Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1923, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT. be Casper Daily Cribune The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Bullding, oppo- site postoffice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916, Business Telephones _ Sees Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. By J. B. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusivey entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the locai news published herein. Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chi cago, IIL, 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 65 New Mont- gomery St,, San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Dally 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. ©.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year, Daily and Sunday — One Year, Sunday Only Six Months, Dally and St ay Three Months, Dally and Sunday One Month, Dally and Sunday - One Year, Daily and Sunday _ One Year, Sunday Only -- Six Month, Daily and Sunday - Three Months, Daily and Sunday . One Month, Dally and Sunday ~~. All subscriptions must be pald in advance ani Daily Tribune will not insuze delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in arrears. Must Solve Own Problems The recent suggestion at the White House that people can find relief from high prices of an- thracite coal by using substitutes may proper], be construed as one more expression of the policy of less government in business. The present ad- ministration, evidently, and very wisely, takes the position that in the matter of prices of com modities regulation must be left primarily to the people themselves. This does not mean that the administration would not act in case of an agree- ment in restraint of trade in violation of federal statutes, but, rather, that the administration does not look upon the federal government as a proper agency to be called upon to solve all the multitudinous economic problems of our citi- vens. The statement made at the White House ap- parently went no further than a remark that the president had been informed that a saving can be made in the cost of fuel for heating by the use of bituminons coal or oil. Taken by it- self this statement is not of great consequence because the information had already been pub- lished from other sources. Its significance, how- ever, is that the head of the present admi inistra- tion thought it a proper subject for comment by him and, between the lines one may read the broad hint that the president believes thorough- ly in the doctrine of less government in bu nes: In other words, it is the view of the pres ent chief executive, as it was of his predecessor, that the people of the country should try to solve their own business problems rather than attempt to transfer them to the federal government. 5\or organized opposition to reduction of the tariffs on any vegetable oils or the raw materials from which vegetable oils are extracted. Cotton grow- ers are interested because cottonseed oil, one with vegetable oils of other kifids that may be imported. Dairymen have numerous organizations throughout hte United States. Some of these on the farms, some are interested as creamery operators, some as butter manufacturers, some as breeders of dairy stock. All of these somewhat related organizations have formed a federation to represent their united interests in any hear- ings that will be held on the question of reduc- tion of the tariff on flaxseed and linseed oil. Democracy Here and Elsewhere As a result of the war is democracy flourish- ing, spreading and functioning in Europe? It can scarcely be answered in the affirmative at the moment we go to press. Power over most of the European continent must be exercised for the public good, or must purport to be so exer- cised. But the power actually is in the hands of dictators. And dictators preclude monarchy quite as much as they do democracy. Their existence, leed significant of the failure of democracy of the impatience of the people with the slow- |ness and inefficiency of their particular style of | democrac; When ‘Taine, ,the French critic wrote some sixty years ago in his “Notes on England.” “This jis the only people in all history that have even jsucceeded in governing themselves” It was true then and is true today. And it is a Jeffersonian Jdelusion that any people, given the chance can govern themselves. Many peoples haye tried and |just about as many have failed. We Americans, as children of the Anglo- Sax- on stock, have succeeded in governing ourselves very well for about one hundred and fifty years But we are taking a great chance, challenging the experience of all history, in assuming that we can adulterate our stock with too many of the politically incompetent peoples and still expect the republic to function as successfully in the fu- ture it has in the past. Practically all the disturbances we have had in recent rs in industry and in other movements affecting the public and the institutions and sys- |tems of the country haye come from immigrants from the oppressed peoples of Europe who have |bad their first taste of freedom under this gov- jerpment and have mistaken freedom for li- | cense, A Rose By Any Other Name Senator Smoot’s mind when not engaged with jother things runs along a financial groove. And |that financial groove of late years has also been a tax groove. He seems determined to add a tax |of some sort to us or die trying. When he found that his proposed sales tax met with such stren- |uous opposition because it would distribute the |tax burden too widely, he lost no time in com- ling forward with a substitute which he is pleas- jed to call an “expenditure tax.” | It seems to be a very fairly demonstrated prop- osition that there 1 be no expenditure without buying. By the same token there can be no buy- ng without selling. Therefore all there is to the expenditure tax is the discredited sales tax mas: querading under a different name, with possibly a greater number of exemptions. The proposal is that farmers be excused if Peanut producers in particular have made an) of their by-products, must sell in competition | are connected only with the production of milk | A chief executive possessed of the notion that/they do not sell to exceed six thousand dollars’ the government should be paternalistic in its|worth, which will keep most of them in out of policies might easily undertake to commit his/the rain. Then if they can manage to get along administration to the task of fixing a