Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1923, Page 10

” tha rol tor Ne ing ton pla har PaoPMoOnN euro wc wuMME eR aa erecaercyu terredcuneoane PAGE TEN be Casper Daily Cribune FRIDAY, 21, 1923 Che Casper Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclus've'y entitled to the use for pub! mn of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. —————— The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday M ¢ Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. jon offices: Tribune Building, oppo- site postoffice. pointes absant MINER ets 8 eer Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second | class matter, November 22, 1916, ----15 and 15 al Business Telephones --. Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting Departments. ie i ee By J. B. HANWAY —— Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Ch cago, I'l., 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bids. Boston, Mass., fomery St. San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the ee! ‘Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors aro welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A B. C) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State (me Year, Daily end funday - One Year, Sunday Only _- Six Months, Daily and Sunday -. Three Months, Dally and Sunday One Month, Dally and Sunday ----- aH Dee apy man cecko ete ent ’ By Mail Inside State One Year, Daily and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only ~~ Six Month, Dally ané sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Baily and Sunday - All subscriptions must be paid in Dal'y Tribune will not insure delivery tion becomes one month In arrears. YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE Me Sta dont find your ‘Tribune after looking curefully for it, call 15 or 16 and it will be serra to you by special messenger. Register complaints before 8 o'clock. Seen ee ee Tribune's Ethics The Tribune does not, in soliciting advertis- ing, employ blackjack, dark lantern, or black- mail methods. It does not invade the skeleton closets and threaten to drag forth the contents to public view. » bi It does not by misrepresentation, prevari- cation, false statements or other deception at- tempt to induce advertising patronage. It does not bury its subscription re cords in dark: closets, away from the view of the ad- vertising public; but on the contrary freely exhibits this data to anyone concerned. It has no secrets respecting its business or its business methods in any particular what- soever. 2 It does not pretend to be anything other than that which it can fully substantiate and justify by the most searching and enlightened business methods. ‘ It does not believe in unfairness, trickery or false pertenses, and neither does it practice them in any department. 4 The Tribune is a business institution, guid- ed entirely by tried and approved business methods, with ideals of honor, honesty and fair dealing. ae It is free from envy, malice and vindictire- ness. Does not seck to pitnish those it does not approve nor exact tribute from those who have substance, for imaginary service, The Tribune has a fixed policy in its busi- ness, its opinion and its general attitude to- ward the public. This policy cannot be influ- enced by either rewards or threats. 5 advance and tre after subscri > (The Old Oaken Bootjack How dear to our heart are the things of our childhood, when fond recollection presents them to view, et cetera. For instance there is the old oaken bootjack belonging to father but used by all the boys of the family and the hired man, a generation ago, when every body wore boots ex- cept the women folks, and they wore mostly cow- hide shoes with gleaming brass eyelets. This old bootjack was an important piece of household furniture in every home that pre- tended to the comforts of civilization, and was usually employed when not in active service. a door weight to hold the door between the liy- ingroom and the diningroom or kitchen back ugainst the wall. This of course was not the only use to which the bootjack was put, when not occupied in pulling boots. It was the hand- iest thing in the house, when misplaced from its usual haunts, or left in the middle of the floor by the children, for the older boys and girls to fall over on their return at night from sing- ing school or the debates that were staged at the district school house. And it never failed to be the case, when the father of the tribe, called from his nightly slumber, by a sudden outburst of croup among the younger members of the fam- ily, would attempt to make the journey from his bed chamber, in the dark of night, in search of the croup syrup which stood on the top pan- try shelf, that he did not collide with the boot- Jack on the trip going or coming. Notwithstanding its usefulness in the family life, it is believed that there has been more in- yective poured upon the back of the humble boot- jack for the reasons hinted at than any other animal on the place including the old spotted cow that declined to give down her milk. How often at night on return from the field would father inquire of young son Amos or|so far made by the comm Caleb, as to the whereabouts of the bootjack and the boy would fetch it from the midst of the hollyhocks along the garden fence or from among the geraniums in one of mothers’ flower beds. No questions were ever asked upon these occasions, it being well understood that one of the older boys had used it as a missile to ad- journ a feline convention or choir