Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1923, Page 10

PAGE TEN de Casper Daily Crivune DECEMBER 7, 1923 Che Casper Daily Cribune would take a layoff on European altruism and devote our regular union hours to our own busi- ness, our own well-being and our own prosper- MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the|j+~» for pu’ ation of all news credited in this paper also the local news published herein. The Casper Dally Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday M Wyoming. Publ postoffice. ing Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Entere class m: tter, November 22, 1916, Business Telephones Branch Telephone Exchange Departments. By J. BE. HANWAY Advertising Representatives h Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg. , San Francisco, Cal. Tribune are on file in the New York, 4 San Francisco offites and visitors are welcome. }iember of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside state ation offices: Tribune Building, oppo- 1 at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second 5 and 16 al King & Prudéen, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Ch! ite 404 Sbaron Bldg., 56 New Mont- Copies of the Daily Chicago, Boston ‘We have enough of these things to occupy our attention for a long time in the future. Why should we care what European countries do to *| destroy themselves, their business, their govern- ments and everything else they possess. We have talked as much sense and reason to them as we let them. If they don’t want to work let them idle away their time and starve. The United States is broad in its helpfulness and its char- ities and it has al;ready done its full part to the whole world. But we do not desire and cannot have this thing grow on us and become a habit. This “gimmy” stuff is worn out. It is high time to turn our attention to our own. The World War and its consequences for more than four years thereafter, have so absorbed the attention of a majority of the American people that they have forgotten the tremendous growth of the United States in population, in industries in wealth, in investments throughout the middle and far west and the south. Domestic interests, domestic business and «>- mestic affairs, transcend foreign affairs. Do- mestic trade {s far more important than foreign 4 ae oe ex r one vent, Duley Oatg aoe _..-------—- 2.59} trade important as is the latter. A nation’s prog- Six Months. Daily and Sunday —-—.--------—--— 4.54| ress and prosperity are measured not so much Three Months, Daily and Sunday .--.-------——-—— bc by what it sends out of the country to be con- One Month, Daily and Sunday --------------——-_ “), | sumed abroad as by how much it can and does By Mal One Year, Daily and Sundar One Year, Sunday Only — Six Month, Dally ané Sunday Three Months, Dally and Sunday Patly and Sunday ~— ptions must be paid in advance and the not insure delivery after subscri > month in arrears. KICK, IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE If you don’t find your Tribune after looking cureful call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you messenger. Register complaints before 8 o'clock. am Not Sensible Economy It is noted that Congressman Winter will make an effort in the present session to pro- vide for enlargement of the Casper postoffice building to meet the demands of business which have long since outgrown the present building There are many things that can be said about the Casper postoffice and its facilities, if they could be said without profanity, that might give the Washington authorities and congress some idea of what handicaps daily operate against an orderly and proper conduct of the postal busi ness of this cit) In the first place the structure was built in small town days and in a small town way. Ab- solutely without any idea of facilitating the public business, without idea of convenience to the public or to the postal help, and certainly without architectural beauty or even decency. It resembles nothing quite so much as it does a cheap brick livery stable in a country town be- fore the of the automobile, when such an in stitution was the social center for tobacco chew- ers and story tellers. It is thoroughly a MicAdoo job and will take rank with all the works of his late and deplor able administration. Enlarging and patching may seem to be the quickest and most economical way to give re lief to the congested condition that has existed for five or six years. But it will never be sensi- ble economy to attempt to work over the old building, Tt was designed for a village post- office and nothing more can be made of it. It is outgrown, squatty and ugly, located on the cor- nor of the site with an abominable entrance, without a single convenience to the public, or time saving arrangement in the transacting of the public or the official business. The only thing that can be said in favor of the Casper postoffice is its location at Second and Wolcott streets, which is the center of pop- ulation and the most convenient location avail- able in the city, Good sens nd true economy, having in mind the service to be rendered the public, is for the government to purchase or condemn the dinky little park in the rear, facing Wolcott street, to make the site ample and proper, then abandon and remove the present postoffice building and erect a structure adequate to the needs of the city, with provision for all other federal activ- ities, including federal court, which wil sooner or later be compelled to hold sessions here. With spacious and handsome federal build- ings at Cheyenne, Sheridan, Lander and other points within the state, Casper, far and away the most important city, doing a business equal to several of the other postoffices combined, is struggling along and trying to do business un- der all sorts of difficulties. The government is duty bound to take care of consume right here at home. This is only another way of stating that the consuming power of a nation, its ability to consume most of what it produces, measures its prosperity. In order to raise the consuming power of our people, there must be steady employment at good wai There must be mills and factories in operation, there must be little or no unemploy