Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1924, Page 6

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President Coolidge will see to it. While the disclosures are in a sense discredit- able to the United States senate and to tlie Hard- ing administration, for Fall was a member of both, it will make no difference to the Coolidge | administration if it is finally determined that Fall and others are guilty of betrayal of public trust. é Fall’s connection with the senate and the late} Harding administration, does not involve either as a whole. Guilt is personal and dishonesty is a characteristic that has been noted in men of all parties; there will never be a political party in which all its members charged with of- | ficial responsibility may be depended on not to betray their trust. Every act committed by any | official in violation of the laws he has sworn to| uphold, every betrayal of trust by whomsoever committed, should be prosecuted with a view to the punishment of the guilty. It is unfortunate that the orgy of graft and waste during our own recent war period was so widespread that the very magnitude of the task of prosecuting all the guilty persons and con- cerns has prevented the infliction of. punishment befitting the crimes. It is interesting to note that sume of the states- men who regarded such scandals as our billion dollar aircraft fiasco with entire equanimity are now quivering with outraged virtue over the Teapot Dome transaction. That, however, is one of the advantages ot party government, the party of opposition can always he depended on to view with a sufficient amount of indignation the offenses of rascals in other parties. Ultimate good will come out of the exposures in the Fall case—to the better- ment of legislation and administration. | It is not when crimes against the people are} exposed and punished that there is cause for ap- prehension, but when they are hidden and pro- tected, as was done so generally during the per- ivd of the war when billions of dollars con- tributed by the people at a time when four mil- lion men were making the supreme sacrifice of military service, were wasted in a riot of extray- agance and worse without parallel in the his- tory of the world. None Escape | ‘When high taxes come home to Toost, as they most certainly do, it is on the ridgepole of your own humble cottage. It makes not a particle of difference whether the government sends you a specific tax bill or not. You pdy just the same. If you have not known it before it is high time you learned it. And further that you appreciated the inescapable truth of it. The burden which exaggerated costs of government impose falls on you and yours, no matter if you never file a return with the assessor, no matter if you never pay a penny directly to the treasurer of your city, county or other organized political division, including your federal internal revenue collector. Those who do pay direct taxes inyariably ligh- ten the burden on themselves as much as they possibly can. They pass the burden along. They raise prices. They increase rents. They ask more for professional services. They tend more and more to salt their own gains away in untax- able forms. There is hardly an item in your year’s list of expenditures that is not made larger by the fact that some one else has been asked to pay a higher tax to the government. The ultimate consumer is the man who, in the end, gets a slice of every taxpayer's load to carry. This isn’t altogether unfair, but it would ‘be | much better if the burden which you bear thus indirectly came home to you in ‘the appreciable form of a direct tax. It might make you a lit- tle less reckless about your vote. If you say pre- cisely what was the effect of your occasional fol- lies at the polls you might be a little more ex- acting as to the candida you favor. The gay assumption that, as you y no tax, it doesn’t make much difference to you what eights the tax-rate'goes to, really does cost you money. It is all yery well to agape to the siren song : prates of “soaking the £0 untaxed—but the nd there isn’t a way un in which that result s of the present} act that the gor u three anda half 2 that in the year 1 less than three-quarters of > war ended more than fiye m to recite the Z moré th years ago; and that it is high time that the cost of national government was brought down to the pre-\rar figure. Accepted at its face value, such’ a-half truth is calculated to arouse bitter re: sentment at what appears to be gross extra¥- agance on the part of the party in power. But what are the facts? Although the war is ended, it bas left a trail! of expenditures in its wake that cannot be