Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1924, Page 14

E ew SU — 2CQ — ae PAGE FOUR. Che Casper Sunday Cribune ‘The Casper Da-ly Tribune issued every evening au@ treat it as such, and those who watch the ef- Casper rect of it, find that it is an active menace where Wyoming. Pubiication offices: Tribune Building. OpP> i} ha. full sway. The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, site postoffice. —<—<—$—<$—<—<— — — 2 Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second centre of responsibil class matter, November 22, 1916, Business Telephones _-__ Brauch Teephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. a ch nL By 3. BE. HANWAY Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudéen, 1720-33 Steger Bids.. Chi- cago, I'l, 286 Fifth Ave., New York Citv; Globe Bids. Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon St., San Francisco, Cal ‘rancisco offices and visitors are welcome. ‘Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A B. ©. 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It bears with it a definite mandate from the people as to| policy, expressed by no uncertain majority, That the people of this city have faith in their choice for mayor, Dr. 8. K. Loy, the election returns bear splendid attestation. That he will fulfill every hope entertained for him by his most devoted friends we have no doubt. He is a man of the highest personal character, big, broad, clean, intelligent, with small patience with the ordinary intrigue and mystery with which small minds surround city government. He fully realizes his responsibility to the peo- ple and he is fully aware of his obligation to conduct their business with fidelity. That he will do this is doubted by no one who knows him. We believe a new day has dawned for Casper, and a new order of things has come to us. The people will expect the council, the newly elected members and those whose terms extend over another year to uphold the hands of the mayor in his policies for better things. In selecting his cabinet to carry out the exec- utive’s program in detail the mayor must have a free hand, unhampered by opposition from the council. The most cordial co-operation must rule the action of council and mayor, for this is what the people expect and what they designed at the polls in November. The new’ administration on the other hand must not be forgotten or neglected by the peo- ple. They have their share of co-operation to per- form in securing the best service from the ser- vants they have chosen to transact their public business. All minor considerations may be declared ad- journed while Dr. Loy, the council and the peo- ple organize and enter upon the work of render- ing the best, the most economical, the most in- telligent and satisfactory municipal administra- i sper has had in her history. ‘ ty of Casper is the biggest enterprise It requires big men to conduct it. We believe we have them in the mayor and city council, We do not expect disappointment. We cannot afford to have disappointment. We wish the new administration godspeed. We shall do all in our power to aid its success. Curse of the Primary System That the primary election system is growing in disfavor, is evidenced by the fact that from time to time some brother discovers new faults and failings in it growing out of local prac- tices. Complaints are widespread, in fact they come from every state where the system is in force. They do not come from one political party more than another, but from both. The primary system is blamable for two things which have developed under it—failure of great numbers of eligible voters to vote, and the selection of un- qualified officials to hold office. This has been the experience almost everywhere. Our form of government demands an interest on the part of the citizen and the highest quality of ability on the part of the office holder. They are yital to our success. As an outgrowth of the primary system many of the states are annually shamed by the legis- latures elected to make laws for the people. Wyo ming among them. The primary is responsible for men chosen as legislators, no person in pos: session of his senses would ever think of send- ing to the state capital to represent him in any- thing. It may be true at times that the best of the lot are sent but the choice is limited to too many of the same mediocre calibre. Ninety-nine of those chosen by primary in either major party could never get by in a party convention. Michigan ts one of the latest to enter com- plaint of conditions existing in that state, and the Detroit Free Press reflects the wide-spread sentiment of the people in what it says on the subject: “Close observers of the Michigan legislat 1928-24 are quite widely of the opiate that ui ls on the whole the most hopeless mixture of mediocrity and downright incompetency the state has ever sent to Lansing. The senate is better than the house, but neither body is a thing to be proud of, and the body as a whole has given to the voters nothing of any account return for the salary outlay and other over- au It is practi- it has cost Michigan a lot of head expense of maintaining it. tally a total 1 noney, and bk provided the country with a —__...