Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 30, 1923, Page 18

aa EAE SOR Nene Ane CAGE EIGHT. Che Casper Sunday Cribune Ontered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. Che Casper Sunday Cribune est = - giving us benevolent advice on our The Opinion of Other Newspapers hve Seon the Sivas of Buropass [pt ce in history. The ones that would like to be | written upon the scroll of fame or the ones that |Sotheone would like to see writfen upon the scrpll, who have not earned the right, should not Christmas Card Department At have been the arrivals of statesmen and near statesmen at Departments. | our ports that one would think the 2 be gn history. History is truth and impartiality. conduct of foreign governments é Business: Telephones _-——--- -----—---- <== mien 18) ic . | would be seriously dislocated by Mills Is C d Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All t & worthless, otherwise. ‘ splaled Ss ene Taka aie aha And while our historians are writing the ree-| their absence. The early P Why Europe Wants Money All of a Kind (Torfolk News.) Americans may differ as to our Humiliation Either Way nators of internationalist wisdom were a real menace to our Ameri- canism, but their calls have become so frequent and their views have been so monotonously similar that ord'of our le, they must be fair and just to; othér peoples. If we have been in war with them, it is no sign we should despise them. In war,! |America fights only for high principle or for} By J. E. HANWAY Advertising Representatives (Springfield Union.) (New York Commercial.) Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-28 Steger Bids, Ch! /humanitarianism or noble object. It is never for} In the present circumstances the |international relations. There are| y¢ an American ambassador tofthey are now merely tolerated. The | P°%S Made by the Mills Stationers cago, I'l.. 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg..| conquest or for any purely selfish motive of ag- European nations could commit no internationalis! ationalists, isola-| any of the great nations should at-|American people are thoroughly |COTPany, J. L. Waugh having been Roston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg, 65 New Mont-| -pondizement. If we fight, we fight for right pur: steater folly than to indulge in war- tionists, pro-leaguers and” anti-|tanct to live within the income pro.|alive to what the schemers of | placed in charge of this department gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Dally | s and accept the result and resume friendly fre. They are economically rq |leaguérs, Some of us believe in ex: | vided for him by Congress, and keep | Europe want to do with thelr |of the business tn connection with Tribune are on fils in the New York, Chicago, Boston | DBes an Ti nd resume friendly Aucea and. financially exhausted | tending aid to. war devastated | yia°d for ‘him by Congress, and keep | Testy Li Wa Gina Ue eee and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. | ions with our late enemies just where jfrom the last war. They cannot | Europe and some of us do not. But oe : ———— Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) a nn SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrter One Year, Dal!y and Sunday ---—-------- Orie Year, Sunday Only _--. Six Months, Daily and Sunday -----. Three Months, Daily and Sunday .-. One Morth, Dally and Sunday Per Copy y 2 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 pald in advance and the Dat'y Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. Our Trusty Scouts It was demonstrated again yesterday that the} Boy Scouts organization is an institution of use fulness, and in no sense an ornamental body or a body held together for play or amusement. In the flood condition affecting the big bridges over the Plate river and Casper creek to the west of the city the services of every available man was | needed in the attempts on the part of the re finery corporations to save these structures and keep traffic moving and to warn the public of the dangers. These activities required many men. More than could be secured. A call was made for scout help. Some several hundred re- sponded to the blowing of the whistle. Scout mat ters selected from the ranks the number requi: ed for the purpose, and dismissed the remainder, all in semi-military fashion, and those chosen entered upon the duties of the day. They directed the traffic along the detours, stood guard over the washed out and dangerous places, warned of the dangers along the route, held up the traffic at the unsafe Casper Creek bridge and in fact released for service in combatting the floods and protecting the bridges from further dam- age several scores of men sadly needed for the work in hand, The scouts did their appointed work like sold- iers and many of them would have willingly joined the workmen in the more important work of saving the public property. It is hoped that the people of Casper are alive to an appreciation of the value of the Boy Scouts. These willing workers for good purposes are be- ing more and more called upon to take the place of men in the affairs of life. It is fortunate that they have received the training they have, for the larger duties. This boys organization is destined to play a great \part and have a tremendous influence on the next generation. There is no question of the improvement the scouts will have made in the quality of citizenship. - _ Greater Initiative Needed When everything runs alright and smooth and those things fitting into the cogs of the ma- chine perform their functions all in proper anid regular form, there is no greater piece of me- canism than Uncle Sam’s postal system. But when something goes wrong and some unit fails in its duty, some part is temporarily incapaci- tated, the government shows less than half the enterprise and initiative that private effort ex- hibits under like circumstances. In cases like