Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX sper Dailp Cribune day at Casper, Natrona . Tribune Butlding Che Ca . Postoffice as second class Novembe: 1916 r 22, ~- 16 and 16 iy Departments . President and Editor SOCIATED PRESS entitled to the use in this paper and all news ¢ ws published Advertising Iep Cit Bldg., 65 St. Copies 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 Mail One Year, Daily and Suncay 9.00 One Yoar, Sunday Cnly 2.50 ®ix Months, Dally and 4.60 Three Months, Do 2.28 One Month Dail a5 Pell aubec tp paid in edvance and the Daliy Tribune w very after subscription becomes one month in arres sociated Press Member of the As Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) Kick If You Don't Get Your Tribune, Call 15 or 16 any time batween 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m- {f you fall to receive your Tribune. A paper will be Ce livered to you by special messenger, let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you, The Casper Tribune’s Program Irrigation project west of Casper to be author- {red and completed at once. ‘A complete and scientific zoning system for the city of Caspor. ‘A comprehensive municipal and school recreation park system, including swimming pools for the children of Casper. , Completion of the established Scenlo Route boute- 4 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 JAREST STATE A Scientific Aliack. AIN-MAKING after old time methods by per- sons who did not.know what they were doing or | how to do it, was an entirely different proposition to the scientific efforts being put forth by the army air service at the Dayton, Ohio, flying field. The ment engaged are of such eminence in the scientific | world as to preclude the old jokes we used to make about rainmakers. And what they have done and hope to do can be accepted with confidence. They are not the first to hold that clouds could be dissipated by the use of devices for influencing the electrical condition of the particles in watery vapor. Attempts to do this were made with some measure of success in London some years ago, but there the plan was ndoned as impracticable. The scattering from airplanes of finely divided and highly electrified sands wholly new idea, but its promise of success lies in its consonance with general scientific opinion as to the nature of clouds, and of fogs, which are merely clouds flying low. It long has been believed that every raindrop forms around a minute particle, usually of dust, but often, as in London, of unconsumed carbon from coal fire: It is upon these theories, evidently that the Dayton experiments were found: ed, with the electrification of the particles to has- ten the desired action. The object at present is not to make rain, but to clear away clouds from above flying fields. The two activities are related, however, and there may be development along both lines. If much should be achieved, then man as well as Jove would deserve the title of “cloud-compelling.” The Si ucker List TSTS of men and women are made up and sold as persons who are easily gullible in the mat- ter of selling worthless stocks and bonds and vis- ionary securities of various kinds. Promoters and stock brokers of shady reputation and unreliable performance use these lists to un- load all kinds of easy money propositions, paying fabulous dividends. Even holders of government bonds are cata- logued in the “sucker list,” if, as occasionally oc- curs, their names were obtainable. The monetary help bestowed by the lists is that to the finan st Sle are investors or who have funds. Those form the pasture on which financial fakirs intend to fatten themselves. The person of ordinary prudence will consult a trustworthy banker before investing in any secur ity. neo Pee eee Casting Suspicion on Industry HE modern politician and public regulator is a big man and looks for big targets at which to fire his twenty-two ammunition. In the last few years there have been numerous oil investigations by state legislatures and by national congress. In fact there in an oil investigation now in progress incited by possibly the worst demagogue in either branch, Se ollette. And the s why congress permits thie common disturber to spend the people's money to carry o1 sh investigations and gratify his imagina oil busines public expense. If the ally sound and clean it ainly would not have gene and at e 8 present great proportions. A great ndu t successfully established upon fruu d de And the idea of LaFollette and his ilk is ring the oil industry to the same level ailroads reached by the constant nag Sing regulatory repression, by stato legis l@tures and the national congress. is rather a reflection uj ho business in terests of the country; tigation under way. to ha this constant The American business manu inves Make {t your duty to} and sharks they show who} is not primarily a scoundrel whether he is engaged in producing and selling oil and its by-products or, ; in publishing and selling bibles. He 1s the fellow who is building the country and making it pros: | perous and supplying its needs and furnishing em:| ployment, while legislative and congressional de- tractors of him are supplying simply the ground | work for dissatisfaction among uninformed peo- | ple, unjustified suspicion of all business effort, | and slander of honorabie men. if any oil investigation ever got anywhere, ever | brought out of it any constructive or helpful