ment, there must be growing and thriving cities. While much of our public attention has been absorbed in European and other foreign affairs let us not forget that all over this land there are throbbing industrial centers, busy factories and mills and the constant ebb and flow of the great streams of domestic trade and commerce, It is not patriotic to perfer a foreign city to an American city. It is not loyal to prefer for- eign goods to American goods. It is not just to help foreign workmen and see our own in idle- ness as was the case under free trade between 19: nd 1916 and between 1919 and 1921. During the World War the people of the United States gave until it hurt, and gave the world a powerful example of Christian unsel- fishness. After the war, America again gave, to help the weary and broken countries. Home and country, the welfare of our cities and of our in- were secondary to Europe’s woe. But Europe, or at least a large part of Europe does not appear to appreciate the unselfishness of America. It does not realize that while some profited from Europe’s troubles, the great ma- jority lost, and lost heavily—most of all in the sacrifice of precious lives, after that in national solidity. Now, is it not about time to devote our atten- tion to domestic affairs, and to pursue a course that will arouse the interest of our people in American affairs, in American problems, in the growth our cities, their achievéments and their possibilities, in the unity of all blocs and fac- tions on at least one thing—the general welfare of the American people? There is great need of a new baptism of the national spirit, of pride in America and mutual defense against those who would weaken, per- haps destroy us. George Washington once said that no nation can wholly rely upon the friend- ship of any other nation. Theodore Roosevelt said that the only true friend Uncle Sam has is Uncle Sam. A Slippery Politician Lloyd George who is seeking a return to the political forefront in Great Britain, from which he was shunted to the scrap heap a year or s0 ago, is attacking Premier Baldwin on the ground that he made a settlement of the British debt to the United States, thereby making it pos- sible to decrease taxes in the United States and necessary to increase them in the United King- dom. As a politician Lloyd George seem to be a step in advance of Wm. J. Bryan of the free silver era. Mr.’ Bryan advocated a national policy of paying debts in fifty cent dollars but Lloyd George throws off the other half and suggests that an empire whose name has always stood for financial integrity should repudiate a debt of honor entirely. While the ears of Americans are assailed with the clamor of propagandists who gabble about America’s supposed debt to Europe, European statesmen treat the debts of European govern ments to the United States with all the high sense of responsibility to definitely assumed jobligations that characterize the dead beat who | p'ucking |The Plucked Goose Squaks Serator Willian Cabal! Bruce, of | Maryland, is the latest Democratic leader to come out whole-hearted'y can comfortably spare. If they want to be fools, |in tavor of Secretary Mellon's plan for a reduction in taxes, and in do- ing he recalls the famous saying of the French minister, Colbert, that the art of public taxation consists in plucking the goose without mak- ing him squak. “The surtax goose,” says Senator Bruce, “is squaking to uch an extent that the task of is producing fewer ping fewer feathers.’ * This Democratic statesman from Maryland does not beat about the bush. He has no patience with those who would drag partisanship into the issue. He commends “the enlightened and fearless spirit” in which the secretary of treasury has dealt with the tax question. He has studied {t carefully and is. par- ticu'arly impressed with the wis- dom of scaling down the present normal income taxes from 4 to 3 per cent, and from 8 to 6 per cent, respectively. Also he is pleased with the plan of making $10,000 instead of $6,000 the initial surtax peg and then reaching a maximum surtax of 25 per cent at the $100,000 peg by a graduated scale. In a word, this clear-sighted sen- ator realizes that the secretary of the treasury has concelved the most ideal arrangement possib'e under ex- isting conditions. He sees that the slash in the normal tax rate will benefit the mass of the people. There ‘© no manner of doubt about that. And he also sees the public advan- tages of stopping the squaking of the plucked surtax goose. There is no sentiment about this. It is a co'd matter of business and finance. Everybody knows that millions of dollars once subject to surtax have been diverted from productive en- terprise and reinvested in tax-exempt securities. If a reduction in sur- taxes will bring many additional millions into the treasury, it {s man- ifestly the part of wisdom to re- duce them.—Phi'adelphia Inquirer. age Grand Old Names Telephoning to a neighbor, a Mem- phis woman, proud of the fact that she was a grandmother, said: It's a girl, and her name ts Mary Ann.” Isn’t that a grand old name? The mother's name is Mary and the grandmother's name is Ann, The young mother might have called her daughter Yvonne or Mig- nonette, or something else just as daring, but she didn't. Doubtless the whole list of names had been weighed and analyzed be- fore Mary Ann came into being. The mother mind had.traveled backward over the pages of sacred and se- cular history and taken note of the glorious lives of the Marys and the Anns whose faith and works have scintilated throughout the ages like jewels in a d'adem. The mother had not forgotten the tender care and loving sacrifice of her own} mother, whose name is Ann. What could be more appropriate, then, than to ca'l this new bud in humanity's garden Mary Ann? Some of us still have a lingering fondness for old-fashioned roses, and to those of us who do there is a d's- tinctive beauty and sweetness cling- ing around o'd-fashioned names. The Opinion of Other | gency Immigration Law the govern- Newspapers | womanhood that will be as sweet and refining as old-fashioned roses in an old-fashioned garden.