floods, washouts or any other disturbance in transportations, the mails are always delayed beyond the time private enterprise would haye them on the spot. There is no excuse, save that there is no one of sufficient authority at hand to command in such cases. Some one at a distance, to whom things must be laboriously ex- plained, must give the order. Tf it could be gotten into the heads of all pos- tal employes that the United States mail is the most important thing in the country, that tife, death, business, finance, everything almost, de- pends upon the quick receipt and dispatch of mail, and they could be, and should be, clothed | with emergency authority there would be no such distressing delays as Wyoming has suffered in the past few months in the delivery of mail mat- ter, The great United States should take the same | pride in enterprise and service, to the people that | private concerns so frequently show. Any and every means should be commanded in the service of the people. If railroads fail, then trucks, automobiles airplanes, horses and wag- ons, even the broad back of a good walker, any or all of these should be requisioned and the mails sent forward with all the. swiftness pos- sible. The apparently impossibie is accomplished every day by men the world over. The post of fice department should wake up and tackle the impossible and put it over. Traitor Historians A few months ago the legislature of Wiscon- sin did what the legislature of every state in the union should do, passed a law forbidding the use of any history or text book of any kind ih the schools “which falsifies the facts regarding the War of Independence, or the War of 1812, or defames the nation’s founders or misrepresents the ideals and causes for which tliey struggled and sacrificed, or which contains propaganda favorable to any foreign government.” Not only Wisconsin but every other state should go a few steps farther. They should in- clude not only the Revolutionary war and the War of 1812, but also the Mexican War, the He them off and with no bitter feelings to- waid them. America has been guided by her ideals from! the beginning. They are worthy ones, and our history will show our devotion to them, And the only way we can induce our children and our | children’s children to respect ‘and maintain} them is to keep them worthy. History is no place in which to exploit heroes and near heroes. It must be plain, severe truth. There are other fields in which writers and poets | may give rein to their fancy and ornament and embellish their accounts as their inspiration and skill may direct. jaf; In the record of our national life, our busi- ness and social life, in the record of our rela- tions with our neighboring peoples, let us be} truthful and honorable, just fair and consider- | ate. Be these things in our daily walk and teach | them to our children. Then we need have no fear | of the survival of the ideals set up by the found- ers of the nation, which have guided us to the day of our present greatness. Unionism and Justice As an ordinary thing organized labor stands by its own, whether its own is right or wrong. This attitude got by in former days but it is out of style in present times. Organized labor is taking more pains to see that “its own” is right in the first place that it may with perfect propriety and justification as an organization, stand by its own. This point is remarkably illustrated in the pressmen’s strike in New York, which prevented the issuing of the metropolitan newspapers for a day or two and prohibited the further issue except in combination form and in reduced size. It was a tremendous hardship on the publishers and the public and not justified in any question between the pressmen and the publishers. That this was true was proved by the prompt action of the officials and leaders of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistant’s union. They denounced the walkout of the local union and’ outlawed the strike as a violation of agree- ments with publishers and of the laws of the parent organization. They ordered the men back to work at once or to suffer a revocation of their charter. The head of the International organization de- livered this sentiment, which is food American- ism through and through: “This local has violated the law of the parent body wilfully and without hestitation, and they are going to, and are now, suffering the conse quences of tempting to do business by and through the instrumentality of the ‘big stick.” We do not want, and will not have in our organiza- tion men who are s0 weak as to be stampeded by a few ‘Reds’ who think they ought to run the romapepers of America according to Soviet rule.” Now when union labor, of all kinds and classes throughout the United States is represented by and captained by such men as George L. Berry, who is a just and fearless man and desires only thet which is right on the part of employers and employes, and seeks no unfair adyantage for his own organization and permits none on the part of employers, then will organized labor come ful- Nees its own and command the respect of every- body. 4 Organized labor must stand up and accept its responsibilities the same as employers are re- quired to do, and they must exclude from places of power in their organizations all persons of anarchistic tendencies and grasping proclivities who are unwilling to do business in accordance with accepted American business principles of fairness and justice to all parties concerned. When this is done, and pretty generally, it is being done by the unions themselves, labor troubles in this country will be reduced to the minimum and peace and satisfaction will rest upon employes and employers alike. The action of the parent body of the press- man’s union, meets the approval of all intelli- gent unions everywhere. The pressmen were wrong in quitting their jobs and leaving the big newspapers in the lurch in the manner in which they did. The heads of the