Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1923, Page 15

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Ask the manager of diversified industries all over the country how much greater their present costS are than in 1916, and it will be found that their replies will indi- cate an average of sixty per cent, It is impossible for the government to avoid that increase in every disbursement it makes. If that percentage is ap- plied to the 1916 cost it will give a justifiable in- crease of $400,000,000, leaving about $287,000,000 for which there must be an accounting. For the ten years preceding 1916, the growing 9, Wealth of the population of the country necessi- tated an average increase of $40,000,000 in annual appropriations. It is only fair to credit the coun- try with the same increase in the eight years since then, making a total of $320,000,000 higher cost in 1924, even if the intervening period has been en- tirely normal. Thomas B. Reed once said, “We |are a billion dollar country.” Now we are a two billion dollar country. ery dollar of present day additional cost of government is thus accounted for either by the war, by higher prices; or by the growth of the country. Compared with the same standard, the present ad- ministration is costing the taxpayers less today than in 1916. | as pare | Where Economy Begins | R STIRING from tho interior department the! other y Secretary Fall illustrated the diffi- culty of solving some governmental problems by telling of his experience with a man who had given considerable thought to public questions. This man had spent six months trying to frame up a plan to rehabilitate international finance and had wound up with the firm resolution to use five gallons less of gasoline a week. | There is a wealth of wisdom in that illustration. Paging Mr. Kendrick We READ with great pleasure an article from) the gifted pen of the Editor of the Sundance) Monitor, national in scope and treatment, upon: the well chosen subject of the identity of the next | president. There is a filtering of unkindness| through the article which is saddening, because Republicans and Republican candidates are not to| be factors in the next election. Our Grand Old} Party is to stand on the sidewalk and observe the! procession go up the avenue, because one section of our membership has become so radical and an-}| other so standpat that our political action is not} only to be nullified but any efforts we put forth will be useless. We are to be destroyed. And tho) destruction is to be more complete than in the year of the blue hail which is said to have been| 1912, | While weeping over the fate that is to overtake our old Republican friends and fellow warriors of a thousand battles, we are cheered by the main} object of our mtimely removal from the activ-| ities of political warfare, by the revelation that the Honorable John B. Kendrick of Wyoming is} to be the next president. If the fates will that we must have a Democrat for president really and! truly we would pick Mr. Kendrick ourselves. But, of course, being politically dead at the time) the picking is going forward, along with all the other millions of Republicans, we will not be par-, ticipating in the picking. However it is very comforting to be assured by eminent anthority, before we depart from the litical scene that affairs at Washington will i in the hands of a good man and a Wyoming man at that, which makes us rest easier in the Repub- lican cemetery. Why Slam Lasker? Ape shipping board, has lost the confidence of the American people,” declared Senator King, of Utah, one of the Democrats who filibustered against the ship aid bill. “It has failed to function roperly, economically, or efficiently and many be- ieve honestly. The Department of Commerce with its present personnel and such as it may draft from the shipping board can conduct the operations of} the fleet far better.” That whole statement is all of a piece with the slanders and falsehoods which have been circulated by men of the King stripe The shipping board was losing $300,000,000 an nually when Mr. Lasker took hold of it. He cut down the deficit to $50,000,000. The board was so] scandalously conducted under the Democratic ad- ministration that it became a stench in the nos- trils of the whole country so strong as to asphyx- iate the Walsh investigating committee when oper- ating at close range. To accuse Mr. Lasker of d honestly administering the affairs of the board is to take advantage of a senatorial prerogative to asperse the character of a patriotie American who! assumed large responsibilities at great damage to| his personal fortunes. King does not