Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1924, Page 16

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Register complaints before 8 Small Beginnings It is well that even in a few scattered local- ities ministers of the gospel, members of churches and some right thinking professional people have taken up the battle for general law enforcement the banishment of liquor and dope and an improved moral situation among the girls and boys of the country. In all these respects we have backslid to an alarming degree. Moral and respectable people have rather stood in awe of conditions. Appar- ently stunned and‘unable to take up the broad- sword and engage in contest with the powers of evil. : It seems to have been forgotten that it re- quires constant effort to repel the devil and keep the powers of darkness under. While we have thus stood inactive the deyil and his followers have made serious inroads upon the virtuous, and to have reached a point to threaten the security of the castle wherein dwell all that is pure and high-minded. It igs encouraging that in the day when the whole world seems to be on its merry way to hell, that even small contingents cry stop! And with the old militant spirit arm themselves. to. battle with the overwhelming forces of evil. There is something noble, something uplifting something encouraging ina small band of moral herdes who will courageously battle. for right- eousness ,in whose fibre there is no strand of yellow, in whose hearts there is no fear and in whose consciousness there is no cowardice. Should we not show them honor? Should we not accept their leadership? The tendency and the trend of the times is to moral degeneracy. We have had overmuch of crime and evil in the public view and it has made us callous to its influence and to its nat- ural and ultimate effect upon the careless and weak among humanity. There never was a time in the history of this country when there was so loud a call, falling upon unhearing: ears, for moral regeneration, as there is at present. It is needed in all walks of lifa, And unless the moral element throughout the country arouses itself and takes up the bat- tle for common decency, the country may as well be turned over to the devil and be done with it. Therefore, when even a few gather together, to talk over the state of Israel and discuss ways and means fer betterment, it is a good sign and there is hope in it. The Jackass on Broadway It is well. The Democratic party has taken its national convention to New York City..This is the proper place for itcand nothing cduld be more appropriate. This town is vastly more European than American and the party should counsel with the international bankers, free traders cand devotees of the league of nations Hi matters and things affecting the great Amer- ifan republic. » Quite proper also, is this the place for Demo- eracy to foregather, because of its well-known wetness; and the wet interests in’ the wettest state in the union and the one to abolish its prohibition laws, will want a little plank all their own if they do not go so far as to demand the naming of the candidate. New York City is the home of democracy north of the Mason-Dixon line. It is the abiding place of Tammany Hall also, the most influential-as well as the most corrupt political. organization associated with the old party of calamity. Democracy will also be afforded a more in- timete acquaintance with Wall Street, which it has held up to public scorn for lo, these fifty years, as the one evil interest to be crushed under the righteous heel of the party of purity, namely and to-wit—the Democratic party. When the old party of misgovernment assem- bled at the Golden Gate, four years ago, the drought from which it was suffering w: re- lieved by the then attorney general of the Unit- ed States by a simple order lifting the lid. That was a fairly respectable and law abiding com- munity. Willan official lid lifter be required in New York? No! Tammany will see to all mat ters of hospitality. There will be plenty. So much in fact that no thirsty delegate need re- main unrefreshed. And history will repeat the Frisco chapter—a tolerably wet candidate for president on the Democratic ticket. The party has made no raistake in selecting New York as its gathering place, all things con sidered. New York and democracy have so much in common that the convention will seem more like a family reunion or old home coming week than a serious conclave in the interest of the public weal. Attacking F. armers’ Tariff Democrats in congress are preparing assault upon the tariff. Their program t to revise schedules downward ¥ pie ession, and the open threat that if they get control of the next congress they will repeal the protective tariff in its entirety. Free trade bills introduced by Senator Walsh, Massachusetts ond Representative Weller, Dem- ocratic meniber from the city of New York, would put all farm products on the fres list | Special; session of congress called by President | | with very few exceptions, and in these exce) tions the present schedules would be drastically lowered. It would appear the Democratic has a grudge against the American farmer. It was due to its deflation policy inaugurated in 1919. and 1920 that the agricultural and. livestock inter. ests of the country were brought to the eee verge of ruin. The last congress of the Wilson administra. tion—Republican in both h