practice late the evening before. Suite 404 Sbaron Bidg., 66 New Mont-/ 5|re-enactment of the excess profits taxes. as+ing. They are not only ridiculous, they are’ dis- jit has inflicted in the by gone, when haste de- |manded something firm and solid for spanking purposes. i } ‘The Only Friend |; Any new form of taxation whatever its imme- |diate object will eventually prove to be a bur- den upon the whole people, particularly the pro- ducers. What the country needs is not an at- tempted shifting of taxes but a lifting of taxes. A prominent farm paper recently asserted that owners of city property have marked up rents to their tenants to cover the frightful load of taxation they are compelled tg carry, and! that since the cities are prosperous the tenants lean afford to pay the high rents. But says the jsame paper further, “taxes have so piled up | | land owners in the country that the man s to farm is up against a fixed taxation | et. He can-} charge that staggers him at the ou not pass the load on to someone else. This is obviously true, and the editor mht well have gone further in discussing the tax the farmer pays. The tenant in the city does not real- ly pay the increased rent that goes to pay the city tax. Be merely passes the increase on to someone else, and, eventually, the producer pays it. The city merchant, whether retail or whole- sale, the city doctor, lawyer, dentist, movie prop- rietor, auto dealer, or gasoline purveyor—all add their rents and taxes to the cost of coing business, and the producer of essentials ulti mately pays the tax. There are some state and national legislators who are trying to deceive the farmers into the notion that they can evade some taxation by the The re- Jenactment of such a law will not lift a dollar of taxation from the farmer but it will, on the con- t ( to the taxes the farmer must pay in- directly. The man who pays the excess profits tax in the first instance merely passes it on. The only y to be sure of getting out of pay- ing a tax is to repeal it. The only way to avoid increase of taxes is to avoid the imposition of new taxes. The only right way to talk to any man in a state or national legislature is to tell him that he must not support any new tax in any form whatever. The man who votes to repeol a tax is your} friend. The man who votes to add a new tax is/ your enemy.If he tries to make you think that jhe is going to favor you by making some other | fellow pay the tax he is an enemy in disguise. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The only true friend of the taxpayer in the present situation is the one who votes to reduce taxes. “Like Kelly Did!” When Mr. McAdoo first sought to attract ex- service votes unto himself he proposed fifty year bonds to pay the bonus. This fell flat. Even his friends who favored his candidacy exhibited no enthusiasm whatever, but on. the contrary showed marked disapproval. In his recent foolish attack upon President Colidge because the latter could see no way to pay a bonus to a minority while a majority de- manded tax reduction and at the same time the bonus money must come from the pockets of the very majority seeking relief from tax burdens. McAdoo's “new plan” is to pay the bonus “in cash,” by abolishing the tariff duties ond turn- ing over to ex-service men the major share of customs receipts which he estimates will reach three billion dollars per year under the present Fordney law. Here is the point at which Mr. McAdoo stops. He does not explain how the thing is to be accomplished. Most people would understand that if tariff duties are abolished there are no tariff duties to collect and conse quently no three billion dollars flowing into the treasury to pay a bonus or for any other pur- pose looking to the support of the government. During Mr. MeAdoo’s incumbency of the treas- ury department and also during his term as di- rector of railroads his cocksureness and his off hand decisions were his most distinguishing characteristics. We have finally gotten rid. of McAdoo in public life but we have not and will not get rid of the results thereof for a long time to come. Just as he did while in executive position he is in his struggle to come back to it, showing the same irresponsible incapavity. McAdoo has tried every conceivable plan to be for tax reduction and the bonus, and since this is an impossibility, his antics and his sev- eral attempts to straddle have ceased to be amus- gusting. High Cost of Radicalism When Senator LaFollette introduced his rail- road yaluation bill ten years ago, he declared that the total expense of the valuation of the railroad properties of the United States would not exceed five million dollars. On that assur, ance, and misled by the radical ery that such valuation was absolutely essential as a basis on which to adjust freight rates and income r turns, congress enacted the bill into law. According to the report of the comntission, there has been spent up to January 1, this year, $90,200,103. Of this amount the government’s/ share was $23,219,190. This is what LaFollette’s valuation measure has cost the taxpayers. The remainder of the cost, $ 30,913, has been as- sessed against the railroads, depriving stock- holders of that amount of income on their prop- jerty investments. | Do the taxpayers fecl like standing the ex- penditure of another $2: |tion according to a new Follette now hopes to cut in mula by which La half the valuation ion? That sum is one- s estimate of what it jtenth of Secretary Mellor | is possible now to lower taxes. Do