Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1923, Page 6

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1923, for the country, and it ie untar the smaller taxpayer, who has 1, , double to make up for what the taxpayer does not pay. “The country needs the peng constitutional amendment to ¢: of tax-empt securities.” Che Casper Daily Cribune ‘ttle Scorpions Club. PAGE SIX bery is at en end in official circles in that. coun- Tho T try. Anybody familiar by experience or even from reading with the long-established methods of doing | business in Russia knows that bribery and the md clas®) payinent of secret commissions always have been | recognized as necessary, and therefore, if not quite -- 13 and 16] proper, at least so nearly universal as to involve ng All DepartmentS/ no appreciable amount of either disgrace or turpi- tude, That is the way it was under the czar, according to all accounts and reports, and the first revolution brought no change in the old custom. But the Bol- sheviki really seem to be different. At any rate, they announce that in the past few months they have sentenced forty-two persons to death for this crime, and sent over 1,200 to prison for terms of considerable length. Soviet news, especially if official, is not always ernment bonds. Here is a business man who used to delight in develop- ing real estate as an investment. “Uncle Sam wants too much of the profits now,” he says, “but he won't share the loss if anything goes wrong. Tax-free bonds are good enough for me.” “That sort of thing chokes the nor- mal growth of business. It is bad —By Fontaine Fox g except Sunday ut Casper, Natrona n Offices, Tribune Building Wirrie Scompr, THe Crus TREASURER 5, WAS SEEN IN A TAXI, APPARENTLY ABoUT To LEAVE Towsl ON A LONG Tap wWTH sixty-five (3,65) CENTS oF THe CruBls moner! Sos Postoffice as si ES ------ The sawdust of mahogany woo. nge Connec used for smoking fish by burnj slowly when damp. _ -.- President and Editor Its a Hot Cereal “ in a jiffy 1 entitled to the usa) credited in this paper and} . Chicago, be Bldg., New Mont- Cal. _¢ Daily Tribuae. aceon © New York, Chicago, Boston ffices and visitors are welcome. BSCRIFTION RATES By Carrlr or By Matt and San Franci Ss Dati s One Year, an One Year, nday hi Per Copy Bosse cbecbsceeseen oe! ‘All subecriptions must be paid in adva = Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscript becomes one month in arrears. Member of the Assoclated Press Member of Audit Bureau of Cireulation (A. B. ©) Kick If You Dont Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time betw : cour Tribune ered to you by sp re THbune know when your carr! misses y¥ The Casper Tribune’s Program Irrigation project west of Casper to be author- {zed 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 Scenic Route boute- vard as anned by the county commissioners to Garden ek 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 f iN THE UNION IN THE SQUAREST STATE Would Jefferson Approve? OVERNMENT OWNERSHIP is evidently the only solution the Democratic party can find for any economic problem. Under the leadership of Mr. McAdoo the Democrats fought for continued government operation of the railraads for five years more, which would undoubtedly have meant not merely operation but ownership as a perma nent policy. Democratic leaders in congress are now opposing legislation that will establish an American me nt marine under private owner- ship and management, leaving as alternatives eith- er government ownershihp or no merchant marine at all The record of the Democratic party on the mer chant marine issue is worth considering somewhat in detail. For many years prior to the Civil War, we had an American merchant marine aided either by discriminatory duties or government contracts for the carrying of mails. In the early fifties gov- ernment encouragement of a merchant marine was discontinued because of effective Democratic op- position, and the Civil War finished an ocean carrying trade that had already gono down in the face of destructive competition from ships of other nations receiving aid from their governments. Since the Civil War, the United States has had no merchant marine worthy of the name, although a very few ships have received compensation for carrying mails. In 1912 the Democratic party adopted a plank in its national platform which declared “We be- lieve in fostering, by constitutional regulation of commerce, the growth of a merchant marine, which shall develop and strengthen the commercial ties which bind us to our sister republics of the south, but without imposing additional burdens upon the people and without bounties or subsidies from the public treasury.” The Democratic party made no effort whatever to fulfill that pledge, but in 1915, after the out break of the war in Europe, proposed an appro- priation of money with which to buy ships. This a was a direct violation of the pledge not to oppose At that time additional burdens upon the people. the only idle ships in the world were the interned German ships in our own ports, so the Demo- cratic proposal was to buy those German ships and have the United States government operate them. Manifestly government purchase of the German interned ships would not only have been an act of charity to the German owner but would have been an open affront to the allies and might have involved us in war with the nations with which we subsequently became associated. The outcome of the Democratic merchant marine policy was the expenditure of three billions of dol- lars in the construction of ships most of which rendered no service in the war and are now idle awaiting a national merchant marine policy that will put them in service. The Democratic party did not establish a permanent merchant marine, but it did impose new burdens upon the people. The same party that proposed the buying of ships in 1915 and that opposed any form of subsidy is now opposing a subsidy which would be far less expensive to the people than the present system of government operation. Apparently they will be willing to support noth- ing except some plan of government ownership and operation. Failing that ,they would scrap the pres: ent flect entirely and abandon the ocean carrying trade to our commercial rivals, thus compelling the American people to pay tribute to the ship- owners of Europe and / They prevent the maintenance of a merchant marine in time of peace and, as a result, compel the government to acquire at tremendous Joss the ships that are needed in time of war. They place America’s foreign trade at the mercy of our competitors 0 Bribery a Crime 'PHE MOST incredible statement, yet of Russi to come out s the one from Soviet sources that i) 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m.