policy | for the people, we would all be more patient with | them. So far as unbiased observation goes they) | have produced nothing but a heavy bill of ex- pense to taxpayers and the industry attacked. Oil is a big national and international article) | of commerce. The size of the industry and the | demand for its products by no means justifies har-! rassing it by small-bore and cheap politicians who | would exploit. it not for the benefit of the peo-| ple, but for what glory they themselves might reap/ as wolves posing in sheep clothing. ag The Chorus of Prosperity (OMMERCIAL pages of the daily press continue! | V to tell the story of returned prosperity. In-| creased bank clearings, increased building permits, | increased orders for steel, increased output of pig! iron, are all indisputable evidences of a sound} foundation for the optimism that exists through-| | out business circles in the United States. A resume of the facts in these and other partic- ulars gives an interesting and encouraging pic-| ture of the upward swing of industry and trade.| At the end of ¢ 1923, the United States} steel orders aggregated 5,910,000 tons as compared With 4,241,000 (ous at tie same time one year ago. Pig irion production during the month of Decem- | ber, 1922, amounted to 3,229,000 tons as compared | | with 1,644,000 tons in the same month a year before showing an increase of approximately 100 per cent. Bank clearings, which register with approxi- mate accuracy the amount of business in progress, show an increase of about 15 per cent thus far in the present calendar year as compared with the | corresponding period last xfear. Money is mot only moving more freely, but more of it is being | saved by people of small means as indicated by the fact that savings banks deposits are $1,500,000,000 greater than a year ago. Holders of Victory bonds | on which interest has ceased have been slow in pre | senting them for payment, thus demonstrating that they are not pressed for money. Repayments of loans to the War Finance corporation have been prompt and more extensive than many had ex pected. In 186 cities for which building statistics are compiled by Bradstreets, the aggregate value of structures for which permits were issued in Jan- uary 1923 was $166,12,000 as compared with $121,- 594,000 in the corresponding month of 1922. From every part of the country reports are received of reity of labor in all the building trades, with wages of skilled labor as high as $12 and even $15 a day. There is ready demand for the lumber out- put Prices of all the principal farm products have increased over a year ago. At the end of 1922, corn | was worth 50 per cent more than a year before, cot- ton had increased nearly 50 per cent, wheat 10 per | cent, wool 70 per cent. The aggregate increase in | the value of farm crops in 1922 over 1921 is esti- mated at $3,000,000,000. With a steadily increasing export trade, and a materially improved situation in our foreign re- lations as a result of the adjustment of the most important of our foreign loans, the outlook for foreign commerce during the present year is xll that could be desired. The improvement in foreign exchange values the lessened dan- ger of foreign controversies. the promotion of peace in the Western hemisphere, the reduc- tion of federal expenditures, all confirm the evi- dence of our domestic situation that we are well started on an era of industrial and commercial prosperity. | | ene ee Cee First Labor Corporation ABOR BANKS have ceased to be a novelty, but there is only a single labor corporation—the Beech Grove Union corporation. This shows that American labor is thinking along capitalistic lines. Some are proposing compulsory incorpora- tion of their unions and their statutory regulation But the path ov permissfon is the path of least re- sistence. The inducement of profit for labor by incorporation remains to be demonstrated, but, at least a beginning is made by the first labor cor- poration. The corporation undertakes by its charter, con- stitution and by-laws: To promote a greater officiency of the individual workman, To increase the daily output of the individual. To increase the total production of the shop. To increase the profits of the employer. To establish a flexible plan for determining the wages, on a basis which adjusts the earnings of both the employes and employer to the number of units of output rather than length of time worked. ‘To increase the individual earnings of employes by first raising the efficiency of the whole organ- ization and reducing the production cost per unit of output. Capital could not propose that program to la- bor, but may welcome it from labor, This is the first admission by labor that wages do not come from profits. If wages come from capital there is a limit to their increase and they cease altogether when capital is expropriated. Labor increase its share in the universal dividend of goods through quantity production by working with capital better than by fighting cap- ital. The benefit lies not merely in incorporation but in the principles avowed. There are particular benefits to labor through incorporation. Trade unions now accumulate funds by millions, which are used without the responsibility and safety af- forded by corpoyation methods. This pioneer cor- poration has realized for its members better wages than the railroad labor board could allow to unions and has dono so by