add to his prestige by such rancorous monthings as this. As for the department of commerce taking over the shipping board, Mr. Hoover has very strongly pro- tested against any such action, and no wonder. If a public servant is to be insulted for trying to! make the best of an evil policy, such as government ownership and operation of what properly should be in the hands of private interests, he should be excused for passing up such a maleficient opportu- nity. What About Natural Increase? I ECENTLY, the New York World made the! statement that the current peace costs of the; government, exclusive of interest and sinking| fund charges are about $1,500,000,000 in excess of} pre-war costs and that no relief had come and| none was in sight The World does not undertake to.point out a} single item of federal expenditure wherein any) substantial reduction could be made; and if con-| gress attempted to make cuts of sufficient size to affect materially the present cost of govern-| ment, the World would be about the first to cry out against the impairment of federal efficien Let us analyze the World’s statement, compar- ing the cost of government in the fiscal year 1916, before our entrance into the war, and the year 1924, covered by the last budget, ignoring for the} purpose all national debt charges and the cost of the postoffice department which practically pays for itself. 16 the cost of government was approximate- 000,000, In 1 the budget cost will be! #1,900,000,000. The difference, $1,230,000,000, is the! figure that requires explanation in showing why present costs have not reached~the pre-war level. Of that total $458,000,000 is for the Veterans’ bureau, $42,000,000 for the railroad administration, $30,000,000 for the emergency fleet corporation, $5,000,000. for payment to Colombia in accordance with the recently ratified treaty; $6.000,000 for the} vocational education board, and the balance. for} miscellaneous items such as the alien property custodian, the housing corporation, the railroad labor board, and the shipping board. The total directly traceable to the war or to vital legislation| rince 1916, is $543,000,000. Is there an item in the list the the “World would } reduced? If any of them were su tially cut it would mean jin practice of the | must settle among themselves. Many a man has stood on a Dox on the street corner complaining of the industrial ills of the nation and striving to teach his hearers the fun- damental principles of economics when he could have done far more to help the werld and his own country by removing his coat and going to work at some useful occupation. Many people complain of the heavy burden of taxation when the taxes imposed by national, state and local governments | are inconsiderable as compared with the taxes | they impose upon themselves for luxuries, many of | which are needless and others perhaps harmful. | The man who resolved to use five gallons less of gas per week undoubtedly did more to solve the} economic problems of the country than he could have done by publishing the results of his six months’ study of the subject in the abstract. Consumption of gasoline is but one item in our great program of extravagance and wastefulness. It sometimes seems as though the world had gone mad in its search for pleasure, and new thrills, for new methods of trying to outdo our neighbors! in the gratification of vanity. What the people! of this country need more than they need anything else is self-instruction and self-discipline in the matter of needless expenditures, and the adoption lea advanced by the gentleman who after. studying international finance, decided| to do his part toward rehabilitating the finances} of the world by cutting down his consumption of gas five gallons a wee! 0 Japs Fairly Numerous joo ISH constitute forty-three per cent of the residents of the Hawaiian Islands and com- pletely control the supply of labor. American in- dustrial and political control is seriously men- aced, which means danger of loss of control of the center of the Pacific ocean. It was recommended that certain immigrants be admitted to the is- lands who would not otherwise be admissable in order to relieve the labor situation, pending per- manent legislation on the subject. Whether the Hawaiian Islands are to be an American or a Japanese outpost in the Pacific is a matter of crucial importance to the United States. The islands are 2,000 miles nearer this country than the former German islands acquired by’ Japan as ‘the result of the war. While there are no present prospects of war with any country in the Pacific, it would be the height of folly not to take elementary