Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1924, Page 8

Pr ago ost orn ‘rib nd M 9 wiSEDREWSS SSERSS a nt ue e a ae ae. ae Fe PAGE EIGHT Che Casper Dailp Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and also the local pews published herein. i es The Casper Dally Tribune issued every evening aud The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, oppo site postoffice, Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postotfice as second elass matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones _ --——--15 and 26 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. By J. BE. HANWAY and B. E. HANWAY Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudéen, 1720-23 Steger Bidg-, Cht- cago, I'L, 286 Fifth Ave, New York City; Globe Bids. Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sbaron Bldg., 55 New Mont- . oe Daily highly important facts, that the transportation | ¢ ral feel; a omery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the ighly npo o ory, @ gene ecling of satisfac- Tribuse are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston/act requires the interstate commerce commis- sion to fix rates which will afford the railroads |circles of this district. and Sap Francisco offices and visitors are we'come. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A B. C) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State (me Year, Daliv and funday --—--——----"+9=* One Year, Sunday Only —---- Six Months, Daily and Sunday —--. Three Months, Daily and Sunday SS er Que Month, Dally and Sunday ~--------—------- 4 Per Copy ie aes Te NS eal ‘4 One Year, Daily and Sundar ane One Year, Sunday Only ..—-----------------——--—- Six Month, Daily ané@ sunday pacnsneeaay Y*) All subscriptions must be pa'd Da!'y Tribune will not insure delivery tion becomes one month {n arrears. _————————————— YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE eed aomt find your Tribune after, looking curefully for it, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you by special messenger. Register complaints before 8 o'clock. Bawling Mr. Bok Out Some of the contestants for the Bok peace prize declare that the terms of the contest as originally announced were not adhered to — that the jury of award would pass on each man- uscript submitted—and they propose to insti- tute court action to compel the jury to read and compare all the manuscripts. That there is some ground for their complaint appears from a statement of the facts. The contest closed on November 15 and the jury of award thereupon took up its work with the announcement that a decision would be reached by January 1. Several days before the latter date it was intimated that the task had been completed,’ but, if the jury had labored every day, including Sundays, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas, right up to New~ Year's eve, they would have given 46 days to the proj- ect. Allowing eight hours as a day’s work, they would have spent, under these conditions, 368 hours in the perusai and comparison of the manuscripts. st The public is informed that 22.165 peace plans of three to five thousand words each were submitted, which would have required their dis- posal at the rate of more than 60 every hour— one every minute — of tle extremely strenuous schedule outlined above, Persons interested are given no opportunity to doubt that the 22,165 contesting manuscripts were studied, digested, compared, and discussed at that rate, for the jury of award says: : “Tt is therefore the unanimous opinion of the uyy-that of the 22,165 plans submitted, Plan eS 1469 is ‘the best practicable plan by! which the United States may co-operate with} other nations to achieve and preserve the peace of the world.’ ” If the jury’s formal statement means anything at all it means that each one of the 22,165«plans was read and considered by each one of the jury. Otherwise there could be no “unanimous opin- ion” that “of the 22,165 plans submitted” No. 1,469 was the best. The accuracy of the jury’s statement is to be challenged. One of the disappointed contestants has retained a New York attorney to press his| claims, and it is understood he will be joined} by others who consider that they were not fair- ly dealt with. Of course their interests are pure-| ly selfish—they hate to see that $50,000, or is it $100,000, slip from their ip until they have been accorded all of their rights under the terms of the Bok contest. 