farm- ers’ cmmereency protective tariff bill in the face of determined opposition by practically every Democrat. Cordell Hull, now chairman: ofthe Democratic national committee, was one of the leaders in the opposition to a farmers’ tariff at that time. After the congress passed the tariff, president Wilson vetoed it. Democrats in congress put-up the same oppo- sition to the farmers’ protective tariff in the Harding in the summer of 1921. Now they are endeavoring to repeal those schedules of the tariff which protect the farmer. The argument of Senator Walsh, Representa- tive Weller and other Democrats is that the tariff on farm products has increased the cost of living to the city wage earner. They attribute the high prices charged by city retailers for food to the protective schedules on farm produce. This is because they lack either the intelligence or the courage to go to the root of the matter and expose the real cause of the tremendous spread between what the farmer gets for his produce and what the consumer has to pay for it. The fallacy of the position that high retail prices for food have any connection with prices received by the farmer for what he produces illustrated by the price of: wheat and bread. A pound loaf of bread, which in pre-war times cost five cents, now cost ten cents, an increase of 100 per cent. The flour from which this bread is made has increased in the same period from £4.43 a barrel to $6.89, The standard of computa- tween a barrel of wheat flour and the price of | Coy. bread produced from it in pre-war times was $9.57..The margain today is $21.11. led and it is within the ranks of their city con- stituency that these Democratic politicians will have’ to look for the cause of the high cost of food if they really wish to ascertain the facts. What is true regarding the relative price of product. Representative Weller in an interview states that the farmer is deriving no benefit from the tariff. Representative Weller makes that state- ment largely because he knows nothing about the farmer, or farm conditions. His congress- ional district lies in the upper section of New York in the apartment héuse district, where farm sentiment is very hard to gauge. If he desires the trifth regarding the senti- ment of farmers and livestock interests as: to the effect of the tariff, he should consult the records of the United States tariff commission, which has on file protests from practically every farm organization, livestock association, dairy association and other agricultural associations against any lowering of the present tariff sched- ules on farm products. Not only haye the western farmers protested against any reduction in the iff commission and other authorities have been bombarded with requests from agricultural sec- tions for the increase of tariff on farm prod: ucts by the application of the flexible tariff law which permits the rates to be increased 50 per cent. Full Publicity and Open Covenants What ho! What manner of flim-flam is this? Mr. Bok’s winning peace plan.contains this uplifting declaration!: She !s your treasure and sunshine, He is my blessing and joy. And his dear hands pure Wnd spot- less Are as free from all sin tonight As those of your little daughter 8° daintily fair and white. That which is sin for your daughter Is sin for my son, I trow, And what will stain her pureness Will mar jis own fair brow. Then do not send my boy, sir, ‘Where your own girl'may not go, barr a that sends your girls to ‘Will send my boy's sou! below. Don't tell him {t-does not matter, “He's only a boy,"* you say; Why, sir, the fate of our nation _ Now Comes Bus Transportation Now tion in the baking business allows 280 loaves|Highway Bus Line, which will run of bread to a barrel of flour. The margin be-; busses from Ft, Collins, Colorado, to Wyoming, Park Highway. is being launched by Addison A. | Spaugh of. Manville. Mr. §| h Somewhere between the flour barrel and the}is well and favorably koown: iy breakfast fable in those cities prices have doub-| nearly all of the state of Wyoming ag an old stock man, and banker- At one ‘time Mr. string of seven banks through Cen- tral Wyoming, most of them on the Yellowstone Highway, y Mr. Spaugh organized the Wyom- wheat and wheat flour compared with that of|ing bus line company, which has ase” bread is true of practically every other food}atready ordered from the White Motor Co. big $10,501 will be delivered by the 15th of February and all of which are con- tracted for delivery by May 15th. The first two busses will be put into service immediately on delivery One to run between Casper Douglas and one to run Cheyenne and Fort Collins. vice not later than February 165th. Other busses will be put in service just as soon as they arrive, and will run'from Cheyenne to Cody, so that by May 1 to 15, one may start in Denver, taking the Denver live as far as Fort Collins, changing there for the Wyoming bus and continue on, making the entire Denyer to the’ Yellowstone National Park, passing through all of the present tariff |towns along tho line of the Park-to- scedules, but during the last six months the tar-|Park highway, and through the dif- ferent oil fields.in day. light. stops, will be arranged at different hote’s so that passengers have thelr bath, and and see the country as they go along, just as well as though they were traveling by private. touring Yet they will make much faster time. than. most