precautions against an out- break in that part of the world. It is as necessary to provide adequate defense for our outposts as it is to maintain a navy, equal to any in the world. American domination of the Hawaiian Islands should never be in jeopardy for a moment. The pity is that matters should have been permitted to come to such a pass as reported by the senate com- mittee. Better Call a Parley CCORDING to the news reports Boston a fac ing a building crisis due to a combination of circumstances, among which are noted the fol- lowing: Proposed wage increase from $1 to $1.1214 per hour; double pay for overtime; firemen for hoisting engines to be classed as engineers; wages fixed for bricklayers to be understood as minim- um with no maximum limit; apprenticeship so re- stricted as to insure scarcity of skilled labor. Far be it from us to say whether the union workers of Boston are asking too much of the people who pay the bills. That is a question they It might not be inappropriate to remark, however, that many years ago an attempt was made to force th@ peo ple of Boston to buy some tea which they did not want, prices and taxes considered. The tea was thrown overboard. ea ee ee Be, Sheridan Greatly Elated pHe people of Sheridan are highly satisfied with the railroad situation and their share in bring- ing the project to a successful conclusion. And, the Sheridan Post felicitates the people, and par- ticularly the business men, on the outcome in this manner: “Sheridan may justly take to itself great civic pride in assuring to the community and the state of Wyoming a north and south railroad. “It is no longer proper to say ‘if the road is built!’ Now it is in order to say ‘when the road is built.’ “The co-operative effort put forth by Sheridan business men and Sheridan citizenry will stand as an example of a spirit of accomplishment for all time to come. “A comprehensive delegation of Sheridan ‘live wires’ met the railroad builders at Miles City and accompanied them with a continuing welcome to our city. | “On to Buffalo and Casper and Cheyenne they went as a solid phalanx, demonstrating that first) last and all the time, Sheridan was going to have the railroad. “In the fight for section 36 Sheridan stood to} a men in behalf of the interests of the state. Any thing to further the interests of this much needed enterprise found Sheridan men solidly back of the fight “It was “Victory cht. 1 great f is ours. Casper Sunday Morning Tribune _The Human Zoo A DOG’S-EYE VIEW OF HIS MASTER. LIVE NEWS from WYOMING Nida CRETE: SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1923. By C. D. Batchelor Sure, “Isaac Newton” Was Items and Articles About Men and Events Throughout the State SHERIDAN SEES - TRAINS BY FALL SHERIIDAN, Wyo., March 10.— That trains will be moving over the Wyoming North and South Railroad before another Wyoming winter ‘sets in {s the opinion of prominent men here, more particularly those who are in close touch with the Haskell inter- ests. Scott Ferris, personal represen- tative of Governor Haskell, has pre- dicted that dirt will fly within another week, and contracts aro already. uy- derstood to have been let. Peterson Brothers and the Roberts Construc- tion company, both large © railroad builders, are to jointly handle the ac- tual construction, it is understood here, Actual grading will be started before April 1. The road from Sheridan and Miles City to Salt Creek, it is considered very likely will be completed this year. It is thought possible that the line into Casper maybe finished be- fore 1924; but this {s° problematical, particularly in view of the reaction- ary attitude adopted by many persons in the Wyoming metropolis. ngressman McClintic offices in Sheridan for the organization. C. 8. Hill, Wyoming immigration commissioner, will re- sign his post and take up duties in the rightof-way department of the railroad, it is reported here. That Sheridan {s destined to be the center of the new rail line 1s indicat- ed by the plans to establish large offices here. With the arrival of Con. gressman’ McClintic, there will be on the ground W. A, Murdock, vice-pres- ident; George M. Huss, chief engineer in charge of construction; F. D. Fen- stamaker and Sidney G, Jones, con- struction and locating. engineers. In addition to those officlals there will be scores of employes working on the line both ways from Sheridan, W. G, Williams, vice-president. and will open Haskell William B. Outman, who were in Cheyenne, are to be stationed in Miles City to direct right of way work. That it was not improbable the road from Miles City to Salt Creek would be in operation before next winter, was the bellef of Vice-Pres!