Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1923, Page 8

CAGE EIGHT. Che Casper Daily Cribune The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunda: Casper, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, oppo- debtor nations. The total interest which the American taxpayers will have to put up in the next twenty-five years, due to the failure of for- eign governments to keep their promises, will not be far from $8,500,000,000, Add that to the in- FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1923. NOTICE TO BUILDERS Our representative, Mr: Guy Hallock, is in Casper installing tile in the store front of W. J. Bailey, and in the residences of Rev. Wilson, Mr. Leisinger and BUD TPOBCOLIIOS: terest already paid and to the principal which Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916, -15 and 16 ng All Business Telephones _ Branch Telephone Exchang Departments. PRLS Oi pet so oe he By J. B. HANWAY pl ele eee MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chi- cago, I'l., 286 Fifth Ave., New York Citv; Globe Bldg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 65 New Mont- gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year, Dally and Sunday -. One Year, Sunday Only _- Six Months, Daily and Sunday - Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday Per Copy ---.--.-----------. By Mail One Year, Daily and Sunday _ One Year, Sunday Only ---- Six Month, Daily and Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday ---. ‘All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. Still Keeping History Straight Private Dalzell a noted figure in the public life of Ohio thirty years ago still lives at an ad- vanced age in Washington. Among the private’s best remembered activities, was to keep history straight. No public man on the other side of the political fence was permitted to get away with the slightest error in statement. He was held to a strict accountability. As may be imagined the private was a busy man and the newspapers were filled with his articles bearing the well- known signature. He was a widely known char acter, wore his hair long, was full of pep and | dearly loved to route a Democrat in argument. Therefore it is like picking up an old book of which ‘you were fond but had not seen in many years, to note that the private had once more taken his pen in hand to tell the world the straight of it with reference to the presidency. Here is what the private says: “Tf not lights, here are some shadows of the roming events of 1924, If tradition or precedent figure at all: “I suppose there is no good reason why no man from any part of that great empire of the Western States has ever yet been chosen, even inated for the presidency. : early all our more recent. presidents have come from the central section of the union—only three from New England yet. Indeed, only two of them chosen by election for John Quincy Adams was elected by the house, and Chester A. Arthur succeeded on the death of Garfield. The last New Englander nominated and elected was Franklin Pierce oA New Hampshire, in 1853, seventy years ago—a si icant interval. It’s a strange coin- cidence that both Arthur and Coolidge were born in Vermont, and both reached the presi- dency the same way. ‘Will the parallel continue to run as it has in tradition and history? No one can tell yet! Our conventions for three-quarters of a century have never nominated a New Englander, for Blaine of Maine was born in Pennsylvania. “Bancroft emphasizes the statement often that Washington never understood New England’s soldiers and statesmen, and even more strongly says that they never understood him at all. “One has heard the same opinion advanced about the mutual feeling of Northern distrust of men from the South. Yet most of our early presi- dents were from the South, and two, at one elec- tion in 1860-1865 — Lincoln of Kentucky and Johnson of North Carolina — actually elected both on the same day! The South has had twelve presidents and is now seeking to place another. Ohio and Virginia together have furnished fif- teen presidents. Of the seven presidents from Ohio not one served his term except Grant, and though born in Ohio, he was really from Illinois. “The mighty state of New York really elected but one president, Van Buren; the other two, Fillmore and Roosevelt, same in by death. T premonitory presidential prognosticators } try their teeth on these problems. It may guide them in forecasting who will not be nominated anyhow, aud so simplify the problem by elimin- ation.” Speaking of War Indemnities When Lord Birkenhead says “Great Britain today in the position of being the only power that is ing indemnity for the war,” this dis- tinguished Briton has overlooked what the Unit- ed States is doing. For more than four years the taxpayers of this country have been paying the interest on about ten billion dollars loaned to the allies to assist them in the prosecution of the war. About $450,000,00 0a year has been wrung from our overburdened people to meet that bill, which twenty allied nations had sol emnly pledged themselves to the total amount which the American taxpayers have been forced to contribute because of the failure of those debtor nations to fulfill their promises