Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1923, Page 2

PAGE TWO. Che Casper Dailp Crivune Issue every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo, Publication Offices, Tribune Building Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Postoffice as second class mutter, November 22, 1916 CHARLES W. BARTON President and Editor also the local news published herein. Boston, Mass., Suite 494, Sharon Bidg., 55 New Mont- SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier Six Months, Daily and Sunday ~. y All subsc: BUSINESS TELEPHONES 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Con: il Departments MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the bse for publication of all news credited in this paper an‘ Advertising tatives. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 St€ger B:dg., Ch! Til; 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City: Globe gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. 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Completion of the established Scenfe 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. More equitable freight ratse for shippers of the Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train service for Casper. IN THE UNION IN THE SQUAREST STATE We Must Have It. HERE COULD BE no one dispute the import- ance or desirability of a North and South rail- road in Wyoming. In fact, we know of no one except possibly some one with a selfish interest, who does dispute these things. One who is not broad enough to see the good of all above his own good. It is fortunate that you can count these on your own fingers and toes. A North and South railroad is so vital to the fur. ther development of the state as to be obvious to everybody. Wyoming has reached a point where she is al- most standing still in her general progress for the particular lack of transportation facilities this very line would afford. That the people of the northern portion of the state have recognized this situation is attested by the enthusiasm with which they have seized the opportunity to further the enterprise. From Miles City, Mont., all the way to Casper, along the pro- posed line business and private interests have come forward with rghts of way, terminal facili- ties and financial aid. They want the road and are not hesitating to say so and to do the things necessary to secure it. That Casper should not welcome the project would be a most foolish statement. That Casper would not do her part in inducing the builders to come is almost an insult to the intelligence of her business and manufacturing interests. Tt was railroads that brought the first develop- anent of Wyoming. It was railroads that brought deyelopment to the sections of the state now the mogt prosperous. It is lack of railroads that is retarding the development of the remaining por- tions of the state. Not to raise heaven and earth, if required, to secure the building of the North and South rail- road, will be in the nature of a crime against the prosperity of the state. Pra CRE RE Or SEe CR A Simple Debt Problem. HE BRITISH DEBT funding plan as decided upon by the foreign debt commission, is before the congress for its approval or rejection. It is a plain business proposition of a negotia- tion between a debtor and a creditor. The two ele- ments which enter into it are those which enter into every loan—the length of time in which to re- pay the loan and the interest to be charged. Under the plan proposed, Great Britain is per- mitted 62 years to pay off a debt of between four and five billion dollars. Measured by all business experience and by the experience of our goyern- ment, this is not an unreasonable length of time. The debt contracted by the federal government in waging the civil war was infinitely small com- pared with Great Britain’s indebtedness to us, yet it took 40 years for our own government to wipe cut its civii war obligations. The interest rate charged Great Britain will ay- erage very nearly 4 per cent for the entire 62 years. This is a higher rate of interest than the YWnited States government pays up its bonds issnel in times of peace. It is a hizher rate of interest than it is paying upon war bonds it is refunding. On the other hand, in view of the original terms, | the proposed plan is a very great concession to} Great Britain. In briof, the terms are reasonable insofar as the creditor is concerned and they are} fair insofar ns the debtor is concerned. The criticism of the plan comes from two sources which are dinmetrically opposed. One set of crit: ics finds fault because the United States is even attempting to collect the debt. They accuse the United States of being a Shylock, trying to make other nations pay for the war to the enrichment this country. This set of critics are those who i ly smothered the country with propa- ganda in favor of the pooling of all war debts and ‘ | tution of some other plan of taxation. , their cancellation, a plan which would relieve ;every nation but the United States of any obliga- tion would compel this government to levy upon its people another eleven billion dollars in taxes. The other set of critics are in favor of imposing as hard conditions upon Great Britain as possible, and “making