- dent Murdock “Governor Haskell {sa man of ac- tion,” he said. “And I know he in- tends to push this road to completion just as fd&t as possible. It will be built In four sections and in that way double ground will be covered in half. time. “When the maps were laid before Goy. Haskell many months ago and a pipeline from the Salt Creek field north was being considered, was when Governor Haskell made up his mind to bulld a failroad here. “He looked over the maps the en gincers gave him for five minutes, Then he said. ““A pipe line isn’t what that coun- try needs. That would serve only the ofl interests and they are capable of serving themselves. They need a rail. road there. That will serve ail of the people. many of whom are nat able to help themselves unless they do have | the right kind of transportation.’ “From that time on I knew a rall- road would be built here some day by Governor Ha: . MAYOR AND GAS CO. LOCK HORNS | northern city does not back down on nis attempt to annul the franchise of the Sheridan Gas & Fuel company, according to R. E. McNally, attorney for the gas company, who is in Chey- enne. “The public service commission had absolute authority when it ruled that the gas compuny could not give free gas to the city and the company pro- poses to comply with the order of the commiss'on,” sald Mr. McNally. “The commission was in existence when the franchise was ‘granted with full authority over the question of rates. The city council was without authority to make any provision in the franchise affecting rates to be changed.” “A copy of the order by the com- mission ‘ixing the rates for the Sher- {dan Gas & Fuel company says ‘that all gas distributed should be paid for and the free list abolished. We can- not accept the term “free gas.” Some- one pays the bill. No service shou'd \be free as it tends to waste and an evil once started is hard to control and bound to grow. The free list is a thief that robs and undermines any business and it cannot be maintained without discrimination and should be elim‘nated.”” Attorney McNal'y and members of the comm'ssion indicated there wou'd be a hard batt’e to prevent Mayor Sheldon from carrying out his p'an and that they believed he is without legal right to take any action. jectasaahers utd S25 DOUGLAS RADIOS WEATHER REPORT DOUGLAS—The weather forecasts sent out by the state department of agriculture {s being broadcast at the local station by Fells Thompson, who has just obtained such a license. The service has been started and residents within a rad'us of 50 to 75 mi'es of Doug'as wili be able to recelve the reports gratis by installing an inex- pensive receiving set, the cost of which will be only a matter of 810. The reports will be acnt out from Douglas each day at 12:05 and in ad- dition to the weather coports the serv- ice will include reports of many | teresting Items of {mportance. In fir nishing this service the department of agriculture at Cheyenne makes it, possib'e for everyons to keep posted at all times {n regard to weather con a'tions, Tt is requested that al! who receive the forecasts mill a card tu, the department stating that the re ports were received through this broadcasting station which has, been designated as KFEV. IS FAMILY MAN ‘Wright, Wyo.—Forty miles from a ratiroad, Thomas W. McDonough does not let comparative isolation affect his outlook on life. As editor of the Wright Homesteader, ho is busy in forming the scattered inhabitants of] hia community and keeping — tient ‘abreast of the news. As the father of a family of nine—one a recent ad- dition of the masculine persuasion—he is doing more than his bit toward ra ng the per capita population of Wyo- ming’s many square miles. Of his family Mr. McDonough speaks as fol- lows: ‘We now have nino children and we'll bet our chances for a place at the r’ght hand of St. Peter there ian’t a happier family under the sun. CHEYEN Mayor C, W. Shel} We wish to invite our friend to equal don, of Sheridan, and the pi eerve| the above record with hopes ‘that 6 commi 1ay well be. { st] some of our people who do like. the n a nig k-duwn | ¢ N wit stop and reflect befor: Jrag-out figh in the allowing knocks to pass their lips.” CLAYTON BRIDGE CONTRACTS LET t i Rages Well, Readers, I DOUGLAS.