2 Of course the pee interest in any court action that may instituted can be only aca- demic. The award has been made. The $100,000 or is it $50,008, has been paid over to the win- ner. The jury of award has formally announced that everything was regular and according to the rules. But in every exhibition of unusual feats of athletic or mental-prowess, the contest- ants want to know how it was done. This the court testimony may reveal, and the public will await the revelation with eager anticipation. The Recapture Clause By its decision upholding the “recapture” clause of the transportation act the United States supreme court has given the approval of legal sanction to a feature of the trarsporta- tion law which already had the approval of common sense. As a result of this decision the United States now has the best legal regulation of interstate commerce in our history. For the information of those who are not fa- miliar with its provisions it is worth while to quote this feature of the EschCummins trans- portation act. It reads as follows: “If, under the provisions of this section, any carrier receives for any year a net railway op- erating income in excess of 6 per cent of the value of the railway property held for and used | by it in the service of transportation, one-half! of such excess shall be placed in a reserve fund established and maintained by such carrier, and the remaining one-half thereof shall, within the first four months following the close of the per- iod for which such computation is made, be re- covered by and paid to the commission for the} purpose of establishing and maintaining a gen- eral railroad contingent fund as hereinafter de- scribed.” Any student of transportation problems will! readily perceive that it is impossible to estab- lish uniform transportation rates without mak- ing it possible for some railroads to make a considerable profit while other competing roads between the same points must operate at an i adequate return or at a loss. For example, th may be two railr between the Mississippi | yalley and the Pacific coast one of which he route oyer the Rocky Mountains with ea grades and abundant local traffic and relative- ly low operating cost. A rival road serving the| same terminals may cross the mountains at a high altitude through a region providing little local traffic and with relatively high operating costs. It is obvious, that the same through rates must apply to both roads, for they carry goods ‘etween the same points. If one road were per- $9.00 |t0 pay half of that excess to the government '2.50|for the-aid of the weaker roads. 2.25}more equitable and more practical plan. 2.23|/Such scant authority as assistant superintendent “ts{of schools gives has been drawing a virtuous aavanoe: ‘and tte/blue pencil through the national anthem. The after subscr!»/somewhat abundant references to war fill him many forms of production in agriculture where | the commodity is of sufficient value and vol- ume. Success in such ventures depends initially upon team work among the members, followed by proper organization and administration. It has lately developed that control of production may become a necessary factor in some commod- lcreases at a time when many shippers and pro- y ducers were suffering from the effects of post- aumedeanes ‘mitted to carry at a lesser rate than the other, the one road would get all the business. Yet the The Associated Press is exclusive'y entitled to the uniform rate inevitably gives one road an exces- use for publication of all news credited in this paper sive profit while it is giving the other a reason- lable profit. No method of correcting this inequal- ity had been devised until the Esch-Cummins law incosporated what is known as the “recapture clause” quoted above, which takes from the rail- lroud receiving an excessive profit a portion of {that excess to be used for the benefit of the weaker and less favorably located transporta- tion lines. Those who have criticized the transportation the records which show that many a railroad is not now earning a reasonable profit elther ermine the hands of western on its capital or on the valuation of its tangible property used in railroad transportation. The people of the country should keep in mind two on the whole, a reasonable return, if possible, and, on the other hand, provides that railroads which earn an excessive profit shall be required No man has yet arisen to suggest a more just, Revising the Anthem Possibly a well-meaning, but surely a meddle- some person down in New York, by virtue of with foreboding and dismay and he is deeply conyinced that children who sing the anthem are in training for the trenches. Even as a pedagogue he loses sight of the fact that the song celebrates a feat of arms and that to weaken it to a thin sip of pink tea is to as- sail history and nullify the value of the anthem. If circumstances should ever place our school-;*tock Co., 18,000. master in a position where he must report a battle, and this may heaven forefend his account will be as thrilling as the weekly resume of social activities at Buttermilk Bend. Agricultural Co-Operation Co-operation among farmers is extending to ities in view of the difficulty experienced in the of co-operative effort is likely to be followed by a succeeding season of overproduction that be- tomes most difficult to finance. The plan of controlling output has a record of some great: Successes and some.equally signal failures, but there seems little doubt as to its permanency as an effective factor to be reckoned with in agri- cultural life. One problem constantly encountered in agri- cultural co-operation