avoid- ed and that must remain with us for decades to come. Director Lord of the Budget has stated that of the entire eost of the national govern- ment, fully two-thirds is beyond the reach of the budget bureau to modify or reduce. A glance at the estimated expenditures for the| present fiscal year shows that our unescapable |} war costs ulone are almost three times what the | entire cost of government was back in 1916, In! the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, it is esti- mated that the government will spend $451,000,- 000 for soldier relief under the Veterans’ bu- Teau, $9410,000,000 for interest on the public debt and $512,000,000 for reduction of the public debt. Those three items total more than $1,900,- 000,000, but they can not be reduced. The budget bureau must, therefore, lay that huge sum aside before beginning its task_of economy. > But added to those costs incident to the World War are other expenditures that are be- yond the power of the budget bureau to curtail. In 1924 the government will distribute $237,- 000,000°as pensions to the surviving veterans of all our wars, and to dependents of veterans. The rate of pension payment is fixed by law and can- not be amended by the budget bureau. The same may be said of $85,000,000 that will be distrib-| uted this year among the states as co-operative aid’ in the construction of rural post roads. There are many other items of less amount, ap- propriations for which are required by statute, for which the budget bureau must provide before it can attempt any retrenchment of federal ex- penditures. The after-war costs, pensions, good roads, and all the other cost items called for by laws now on the statute books, aggregate two-thirds of the | $3,565,000,000 necessary to run the federal goy- ernment during the present year. What is left is and has been the object of attack of the budget bureau in its effort to lowersthe total of expen- ditures. It is not yet down to the pre-war level at which the growth of the country and the higher cost of labor and materials would fully justify placing it were our standards‘ef conduct- ing the national business the sume as those pre- vailing in the pre-war years. . But those standards have had a radical re- vision. Under the budget law, and through its drastic application by Presidents Harding and Coolidge, business methods control the’ conduct of public affairs. They have not only wiped out the extravagant, practices of the war period, but they have cut deeper und are. rebuilding the business structure of the government according to the best examples of private enterprise. The result is an economy never dreamed of in the his- tory of the government and the saying to tlie taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars in the cost of federal administration. Binding the Americas With the completion of the line from Atocha to Villazon, in Bolivia, which is anticipated in 1925, nearly 6,700 miles of the 10,116 mile rail: road from New York to Buenos Aires ‘will have been completed, leaving 3,420 miles: to be con- structed. In scenic beauty, the opening up of rich territory, feats of engineering, diversity of environment along the line this will undoubtedly be the greatest railroad in the world. Acording to the Pan’American union the route originally mapped out by the Pan American Railway committee called for- the construction of a line from New York to the Mexican border, through the republics of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Co- lombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina to Buenos Aires, with extensions from the main line to those countries not in the direct path of the railway. « The northern section of the line, from New York to the frontier of Guatemala, hag been en- tirely completed, as will be the southern portion from Buenos Aires to Lake Titicaca, on the border between Bolivia and Peru, in 1925. The greatest gap in the Pan American system is in the region between Panama and Lake Titicaca, where approximately 2,820 miles yet remain to be built. This territo: is _yery mountainous, making it extremeiy. difficult to construct raitl- ways, and for this reason Senor Juan A. Briano, Argentine engineer, has suggested a change in the original plan according to which the rail- road would avcid the mountainous region along the Pacific coast of South America, and traverse the interior of South America, Passing farough western Brazil ahd entering Bolivia on the northeast, This Briano project has aroused con- siderable interest and it seems certain it would open up a richer territory, one more easily tray- ersed and portions of the earth’s surface on which the foot of white man