increasing shop efficiency 26 per cent, and thus reducing unit costs, Pinchot’s Example YOVERNOR Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, in a for- mal statement annoupeed that the budget would contain a salary of ten thousand a year for the governor for two years instead of eighteen thous- and as allowed by law, but that if the state had cnough to pay its billa two years hence, he would accept for the ensuing biennium the full salary. The governor said he felt he would be earning y cent, but that this was no time to raise sal- ar The last legislature increased the gover- nor's pay from ten to eighteen thousand a year. If legislatures would follow this example, cut out the frills and refrain from passing new tax-rais- ing schemes, the first step would be taken toward kane tax reduction and greater efficlency in gov: ‘ernment, | | | | Che Caspet Dally Cridune The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains. © ~~ % The Skipper HAS W A PLAN So THAT H AFRAID ANY MORE “To HITCH ON ‘THAT MULE OF HIS WHENEVER THE Power Fars. Maflagts rediens, Ie F “ . SAME MULE& THAT KICKED AWAY THE FRONT yer! THis 1S THE. €ND oF THE CAR THE LAST TIME THE 5 PoweR FAILED ORKED OUT & WON'T BE Cowards? Dance and drink, Syncopated song, Dress and scandal, And the actor of the hour— We initiate, Who know Beethoven and Brahms, Who cherish in our hearts Shelley| and Shakespeare, Who breathe the loveliness of Leon- ardo ‘ And the mystte Botticelli As we would the perfume of a flower. © Goa! Why? Are we afraid that hours spent tn cul- tivation Of manifest divinity Would cause this demented age To think us queer? Oh! Give us strength to scorn the sneer of vacuous minds, The courage to obey the dictates of our hearts. riet Inton Howard, Now Come Color Splashes When the first robin hops across the first lawn in search of the first! worm, and the first Jane comes out in an Easter bonnet, we're in grave dan- ger of witnessing an outbreak of ban- danna handkerchiefs in the hands and the breast pockets of the genus cake- eater, Also, unless tho prophets are too pessimistic, of bandannas, belts, hat bands, mufflers, pajamas and heayen knows what not. Not the gypsy bandanna or the old plantation bandanna acording to the fashion forecasters, but a line of new and improved bandanas designed to mingle in the best soc'ety and supply a dash of color to the sober costume of the shy and shrinking college boy. It's one of those fads that the cater- ers of male finery have picked up from the women, and {ft has struck the haberdashers hard, according to clothes chronicler in the current Clothler and Furntisher. They are highly colorful and in orfental patterns,’ he writes. ‘Con- spicuous among them are the Pals- leys made famous years ago in the costly finely woven and seemingly in- destructible shawls of our grandmoth- ers, Some are Persians about the same as tho Persian neckwear that cullarities and mannerisms of the an- cent and honorba'e “bohemians.” Thes¢é have only a semblance of pat- tern. They look more as though they had been daubed with dye regardless and the colors have run one another. Looks like a warm spring—what? a Laws Against Autos “Throughout the United States coroners’ juries, grand juries, State's attorneys and judges are demanding effective safeguards against the fatal consequences of reckless driving of automobiles, as well as against lack of consideration for the common good that results in intolerable congestion of business streets through the park- ing of automobiles in them,” {s tho view of the Chicagd News. “Repressive legis'ation is being pushed in several states Boston judge of high standing and long service on the criminal bench has suggested that property owners might well object to having any mo- tor cars in front of thelr premises and Invoke legal aid to declare parked cars a nuisance. “Recently the head of the Automo- bile Merchants association, a national organization, uttered a warning against practices by chauffeurs and owners of cars that create public hos- tility to an indispensable means of transportation. Because of such prac- tices pedestrians are beginning to re- gard the motor car as a trespasser, according to this observer, who thinks there is danger of a hysterical move- ment in favor of il!-considered state and municipal regulations that would work serious detriment to the entire motor-car industry. “Doubtless there s considerable ex- agegeration in warnings of this kind and there is no occasion for directing drastic legislation against the motor car, Still there is ample occasion for anxfous consideration of ways and means of making the automobile more safe and as popular as it deserves to into one and one. be because of the manifold benefits it bestows on modern society.” The Pessimistic Influence Being a pessimist has tts attractions but dt also has its penalties. The bi! ters of disillusionment give a tang to the cockta!l of life, but taey a’so pucker the mouth. attitude brings one a fascinaing feel- ing of superiority, but in the long or the short run {t also brings wrinkles. The superiority of the pessimist ts of an intellectual character, of course. It ‘s extended toward the common sort of peop!