Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1923, Page 6

T Fuling PAGE SIX : THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE Entered at Casper (Wyoming), Office as Second Class Matter, vember 25, 1916. Post- No sper Datly Tribune tssuee and The Sunday Morn- ing Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. Publication offices, Trib-|from the remaining 680,000 than we une Building, opposite Postoffice. joriginally expected to collect from the « MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED Pr FR The Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the uss for publication of all news credited In this paper and also the local news pabiished herein. and 16 Connect Business Telephone -- Branch Telephone ing All Dy * CHARLES W. President and Advertising Prudden, Bteger Bic Ave. New York City ton, Mass., Suite 65 New Montgsamery *une are-on file in the New 7 Fr Franciseo of- . welcome. Member of the Associated Press nd't Bureau of . B. 0.) Member of Circu! 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More equitable freight rates for shippers of the Rocky Movwntain region and more frequent train service for Casper. SAVING THE MERCHANT B MARINE The decision of the Supreme Court ‘that Attorney General Daugherty's against serving Uquor on American ships on the high seas ts mot legal puts the whole matter of * @rinks on the American Merchant | ‘Marine-up in the atr once again. The} + high court held that the prohibition amendment could not legally be ap « pied to prevent American ships from gelling alooholid beverages outside American territorial waters; and at the same time ruled that neither Americen or foreign ships could fring into American ports | -mealed or under bond for the use of outgoing passengers. ‘This seems io put an interesting complexion on the case. Either Amer- fean ships will have to drop off their exceas Fiquid load somewhere outside the threemile limit and pick tt up on the outbound passage, or else they will have to patronize the ereat Bust- ness Bootlegzers of the East, and take on an illegal cargo on their way out. ‘That would be easy enough— just as easy as.bringing whisky in. But taking whiskey out of America to Europe would be like piping beer te Munich in these solemn “prohibi- tion” days. That the American Merchant Ma- rine has been benefited more by this Supreme Court decision than almost anything which could happen to St, barring s congressional subsidy, ts certain. Shipping men have long known, and the best informed persons have long told the administrations, (that “dry” American ships could never successfully compete with wet foreign ships for trans-Atlantic trade. Now it remains to be seen just what method will be used to get around that part of the present version of the law which forbids ships to bring liquor into port under bond or sealed, But get around it they will PROSPECTS FOR INCOME TAX REDUCTIONS In a recent statement to the New ork Times, Congressman Frear of the ways and means committee made gome enlightening observations tn re- gard to the prospects for income tax ‘Fefuctions, He presented govern ment figures showing that approxt- mately seven and a quarter million persons pay income taxes to the fed. eral government, N per cent of these taxpayers, or about, six and a half million, have comparatively smell incomes. Using this fact as a basis for suggestions, Congressman Frear said: ‘If a real reduction is wanted in income taxes, why not ap ply it to these six and a half milion people? Our good fortune in collect ing $200,000,000 more than our expec- tations would permit the government to excuse these six and a half million men and from paying any taxes whatever, and still we would have +|we would give every man an oppor- Uquor } classes of income taxpayers—except, perhaps, to have them make returns |—and without disturbing the present |income tax schedule in the slightest, except to provide a way to.let these classes out, still collect more money 7,259,000. Further, not a man or [Woman of the 680,000 would have to! Day a penny more than they are pay- ing today. | “Now that would be a real income jtax reduction. It would fall as an |Undisguised blessing upon the class of people who are most in need’ of |reliet. When a man earns $2,000 to} | $3,000 a year it is a difficult thing to make ends meet. Under such an arrangement as‘I have pointed out] |tunity to support his family and other | dependents without assessment up to |the first $5,000 he earns; would not |disturb the present tex arraygement with respect to persons making more |than $5,000 and still would put more monéy in .the treasury than we ex-| pected to have from all classes of tax- payers when the law was passed.” Mr, Frear said he was not officially |advocating this plan, but. was merely | joffering it as an illustration of what might be done. Congressman Frear, thus leaves us| | the intimation that he is one of that/ |large group of “breadand-butter” pol- | iticlans, Who advocate