is, roughly, two billion dollars. What is that but a war indemnity? Recently Great Britain signed an agreement to meet the interest on her obligations to the fu ture, and eventually to pay the principal in 62 annual installments. That reduces the amount on which American taxpayers must still pay in- terest to about $6,000,000,000. The annual taxes for that purpose will be close to $260,000,000. But the collection of that huge sum problem- atical. Only a few small countries which owe consequential parts of it have shown a disposi- tion to come forward and make arrangements for its repayment. A large part of the total may never find its way back to the American treasury that is, to the American taxpayers. What is that loss but a war indemnity? It an unescapable len directly resulting from the conflict. é will be the situation twenty-five years hence? Sometime during that period arrange- ments may be made by debtor nations pay: ment of the interest and principal of half the amount now owed. That would leave about three billion dollars principal which apparently our own people must pay, and they will have in each of the twenty-five years an charge of around $150.000,000, depending the time and terms of further refunding by the average interest probably we will eventually have to pay, and we reach a total of $8,500,000,000. Future developments may reduce or increase that hnge sum, but present indications are that twenty-five years from now the books of the treasury will show that the American taxpay- ers have contributed that tremendous total as a European war indemnity. It is almost as great as the original loans to the allies, and equals the entire reparations bill which France hopes to extract from Germany. At the time of the distribution of former Ger- man colonial territories as “mandates” among Great Britain, France, and Japan, it was esti- mated that British wealth had been increased $100,000,000,000 as a result of the war, and that French wealth, through the acquisition of Alsace Lorraine and German territory in Africa, was far greater than before’ the war. Any construc- tive “indemnity” that Great Britain may be pay- ing is but a tiny fraction of her war accretions. What did the United States get? Nothing. Yet we are being called upon to pay an indemnity bill that is likely to exceed the entire amount of reparations that may be squeezed out of Ger- many. It is time that the Americen people awoke to the true situation and appraised at their real value the statements of alien propagandists who belittle what America has done, while at the same time they laud their own national virtues. What We Imported It can be truthfully said that the Fordney tariff law of 1922 is about the best all around law on that subject so far drafted and exacily suits the times and conditions in this country as did the McKinley or Dingley Jaws in their tine. Thirty-nine per cent of our imports for the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1923, consisted of raw products, 37 per cent consisted of partly or wholly manufactured goods, nina per cent con- sisted of erude foodstuffs and food animals, and 13 per cent consisted of manufactured food- stuffs. Expressed in values we imported in 1922 $1,- 476,000,000 worth of crude materials for use in manufacturing, compared with $909,000,000 for 1922, or an increase of 62 per cent. This serves as an indication of the remarkable activity of our mills during the fiscal year 1923, all but three months of which was under the Fordney tariff law. Imports of food stuffs in crude condition and food animals totaled $352,000,000 in value for 1923 compared with $302,000,000 in 1922, while imports of food stuffs partly or wholly manu- factured in 1923 totaled $507,000,000, compared with $333,000,000 in This should not, how ever, be taken to indicate an increased competi- tion with domestic food stuffs, since a very high percentage of these imports consisted of such non-competing products coffee, tea, spices, bananas, certain nuts, , cocoanut products and the like, Of the food stuffs about 37 per cent were free, comprising the articles just men- tioned. Mauufactures for further use in manufactur- ing imported in 1923 totaled $711,000,000, com- pared with $407,000,000 the year before; while manufactures ready for consumption, 1923 to- taled #717,000,000, compared with $639,000,000 in 2. Of the aggregate of these two groups, about 50 per cent or $700,000,000 came in free of duty. The average ad valorem rate of duty on all im- ports for 1923 was slightly under 15 per cent, compared with nearly 14 per cent for 1922. The ge of dutiable goods in 1928 was 57, and slightly over 61, The average duty rate 1 dutiable imports for 1923 was a trifle un- per cent, for 1922 a little over 35 per cent. Since the great bulk of crude imports paid no duty, and the rates on competitng agricultural products were in general nea twice those cay- ried in the Republican law of 1909, it would seem that the severest cuts in duty rates applied to manufactyres. Certainly the official figures point conclusively to the fact that the Fordney law is by no means a high protective law, but on the contrary, is the lowest rate law yet drafted under the protective policy. There is no escape from the conclusion. Among