reasonable) with a car costing not more than two thousand price on anthracite coal. Such a move would un-!dollars, this class will be molested not at all doubtedly meet the approval of a vast number of people. But if it be the duty of the government to fix a reasonable price for coal, it must under- take the same responsibility with regard to the price of all other commodities generally listed among articles known as necessaries of life. If the government undertakes to fix reasonable prices one season in the interest of consumers, it must undertake in other seasons to fix reason- able prices in the interest of producers. If the government is under obligations to prevent prices becoming too high it is equally under ob igations to prevent prices becoming too low. The only practical as well the only legal course for the government to pursue ave the matter of regulation of prices to > agree. ment of buyers and sellers except in cases where it can be shown that there has been an unlawful interference with supply and demand, and in that event such interference should be prevented by due process of law and not by the activity of any fed 1 bureaucracy. s to There is a widespread feeling that the price of anthracite coal is too h. It will be well if the people of the country test the practicabil ity of the suggestion made at the White House, that they use some substitutes in order to create less demand for anthracite and thereby increase the relative supply. ‘Whe Luttle Hlaxsesd lan Jesue The far-r hing effects of a tariff pol ar illustrated in a controversy now pending before the tariff commission over the question of g on of the rates on flax-seed and linseed oil. ople would think that dairy farmers have rticular interest in the maintenance of a Neverthe- «dl in object any protective tariff on these commoditi Pp ess, dairy farmers are taking the le ing to any revision downward of the protective | rates on flaxseed and its product linseed oil. The request for an investigation of these two commodities, and for a reduction of the rates under the provisions of that clause < tariff law which permits the president, after in vestigation, to either raise lower rates not to exceed 50 per cent was made by manufacturers of paint. Naturally paint manufacturers desire to buy their linseed oil as cheaply as possible, and, if the protective tariff could be lowered, they would be able to buy in other countries at a lower price. The dairy interests that oppose this move com prise particularly the butter makers. This does not mean that the re afraid that linseed oil would be made inio a product competing with butter but, rather, that any encouragement of im- portation of vegetable oils of any kind will en courage the manufacture of butter substitutes and that in one way or another their industry will be injured thereby. The importation of one vegetable oil diminishes the home market other vegetable oils. Any addition to the total supply of vegetable oils in theUnited States fa- cilitates the manufacture of butter substitutes. Thus it develops that not only American pro ducers of flaxseed are interested in keeping a protective tariff on that product but the ducers of butter as well. There are also joined in of this opposition to tariff on flaxseed and such commodities as Ve le o these the reduction linseed oil, the sov b aun the cor anufactured Is are product of ps »| partively respectable, govern the destines of that for | ye; pro-| {and they need not worry about a tax. There must be considerable agriculture in Utah. It would seem that most people of the coun- try are weary of the very word “tax” and all that it implies and believe with the late Presi- dent Harding and the present President Coolidge at the proper thing to do is to reduce the exist- ing tax burden upon the people, and balance the budget by spending less than by taxing more, Why does the able senator from Utah permit himself to become obsessed by tax notions when everybody else is striving to reduce those we are already groaning under? Waning of Faith in Ballot Nothing is more striking than the decay of belief in many countr’ in the ballot box or in the legislati emblies through that medium. The whole seems to be in the throes of revolution dictator in threat of Cuba, All le 1 world a class dictator in Italy, a military Spain, s war in Bulgaria, the civil war in Germany and likewise are current illustrations of the world- t against the political state and of the vosition of classes to take matters into their hands, not through the ballot box, but violenc can we affirm with confidence that the of revolution may not reach our coun- Will our smug prosper! ent bulwark against the moral poison that is being ected into the veins of America by the world-wide movement of communism which has its source in Moscow and Petrograd? It may yet appear that the turning point in |modern history was when Britain and America refused to join with France, shortly after the armistice, in redeeming Russia from the cold- blooded tyranny of Lenine and Trotsky. As long as these two bloody dictators, in comparison |with whom Marat and Robespierre were com-| n throu ILow waves try suffi afe sm? slowl n. hapless people and with their stolen booty at tempt to poison the people of other countries, a dark shadow rests upon the whole world. Conservative Policies Best | It is the general view of economists that with the recovery of industry to normal conditions over the world and the stabilization of the ex- |changes, the trend of prices will be downward, but this does not signify a fall comparable to| what is experienced in’ business crisis. It signifies rather the steady pressure of effective competition, with -improying methods every- where. There is a general belief that downward read- justments involve business stagnation and un- employment, and this is true where the changes are precipitate, as in 1920-21 and 1873. In those , however, the fall was aggravated by the| umulations of goods, excessive expansion of credit and the losses resulting therefrom. We may expect the business men of this coun- try to be on their guard against those conditions for some time to come. While boom conditions are inconsistent with | ja downward movement of prices, the daily wants Tribune FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1923. Rounding Up Tax- payers SHERIDAN.