é who bustle about thelr tiresome business as if it mattered. actually convinced, poor simps, that Hfe {s worth living. No belief could be more absurd in| the eyes of the pessimist. He hugs the conviction that he knows life like @ book and has penetrated the hollow heart of its utter unworth. The sole consolation left for him, next to grati- fying his appetites as well as he can. is to win a reputation tos saturnine wit and tease out ready laughs from an admiring circle with his gibes at orthodox values. And that encourages the march of the wrinkles, for the pessimist with an audience acentuates h's favorite expressions. Habitual depreciation for Instance, pulls down the corners of the mouth, purses the Ups up un- der the nose, dilates the nostrils, half exposes one canine tooth in a Jogilke snarl and wrinkles up the forehead in simian disdain. But the poor pessimist does not realize for a long time what he !s do- ing to his face. He doesn’t see his own habitual expressions, because it’s a law of human nature that when we look in a mirror we assume our most placid and pleasing expression. So, when he goes to shave in the morning, the pessimist brightens up and looks kindly at himself, and im- agines that is the way he looks at the world and to the world—a spright- witht tan SE A) has sold so well for many years as Christmas gifts.” And of course the manufacturers have not been unmindful of King Tu- tankhamen and his tomb but have honored the Egyptian craze by turn- ing out apropriate designs “identified by their angular and geometrical 4 signs characteristic of that country's products in fabrics and in its arch!- tecture, after the manner of the an- cient hleroglyphics.” Also the cake-eater may be expect- ed to wipo his fevered brow with “ba- tikes’ favored by those strange peo- ple the Uterat!, the thesplans and others of their kind who foregather in the show places and aifeet the pe- ' For Pep | —5c everywhere Little red boxes for $¢ every where you go—full of lusclows e raisins, 15% fruit sugas—1560 calories of energizing nutriment per pound {n practically predigested form ao it goes to work almost iately. Alto rich in food-iron—taste \d when you're hi vent Prorclock fatigue provides neal pep. Try and see, Little Sun-Maids “Between-Meal’”’ Raisins Had Your Iron Today? on pancakes, biscuits and corn bread. That’s Karo Syrup. And for children, Karo on sliced bread—a perfect spread, There is a Karo and meals 3. Golden fyep Bie | Kare 2 ‘Label SE Ness nee Baked Beans made at home are better The pess'mistic | ly bird with an arch and shrewdly good humored eye. And perhepr he never awakens to the fact that when he is knock!ng the universe and every- body in it his face would sour the morning’s milk. It's surprising how many pess!mists there aro in every community. And by the same token it's surpris!ng-how many optimists there are, Gumbells who Insist that everyone tv perfect, and how few men of true un- Gerstanding are to be foun’ where wisdom always walks, in the middle path between two extremes. ‘These two extremes came out strongly in a ‘silly season” corres- pondenec conducted many years ogo by the London, Daily Telegraph, un- der the heading “Is Life Worth Liv- tn Pessimists and optimists went at ft hamer and tongs for months, fill- ing columns of space daily with argu- ents for and against sulviar. Suicide became the popular topic of the day, and so many weak willed and suggestible persons of suic'dal tend ency were influenced by the argu- ments of the pess'mists to kil them- relves after writing letters to newspaper, that the suicide rate went up for the time be'ng, nnd there was much religf when the sympostum come to an end. * The influence of & morbid book in| which death was dressed in attractive colors was b'amed for a suicide last week. But every student of hurran nature real'zes that all a book could! do tn such a case would he to encour-! age a morbid tendency already pres- cnt. One of the most affecting features ofthe rout'ne of the Save a Life League, the mission of which ts to dis-| suade would-be suic'des, is that !ts beneficiaries in the later course of| happy and fruitful lives testly to such| heartfelt gratitude for having been| ded to resist the pess!mist'c tmpulse| which would have led them to seek through self-destruction an escape from some seem!ng Impasse in the} jcomp'exities of life. Or‘ental sages teach that the sul-! elde doesn't escape from h's troub!es,| but finds them confronting him in a worse form in another sphere, where his anguish is increased by a percep gaping | VAs MONDAY, FEB. 19, 1923 and @ continuance for years of :; act of self destruction. Which recalls the experience of «. Ttalian singer. In youth he had pess'mistic brother who killed h se't by jumping from the Tower Pisa. Later, in what he believed be a communication from the d a was assured that. his unhappy broth.- 2] flinging himself tn wear: ration from the-famous tow Which {en't very encouraging to ; pessimists, To Helen-Sewing Who could forget her, watched her hide Her smallness in the huge, engult who has ing chair, With sunshine on her hands, and in her hair, Where light takes dusky shadow fo: its bride? Should there not be, about her, pa geantry .. . Young ministrels singing in tho paneled room; And, for her needle’s skill, a wood en loom Oh which to fashion pictured gal lantry? One fancies how her hands would dip’ Among the vivid wools; her breast. Great pearls, would rest; How to his knees would slip pay her homage were long ago, And merely fancy. Lovelfer by far The homely courses of her beauty's star, The graver garments she has found to sew. 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