the free imports competing with prod- ucts purchased by the farmer may be mentioned agricultural implements and parts, binding twine, fertilizers of all sorts, building materials | Such as brick, cement, stone, timber products, leather gloves, boots and shoes, harness and sad- dies and other leather goods, hides from which leather is made, whetstones and hones, horse- pads, barbed wire, fuel, etc. The manufacturer, of course, has received advantages from the freo crude materials and certain compensatory duties on wool manufactures due to his imports of raw wool, ete, The American wage-earner has profited by the larger imports of raw materials to be manufac- tured in this country by the joint activity of American labor and American capital. ‘ Unreasonable Fear Almost every one has some sort of unreason- able fear of nething or other. Some are afraid of thunder and lightning, others are frightened almost into spasms when on the edge of a pre- cipice or when looking down at the water from a high bridge. Others are distracted over the sense of being in closed spaces, are fearful when in tunnels and almost suffocate in terror when surrounded by fog. Then there are some people who have something like the same fear of pov- erty although they possess wealth. The fear of disease disturbs the quiet and peace of mind of many persons. One thing you should remember is that though any one of these fears if allowed to predom- inate one’s thoughts becomes abnormal, at the same time it is quite normal to possess some one or more particular forms of fear. It is normal because nearly everyone is so possessed. Quite apart from the effect it may have upon you to dwell upon your pet fear, it '3 very bad form and inconsiderate to talk much or dwell much on your fear or fears when with other people. Sometimes women, especially young wo- men, seem to imagine that there is something appealing to the masculine fancy in the woman who is afraid—afraid to walk a plank, afraid of snakes, afraid of the dark. She ‘screams and trembles and makes the most of her terror, In reality, a little of this goes a long way. And even levoted admirer becomes a little bored, event- ually disgusted with a third, or fourth, or fifth repetition of this demonstration. If you are so much obsessed with your pet fear, that you need to tell others about it, tell a doctor or a psychologist wha understands tho | nature of such things and can help you to over. come it Sut don’t cast yourself upon every chance acquaintance under the mistaken belief that it makes you appear more individual more emotional and high strung, Matters and Things, of State-Wide Interest, Wired in, Telephoned, =» Written, Grape-Vined and Some of It Purloined Douglas Water Contract DOUGLAS.—At a special meeting of the city council held yesterday afternoon the firm of McLaughlin & O'Neil of Livingston, Mont., awarded the contract for construct- ing the new city water system from the Green Valley spring to Douglas. As it will require about three weeks for the material to reach this city from the mills work will not be com- menced on the line until sometime after the middle of September. Bids for the sale of the bonds will be opened at @ special meeting of the council to be held tomorrow morning. A number of bids have been submitted and a favorable sale is’ anticipated. Must Dim Lights DOUGLAS.—Sheriff Albert W. Peyton will from now on demand a’ rigid enforcement of the dimming laws on all highways in Converse county. Deputies from the sheriff's office will ride the highways every evening and those who fail*to dim their lights when passing other cars will be arrested and dealt with ac cording to the regulations of .th state. A number of accidents ha resulted from failure to comply with this law and the sheriff has decided that the only remedy {s strict en- forcement. Those who have cars not equipped with dimmers must either have their cars properly equipped or remain off the county roads in the evening. Selected Bitulithic SHERIDAN.—At the called meet- ing of the city council it was de- cided to pave Districts 22 and 23, Gould street from Alger avenue to Mandell street, and Gould street from Fifth to Eighth street, with Warrenite bitulithic paving on a bituminous base. Earlier in the day, the contract for the paving of these two districts was awarded to tho Warren Construction company. The amount of their bid was $16,230.81 and the material is similar to that used on other paving projects of the company here. Bids for the re-paving of Msin street from Burkitt street to the bridge crossing Little Goose creek on North Main street will be opened ‘Thursday. This pavement will re- place the old wooden block paving wrecked by the recent flood, poh Nas > Ce The Unusual In Collisions SHERIDAN.