nothing until they first test public sentiment and make sure they are on the strong side, GOVERNMENT FIGURES ON FARM INCOMES Official reports from the United) States department of agriculture are now available in regard to the cash earnings of American farmers for the year 1923. The government figures show that the cash yield, computed Towboy Taylor. THE DOG-CATCHER so A MeStonghe Syediense, tas. ¥. ¥.) as an average for the entire country, was $715 for every $16,400 of land’ value, In computing this net income \no Geductions were made for the farmer’s own labor. The sum of $715 represents the wages of the farmer |from his work and the net returns on }land worth $16,400. Obviously, the average farmer would have received |g larger sum, without working, if he had, invested @ similar amount of |money at 6 per cent. The interest earnings would have been $984. However, the average is not the only thing to be taken into consider. ation. Above the avorage there are cases of prosperity and below it there are cases of distress. The govern- ment report shows that nearly 15 per |cent of the farmers had a net loss. Some of these may shave failed on account of economic conditions over |which they had no control and others may have failed because they were |poor managers of their own affairs. It is never easy to explain exactly why prosperity favors some men and adversity descends upon others. ‘There are probably some farmers who ere satisfied with gmall net in- comes, at times, providing they are able to make a comfortable living for themselves and thelr familles. The ultimate goal of all mankind is con- tentment, and probably the most per- fect contentment on earth is to be found in the country. The government report on farm earnings will not surprise or shock anyone directly connected with agri- culture. Nearly every farmer knows that the average income is low. Re- ports of this sort should be addressed to city readers, According to the last census, more than half our population is.now urban. The socaled rural population, which includes all towns of less than 2,500 residents, is only fifty-one million; the population of cities of more than 2,500 is more than 54,000,000. Thus it is secn that tho actual farm population is decidedly in the minority, ‘The majority must live on food produced by the minor- ity; hence it is of the utmost impor- tance that the urban dweller be made to understand the problems of agricul: WILSON OUT AGAINST PROHIBITION A @ispatch from Washington an- nounces that former President Wil son will take an affirmative stand in favor of a repeal of the Volstead act, and ask his party to make that issue its rallying ery for 1824 This is no surprise. Mr, Wison's attitude toward the - hypocritical statute {s well known, except to persons with short memories, He was President when that buriesque on sane legislation was passed, and he vetoed it. The fanatics were in tho saddle and they overrode his veto by a two-thirds ma. jority in each House. He made the point then, as he doubtless makes {t now, that the Vol- stead act was pelfcondemnatory. It affirmed en untruth; it declared that any beverage carrying more than onehalf of one per cent of alcohol was intoxicating. This is not true and cannot be made true by statute. The repeal of the Volstend act will not end national prohibition, but it will open the way to sane enforce- |ment legislation, and might easily ef. |tect the return of beer and Nght wines. ‘The Supreme Court has held | that Congress may fix the alcoholic content to be r rded as i xicat- ing. Under this de a law - Forest Values Large LARAMIP, Wyo., May 2,—Conser- vative estimates place the present value of the timber in Albany and Carbon counties at $5,000,000. This timber, when products such as wo use every day, would easily bring 350,000,000, The wood industries in these coun- ties give employment to hundreds of men. Prosperous communities de- pend wholly upon the local timber for their existence, Every resident directly or indirectly benefited by the presence of timber in the region, The greater value of this timber ts not in what it will bring on the mar- ket today, but rather on what it will return as a growing crop, properly cared for and harvested. A growins crop is made up of green trees. LIFE LIKE NOWADAYS THAT 5 ERY GASY “THING FoR ToM-BoY TAYLOR oe Fook THE DoG- CATCHER “Good AND PLENTY. Che Casper Daily Cribune STUFFED Tey Do IT WAS The trees harvested ara as interes’ collected. The complete destruction | of green timber is complete destruc- tion of capital. The mapner of cut- ting timber on the national forest | provides for the removal, first, ,of the mature timber, then in a second cutting the removing timber, at which time a young stand has been weeded by the older trees. The en- tire forest area !s thus always in a condition to produce timber. ibd, eat | | | | } Dies in Prison CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 2.