—Nine thousand tax notices for amounts totalling $705,- 685.85 were mailed or delivered by Ethel Baker, county treasurer, to 7,000 resident and non-resident tax- payers of Sheridan county. Under the new tax Inws the notices are required to be mailed 30 days prior to the date the first in- stallment becomes delinquent, so these notices are 12 days before the required date; as the first install- ment becomes delinquent November 10. Under New Law. This ts the first tax collection under the new state tax laws, changing the dates for payment and allowing the payment of the total year's tax to be made in two installments; the first installment payable between September 1 and November 10, 1923, and the final in- stallment between March 1 and May 10, 1924. No interest will be charged on the first sem!-annual payment, if the entire tax for the year is paid on or before December 31, 1923. This provision relieves the taxpayer from the interest charge for delinquency on the first installment should he fail to pay before November 10 pro- viding, as stated, he pays in full by December 31. Good Time—Fine Pictures LANDER.—T. .\. Dines of the Midwest, R. S. Ellison of the Mid- west Refinery, J. T. Gratiot of Cas- per, M. W. Strauss of the Chicago Evening Post, Frank Primmer of Outers’ Magazine and Dr. J. F. Rep- logle of Lander, were met at Brooks Lake by H. O. Barber, Guy Robert- son and H. G. Bizzell who returned with them to Lander from which place all departed for home after a splendid trip through the haunts of the big game and a belated trip through the Yellowstone park. R.G. Phillips, the cameraman for the Northwestern, remained a few days longer at Moran because of the fact that the cloudy weather had pre- vented him from getting the pic- tures of the Tetons and the lakes that he desired. The party outfitted at Brooks lake for the trip to the various lakes and through the game country. They were disappointed in finding that the game is not coming down freely from the higher ranges, but had a splendid outing. They made the of growing population makes it necessary that a great volume of business shall go on, and mn-! Jess there are surplus stocks to draw on indus-| try mu be fairl well ew ployed in ipplving wT demands, It Happened In Wyoming Matters and Things, of State-Wide Interest, Wired in, Telephoned in, Written, Grape-Vined and Some of It Purloined. tour of the park which Dr. Rep- logle says is a most delightful one now that the roads are not crowded with tourists. They were royally entertained everywhere by the park officials and secured some spiendid new pictures, one of Old Faithful !n eruption at night taken by the aid of flares, being especially good. All members of the party were de- lighted with their experience which they hope to repeat next year. The storm of a week ago did not strike the sectfon they were in and they found but little snow until they returned to Moran and Brooks lake. Banc Dotan each Moving Equipment THERMOPOLIS.—Paul Sawyer, the successful bidder on the high- way contract between here and Kirby, is getting his equipment on the job. About 80 teams will be used in the grading and surfacing. The teams and equipment are be- ing moved from Greybull, where Mr. tract. Engineer Olsen ts getting his surveying crew ready and will start setting grade stakes for the con tractor the first of the week. ‘The work will be done under Mr. Olsen's supervision. ‘The contract should be all completed by February 1 and when finished “and with the com- pletion of the canyon road, Hot Springs county will have a hard sur- faced road across the county from. north to south, A hard surfaced road from the highway through Crosby and Gebo would be a great asset to Thermopolis. The camps are entitled to a good road connect- ing them with the highway and the surfacing of two miles of road would enable the citizens of Gebo and Crosby to come to town under any weather conditions. Douglas Next Year DOUGLAS.—Douglas was chosen for the meeting place in 1924 of the | State Federation of Woman's Clubs of Wyoming at the closing of the convention held last week at Rock Springs. The exact date of the meet- ing next year has not been decided [upon but it is probable that it will |be held a week or two earlier in order to make it easier for the dele- gates from the various sections of |the state to attend, making the trip in automobiles. The sessions at Douglas will no doubt be well attended as this city holds an advantageous position, be- ling easily accessible from all parts Double Tracking On On U. P. ROCK SPRINGS.—A. W. Wood- ruff, general superintendent of the Union Pacific railroad between |inspection trip. Mr. Wodruft saya that the forty- three miles of double track between |Granger and Leroy {s tast nearing completion, and that within the next |three weeks the remaining eight miles of the stretch should be com- pleted and ready for trains. When the ten miles of double track be- tween Emery and Echo 1s completed, | this will then make a total of about |960 miles of double track between Omaha and Echo, and will consti- | tute the finest road bed of any rail- |road in the country. It was neces- |sary to erect 45 bridges between | Granger and Leroy. Sawyer has just completed a con-! To Condemn Property SHERIDAN.— The condemnation sult against Mrs. Nettle B. Held for right-of-way through her property on the east side of town for the new North & South railroad, was filed in district court by R. BE. McNally, attorney for the Sheridan Commer- cial club's railroad committee. The case will come up for hearing Octo- ber 15. ‘The bond of the North & South railroad company was fixed at $2,500 by the court and the terms of the injunction granted Mrs. Held by the court several weeks ago were modi- fled in order to allow the railroad company to go into possession of the land. Low Mortality Rate SHERIDAN, — With only three deaths the entire month, September set a new low mortality record for Sheridan. That was the smallest number of deaths in the city during any single month for the past 15 years, it 1s claimed. Sheridan's monthly death record usually aver- ages between 20 and 25, and in times of epidemics, such as the Spanish influenza, it has climbed to 100 deaths. Deaths during September included those of Dr. M. DeWitt Long, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Annie “Eugenia Owen, who died after a prolonged {llness; and (Sara bee ema Council Bluffs and Ogden, spent a} few hours in Rock Springs on an | the result of a threshing accident at his ranch. All three occurred that Makes akes Crowned! King O’ the Table Robb-Ross Vermont StyleSyrup jnaddlieehaltionitienae est quality pure maple sugar, pure maple ssp and pure cane suger. 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