—W. E. Davis and John Zucca were victims of an un- usual automobile accident when a third car caused them to collide as they were meeting where the road crosses the Burlington railroad tracks at Old Dietz. Mr. Davis was going north and Mr. Zucca coming towards town. When they met, and both swung out to pass a large Buick car, also coming in, tried to pass Mr. Zucca as he was turning out to pass the Davis car, forcing him to swing in and causing his and Mr. Davis’ cars, both Fords to collide, damaging the front wheels, lights, fenders and radiators of both. The driver of the Buick, who re- fused to give his name, stopped, and is said to have yused = Mr. Davis and Mr. Zucco, and then to have driven on. The license num- ber of the Buick was taken by the other men, neither of whom was in- jured. The case is in the hands of the county attorney, but no definite action against the driver of the big car has been taken. The first British society for lower- ing the cost of living through cooper- ative buying and selling of staple commodities wos formed seventy-five years ago by a few workers employed in a cotton mill near Leeds, — BIG AUCTION SALE * ‘There will be a big auction sale at 234 South David, Saturday after noon, at 2 p. m. of household furni- ture, rugs, bedding, cooking utensils dishes, glassware, etc. Harned Fur- niture Co. 234 8. David. Phone249. sb hietge Lats Send your automobile news to “Spark Plu re Tribun VACCINATION COMPULSORY. Attention of the Casper public and school authorities 1s called to the fol- lowing ruling of the department of public health, state of Wyoming, in connection with the opening of the new school year, "No pupll shall be enrolled in or attend any public, private or pa- rochial school in the state of Wyo- ming, nor shall any teacher be em- played therein, until he or she shall present to the person in charge of sald institution, or his agent, a certificate signed by a physician l- censed to practice medicine in the state of Wyoming, certifying that said pupil or teacher shows evidence of having been successfully vacci- nated by scarification against small- pox or of having had said disease.” DR. L. C. SMITH, Natrona County Health Officer, Publish Aug. 29, 30, 81, 1923. Auto Service Co. 183 N. Wolcott Street Phone 2370 Cars Washed and Greased Automobile Painting, Simonizing and Polishing—Our Specialties “Service’—Our Motto The Big.Pipe Line DOUGLAS—One of the biggest Jobs that has ever been undertaken in Douglas is the stringing of miles and miles of pipe for the new pipe line of the Sinclair Pipe Line com- pany from Clayton to Kansas City which runs through Converse county just a few miles west of the city. Ninety car loads of pipe have been unloaded here by the Burlington railroad, the shipments haying come direct to Douglas from the mills at Pittsburgh, Pa. For the past few weeks a number of trucks have been used in hauling the pipe from this city to the right-of-way but the work is not anywhere near com- pleted and it is understood that a fleet of at least twenty-five trucks will be put on here within a week. It will require about six weeks to complete the stringing of the pipe which has been shipped here, ac- cording to men connected with the Sinclair organization. Yesterday one of the trucks was sent to Orin for a few days and ten trucks were sent to Inez All of these trucks will be back in this city within a week to assist in hauling out the pipe delivered here. The Sinclair company’s telephone line has been completed through the county and to the etate line, it is re- ported. The line follows the Yellow: stone highway from Clayton to @ point a few miles west of Douglas, where it turns off to the south along the company’s right-of-wa: Say it with a cup of Nash’s Delicious Coffee. It isthe one breakfast drink that starts the sey off with zest and that sat- isfied feeling of contertment. It is entirely different from other coffees. Try it—you'll want another cup! Also ask your r for Nash’s Pea- nut Butter—it’s better, AMeashes- ‘pauicious” CoFFEE BIG TREAT FOR CASPER The people of Casper will have the opportunity of hearing one of preachers DR. JAMES America’s famous lecturers and W. KRAMER Of California Accompanied by the Soloist JOHN W. TROY Who has one of the most remarkable voices in America Watch the papers for the dates and further information E. N. Sprague. To any one wanting tile installed in bath rooms, fire: sentative is in SERVICE We know our patrons have a dis- position to be fair as far as they understand our business, but the difficulty is to get them to under- stand—it is difficult to get in close enough touch with all of them to explain our business. It would please us to be able to sit down and talk to each one of our patrons and explain our sys- tem of doing business, the reasons why those systems are applied and what the result would be in case we did not apply the rules and reg- ulations which we believe neces- sary to the successful conduct of our affairs and the rendition of good service to our patrons. We solicit suggestions might tend to better service. ge that The Casper Daily Tribune WILL ISSUE ITS CAnnual Fall Sunday, September 2 The stores of Cas ful line of Fall and per are displaying the most wonder- Winter wearing apparel, Anything you desire can be purchased in Casper. The Casper Dail home merchants. low and, in many instances, by merchants in the larger ci Spend your money where you earn it. Casper. Le The Casper Daily Tribune y Tribune believes in patronizin We know that Casper prices are Hs lower than the prices quoted Spend it in laces, floors, etc., while our repre- jasper we can offer special prices. See him or write us for estimates, THE DENVER MANTEL & TILE CO. 1652 Tremont St. Denver, Colo.