has rarely, if-ever, trod. It has been well said that steamship lines are splendid developers of commerce, and that a ship is a nation’s best salesman; but that railroads bring us into more intimate contact with the peoples through whose territorfes. they pass. This has been well exemplified in our relations with Canada. There is a personal touch created through railroads’ that is lacking on shipboard. And, of course, the railroad is more’ popular, The completion of the New York-Buenos Aires railroad will mark a real strengthening of the ties binding the two continents of the western hemisphere, and it is a project which can be completed well within the decade with proper encouragement and co-operation. Another*interesting fact to be noted in con- nection with railroad development in the Latin Americas is the favor with which the American standard gauge is being received. For a time it was feared that the British gauge might mon- opolize the field in that section of the globe, but this fear appears to have been dissipated | in the last few rs. Railroad building in the Latin Americas counts many outstanding Americans engaged th such enterprise, notably William “Wheelwright, of Newburyport, M: . Col. George Earle Church, William Aspinwall, of New York, who built the trans-Isthmian road, the forerunner of the Panama Canal, Henry Meiggs, of San Francisco, who conquered the Andes, and many others. There is still large opportunitity for -Americans in developing Latin American roads and many young men are availing themselves of it, be : in» Judge Kimbrough Stone's i Judge Sebree probably refers to y | Christ's raiment, which was divided » fatter He was crucified. In the case ‘of Joseph, after he was thrown in Bi the lHon's » however, his coat was sold” le.—Senator James A. Reed, in answer to Judge Sebree's statement as above. The senator has been misinform- ed. Joseph was not thrown into the Non's den. It was Daniel who was thrown into the den of Nons—Judge Sebree's rejoinder to Senator Reed's statement «s above. Honors appear. to be even in the able legal discussion concerning the sale of Joseph's coat, which was not sold at all. It was Joseph who was sold into Egypt. But. the coat of }many colors was saved and carried back to Joseph's’ father.—Kansas City Times. HEATING| ‘will be omitted,*"we are told, and’ “the new edition will be about two- thirds the size of the authorized Scriptures.” ta ¥ We suppose Joseph's coat of- many colors will be left in. How about Jael’s killing of Sisera?. How about the death spectacle of Absalom? How. about Samson slaying his thousards duce the tax burdens of -everybody and-at the same time help business. Write your senator or congress- man right now! Don’t put it off until some other day! de, ‘eating Little David with & | At great Goliath be.did fling, Hit great Goliath on the head reduce Grime, but it. can be said that the law as {t has of] administered has not. | at would be elided by movie-censors ih our age. Are they to be elided by| years have peen as’ follows: the Cambridge scholars? If not,| Year Total Adults Children why not? 1915 ..4,574 4,152 422 When the Baldheads get up a “Bible” for the small boy Toust please the small boy-or thelr toll is 3,643 539)" unavailing. Weare quite sure that 3.880 562 the small boy dotes on David, sighs 2,752 371 for Samson and admires Absalom 3,239 381 hanging by his long hair to a tree. 3,533 40e The “Good Fashioned Bible" |'1923 -.4,989 4,559 430 If there is little encouragement to be found in these figures, ‘there ‘| ts less in the court record of intoxi- cation cases, which are as follows: may be good enough for‘ him after all—Brooklyn Eagle. i eel Lest You Forget Year Number Year Number porerqr at 1918... 1921 847 Right now, while you are thinking| 1919 1922 1,169 about it, take’ your pen and write 1920 .. 602 +4923 1.664 to your congressman that you ‘ex- pect him to uphold Secretary Me)- Jon's ‘tax reduction ‘plan. Don’t tell him you expect him to uphold’ some- body else’s plan, but be sure to specify the Mellon plan. * " This last is important bécause the Popularity of this plan “hag been so evident that politicians who would get sbmething goood for themselves from posing as eminent among those who favor reductions in the tax burden have “hastily botched to- The reduction in number in 1920 and in 1921, so sharp as'to give en- couragement, has been. entirely re- covered, as boowtegging has become more common and as making hootch in the home has become commoner still. ~ The number arraigned for driving Automobiles while ‘intoxicated fs a more disturbing record still. There were 36 in 1920, the same number In 1921, 53 in 1922 and last year 