-15 and 16 Apparent when the system wa: Bldg., 66 New Mont’ ho may be called to account for him in case hej Copies of the Dally r: papas sereg as York, Chicago, Boston | turns out to be a “dad.” The office seeker in’). the prime mover of the meeting fhe Casper Sunday Cridune stitution has long outlived its usefulness. The majority of voters consider it a nuisance and “Under the primary system there is no definite | to act as a balance wheel | cious defect was not very eat ~ that motion first adopted be- | It has seemed lately, jcanse the old party organizations then were in] Ra ee Sse be pegged a healthy, robust condition, and for a time ram | oytertaining, more intelligent. N on momentum and functioned almost automat-' goes their content as a general ruie ically. But now they have long since ceased tO) strike one as menacing to any- operate except nominally in fields where the pri-| body's morals. It is rather surpr's- mary reigns. And today the m who be-'ing, therefore, to hear that a con- comes a candidate for nomination to office and vention on uplift bent ts to agsembie shortly in Washington for the pur- ultimately becomes a nominee, has no sponsors eS ting the “movies”. How Bad They Are and check. This pe jturn is free from any allegiance to principle Or expects that the conference will party platform unless he chooses to make him- pees, ‘a bill for federal control of ‘self voluntarily accountable. He is largely a law) the films and lay it at the door of to himself, and consequently the primary sys-| congress. Censorship? The states tem has a strong and constantly growing tend-| have mostly attended to that, and ‘ency to bring about a government of individuals | their boards have seldom been ac- rather than a government of principl cused of bytae! Lapeer agphe in it the seed out of which autocracy born. pe oe ing al ae Be thongh up to the present moment it happily has |‘° Wor! ari ‘e | J | the tone of the pictures the experts gone only so far as to create a heyday for dem-|;,, moral welfare may be able to agogues. suggest. “Even when the party organizations gave up| The trouble with the “movies” is the ghost as directing forces in the selection of | not that they are vicious. They will nominees, there was still some safeguard as long | pass inspection on that score. It as the mass of the people took an interest in |!s because such awful rubbish, such the institution. Indeed an alert electorate saved | twaddle, such inanity finds its way the situation for so long, that a good many even |‘? the screen ez the a pic: among those who knew that the primary system mo aerate 7 beca eo piercoie was unsound, began to hope they mht have 4:,9 is etdiscate Wil give them been mistaken in their misgivings. But now even | the safeguard of popular interest has vanished. plenty of it along with pictures that are really good. few York Tribune ee Way of Economy Classifying Liars It is good to learn that because of the insistence of President Cool- William R. Green member of congress from )ac¢ the appropriations for public Iowa, member of the ways and means committee | puildings, instead of running close }and an authority on the tariff, which he helped | to half a a cena be kept down to about : formulate, has become somewhat disgusted by |" ‘rnis is going to hurt the feelings the misrepresentation which the Democrats,| of towns that honestly believe they free traders, and general ignoramuses are con- need new federal buildings. It will stantly directing at the new law, which is show- be, someway: Suacesn ns Sr ner” ing such splendid results. York, which wants a new postoffice. But the postponement of these im- Mr. Green in paying his respects to the gentry named does so in this fashion: provements for a year or a rd years ia a small thing beside the “It is a saying among lawyers that there are baevioed Hi vos cord the taxes three kinds of liars—common liars, ~—-— liars|down and keep them down. The and expert witnesses, the latter surpassing even | needed public works will come in those of whom the profane epithet was applied.| their turn as soon as the govern- A new classification evidently needs to be made pp tren gine a Gr. ; . le e pi ° ant ag AA IL liars, liars and tariff theitty spirit x the president — ja tee by ete time everyone ought to know Bassas gilts fw rains og ie falsity of the statement, it is frequently said t i that the present tariff is the highest on record. A pire This statement has been more frequently made] ‘here are still some who argue in the newspapers and outside of congress than! tnat money which foreign nations within its walls. Everyone who knows anything|owe us can, when interest on it, about the tariff at all knows that it is not true.|and gradually the principal, are “The present tariff is the lowest protective| paid. be used for payment of a tariff reat was ever put on the statute books. It| bonus to able-bodied former service is much lower than the Payne bill and very much | ™*"- lower than the Dingley bill. The average rate of |, Someone a few days ago wrote a 7 ‘ letter to a New York newspaper duty under the Payne bill from 1909 to 1913 was suggesting such procedure. 