—Her- man J. Kusel, Chugwater bank ban-| dit, under sentence to serve from 10 to 12 years in the Rawlins peniten- tiary, died at the state prison Mon-/! day, April 23. News of his death! —By Fontaine Fox 6. tence, when application was made in) the district court of Laramie county for the apaintment of an adminis trator of his estate. Harry B. Hen derson Jr.,, of Cheyenne, was ap pointed. The estate consists of $551.20. William T. Kusel of Nebras ka, a brother, ,is the hetr. Kusel formerly a resident of Ster ling, Colo., at which place he was arrested during the war as an alien enemy, and Adolf Pfunder, a young German chemist, in 1920 conceived a plan to get even with the United s_for its part m the war with | Pepper or even a cracker. ‘quenters of pool -places of assembly for men. A round- Germany, by robbing banks, which they believed were conducted by the government. The Bank of Chugwa- ter, 40 miles north of Cheyenne, was the scene of their first attempt—and thelr undoing. When they attempted to intimidate of cashier of the bank he bolted into the street and gave the alarm. Kusel, hampered in his ef- forts to escape by the fact that one of his legs was of wood, was shot in the back by a citizen and immediate- years and Pfunder from 11 to 13 years. Kusel carried to his grave a large number of birdshot which were shot into his back by the citizen who wounded him at Chugwater. He was about 65 years of age. a od World Champ Egg Eater LARAMIE, Wyo., May 2.—Tho champion marathon egg-eater of the world lives in Laramie. This was established here when N. McDonald, local barber disposed of 62 raw eggs at one sitting in a Laramie resteur ant while @ large crowd looked on and feebly applauded. The eggs were devoured without the aid of salt, McDonald sald he could have eaten two dozen more if given a pint of Mquor, but no one volunteered this help. The Laramie barber t out to break the record recently established in Denver of 68 soft-boiled eggs con- sumed at one sitting. The record price to that ia be- eved to have been established by a sdepherdpr near Bhcmon, Wyo.7 in 1897, who ate 67 fried eggs at one sitting. Loafers Barred SHERIDAN, May 2.—Sheridan’s police department will refuse to tole- rate vagrants or street loafers, is the edict of O. H. Pointer, chief of police, who announced that a vigorous campaign will be made by his men against this class of visitors to Shert- dan. Bonafide workers, or men in Sheri- dan awaiting the beginning of opera- tions of thelr construction compantes, will not be A careful check ts veing kept on fre- halls and other up will be staged at an opportune time anc the men who have no valid excuse for being in the city will be shown out of town. In making the announcement of On green timber is capital invested. was recieved here Tuesday, the first| his proposed campaign, Chief Pointer | ‘anniversary of the day of his sen-jdeclared that {t was not his intention | to inconvenience any workers for the ym 3 FISH BRAND SLICKER Its the Patented Features s You Can’t Buy— bothered by the police. | : THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1923, various construction companies mo- Dilizing their crews here, but that the loafers must go. Hoe added that Sheridan would not tolerate any law- lessnegs, and that he expected to When the infant's body wag res- cued both hands, both feet and a por tion of the head had been consumed. —————__—_ Form Veterans’ Post people of this community expect. ———— Child Burned to Death TORRINGTON, Wyo., May 1—The five-months-old daughter of Mr. and — LARAMID, Wyo., May 2.—E. Fitch, Grand Army of the Republic, and himself a Son of Veteran, receiv- ed a letter trom C, Randall Bubb of Tacoma, Washb., junior vice com: mander in chief of the Sons of Vet- home, nine miles south of here. erans here, to include both the sons 2 and grandsons ,of veterans of the Civil war, and the sons of the wives of veterans, the scope of the mem- bersh!p having been broadened to take in the third generation of both of her three children, four years veterans and their wives. 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But—BUY YOUR SEASON TICKET These Season Tickets Are reduced rate tickets that admit the holder to every event to be held on the Rodeo grounds from early June until Labor Day. A limited number of these season tickets are being sold at reduced prices only until May 20—AFTER THAT, YOU CANNOT BUY ONE AT ANY PRICE: You Can Help a Friend~Now Buy your season ticket this week from one of the local contestants—Grandstand Tickets, $5.00; Bleacher Tickets, $3.50. The Rodeo Association is awarding some very valuable prizes to Casper people who are selling these season tickets, so this is your opportunity to save money for yourself—help one of your friends win a valuable prize—and help to finance the advertising and building program of a permanent play- ground for the community. First Event June 8th Two Big Boxing Bouts (Use Your Season Ticket) 4 NOW EVERYBODY— “Let’s Put Er Over Big’”’ CASPER RODEO ASSOCIATION Room 11, Smith Building Phone 1303