} A paper will be ce sencer. Make it your auty to true, but in the present instance it seems to be a statement of fact. If so a third revolution is in progres: nd, as anything is possible in Russia, it may be that bribery has ceased to be there the next to invariable accompaniment to commercial transactions. Quiet Tip OME PEOPLE have made a decided success in life by attending to their own business. Thus relieved of the cares of everybody else's affairs they have found time and opportunity to attend to their own | And being of that particular fibre their devo-| tion to their own business was bound to bring success. | Beyond a passing and friendly interest in your neighbor's general affairs and his welfare and prosperity, we can’t imagine what call you have to horn in to the extent of advising and regulating, inquiring and directing. If your neighbor is help less, it is of course too bad, but your business is not to conduct his business. That is his business. There are a lot of people who are blesséd with | plenty of nose. In fact, so well equipped are th that it is eternally getting into other people's bus: ness with varying results and damage. | The old fashioned boy who plows right. along the! line of his own affairs has no troubles to worry him nor other people to tell him to mind his own.! In the book of experience there are two pages! the one is headed “your business,” the other is headed, “my business.” It is a pretty good plan not to get the two pages confused and get to making} promiscious entries. The fellow who attends to his own comes out at! the end of the race away ahead ofthe other fellow who stops by the wayside to dip into the affairs of other people. This may partially explain why the one makes a success while the other does not. Are They Woman Haters NTAGONISM to what is called co-education has! broken out in the student groups of young men} who are accumulating wisdom at Johns Hopkins. university. They do not want the company of young women! in their classrooms and on a vote on the question they have said so by a majority closely approxi-) mating unanimity. It excites wonder. Of course the arguments are! amiliar enough—-antogonism to the feminization of instruction nd the like—but somehow it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that, these reasons not being those that appeal vehemently to the aver- age boy, there must be others, as yet unavowed. Can one of the other reasons be the fact that whenever girls compete with boys for scolastic honors and prizes they win more than a fair share? It is to be hoped not, jealousy being such a mean emotion and, of course, prizes and honors in school do not have much relevance to success in life or even to the deserving of it. So why should the boys mind? And something should tell them that as yet, anybody, they need have no real fear of feminine competition—that as a rule they will get more than girls from a college course and make more use of it later. | Sat, | / \ | | she The Curse of Waste | T IS STATED as a fact that rust causes an an- nual Joss of six hundred millions of dollars in- our country alone. What must the loss so occa- sioned be throughout the avorld. The action of moisture on exposed surfaces of, iron and steel and iron piping and roofing is de- structive. That could be avoided in part by protecting iron against the action of moisture, still more by sub- stituting brass and copper wherever possible. How rapidly will national wealth grow, when people learn to stop waste? Everybody knows of the frightful annual loss due to fires that could be prevented; also of the loss through insect pests destroying crops, and the havoc created by the op- erations of rats and mice} lives needlessly lost through disease or ignorance, especially the val- uable lives of children, You can see on Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, s good as the day it was put there, the copper roof that covered the church when Henry VIII threatened to come with his soldiers, How many times would you shingle your barn in four hundred years if you live that long? Bloc Stuff ENATOR BROOKHART, of Iowa-in an address to the unenlightened New Yorkers, predicted that the control of both houses of congress will be} obtained by a combination of “the farm bloc, the labor bloc, the soldier bloc and the mothers’ bloc,” This combination of blocs, he predicted, will pro- ceed to a ‘settlement of the great economic ques- tions of the day, both domestic and foreign, upon the simple principles of co-operation.” “Simple principles of co-operation,” {s Brook: hart’s euphemistic phrase for the ancient legisla- tive practice of log-rolling. Brookhart may call that “progressive,” but it is the worst sort of reactionaryism. If this country unfortunately, should ever be brought to the condition forecast by Brookhart, we shall indeed have “block” legislation—legisla- tion that will block the country’s prograss, pros: | perity and welfare. a == 6s AccoRrprine to the New York American, when the troops returned recently from Germany, there were 173 of the men among whom there was “no joy because they fear the future without jobs.” And yet bricklayers and carpenters and plasterers | re getting $12 to $15 a day