tourists do with private cars, have none of the vexations due to blowouts, punctures etc. Two have offered to underwrite 80 per car. Don’t Send My Boy, Where Your ‘Girl Can’t Go feet, bless them “He's. only They all, sow?" must their anger, can’t go, her name Would crimson his shame; a crown {ts given heaven. BY FRED PATEE comes the Park-to-Park via the Park-to- The proposition pany. conclusion, and that many the state of Wyoming. or having them, of Casper, busses, ten of ‘the two of which short time. advantages. and between portation, Bus travel houses. The Wind River canyon will magnet that will dra stance from tablished there. Night circle from Shoshoni rest, meals, ing the entire season. to succeed. and they will different trust companies “The only kind of compulsion which nations |°@"t_of the stock of.the corporation | purse.—Dallas News. can freely engage in apply to each other in the name of peace is that which arises from confer- ence, from moral judgment, from full publicity, and from the power of public opinion.” Sounds fine, does it not? The demand for’ “full publicity has been heard before. The echo} seems familiar. Could it have been among the) famous “fourteen points,” enunciated by that world famous exponent of the league of nations —Woodrow Wilson? It all comes back to us now out of the hazy past, “Open covenants, openly arrived at.” We now recall just how wide open everything was during the framing of the Versailles treaty in- cluding the league covenant. fs Mr. Bok ayd Mr. Wilson are of a kind. Pub-|{"fj licity, except of a personal and favorable char- acter are abhorrent to them. | When a United States Senator asked Mr. Bok how mach money he placed into the trust fund) created to defray the expenses of the peace prize competition his answer was “I prefer not to discuss’ that.” So Mr. Bok, who is a league of nations dis- ciple of Mr. Wilson, no more desires full pub- licity than does his mentor. Their “open cove- nants” and their “full publicity” is the veriest} bunk. - iy . Facts Should Guide The interstate commerce commission -in 1920 placed a tentative valuation upon the railroads’ of the United States of $18,900,000,000. Two! years later, because of additions and better- ments, the valuation was increased to $20,135,- 000,000, This valuation exceeded the net capitaliza- tion of the railroads, and it was attacked. The “national conference on railroad valua-| tion” was organized and discovered ‘that after an expenditure by the government and $65,000,- 000 by the railroads and ten years’ work, the! interstate commerce commission’s valuation. did ; not coincide with the views of the “conference on railroad valuation.” * | It also found that from 1918 to 1920 the net fverage operating income of the railroads was only 3.92 per cent on the interstate commerce commission valuation. The railroads of the country represeut an actual investment of at least $20,000,000,000. | They are owned by 40,000,000 stockholders and bondholders, bank and savings fund depositors and insurance policy holders. The; spend $5,000, uN each year in wages and employ 4,800,000} hands. | Obviously, the matter of the railroads of the’ country is of sufficient importance to be care- fully and conservatively as well as® truthfully considered. It is unfair and unwise to approach the railroad problem with prejudice and bias. The facts should guide; but a great many peo- ple are not familiar with the facts. And ‘ay your proud head low soul _— The Effective Reducer ‘There is nothing that beats heavy automobile for lightening a jf Depends on the boys of today. If others had told our great leads: “You're ony. a boy—it’s no sin’ ‘What had become of our country, For right :aust triumph and win? 2°S- When he shail have grovin to man- h And she to womanhood sweet, Were he to iny heart and hand All vile and sin-steined, at her dum" on the Bok League plan are Would you give her to him, And say, a3 you watched them go: maintained throughout the “refer- a boy, what. matters, wild oats to attract the full strength of p | League sentiment while it holds lit |t’e interest for the opposition. Most Ab, no, you would spurn him in lkely few of those opposed to the Unfit for rour girl, you say, And only his God would pity My boy, you bad led astray. Don’t send my boy where your girl leading label of the proposal, will j be set down as a vote against “the For the sin that would tarnish best Yotes to give the appearance of | jeast equal quality.—Albany Journal. | Seneration has not seen.—New with bona fide test of pub'ic sentiment, poet eae Sh Se Haven Journal. and not enough to be dangerou@to a The final result of Showing Mr. Pinchot Impossible And the path that leads her where the League. |the referendum, ‘Will lead my boy to the gates of and furnish the cash to do business with, and there is every reason to predict a bright future for the com- That it will pay big divi- dends from the start is a foregone Wyom- ing people wi'l take advantage of a stock offering if there is any for sale is also a safe bet, for we all know that it will be one of Spaugh had algreatest assets that could come to Thousands upon thousands of people want to see this country who do not have don't able to drive such long and tiring trips as those which are necessary where one wants to get over a great expanse of country in a reasonably But the bus line wil offer all the advantages of a private touring car with none of