20.61 per cent. Thé Dingley bill, from 1901 to!” that vindehees fa manifestly based 1908, averaged 25.45 per cent. The duties under| upon erroneous belief that money the present bill average a little less than 15 per] paid for debts will be like money pe UE sD shown by the reports of the | found, or a gift. lepa: of commerce. The fact is, of course, that the “It is true that there were some increases |™oney which was loaned to foreign made by the present law but there were far morc | °°U*ries was provided by the peo rates that were lowered and more than a hun-|?!0 of the United States, throug i i « purchase of bonds. Those bonds dred different articles that were dutiable under Itimately be redeemed, and the Payne bill were placed on the free list by the tari vehaen ‘ite interest anteb lee Fordney-McCumber bill. Some of these were un-| paid es them. Interest on the for- important, but there were many as to which the| eign loans must be used to pay in- importations are large. Lumber, lath, shingles,|terest on the bonds or to replace plain boards, brick, cement, coal, iron ore, agri-| money advanced for that purpose cultural implements, barbed wire, wood pulp,; from the treasury of the United news-print paper, leather, boots, shoes and work | St#tes. And when the principal of harness were all dutiable under the Payne bill | the 1oans js paid, that money must but are free of duty under the present jaw. be applied to redemption of the “It is often claimed that the high prices of the Pet ats ee ee enc that present day are due to the tariff, but the great-| foreign countries owe us. It can est advance of all is in building materials, upon| not be diverted, when payment is which, as above specified, there is no iff. On|at last made, to other purposes the other hand, many articles upon which tariff |than the settlement of that loan.— wae laid By cheaper now than before the last | Albany (N. Y.) Journal. bill went into effect. Moreover, an examination of the standard charts of the cost of living Up to the People shows that it has declined since the bill went gon sce into effect. This means that the average cost of | ,, The? 47 three plans of tax re- articles which are the necessities of life is less ae tro inte eaen tauren ‘all Lape when the Fordney-McCumber bill was en- along the line” coupled with reduc- “Why repeat this lie about the Fordney-McCum- ey 3 Haasp ch scenpviactaiyren me ber law being the highest tariff on record? I[t|hand and an increase in public ex- is getting old now. Anyone who has sufficient | penditures on the other hand, and desire to learn the truth has only to consult the| till a third which provides for re- official reports of the department of commeree, | 2¥ction in the lower brackets and from which the percentages above stated are |™&@tked increases in surtaxes, | to- taken. Anyone who asserts the contrary is cith SEDER Re am tnereaeen: Puy SOME 1; | expenditures. er a liar or does not care to know the truth.” There is only one way to cut taxes and that is to cut taxes. It is impossible to cut taxes and raise expenditures. Eventually the Individual Interest expenditures must be paid and, when that time comes, the taxpayer Walter W. Head, president of the American Bankers’ association ak stated some consider- SREee 2 Ww seoe mpor ae subject of the duties of citizenship, when he told a group of. bro! bankers in Chicago this: foe esis We speak reverentially of “our country.” What do we mean? Are we thinking of the service which we owe to our country, of the love which we bear for it, or are we thinking only of the protection which our country can afford us, only of the benefit which we may derive from it? Are we thinking of what we may do for our country or of what our country may do for us? Much as we find reason to deplore high taxes, to lament the interference of government i [Seed wr business, to condemn radicalism, ae duty to Aeaig “4 | vA see and our country’s resources pos ive as well as negative action, dynamic direction ra Vi hu ‘than static obstruction. ‘We must be pa cd CH (4 TE, Y tive. As business men we go before congress— justification—opposing this bill or favoring tee we decry the acts of “politicians” who are elected to office or who procure the election of others to office. Yet, as citizens of our country, do we fulfill the obligations incumbent upon us? Do we exercise our right to vote—and when we do, do we always place intelligence, efficiency and |patriotism in government ahead of every other Sonal Care eT : ‘e cannot delegate our responsibility in ". ernment to someone else. The main-spring tie watch operates through a series of wheels and cogs to move the hands on the dial. City coun- and . Dypewri ing Our graduates are (eq the best proof we can offer in favor of our school. Look into the better class of Casper business offices for the proof Classes Starting Now \ lisagreeable and demoralizing spectacle. “There probably are several contributing rea- sons for the condition, but lirmly of the opinion