a half, which did not lose or galn except on Satur. days and Wednesdays, and the man went on his way. Every once in a while the man goes into the jewelry store and pays a sick call, s0 to speak, and foots up the board bill, and looks the patient over, and makes bright and cheery remarks to irlicate he is hoping for the best. It is like caring for a dependent friend at a sanitarium. —_———__ Jewe'ry and watch repairing by ex. pert workman; all work guarant Casper Jewelry Manufacturing C 0-8 Builcing. 19. POWER is absolutely necessary to make a machine run. If something prevents 2 machine from get- ting sufficient power, it cannot do its work proper'y. umn ine gets its life power from the brain, from which it is dis- patched through the spinal cord over the nervous sys- tem Te = in the body. ie lungs, a stomach, kidneys, Dever, ete., or any part is weak or net working right, some- thing somewhere is’ cutting eff some of the power. IN MOST ALL CASES ‘THIS POWER IS WEAK BECAUSE OF PRESSURE ON A NERVE WHERE 1T LEAVES THE SPINE. Chiropractic _ Adjustments remove this preswure and the power gets through. Let us ex plain more fully how. Bring all your heal’h troubles to— Robert N. Grove CHIROPRACTOR Over White's 112 East Second Stree Phone 2220, Palmer School Graduate GEBO COAL Ton .... .$9.75 Half To: $5.50 500 Ibs.. -$3.00 Prompt Service VAN HOVEL COAL & HAULING CO. 212 West First St. n and Rabbit Feeds frie Hay, Straw, Oats, Corn, Ch Shell. ‘One sack or ‘carload. We can save you money on carloads of hay, and give you any kind you CASPER STORAGE COMPANY want. 213 MIDWEST AVE. TELEPHONE 63 NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS IN NORTH CASPER Starting Monday, February 12, we are installing a daily delivery service to all territory north of the Bur- lington Railroad. For further information phone our North Casper Branch—Phone 2207, The Norris Company MEATS AND Wholesale PROVISIONS THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER CO. Everything in Building Material RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Office and Yard—First and Center Phone 62