72. —Syracuse Post-Standard. It Happened in Wyoming Matters and Things, of ‘State-Wide Interest, Wired In, | (favorableness of this season's yield. Mr. Churchill sold three carloads of the fine cabbage heads this week and the same were shipped out from the Powell station to. add to the general volume of this winter's ship. ments from the Shoshone project. Against Bonus ROCK SPRINGS—State- _Com- mander Marshall S, Reynolds of the Wyoming American Legion, was 4 guest of honor at the special -meet- ing of Archio Hay Post, American COMFORT without extravagance Here is-all the com- fort and health of ra- diator heat without ex- travagance or bothert Every radiator is a complete heating unit. Gas is the fuel. You'll be surprised e@t the low cost of this convenient, quick method of heating. Thousands in use in homes, schools, apart- ment houses, churches and store buildings. Let us give you the figures. Enterprise Construction Co. C. T. Pluckhahn, Rep. 1841 Sonth Davia Street » Casper, Wya. Phone 1287-W Legion. A The meeting convened, in the City Hall at 8 p. m. when Commander Reynoids gave an address, covering many phases of Legion dctivities. He was’ well received, and his ad- dress made a deep impression’ upon his auditors. - Commander Reynolds 1s making a trip over the state visiting many posts, particularly with, the view of ascertaining the yiyws of the state membership on the bouus question, and will be guided by the result. Mr. Reynolds did not state his personal views to the post, but when the vote was taken it showed the local ‘pos: two to one against the bonus, tut @ unanimous vote was registered for the retention of ‘the State sol- ier tax exeniption. “ nt —————— Forest Officers. Meet CODY—Representatives from nine national forests of Wyoming, Cole- rado and South Dakota will ‘méet In |, convention fn Cody the nd week in March ard discuss problems rel- ative to administration ‘of the ina- tional forests."" Col. A. °S: Peck with his. assistants are expected to be present. . The conferences will last four daya during which time the Cody Club will furnish entertain: ment features and provide a ‘bah: quet. Four general meetings will be held, one at Lander, and’ one at Cody for Wyoming, and two in Colorado, at Salida-and Leadville. Shoshene forest will be represented at Lander by Janjes and F. EB. Me- Grew, will attend the Leadville con- ferenée. : i Getting the:Goats - WHEATLAND—A leading Platte County. industry received’ a jolt fn the spare ribs last week: when thd State board of equalization raised valuation on goata for taxing pur: poses fronr $5 to $8.50. © Goat herds are numerous in the Vicinity of the several foreign min- ing communities of the state, and]? complaints had been received by, the state board’ to the effect that’ these ‘said goat ranchmen were not being. taxed at the eame proportion as) the;cattlemen were while they ‘were quite.often the cause of heavy expense to the counties in the way of court expenses. Several goat herds are maintained at Hartville and Sunrise, and have figured prominently in the. court records. A Cabbage Crop POWELL—From a field of four acres {nm size, Fred Churchill, one of thé progressive farmers of the Powell’ Mat, haryested three carloads of cabbages in spite of the esvere hall storm of’ last ‘summer wHich seemed to. have very nearly de- stroyed the crop. From a lke acreage the ‘season ‘before Mr. Churchill harvested five carloads, the ‘difference in yield showing the effects of the hail damage. But despite the ‘comparative. un- 20 % PRICE RED ia a f 4 f z i 5 ny le F EB Ba i | : E ir ie £ EE F Hage ul He fea u Fy a z i fi | : ! iti i g i , f i H i i E | 4 : i You will see how much more effective a spoonful of Syrup SALT CREEK BUSSES 3 Busses a Day Each Way LEAVE CASPER—ARKEON BUILDING| Leave Salt Creek ‘ggage and Express me ers oy Called for and 9 a. m. Salt Creek Tra: 2:30 p.m. Company 8 a. m. 2p. m 3 pm. Delivered nsportation Tel. 144 Building Materials _ We are equipped with the stock to supply your wants in high grade lumber and build- ers’ supplies. Rig timbers a specialty. KEITH LUMBER CO. Phone 3 Just two things have made It possiul fe you this 20% reduction on Tuxedo: = pee fe Bye , _ 1. A reduction In the edst of Kentucky B tobacco and In package materiale, Se well, 2. The consolidation of three of our big pl: ake “ia iss es ray not be In'aits in bacco business but consolidation.) —_ salt aie alee You Aeaow that it_is the desire and Policy of The C ‘obacco Ce. to extend to its O: maximum of service. : sia J Reducing the price of a great favorit i our idea at delivering thibscsicee rane Damadels Tuxedo is always FRESH. ‘Every package is-- , eae INCORPORATED UCTION yoage 33