the dis The country will benefit not only through the influx of tourists but through our own necessity for trans: § costs only about one half of the regular rail- road fare, and gives one the ad- vantage of Seeing the towns as they pass through instead of only the rail- road depots and the backs of the boulevard © through be thousands of strangers and no doubt that can- von wil’ very soon be inhabited by hundreds: of summer visitors who will_either camp out or put up at the permanent.camps which will be In a few’ years around through the Park entering by the East gate and leaving by the, South gate or vice-versa, will be one con- tinual line of tents and camps dur- I say Hur- rah for the bus line, and let's do all we can to encourage it and help it be said that prohibition is a success,|™martyrdom on the League advocates, #8 claimed by Commissioner Hay- and one in favor of the prize proposal. jin view of the fact that a jfor American entry into the League \ VERY COMFORT, every luxury, every article i“, in the household which makes life so en- t MO A - A savings account will enable you to follow the course your natural taste and position in life dictates. joyable, is made possible by your best friend, It willbe your friend in both fair and stormy Start 2n account today at The Citizens National Bank Main Floor Consolidated Royalty Building weather, and will grow rapidly under the im-, petus of compound interest. SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1924 ee ee Eee Houston Post. Theoretically may do no harm, but the proposal to stop the referendum by barring it * ‘Theoretically, we suppose, it may| from the mails wou'd confer an easy — If Mexico offers a prize for the Why not let them enjoy the flatter- Thevreticali: yes.--Cincinnati|ing returns of a one-sided referen- eee dum which is so palpably a fore- gone conc’usion that nobody is de- ceived by the result.—Milwaukee Sentinel, ALS ta Interesting Fact One of the interesting facts which the department of agriculture has ascertained, through comparison of rural and city population is, that in regions having each a total of 30,- 000,000, there are 2,000,000 more hiidren under ten years of age in 3 the rural regions than in the cities. Another Famine From that fact the department makes the deduction that “the| Im order that the human ming nation’s child crop, no less than the | ™@y not be strained by dwellin food crop, comes mainly from | !0ns on the price of anthracite the, American farms.” ico group begs to remark that sup. ‘And it may be afded that while! Ply is running low and nature re the farms show excess of number } *U8es to make more. An ice faming of children, they show likewise at |! January is the only prod'cy this Enquirer, —— The Real Referendum First returns from the “referen- Rapidity of News This is an age of quick commun, cation, as shown by the amazi; rapid manner in which news of 4 gasoline pricé boost is transmittey from one law-abiding oll comp. to another.—Indianapolis News, —>___ coming up to a ratio of eight: to Probably the same ratio will -be endum.” The plan is framed so as any League, will take the trouble to par- Uicipate in the voting, particularly vote against the League, under the mis- racticable peace plan.” ‘Thi are just enough dissenting no doubt, will be advertised as a popular mandate} 4 few weeks ago Governor Pinchot was grumbling because President Coolidge was not active enough in enforcing the prohibitory aws, The Marine corps officer joaned the Pennsylvania munteipal- ty seems to have made a pretty od “start in the front yard of vernor Pinchot’s commonwealth. ‘Those who have studied the Bok peace plan have decided that jt cannot make matters any worse— Detroit News. —_— oo How Are You Betting? The race between the bonus ang through a back door. The one-sided character of the procedure, however, is so well ua- derstood that there is little danger of serious misrepresentation of pop- ular sentiment. Any false impres- sion that might be crea tempor- arily can be speedily rrected. If|_ omaha Bee. federal tax reduction involves more the Demoe: y in its national ot a ey than any race of recent platform feature a pro- ‘ years—Richmond Times-Disy League plank—and the Democrats Only a Pretender a ea are practic y committed to a more or less fervent indorsement of the League, there will be a chance for a genuine popular referendum at the next election. President Coolidge, it will be remembered, has definitely declared the League to be a “closed ineic nt.” The corrective test of the next election should be borne in mind by those members of Congress who de- mand an investigation of the Bok referendum, charging its promoters with insincere and, in fact, fraudu- lent_ method An Old Complaint Our Democrats who “view with alarm” are not viewing at all. They have their eyes shut and the mouths open.—Houston Post. ————— All Recovered What has become of all thos Is McAdoo a “favorite son” or a favorite son-in-law? Some questions may as well be answered before iny convention is called to order.— Brooklyn Eagle. Thrill of the Past The president of Vassar declares that smoking among college women ] old-fashioned people who used to is increasing. It amazes us when | rhapsodize over Dr. Coue ‘way bak we behold the smart girls of this|in the year 1923?—Springfad An __inyestigation tim d think of how we used to! Union. 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