they not think that La¥Follette already has cost them enough with his valuation fad? What good has been ac- complished? The com 000,000 for a revalua- é . The Original Food-Drink for All Ages. The Opinion of Other Newspapers Will They Rock It Senators Henrik Shipstead and Magnus Johnson have a great op- portunity to rock the boat, perhaps to capsize it. The two senators from Minnesota hold the balance of power in the senate between the regular Republican nd a possible combination of insurgent Repub- licans and Democrats. With power comes responsibility. This already is apparently appre- ciated by Magnus Johnson, as evi- denced by his frequent statements that he ts not going to do this and not going to do that. If Mr. John- son has to give a gasting vote on questions of the highest importance, he will be in a different position before the voters of Minnesota a year hence from that he occupied last summer. He will not be » mere critic of the record of :he other side, but will have one of his own to defend. This consideration may point the way to wisdom. We hope so. The outstanding constructive legislation necessary {s reduction of taxes. The two Minnesota senators must either help relieve the people of their present heavy burdens in such a way as to enable business to thrive and workmen to have employment, or tell why they have not done so. If fallure to reduce taxes should cause bad times and unemployment, there will be no use to try to make excuses.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. atuert OL OR Fair Fighting Hiram Johnson of California wil make a personal campaign in Massachusetts, home state of Pres!- dent Coolidge, for the Republican presidential nomination. Manager Murtha, commenting upon reports from Washington that President Coolidge planned to enter the Call- fornia fight, declares Senator John- son will go to Massachusetts “per- sonally to speak his candidacy frankly and fairly to the men and women who have enrolled in the Republican party. He {s going to lead 2 drive to take the whole @ gation away from Mr. Coolidg says Mr. Murtha. That's fair fighting. very Repub- Ucan in every state should have an opportunity to express his prefer- ence as between the two champions of their respective schools of poll- tical thought. And, for the sake of the party and the nation, we hope the better man will win, while firm- ly believing that the better man is Coolidge.—Buffalo Expre! oo Repeal—Or the Deluge The partial repeal of war taxes— for that is what President Coolidge recommends and what the people demand—is the first duty of con- gress. The Republican party can- not dodge this issue. It cannot escape it by thrusting forward the bonus question or any other ques- tion. So long as the people's Iving is pinched because of excessive taxes they will demand relief. <f denied this relief when it is pos- sible to grant it, they will strike down those responsible for their un- necessary hardships. When they strike, it is with a heavy hand that takes no heed of individuals. Good and bad Republicans, presidents, congressmen, governors, county su- perviso.s and sheriffs—all will go down if the people are not given this relief by the Republican party in congress.—Washington Post. Se Saad ics His Campaign President Coolidge has given his party and the country a cardinal and inescapab's issue. Government must spend less, and take less from the taxpayers. Stumbling under a heavy pack of taxes, local, state and national, the taxpayers wel- come this lightening of their bur- den; and everybody is paying taxes, whether the tax bills come t6 his house or not. Mr. Coolidge showed the way to improve business and abate the high cost of living. Mr. Coolidge has made the tssue. He is the man to see it through. There are politicians enough in his own party who have no love gor him or his clear and straightforward program. Leaving out of consider- ation the Progressive-Radical bloc and its procession of fantastic pro- — “ask for Horlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk QuickLunchat Home,Office&Fountains. RichMilk, MaltedGrainExtractin Pow- ion says a proper val- a “fair return” uation for rate purp jis $19,8% jone If of that is too much. The railroad owners |say their actual investment in the* properties is The bootjack had many other useful purposes | more than $30,000,000,000. aside from “drawing boots” as it was termed| in the day when it occupied a more important place in the scheme of things than it does in these degenerate days. As an implement to crack black walnuts or shell bark hickory nuts on the wide stone hearth it had no superior. On occasion it served equally _ No one is satisfied with the valuation. No one is satisfied with either freight rates or income |returns for which the-valuation has been made a | basis. LaFollette is not satisfied and wants con- gress to repudiate the work of the commission and order it done over in another way. It was made according to the direction of his own law. 000,000, The La¥Follette theorists say! PEARL WHITE LAUNDRY AT YOUR SERVICE Phone 1702 The Old Reliable Gebo Coal as well in driving nails as in pounding beef!