her pay.” The main weakness of this Jatter plan is the inability to make her pay. Certain current events certainly demonstrate that “mak- ing’ and nation pay even its honest debts is a rather difficult proposition if the nation desires to resist payment. The only hope the debt cancellation group has of success is the failure of Congress to accept the debt funding plan now before it. They believe if this plan is rejected it will be many years before, another plan will be worked out that will be ac-! ceptable to both debtor and creditor, and the en- tire European debt will keep on being defaulted, which in the end amounts to cencellation. Without doubt there has been great provocation’ by British propagandists. Unjust and insulting 601 comments have been made by high British officials regarding the attitude of our government. The interview given out by Mr. Baldwin, head of the British commission to this country, was an un- warranted slur upon the American peopel that justly caused indignation throughout the United States. The diplomatic repudiation of this inter- view did not take away the sting, as everyone knows the interview was genuine. However, for Congress to refuse towettle the British debt ques-| tion upon reasonable terms would in a large meas-! ure go to justify in their own minds, what the Brit- ish have been saying of the United States. It would convince other European nations in their own minds that this government was animated wholly by greed and adopted the attitude of a Shy- lock toward all its debtors, whereas the contrary is true. It should be sufficient that Great Britain by the! plan proposed acknowledges the validity of ue | } | | debt to this country, agrees to pay it off within the lifetime of a generation at a rate of interest that is as high, if not higher, than is customarily paid by governments in time of peace. There is every reason why the plan should be accepted. To reject it would be to invite its indefinite postponement and undoubtedly bring within the range of proba- bilities, the cancellation of all foreign debts. Carving Cost of Government. N JULY FIRST, 1922, the beginning of the pres- ent fiscal year, the estimated deficit of the government was $698,000,000. That is the esti- mated receipts then in sight lacked that much of meeting the expenditures which were then antici- pated for the ensuing twelve months. he Caspet Dally Cripune The Powerful Katrinka. | of THe Books IN | Sa a Ee “a pte ere Government Control “What was it forced the country to dip into its pocket to pull out ap- Democrats made a great deal of noise at the time over the estimated deficit. They misrepresent- ed the facts in that they informed the public the deficit was actual rather than merely estimated. The latest treasury figures show that the de-! ficit for the year ending January 30 will not be more than $92,000,000 and in all probability will be less. So far the reduction in the seven months has been $600,000,000. It represents an actual cut in the’ ordinary ex- penditures of the government; it represents what the various executive departments and agencies have been able to save by introduction of econom- ical methods. It is not a theoretical saving, it is not a bookkeeping saying—it is a dollars and cents’ saving. It has been accomplished by the! careful watching day by day of the routine expen- ditures of the government. It is a magnificent showing. The credit for it belongs wholly to the Republican administration. | It is a showing made possible by two things; first, the budget law; second, the application of the budget law. The budget law is a Republican product, but without conscientious application of the law it would avail little or nothing; that ap- jeral deter'oration proximately a billion dolars so that the ratlroads of the country might be kept running?” inquires the Detro't Free Press. “Government control and misman- wement. “What was it that provided service which made traveling a nightmare and freight delivery a gamble? “Government control and misman- agement. “What was responsible for a gen- of the railroad equipment which after six years has not been wholly repaired? “Government control and misman- agement. “What was !t sent passenger rates ond freight rates sy high and creat- ed conditions that have for the most part kept them there until now? “Government control and misman- agement. “What was {t that created condi- tions of unrest among ra'iway em- ployes which culminated last au- tumn in a disastrous strike? | “Government control and misman- | agement. ay plication has been also a Republican policy. The Democratic party is against the budget sys- tem. Of that there is not the least doubt—the record speaks ior itseif. ©ne of the big construc- tive acts of the Taft administration was an inves- tigation of the administrative agencies of the gov- ernment with a view to the introduction of a budg- etary system and other administrative reforms that would have tremendously reduced | penses of the government. The Democratic con- gress elected in the middle of the Taft administra- | tion proceeded promptly to kill this movement by |refusing appropriations for its continuance. The Democrats remained in undisputed control of Congress from March 4, 1911, to March 4, 1919 —a