—The Monarch Engin- eering company of Denver, and the Spear Lumber company, of this city, wll respectively construct and fur- nish the material for the new bridge across the Platte river at C’ayton, it has been announced. Bids were opened before a special meeting of the county commissioners, and the two concerns above mentioned were awarded the contracts. The bridge Is being built because of the traffic which will result from the erection of n‘nety steel storage tanks at Clayton by the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing company. With a short stretch of road through the Carey ranch the highway can be reached as! soon as the bridge !s completed. It is| understood that the Spear Lumber company is already de'iver‘ng the ma- terial at the site and that the Mon- arch people will have a crew at work) within the next few days. The Lamplighter of Old Days There were lamplighters back im the old days when there were horse| cars and hoboes, and saloons vn every corner, when playhouses were an institution and Italian restaurants | had an atmosphere and au gratin| potatoes that made opera singers for get their golden throats in the enjoy- ment of the golden food. Then, too there were to be found tn far away: corners of small restau- rants, tucked away behind a wall of artificial palms, a stringed orchestra weaving wistfully into their music the heart-breaking longing for soft Italian skies. Romance walked with her head held high in those days, and her hand out to greet all. taal There are words which slip from our minds but live in our hearts for- ever. Lamplighter is one of them. Tho younger generation could hardly understand just why it should be so. But then they-are not. expected to know. Lamplighter. To we older ones it ‘s a word that recalls gold and russet sunsets, soft purple shadows, the swift coming of a win- ter evening, like the fifng down upon the earth of a great black cloak. It whispers of fathers hurrying home to warm _firesides, of lovers’ meetings, of mill and factory work- ers leaving the buildings like a swarm of black bees for rest and sleep. It whispers of home and youth and dead dreams. For back in the old days a lamplighter was a familiar figure. At twilight time he would be seen ambling along with his stout lttle ladder and his long lighting pole. He was generally an old man with a big funny cap and loosely hanging clothes, Back in those days men had time to be friendly, so often the lamp: lighter” would wave a good night hand to a small white face pressed against a window pane, where they were waiting for him, knowing that he brought the night, the light and bedtime and dreams. Yes, a man had time to do things in those da: Even time for a pipe as he went his daily rounds. ' But the lamplighter oftoday! As the Ittle boy said about the tele- phone operator, he must live in the same place as God, for no one sees jhim any more. Except sometimes on ‘a quiet crusstown street you will find ja youth hurrying from one tall lamp to another, turning on the magic of }their lght with a small. brass key. But the romance had.gone. Now in | nis pinchbacked overcoat he hurries on his way. As Are All | “Expert on Income Taxes; Cuckoo Birds BY JOHN HANDSHAKER (Alias Weed Special Casper am just talking yesterday with the only guy in the world which understands the Income ‘Taxation, and I will say that do I get ® few more minnits to talk with him T will be able to keep out of jail for violating artickle XI of the General Instructions, which says For Making False and Fraudalent Return, For Making No Return, and For Failing to Pay Tax When Dew or Understate- ment of Tax Through Negligence, I am liable to owe the republick $10,000 or One Year's Imprisonment or both, at the Descression of the court. ‘Well, the way it looks now that I have lost the one guy which can ex- plain it to me, I hope the court uses its Descression, because it will make a Awful Monkey of itself if it tri to collect $10,000 off me, I will state! You can not “draw blood out of a stone” (Sockrates, I think); and court or no court I am very likely to make a False and Fraudalent Return with- out meaning to, now I have not got this guy to advise me. Well, I am sitting at the tipe writer yesterday when the Boss comes in and says have I made out my In- come Taxation yet. Well, Reader, I have not, and far- thermore I never have to before; owing to not being paid enough, for- tunately, before to warrant the gov- ernment in asking me impudent ques- t'ons written in English on a Chinese Chart—and believe me, Reader, I never realize how much thanks I owe Bosses for not paying me more in other years until I Iamp a Income Taxation Return Blank yesterday! The Old Man says I had better get right at it, because it is dew in March, and I can take the afternoon off to start on it. Well, did this baby assign me to translate racing charts into the Fonecian or Sum Arabic languages he would be hand- ing me a soft thing compaired to a | Income Tax Return! ‘Well, I am a pretty wise goof, Reader, and ther’ is probably