that the f the singular uselessness of the state law-mak. ng body is the blight of the iystem. “If the adoption of the primary ever had any terest in government and idequate justification, which we doubt, the in- bility for government. the Free Press is of government is the underlying cause main-spring may transmit primary election ism will not operate if the m cils, legislatures, congress, executive officials carry on the government—but the in-spring individual citizen. The s impulse through - elected or appointed officials, but the inechane t ain-spring is re- G There is no substitute for individual in- indivjdual responsi- Casper Business College, Inc. Phone 1325 moved. The Opinion of Other Newspapers 1924 A . issuing tax exempt securities ang practically flooding the market wit), bonds of this nature which we. ‘attracting a great deal of mon. | that should be used in manufactn,;. ‘While in Cheyenne on business| economic reasons {t was neces-| ing and commercial bus ang affairs over the first of the year|sary to spread out the taxation| would then be subject to m reas nw was in-jover a great many years, that the | able tax. < vited to address a meeting of the|country is still paying the debis| ‘The senator pointed out that ui i of this struggle and that he be-| expenses of the Civii war and th. lieved that such @ method shou!4/ +t. xcs due from that act later prove, bs employed in the handling Of) to ie a big benefit to the govern. the present indebtedness, _ ‘ment, as the national bank act way ‘The senator pointed out that Mr. ; based on information secured by Metion had no selfish motives or | this method. : tside influence which has any ou influe! AS i a 4 caused him to advocate the tax r- qucti posed. He|ly applauded when he stated th, Se dpeghoeel ate he was in favor of tax reductions said that after a careful study and a ife time of training along finan-| and relief for the present genera. cial lines, it was Mr. Mellon's earn- | tion by spreading the taxation ou est belief that the reduction of | over @ perfod of more’ years than taxes as proposed would offset the | has been the object in the past tw tax exempt securities evil which | or three years. ; now exists, and which is a menaco Tas Se eee It is likewise to reduce taxes in the lower brackets and in- crease taxes in the higher brackets and at the same time raid the treas- ury and get away with it. Lower taxes are not made possible in that way- Taxpayers should get { firmly fixed in their minds that if this country is going to have tax re- duction in the immediate future, it must cut texes “all along the line” and likewise it must cut public ex- penditures. The senator or the representative who is trying to do anything else is playing politics instead of represent- ing his state or his district. He is merely making a bid for the votes | strong legislation carrying it into effect would be enacted during the present The senator stated that some of those who want tax reduction, by to business perhaps more so in the SEND IT TO THE supporting a sham proposal and he .| east than in the west. PEARL WHITE LAUNDRY is likewise attempting to gain favor Iustrating his points, the senator PHONE 1702 ————— with the groups who are seeking expenditures for this or that hobby or venture. The country has been demanding tax reduction, real, not spurious re- duction, for many months. The opportunity for obtaining it has been presented by the administra- tion. If the matter is left solely to congress we probably won't get it. It is up to the people. Let the people tell their senators and repr.- sentatives that they want reduction ‘all along the line.”—Fargo (N. D.) Forum. called the attention of his lusteners that every school district or other organization which could were with the exception that the coun- ry Was not in the condition it is now. and that because of the thon HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING THIS SPACE ? 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He immediately went into con- ference with Frank H. Hitchcock his national campaign manager. Johnson was reticient following the conference but is understood to have outlined plans for his mid- western campaign. This, his cam- Paign advisers indicated, included mid-western stump speaking itiner- aries. The campaign, it was said, will be pushed vigorously in Illinois and surrounding states with activities centering around Ohio and Illinois where the Coolidge campaign will be pushed. Arrangements Cease To Be Effective READ BELOW AND ACT QUICKLY You can still buy a Hoover Sweeper at $5.00 down and take six or twelve months to pay out the’balance. This is the most liberal proposition we have ever been able to offer on sweepers. You can still turn in your old iron (any old iron) for 50c credit: then bu 75 Westinghouse Iron for $1.00 down and 50c per month on your light bill. ee Special Low Prices and Terms on All Used Sweepers and Washing Machines A DISCOUNT OF 20 PER CENT ON ALL FLOOR, BRIDGE AND TABLE LAMPS The drawing for the free sewing machine will take place Monday night at 7:30 at our office. NATRONA POWER COMPANY Phone 69