organization took prompt action with reference to their own out- laws, and then joined with the publishers in remedying their situation. This whole incident with its termination, will have done more for the cause of organized labor and its prestige than anything else that could have happened. A union has proved itself big enough to be just. Not a Prohibitive Tariff It is manifestly untrue to call the present tariff law a “prohibitive tariff.” A comparison of recent trade statistics with the records of 1914, and 1920 under the former law in peace times, demonstrates beyond question that the ex isting law is in no sense a “Chinese Wall” as it has been represented to be by those ignorant of its provisions and the results that have obtained under it. The average rate of duty on all imports for 1914, nine months of which was under the Demo- cratic law, was 15.4 per cent. In 1920 it sank to 6.2 per cent. In 1921 it was 8.4 per cent, the em- eregency tariff law being passed in May of that year. In 1922 the average was 13.7 per cent, and for the fiscal year, ended June 30th, last, it was 148 per cent. So you can’t find a prohibitive tar- iff in that. The percentage of free goods for 1914 was 59.5 percent; for 1920. 65 per cent; for 1921, 58.5 per cent; for 1922, 61.3 per cent; and for 1923, 57.3 per cent. You can’t find a prohibitive tariff in that. The average rate of duty on dutiable goods in 1914 was 38.1 per cent; in 1920, 17.7 per cent; Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the World War. Then no book should be placed in the hands of school children at school, which contains any matters or thing that defames the statesman of any political party or that dis- torts the facts of history in any particular. The histories and school books our children are to study must contain the truth. They are not his- tories unless they do. Our statesmen. and nat- ional heroes must not be lavishly praised or un- duly raised to undeserved eminence. They are not statesmen nor heroes unless they have ac quitied themselves well by outstanding act or ac complishment, These are the ones deserving at in 1921, 20.3 per cent; in 1922, 35.3 per cent; and in 1928, 348 per cent. You can’t find a prohib- itive tariff in that. Imports for the fiscal year 1922 totaled $2,608,- 000,000; in 1923, nine months under the Fordney- McCumber tariff law, they totalel $3,781,000,000 or a gain of $1,173,000. You can’t find a prohib- itive tariff in that. Crude materials increased | $567,000,000; crude foodstuffs, $50,000,0000, including coffee, tea, bananas, spices, and many other non competitive articles; manufactured goods, $304,000,000; whol ly manufactured goods, $78,000,000. You can’t find a probibitive tariff in that, wv Ww ~~ ‘mands are met specifically and in | pay the'r debts, or they at least claim that they should not be ex- pected to do so. Economic and social confusion exists practically everywhere on the continent. War requires vast sums of money that they do not possess and a strong | popular support that in the circum- tances should be lacking. Never- theless, there are indications that some of these impoverished nations would be rushing into war now if they could borrow the money, or buy the supplies from America. It might not be impossible to discover | in Europe the opinion that in the | interests of humanity and justice tion so niggardly provided, it would be a source of constant humiliation make all styles of engraved cards jin the face of a catastrophe such for the Christmas trade and is al jas has laid waste a large and im- Send your automobile news to the United States should cancel past debts and then lend more money that blustering European nations might carry on in their usual way | in diplomacy, with ultimatums an bombardments and occupation 0! the territory of others unless de- toto. Would Deceive Farmers (Spokesman-Review.) V. T. Tustin, a Spokane attorney exhibits himself as a poor inter- preter of the law when he’ says: “The Esch-Cummins law guaran tees the railroads a fixed profit to all intents and purposes.” The Esch-Cummins transportation act guarantees the rallroads ‘noth- ing. It lmits, it restricts, their profits to five and one-half per cent. The law has been in operation for | @vert wars. three years, and at no time in that period have the railroads earned profits up to the governmental re- striction. The official reports to the | Was presented for ratification. interstate commerce commission show that in July they earned less than 5 per cent on their tentative valuation as fixed by the commis- sion and the government is not pay- ing a cent of “guarantee.” Judge Hill, Mr. Tustin and other burdens but they fade into pettiness in comparison with calamity that has been visited upon S {our Japanese neighbors. ¢ {mess that we have been spared such portant sectjon of Japan there will be no difference of opigion as to what we should do. America is al- ways united when called ufon to aid a people stricken by disaster or pestilence. President Coolidge has called upon the people of this country to sub- scribe to a fund through the Red Cross for the relief of the impover- ished millions of Japan. Organiza- tion work is already under way and every community ought to do its share. ‘We have our troubles and! our the terrible Grateful- a disaster and sympathy for tho helpless victims of one of nature's most, terrible moods should make us go down into our pockets for the money necessary to carry relief to the survivors. America never has failed when such a call has been issued and it will not fail now. paca The Desire for ‘Peace (Albany Journal:) “There is no path to peace except as the will of the people may open it,” declared Secretary Hughes in an address at Montreal. Therein les the reason for the failure of the league of nations to It was recognition of that truth that impelled the Repub- licans of the Senate to reject the league when the Versailles treaty For centuries unnumbered the