and there is a scarcity) of help. What is it—control of the labor market in restraint of trade? = oe | Timber and the Tariff | RDERS and shipments in the lumber business the first five weeks of 1923 overtop the first! five weeks of 1922 by about 60 per cent while pro | duction shows an increase of 12 per cent. The ren- |son is plain for this industrial stabilization and | prosperity growing out of increased sales and em- : “ The Desire for “Forty + yee Winks Bill Blodgett was a sleepy head. Which wouldn't have been so bad had it not been that his tendency to lle abed nearly always made him late at the otfice. Bill had reachd the stage where the tinkle of on a‘arm clock's bell pinde less iinpresvion on him than a brass Lard >: a deat man. When the clock faithfully ting-a- linged each morning, Bill would sleepily Lound cut of bed, mechan- ically turn off the belt and jump back under the covers, “te stretch for a few minutes and up graduall: put Bill invariably relapsed into an- other snoove, with the result that at his second awakening he had to dress in a terrific hurry to “make” ihe office at 9 or thercatont, Biti had employed all the faratitar dodges to overcome his attachm for his mattress. Elo tried setting che clock ahead, but when he drows'ly throttied the alarm in the morning 2° always subconscio y remembered that the clock was tast—and w back to bed. Then he ‘d putt the clock on the J#:if in th clot closet. calculating that the effore re: quired to stretch up and silence the bell In the morning ¥¢u!ld thorou shiv swoop the cobwebs tiem his eyes. For 2 while this schome was suc: vss{ul, but before long poor Bill argiin began foding himself tangled up ip ihe hed clothes at %.15--and the offi: 40 minutes away. At last the situation became fous. One morning: the Loss stopned at Bill's desi and, ominously c!earmg, his throat, asked Bill if {t would be Thore convenient for him if the office opened at, 9:30 instead of 9. He then mumbled something about thero being plenty of unemployed young men who knew the value of punctuality, bit Bill was so flustered he didn’t catch it al. That night Bill sought out a cure. The schoms, besides being highly ef. fective, has additional attraction of possessing some of the uncertainties of a game of chance. watch in the bureau and locks the drawer. He then tosses the key un- der the bed. Next he winds the clock and sets the alarm for 7:40. After he extinguishes the light he picks up the clock and gives the hands, a sharp twist, sending them forward. When he muffles the alarm next morning the clock says 7:40. But Bil’ knows the clock is fibbing. So under the bed he crawls. When he has found the key and learned the cor reqt time, Bill's eyes are wide open and he has no desire to retur nto bed. Moreover, he doesn't have to hustle. The difference between clock time and watch time, he has found, gives him from 12 to 29 minutes leeway. —— Thrill of the Easter Hat “Just about this time, years ago, we used to begin to plan our Easter bonnet,” said the woman who keeps up with times, as she looked over a crowd of Saturday shoppers from the rear end of one of the new Casper db 'W neever wore a straw hat before Faster," she continued, “and for six weeks we dreamed and worried about putting it on, and looking lovelier than anyone else in the parade. There was always a bit of an adventuro aout {t. The thought that the weather might be snowy or otherwise disagree: able, and that we wouldn't be able to wear that creation of feathera and flowers and straw that we'd orde-ed by mail or shopped all over town to get. made {t a very Interesting affair. “Nowadays, it rather seems to be the thing to see who can be the first to wear a straw- hat after Christ. mas and how many different hats you can have before Palm Sunday, “r'm not boosting the old days, said the woman aw she slipped the silver cigaret case which she had un- consciously brought forth, back Inte her shopping bag. “TI, for one, would not recall those dear, dead days for anything. But still, I do wish we nad ployment. They go hand in hand under the policy of protection, stayed a bit old fashioned about our millinery. Lessa “T hate wearing a vaivet hat tn Au! Just before retiring BM! places his|' “ S12 NAB im ( av TH? ust and buying a new one every four veeks to keep up with the atyles— satin and felt for in between season, Batavia for January and something else for February—and I do miss that thrill that came from selecting an ister bonnet. “Oh, it was exciting, and rivalry ran high for originality of style and for becomingness when every woman in own appeared in a brand new hat on the very same day. “What are Easter parades for now- adaye, anyhow?” What Schiff Paid “Money needed for extending and developing the railroads has been hard to obtain, while plenty of funds are available for the less pressing {m- provements in cities.” Notes the Kangas City Star. “One reason 1s that the man of large income who buys railroad securities has to pay a quarter or a half of the returns to the government in taxes. If he buys fi 1 state or municipal bonds, he pays ‘no taxes at all. | “City and state development work! ‘3 all right. But do we want to have it go forward at the expense of indus- trial growth? | “Attention is now being called in| Washington to the way rich men are escaplg the heavy taxes that are sup- posed to hit them. They do it by dodging investment in the active bus- iness of the country, and putting thelr funds in public improvements. | “When Jacob H. Schiff, the banker, died leaving an estate of 35 million do'lars, he was paying an income tax averaging 1% per cent. The salaried man on a small income is paying 4 per cent, nearly three times the rate Mr. Schiff was paying. “The same thing 1s true every-| where. Any investment broker in| Kansas City will tell the same story.| Here is a professional man with a, large income. He used to specialize on farm mortgages for his surplus funds. 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