is the difficulty of financ- ing these movements, for ready money is often; scarce on the countryside after a fashion that | the city man does not realize. Lack of cash at! the disposal of the farmers is a matter often mentioned in the special reports. This is true even in sections of the corn belt in the central west where farmers are generally in good shape. | yet, in order to meet their obl;igation or to get cash for needed purchases, they are selling their hogs at unremunerative figures rather than carry them through the winter. All oyer the country the reports are that the farmers are liquidating their obligations as fast as possibie, even if this course does not leave! much cash on hand. This is especially noted in two such prosperous states as Texas and North Carolina. In some of the cotton and wheat sec- tions, where there were practically no crops, re- tail dealers are drawing the line as to credit and farmers are paying cash where they haye| it, or they are going without the goods. This con- dition is extending to many parts of the central west, where the farmers are in much’ better | shape but here the farmers are adopting the cash system of their own volition. The Billion ‘Dollar Candidate Democratic party leaders are becoming a bit alarmed lest McAdoo should force his ‘iden- tial candidacy upon them. They are against hirn, because they know McAdoo of railroad admin- istration fame would be on the defensive from the day he was nominated, McAdoo ,they fear, would be beaten from the day he started as their party naminee. Farmers and shippers gen- erally have a distinct recollection of the cost- liness of McAdoo extravagance in the operation of railroads. It is easy enough to trace high freight rates back to the extravagance of the McAdoo regime. High freight rates, it is pointed out, resulted directly from the increased cost of operating the railroads under political, man- agement. Under the editorial caption, “William Billion McAdoo,” the New York Tribune makes this comment: “The champion billion-dollar presidential can- didate is unquestionably Mr. McAdoo. His mind runs to the extraction of vast sums from the fed- eral treasury to be spent where and how they will best promote the McAdoo political fortunes A billion is the smallest sum he thinks in—an elegant candidate, if somew;hat costly to the taxpayer. “The present director general of the railroads, James C. Davis, who is still liquidating the gov- ernment’s disastrous venture in railroad oper- ation, has just reported to congress that the to- tal cost of the 26 months of federal manage- ment and of the six months of guaranteo after restoration will be $1,696,000,000. “Mr. McAdoo was responsible beyond anyone else for the mistaken policy by which the gov- ernment piled up enormous rail o icits and paid them out of tax funds in the treasury. He kept on ‘snowballing’ rail. wages and other operating costs but refusing to raise rates to offset increased expenditure. He sold transportation below cost to large classes of shippers, most of them making excess war pro- fits, and charged the resulting bonus up against the community. He foolishly kept rates down when all other values were being wildly inflated id. added to the miseries of the railroads by compelling them to ask for post-war rate in- war economic deflation. “The McAdoo railroad policy had an obvious political motive. It was a bid for the support of the railroad worker and of favored groups of shippers. More than anything else it made Mr. McAdoo a powerful contender for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination in 1920. It still has a persausive yalue in 1924.” in Western week, and report yesterday is that |all wool stored between Bitter Creek and Cokeville has been sold with the exception of one clip at. Cokevi'le and one in Rock Springs, with the liklihood of the latter being moved this week. less than 40 cents, while several brought 41 and 42 cents. who dealt with the woolbuyers in Rock prings and the approximate amount of their clips follow: Co., eatern storage companies last year, but no reports on their recent movements have been ceived, but it is generally predicted that virtually every pound of local wool wil be sold before the 1924 spring clip comes on the market. —————— January meeting, county commissioners made case of raisins in California, and of tobacco|annual appropriations for conduct- ‘in the southern states, where a successful season |ing the county government during \the year 1924, priation for the general county fund for 1924 is $62,000, as compared to $57,000 last year; the appropriation compared to $30,000 last year. decrease from last year, was made )The poor and pauper fund -was in- pauper department during the past year, and the $6,000 appropriation made at the beginning of amount was necessarily increased to , $8,000 this year. . Young at Ninety-eight jand who has campaigned in tho Spoken In Paragraphs gin to realize that if the taxes don't fall the axes will. It Happened in Wyoming Matters and Things, of State-Wide