nobody better qualified. by Nature and Mental Detainments to get a decision off a Income Tax Return than me; but after I have studied this thing about three hours, I realize the dope I have been hearing about Income Returns being troublesum is grossly underestimated. I have not been at it more than five hours before I realize I am hopelessly outclassed! Why this government has got to show its learning and mathametical ability by making Income Returns out like they was a treatace by You- clid or this Roman mathametician Calculus, I do not see. It is bad enough to take a guys money off him—and ask him a lot of fresh ques tions Hke is he living with his wife and has he any other half-wits or cuckoos dependant on’ him, without making all the questions that ain't impertinent. so complex he can not understand them. The more I see of governments, the better I like places like the Sarah Desert. I think before we get through with Income ‘Taxes “this government of the peo- ple and by the people will floor the people”, as Abe Lincoln sald. Well, I add Total of Items 12 to 46 inclusive to the Total of Item 20 (which {is Item 17 multiplied by Item 14 and Divided by Item 16) and then substract Item A (which {s Income from Fideucelaries plus Income from Bonds containing Tax-free covenant) after which I multiply the whole by Item 98 (which is Items 39, 40 and 41b minus Items 39b, 40b, and 41) and find that I am now a “Debtor Cor- poration"! ‘Well, I know this is wrong, 6o I do it over once more with the same re- sults. Well by this time I am Babbl'ng to myself and trying to MI Sa per is receiving we're glad to to work here. We hire the dollars with which we make necessary extensions from time to time. We pay them regular wages— the wages of “interest” that all bor- -rowed dollars command. Dickinson.) Correspondent. Catch My Thumb, so the lam to get some and stagger out of the offace. I am thinking the time of those tragic of Poet which are dedicated to the fernal Revenue Offace, and which With eyes that were weary and worn, ‘With brain in which figures did Sy burn, ‘Dizness man sat in dispatr and alarm, Switching his Income Return: Switch! switch! switch! He juggled the Items about, And still in a voice of dolcrous pitch, He moaned tt would never dope out!” (Robin Hood). Well, I get to thinking again out- side (which I think while I am mak: ing out this blank that I will never be able to do again) and it occurs to my reporters instinct I will be able to get somebody down at poleeco headquarters to dope this out for So I go down there and while I am) waiting to see a guy I know on the force, I get to talking with a funny looking bird just outside. Well I tell him my troubles, and he says Income Tax Returns is very easy and simple —if you know how, and he will help me. ° ‘Well, Reader,I give you my word, this baby is there fourty wazel Was brains colors this limper would make a rainbow look like {t was in mourn- ing! I do not talk with him more than ten minnits before he has it all explained to me, as clear as can be, and I am just about to mitt him and tell him he must have been Soloman’a school-teacher in another Incarcera- tion, when @ couple of guys in funny looking uniforms come running up on the double. Well, one of "em says hello Bert, and this guy who has just been ex- plaining the Income Tax says hello, and pointing to me he says, Levi, meet my friend Geo. Washington! Well, this guy Bert then says he has been explaining my income tax for me, and asks these two babies who run up does ho net understand the _ income tax better than anybody, living. They say sure he does, hut ho had better come on now Quietly. Then Bert says is he not Sir Isaac Newton, and they say sure he ts Sir Ike, but to come on back to the ward! Well, that {s the last I see of this bird; for they take him away down to the Insane Asylum which is Most Adjacent, but he sertainly understood the Income Taxes, Reader! It is tough I lose him so soon, hey, even if he is Cuckoo, as are all Good Birds and True which understand Income ‘Taxes! NEUMONIA yicks VAPORUB Yearly Over 17 Million Jars Used Prompt Prescri Service Phone 2293 CASPER DRUG DISPENSARY Becklinger Building 230 East Second FREE DELIVERY iption SAM “HIRED DOLLARS” We would have been unable to employ those dollars but for the favorable working conditions they find in our organization. Their owners would not have loaned them to us had we been attempting to render service in a community where the people were unfair or unfriendly. ; Thanks to those industrious dollars Cas- ood service; thanks to Casper’s fair-minded citizens those dollars put every cent of their energy Natrona Power Comany