period of eight years. During that time they made no effort to enact any budget law. During that time they squandered the public’s money by the billions and imposed upon the nation a burden tiplication of jobs and bureaus and multiplication of ways to squander the public funds character- ized the eight years of Democratic control of the legislative branch of the government. The Republican congress elected in November, 1918, enacted a budget law, practically identical with the one under which we are operating. The enactment of this law was opposed by the Demo- cratic minority in Congress. The act was opposed by President Wilson, This certainly makes the record clear and undis- putable that the Democratic party is opposed to a budgetary system of handling the public finance. Nor has the Democratic organization changed its viewpoint upon the budget since the law became effective. Less than a month ago Senator Hef- lin, recognized as one of the three Democratic leaders in the Senate, launched a vicious attack upon the budget system during the discussions in the Senate of the agricultural appropriations bill. He asserted that Congress had surrendered its right under the budget system, and that the Re- publican party was responsible for creating the budget bureau and giving it the power to make estimates. He asserted this was wrong, that it should not give such power and that if the Demo- cratic party should again get control of Congress, this power would be taken away from the budget bureau. In other words, Senator Heflin made the pledge that the Democratic party, if it gains con- trol of Congress again, will wipe out the budget bureau or else so radically modify the budget law as to make it inoperativ aneenernnionmeanat > He Points Out ECRETARY MELLON made an_ impressive point against the issuance of tax-exempt secur- ities when he brought out the fact that such issues conflict with the surtax plan of revenue. Obviously continuance of the practice would call for substi- For with tax-exempt income securities flooding the coun: try, it is plain that graduated income taxes can not be effectively or justly imposed. The argument against issuing tax-exempt secur- ities is unanswerable. The movement to put through a constiutional amendment forbidding such issues, which is now under way, is directed to meet local, state and national need and should be pressed to conclusion, the ex-| of taxation that will take generations to lift. Mul-| “How then can any senator or con- gressman with rudimentary common sense or w'th ordinary understanding of cause and effect advocate a return to government control of the rail- reads and to inevitable m’smanage- ment? “We give it up.” Tell Us Why To the great alarm of a serious and substantial, likewise a keen observer, he began to beat his brains in utter perplexity the other day over a rid!cu lously simple thing. A fact that had been familiar to him all h's life had assumed a sudden strangeness in his eyes, as if he were confronted with it for the first time. It was a feminine practice that he had beheld in operation from ch'ld- |hood and had never thought of ques- tioning before. But now, Inst®ad of jtaking it for granted as a law of na: ture, like the fact that fire burns, he was filled with a new wonder, which framed itself in this quest'on: “Why do women kiss one another?” He had just seen a bevy of women and gir's of his own set, some of them | of his own family, kissing one another with energy and zeal as they said their good-bys all rouni They didn't all love one another; he knew that. Several of them had ham- mers out for others in the group. But the knockers kissed thelr victims as fervently as they did their friends, and no one got bitten. Then there were some that sadly lacked the comeliness to make them Kiasable from the man’s point of view. ‘There were one or two whom he felt that he couldn’t have been bribed to kiss with his eyes bandaged. Yet these tneligibles got the'r full share of seemingly enraptured kisses from the rest of the girls. On the other hand, the bevy in cluded a modicum of young women so favored by nature that the man could have cheerfully taken them apart, singly or collectively, and kissed them ditigently and patiently until the cows came home. Surely, he argued with himself, the business of kissing those favored dam- |seis must be utterly unlike that of kissing the unfortunates whom his judgment, ripened by long and varied experience, classified as ineligible, Yet he was unable to percetve any addl- tional warmth in the kisses bestowed upon the comely ones by their own sex. “Why, then, do women kiss?" he asked himself again in helpless be- wilderment. He felt a dizzying jar from two con- tradictory ideas battling in his brain. One was that !t was perfectly natural for women to kiss one another, the other was that it was perfectly ab- surd of them to do so. An artist's candid eyes seo blucs jand pinks and Ilacs in places where ordinary eyes, deceived by habit and the tyrannous knowledge of what Boo K<CASE .ocsene Waren He Powerrur KATRINKA HAS ‘fo DUST OFF THE BACKS A —By Fontaine Fox 73° 5*4 Peet accustomed to alt your SHE SIMPLY LIFTS OUT A SHELF, CARRIES 'T ON ‘To THE PorcH AND scoetes SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923. plan