|If he did not know then how it should be done steak. lit'is not likely any new scheme he may devise Mother, who early discovered the possibilities | will be any more fair to the public and the car- of the bootjack, other than its reg business riers or any more satisfactory in its results. of removing wet boots.from cold feet, often em M: be ployed it to prop up the window when she was| Under the new scheme of apportionment by sweeping. : |the Republican national committee, Wyoming The uses and purposes of the old family boot-| will have nine delegates to the Cleveland conyen- jack were many. They were almost universal. And as it sinks further and further into oblivion, which seems its doom. a mighty useful article is being cast aside with no compensating bene. fits. Peace to the old oaken bootjack, we have a fondness for it still, regardless of the pain - 1920, sentation, tion next June instead of six as heretofore. How- ever this does not excuse the committee's vio- ion of the direct action of the convention of nor does it compensate for the continuation of the long standing disgrace in southern repre- Phone 948 and 949 Natrona Transfer Stor, & Fuel Co. Aer&sTabletforms. Nourishing-Nocooking, 4 W Avoid Imitations and Substitutes | > ;posals, the mass of the people are eagerly welcoming the effective re- Uef which he offers. So the Re- publicans, the very “rank and file” that Hiram Johnson has always on his lips, may be expected to hatl Mr. Coolidge'’s candidacy. What- ever his fortunes with the present congress, in the preference pri- maries, in the national convention, he carries the one Republican hope, whether to victory or to honorable defeat.—New York Times. —<$——— The Challenge When bonus legislation was be- fore the last congress a member of the house rose to protest against the charge that votes in favor of it were influenced by political motives. {His profession of innocence was | greeted with ironic laughter on all sides. The men who were then pre- paring to override Mr. Harding's veto of a bonus bill confessed .in their mirth the truth of the charge that they were selling out the pub- lic to satisfy the demands of a small but politically well-organized class. It is to these people and their suc- cessors in congress, Republican or Democratic, that the president ad- dresses the challenge of his budget message. ‘They will have to answer that challenge in a way to satisfy | the growing public demand lower taxes.—Brooklyn Eagle. a Surely Not Prunes | $400 last Thanksgiving day, As a Beginning A speaker at a meeting called to lconsider the enforcement situation said, “We will move the heavens and the earth to enforce prohibt- tion.” This announcement response which says: “Try something easter. Move the Bahamas." This shows how Inadequate is Tampa's concep- tion of the requirements.—Spring- field Union. Sees ee een At the Crossroads Congress Is at the crossroads. If it follows the pointing fingers of Coolidge and Mellon it will go along a road which means relief for the people and a continuance of na- tional economy. If political greed drives it the other way the taxes instead of being sharply decreased would be sharply increased —New York Herald. Woman Sold for $400 in Yonkers YONKERS, N. Y., Dec. 21.—A charge that Mrs. Mary Leta of Wil- Mamsport, Pa., was sold by Frank Conserve of Yonkers to Peter Cerruto of North Tarrytown for was made by the police after the trio had been arrested—the woman is a for | material witness. Cerruto paid $200 down and $200 on December 8, after Mrs. Leta had gone to live with him, it was alleged, and got receipts for both Wonder what Mrs. Coolidge puts | payments. into the White House makes all the visiting sing the Coolidge praises they leave?—Cincinnat! Enquirer. a ples that politicians Expert watch and jewelry ing. Casper Jewelry Co.. OS repalr- Bite. CuananteTe, Mrs. Leta was seeking to return to Conserve when the police heard when | of the case. pace BE LA eal Watch for the date. A Packard coupe is going to the given away at Lloyd's. ‘OU can’t resist the goodness of this rare and delicious coffee with the full flavor that satisfies your coffee taste! - Ask for it! Try Nash's delicious Peanut Butter— you'll like that too. ANasha-C $1.00 values— to- $5.00 values— NECKWEAR Fine Silk and Knitted Ties, 75c and 55e THREE ‘FOR $1.50 Silk and Wool and All Silk Knits 5c Finest domestic silks and Croyden Knit Ties, either wide or narrow— $1.35 Finest Swiss and English imported heavy weight Silk Neckwear, $3.00 ‘ M.D. Barnett Outfitting Company ; The High Grade Spread for Bread Nucoa Pure Cocoanut oil —refined Peanut oil churned in sweet sterilized milk—with * necessary salt—that’s all Sremomonemononenonenenenenonenononcnenenonenenene Last Minute Suggestions Westinghouse Electric Toasters Westinghouse Toaster Stoves Westinghouse Warming Pads Westinghouse Curling Irons Westinghouse Glow Heaters Westinghouse Tumbler Water Heaters Westinghouse Travelers’ Irons American Beauty Irons Hot Point Irons Armstrong Combination Stoves Hold Heet Curling Irons Hold Heet Percolators Portable Table and Bed Lamps Radiola II Light, compact, completely enclosed, the Radiola I is the perfect RADIO set. This compact, light weight receiving set is mounted in a handsome mahogany case, measuring 814x1014x 111% and weighs 1714 pounds with ali batteries and appliances. The ordinary storage battery alone weighs four times “$97.50 Complete OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL XMAS Electric Supply & Construction Co. “Everything Electrical 142 E. Midwest Phone 483-W TRIBUNE’S CLASSIFIED ADS BRING RESULTS. and Neckwear The two most practical gifts are here in a beautiful array for your choosing SHIRTS 50 dozen silk stripe Madras Shirts, fast colors, all neat patterns, $3.00, fast colors, all neat patternsEEE values— 25 dozen solid color and fancy stripe silk, also white; $10.00 values— $6.85 MANHATTAN SHIRTS $3.00 © $10.00 154 SOUTH CENTER —— i