people of Europe and of the rest of the world have resorted to force to settle their serious differences. The recent war demonstrated conclusive- ly that human nature has not changed with the passing of the Democratic speakers are telling the | Years. That fact has been further farmers that they ought to have as good a guarantee on a wheat price as the railroads are getting on freight rates. They should know— if they do not know they are ignor- ant or incapable of clear thinking— that a “guarantee” to the wheat growers like that given to the rail roads would not put a dollar into the wheat grower’s pocket. said Shs bat What's the Answer? (Brooklyn Standard-Union.) The total exports of the United States to all of Europe during the first half of 1923 amounted to $950, 000,000, or a decrease of 4 per ce: under the corresponding figure of last year; imports from Europe into the United States during the same Period rose to $613,000,000, an in- crease of 40 per cent over the 1922 figures. How do the Democrats and thetr allies account for that? We were assured when the present tariff law was under debate that the more Europe sold us the more Europe ‘would buy from us and that the Proposed law would prohibit the entry of European goods. Europe sold us 40 per cent more and bought from us 4 per cent less. All Is Not Bad (Chicago Tribune.) Civilization is not falling. It is growing better. There will Se no general European war because no- body wants one. The friends of Mussolini think him a re-incarnation of Julius Caesar, but they will wake up before setting Europe afire. A few alarmists have warned us that Japan is sharpening her sword for Uncle Sam. Yet the old boy reaches deep into his pocket to feed and clothe our Japanese neighbors in the hour of their greatest distress. Will the Japanese forget that and could there be more substantial evi- dence of our national good will? co) areca aee Just Supposing (Cranbury Press.) ‘Tax exempt bonds are issued by cities, counties, state and nation, The holder of these bonds pays no taxes on the income derived there- trom. Bill Jones, whose income results from his labor and investments in industries, pays every known form of taxation and he pays considerably more than is just in order to make up for amounts lost to the govern- ment through “tax-exempt” in- comes. Supposing everybody tried to get tax-exempt bonds, where would ‘the money come from to run the gov- ernment. The continued issuance of tax- exempt bonds drains money away from productive enterprises and in- creases the tax burden‘on all those who do not hold the bonds. y= Sheed Thea tate 2g The Sense of Humor (Ft. Wayne News.) Read this, written by a league of nations enthusiast, and then smile: “The war of Greece and Italy, which would have speedily involved Eng- Jand, the Halkans, and, in.a short time, the whole of Europe, has been prevented—because there is a league of nations.” The league of nations was helpless. It had absolutely nothing to do with it—not even by proxy. In fact, the settlement that ‘was reached through the council of ambassadors was most disgraceful, but even so, war has been averted, and after all that is the big thing, - _ } Send your Spark. BlugsCara news to proved by the events since the armistice. Essentially the league covenant is an obligation to attempt mainte- nance of peace through force, in direct contravention of the truth that peace can be maintained only when peoples will it. to Americans abroad a the Government at home and§beyond all doubt, it would lessen¥ American prestige to be so shabbily repre- sented. ‘ Our Presidents have realized this for a long time, arid to overcome it have been compelled to appoint men of large wealth to such positions, who were willing to invest whatever additional sums were needed out of their own personal funds to ade- quately répresent the nation in ex- change for the honor conferred upon them. It fs a question as to which is the greater humiliation, to be classed among the shabby genteel, or for a great and rich nation to be saved from the effects of its own penuriousness by the contributions of wealthy men. r eatin sie Te A \ | Cheerful But Foolish (Glenwood News-Press.) The optimism of Cordell Hull, |chairman of the Democratic national ;committee, ought to be inspiring. | Right at the time when European ‘conditions are most tense, and when war is almost assured as the out- |come he solemnly avers that his |party will make the league of na- |tions an issue next year—with the \sincerity that once marked the free coinage of silver, 16-to-l. About the \only result that would be noticeable to America’s affiliation with that |mottled aggregation of incessant | fighters would be another call for ;our young manhood to go forth as a-»target for foreign foes. There isn’t’a* way open to help Europe without becoming hopelessly en- tangled in the mess. ———— >. European Chautau- quas (Tama Herald.) It is said that Americans travel- |ing in Europe are astonished at the number of Europeans who are not engaging in lecture tours of the United States. Their surprise is only natural. Almost every month since the armistice has; found our lecture platforms filled With visitors Pigeon’s Fresh 228 East Second St. Tastes Better—Goes Farther—Always Good Roasted Coffee Phone 623 “Spark Plug."—Care Tribune. Increasing Light Bills We have just passed through the Fall Equinox. At this period of the year the length of time from dusk to dawn is about equal to the length of time’ from dawn to dusk. From now on until the Winter Solstice, which occurs December 21st, the length of the days will shorten and the nights lengthen. Light bills will necessarily in- crease, because more electricity will be required for the long evenings. To meet this increased demand we have our new big power unit that will insure 100 per cent service to our patrons. Natrona Power Co. ready advocating “early ordering.” today. 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