is apparently not growing any stronger and promises in the end to simmer down to a few obstructlonists who will not be satisfied with any re- sult short of a declaration of defauit hand proceedings to collect by force is the opinion expressed by the New York World. y “The chief and practically the on!y argument against the plan which has so far found voice rests upon the fact that the United States borrowed the money lent to Great Britain from its own people with en, bonds draw- ing 4% per cent interest, while the waists are going to Las Dae Seite ita provides for charging the debtor tachsee toate Seions en that potae | Serine een Sv ‘They may carry our waists up tnider | pt geet reeirenee hence. ‘The ‘aitfer. ae aaa a moypes style of | ence in rate is taken to represent the ladies at Napoleon's court, or t! charge upon the American taxpayers Bae dl let us off with something less) for the benefit of the British taxpay- me. ers. ‘They say that with the new style trousers we will be positively com.| | "This is, of coume. © tue ree pelled to wear suspenders. ‘This will | FODtation ey to stand as th doutbiess be a bitter blow to men of |0ng arp they Nkew Oe shave no such elegant slenderness above the hips, length of time to run as the proposed who pride themselves on their ability| "tian debt bond, and within a very to wear a pair of trousers without) +. years {t will almost certainly bo any extraneous or adventious alds or! possible for the United States to re- accessories to keep them up. tora |f#nd those bonds at less than 31% per b pimee A ae! at sasha lors | cent, which would put the loan-shark- wi ing in league SUB-| boot on the other foot. The United taxed thems last fall whoa pent raped oaeey nee neee econ guagnen, to 2 refund its mds at 8 per cent. prabicosta oaie. por with pein in| No one any peek ne the et Is league wear trade. How-|to be considered t was te See. that any ents beri of the refund its civil war debt at half the com: fonal asso-|rate of issue. ciation of Merchant Tallors says that} «7¢ js necessary, however, for the co Ragnaros Siler see will add} congressional obstructionists to un- +. derstand that. the American people Ho further reports that coats will | win not fayor any note-shaving calcu- be looser and more “conservative,” |intions in dealing with this or any by which he probably means less/other forelgn debtor. They will least debtors which comes promptly for- Not Loan Sharks rather than within its capacity to freakish and cake-eaterish. For/of all tolerate insistence on the exact ward in acknowledging the debt and “Congressional opposition to the!meet without serious derangement of B ISH 0 which relief much thanks! pound of flesh from only one of these peatcls aia aati es agreeing to terms which are beyond terms of the British debt-refunding its own finances.” DOCTORS sure, but waistcoats have a trick of crumpling up over a fellow’s bay win- dow and revealing a ring of shirt, es- pecially when no suspenders are worn, This ring will no longer be according to Hoyle when the new Em- Dire trousers are on the market, for such a decoration will betray the fact that a fellow is wearing last year’s, styles, Goodness knows how high our AUDITORS young child sees color just 28 an ar- tist does. And our serious and sub- stantial friend felt that he had achieved, in regard to the swapping) of kisses by women, something of an artist’s innocence of vision, enabli him to see an absurdity where most! people could only see a more or ‘ess graceful social rite. It seemed to him that in kissing) one another in that indiser'minate] way women were betray/ng thelr de-| ficient valuation of the k'ss as a coin| in the currency of Cupid. If women really valued that coin, he asked him- self, would they waste it on one an- other and thereby debase its exchange} va'ue and purchasing power to the) level of the German mark? And tt suddenly occurred to him) that this nat'on needs a campaign for osculatory reform, with prohibition of kissing between . persons of the same sex. Males of Anglo-Saxon line- age have too much respect for the kiss to bestow it on one another, as |females should bandy kisses #0 frivo- lously. And this particular ob- server says he earnestly entreats ev- ery female who feels inclined to kiss another female to summon al! her will power to resist the temptation and confer that kiss upon some lonely male. Suspenders Back in Style However much we may make fun of the girls for being such s'aves to fashion, poor little dears, we won't fail to prick up our ears obsequiously at the news that our spring trousers are going to be high waisted—a sort of Empire effect, Algernon, but with no tucks. You may recall that trousers have been very low waisted since the war, when manufacturers began to skimp material to reduce the overhead. That was when the buckle on the back dis- appeared, together with the tags on THE CASPER PRIVATE . He ‘AL Certified Public Accountant 938 Income Tax Service Women's and Children’s Hopital 401 0-8 Bldg. Phone 767) 542° South Darbin—Phone HARRY F. COMFORT SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND Auditing and Accounting ri) Phone 1008 he 1B aan | ones et Lae A068. . F. 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