Interest, Wired In, Telephone In, Written, Grape-Vined and Some of It Purloined $ Boston Transcript—The crusade to reduce taxes is pretty sure to have the support of all those who can do a little figuring with paper and pencil. Springfield (Ohio) Sun—America regarded definitely as one of 2 character which wil not fluctuate, at least, not in an adverse way, and for the first time since the war men in these lines are making their her part in the act have falsely misrepresented it as tee-| Springs during the past week, and s with confidence. Houston Post—Democrats in | doesn't mind doing : fag ajaattatn ‘protteiter the aallatone: false. a. new tory price. for the 193 clip| This will mean a definite advan-|cOngTess who regard the demand | World's affairs. What sho objects SEND IT TO THE. |ness of this representation is demonstrated he woe 42 cents a pound. tage to everyone in Uinta county,| fot tax reduction as a “conspiracy” doing Euro; part. Be oy a: ‘Troy Times—Bokward, turn Bok- ward, O Peace, in thy flight, For Plan 1-4-6-9 will set things right. New Top Price ROCK SPRINGS—Over 700,000 pounds of wool was sold in for one of the really large sources}™8Y they are Muncie Evening Press—Congress- ef income: 18° frou” oer Hvstoekceiit | Diem nue sa eeallty: teeyace-iee mer may not be in favor of tax See tta Rock reduction, but if they value their A 1924 BUICK most of Springs, them centering in paralyzed. fer the presidency to Mr. Coolidge and even though many of the grow. almost without opposition. Jobs, they'd better be. At Your Disposal Any Time ers sold at a price hardly satisfac- . . — FOR RENT In urging Purity Satisfactory St. Louis Times—It being far Jat acue isa ge we yseanen ‘econemey By Day or Week or Month for tion is expressed in wool growing -_- harder to pay a tax on a small | in government Mr. Coolidge is on } KEMMERER—J. Rov Colvin, of| income than it is to pay that on a solid. ground. . Cheyenne, and an inspector in the food and dairy department of the state,!was a visitor in the city, this being one of his official trips for this department. . Mr. Colvin reported before his Ger} parture that everything in. Kem- merer was found to be in ing, Geologi Eases nae oe PHONE 2260 Over a score of sales were made large one, the Mellon tax reduction Wyoming during the Dill ought to be the most popular maesure before the congress. The small income fellows are the gidnt Syracuse Post-Standard—A melt- ing pot can’t change them into good The High Grade Spread for Bread Nucoa Pure Cocoanut oil — refined Peanut oil churned in sweet sterilized milk—with f “ necessary salt—that’s all None of the clips were sold for | privilege of throwing a pop botile Samples of milk from every dairy at the umpire. } suppying the city were taken and _ will be examined by the state chem-! Minneapolis Tribune—There cer- ist and dairyman notified if his tainly does not appear at this dis- Those Joe Thompson, 20,000. pounds. Mary Lackie Roberts 30,000. Fetx Schiestler, 25,000, Mid'and Livestock Co., 60,000. Lander Creek Land & Livestock 65,00. Gus Linden 35,000. Mart Whelan, 45,000. Frank Wexelberger, 25,000. Green River-Rock Springs Live- product does not comply with the tance to be brighter promise for pure food law requirements in any| the future of Mexico in the leader- way. {ship of the insurrection than in the Restaurants were also given a leadership of Obregon. thorough inspection and no unsan- itary conditions found, the same Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (Dem.})— being true of markets where food is The economy program ‘will make sold _and exposed for sale, better speed when congressmen be- Magagua Sheep Co., 25,000. Sparks clip, 110,000. Hay clip, 250,000. Many other clips were shipped to during re- Appropriations KEMMERER—At the the regular board of their The appropriations for this year total $103,000.00 as compared to $96,000.00 last year. The appro- for roads and bridges is $27,001 this department a small surplus was left over from last vear, and xc a in this appropriation. The court tax appropriation remains at $3,000 this year, the same as that for 1923. creased this year from $6,000 to $8,000. There have been many ad- ditional expenses in the poor and 1928, this Proved insuffi¢i mt, so that ~who are Critical in judging coffee flavor ADVO Coffee is more than just passably good. . It meets the test of those who are really criticalin judging coffee flavor. Invar- iably they are won by ADVO’S smooth, rich goodness. There is geriuine enjoyment in every. cup. : The wonderful blend that comes to you ‘as ADVO Coffee is the result of years of x work to produce a coffee to suit everybody. Ithas been tested against all—and approved ‘ by most tastes! There is st without bitterness; satisfying flavor that is mellow and fragrant. If you enjoy good coffee; if you gre par- i to have your coffee “just so”—try a can of ADVO. Brew it your favorite way. Test it as critically as you please. Learn why ADVO is preferred by thou- sands everywhere. 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