—Mem- phis Commercial-Appeal. The Plain People Bishop lawrence, thead of the Episcopal church of the Massachus- etts diocese, is a typical American. He can if he cares to claim his right to, belong to all the Revolu- tionary and Colonial societies to which admittance may be gained only through proven decent, from the men and women who had a shap- ing hand in the affairs of this land while it was still a colony. Not being anything of the pre tender type or of the codfish aris- tocracy clam, he never pushes for- ward under the shadow of such a creditable ancestry. But it gives him the right to voice the real spirit of the past and the Present-day American. His words, therefore, at a meeting of the Mass achusetts Society of Mayflower De- scendants wherein he emphasized his deep appreciation of and abiding faith in the good judgment and pur- ity of purposes of the plain people of the country take on added sign!- ficance when one considers the per- sons before whom and to whom they were addressed. They were all May- flower descendants. If they try to emulate tn the'r own lives the good deeds of their Nacestors they will be justified in taking pride tn their accomplish ments. If they know the history of ancestors they will be justified in as no doubt they do, they know that they were from the ranks of the plain people. After declaring that the longer he lived the more confidence he had in the good judgment of the plain people of this country he admon- ished the descendants of the Pil- grims to remember that they were plain people, in humble circum- stnaces in life similar to the plain people today. Wouldn't it be well if the words of Bishop Lawrence in defence «f the plain people of our cities and our towns were sent to the virulent critics of everything the plain peo ple do because it does not coincide exactly with what they insist is good for the plain people and that the people should do. Perhaps they may wake up some day and get an inkling of the idea that the plain people may be right and that they may be the ones who are wrong.—Lawrence (Mass.) Tele- gram. —————.$.[—_—__ On Their Merits President Coolfdge has given his |consent to an examination of be- | tween 600 and 800 immigrants now held in excess of the national | quotas, with a view to admitting as | many of them as are found indi- | vidually to merit American citizen- ship. This means that for the first time since the passage of the Emer- ment of the United States has rea! ized that the only valid argumen' for the acceptance of any newcomer must be based on his personal ‘quali- fications. When the time comes for a re- vision of the immigration statute, the new law should require just such examination of immigrants as Mr. Coolidge has authorized in re- May this little Mary Ann and all the wee bits of humanity that bear/| the grand old names blossom into a gard to the present overflow. If the number of immigrants is to be restricted, whether by quota or otherwise, {t should be done through the application of certain physical and mental standards, and whatever standards are to be applied should be applied through American con- sulates on the other side of the Atlantic. Hauling applicants back and forth across the ocean is useless, ex- pensive and, most of all, cruel. It can be avoided. President Coolidge has himself in this latest action set the precedent for a new policy in a new law.—New York World. ———_—_ The Chorus Grows At a meeting of the National Council of Traveling Salesmen held at New York the following message was sent to Secretary Mellon, the author of the proposed tax reduc- tion measure: “The traveling sales- men of the nation approve and com- mend the wisdom of your position regarding the reduction of the fear- ful tax burden under which the initiative and progress of our peo- ple is being smothered.” A, M. Loeb, the president of the council, declares that it represents thirty: eight salesmen’s associations with a combined membership of 300,000! These are the Iads of all ages who are the field agents of prosperity. They cover every acre of activity, large and small, in all scetions of the country. They not only carry to the tradesmen of ‘the country their wares, but they bring away with them the political sentim: of their neighborhoods. A sales- man is something more than en agent to distribute his goods; he Is a philosopher, guide and friend. He is more than a conversationalist; he is a diplomat. He carries in an’ Lhe Kind of Syrup. that Makes the ¢ ake a Crowned! King O” the Table est quality pure maple sugar, ah map! l¢ sap and pure cane Never before have you been SRerrae orp Containing Fate maple sap and pure maple sugar out so that, when he meets with his tribe and they exchange at such low cost. thoughts upon the state of the The table size bottle of Robb« Union, a large measure of truth and Ross Vermont Style Syrup is fact results. We may rest assured 50c. larger ‘amily size that when the National Counell of peeean prres e ‘Traveling Salesmen decides that the = a Mellon program of tax reduction ally even more promises to lift the load from the Order from your grocer m backs of the taxpayers and at the bb- same time promote their prosperity ue Rol Ross Vermont Sty: there is something substantial to it. shee oll eed wn every day—on They know what they are talking pene ey or French about. toast, in your . The Thus day by day the chorus of praise for the Mellon program grows in volume and strength.— New Haven Journal. oT Sectionalism Is Bunk An appeal to sectionalism is being made by Senator Oscar W. Under- wood in his recent addresses. Speal- ing in Texas, he has been urging that the Democrats should nam him as their presidential candidate because he is from the South. If sectionalism is to count, legitimate claim may be entered for the Southwest and all the West. We have never had one of our peo- ple in the presidency. This ts a point of view that may commend itself even to the El Paso Under- wood club. If sectionalism counts, let us by all means satisfy as many sections | as possible all at once, and pick out a good Pullman conductor who travels from coast to coast and lives everywhere. It is gmpolitic for Mr. Underwood to make an issue of sectionalism. The presidency of the United States is not something that must be passed around. 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