Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1924, Page 18

‘Te Te raw TA + PAGE SIX ; Che Casper Sunday Cribune | r ty une issued every evening anc Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, ice. ‘asper (Wyoming) postoffice as second 19168. Entered at class matter, November 22. Business Telephones ~-------------—------15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments, ee By “ J. B. HANWAY and E. E, HANWAY Advertising Representatives d < t Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg.. Chi- Prudden, King & Prudder ss Renae Be aron Bldg. New Mont- Cal. Copies of the Daily file ne New York, Chicago, Boston, 0 offices and vis! ss Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) SUBSCRIPTION RATES Three Mon’ One Month, Per Copy By Mail Inside State One Year, Dally and Sunday One’ Year, Sunday Only - All s scriptions must be pai ss Daily ‘Tribune wil not insure delivery a‘ter subscrip- tion, becomes one month In arrears. KICK. IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. If you don't find your Tribune after looking care- fully for it, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you by special messenger. Register complants before 8 o'clock. The Way It Looks As an evidence of their faith in the future of Casper, every public untility concern has pre- pared to serve an increase of twenty thousand in the population in addition to the thirty-two thousand at present being served. At the present rate of growth 1927 will see the census reach fifty thousand. Fourteen years ago Casper’s population was a bare three thousand. The past five years have witnessed the heaviest in- crease. : In view of the experience of keen business men who constantly keep their finger upon the alse of advantement; and whose every move of increase. in .their. facilities costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, errors of judgment do not occur. Therefore the preparedness of local pub- lic utilities means: exactly: what -the statement implies when their recarded judgement says fif- ty thousand by 1927. They have already batked it with their money. z Light, power, fuel and transportation are the utilities herein referred to, they are entirely guided by their experience in the past and by their judgment for the future from constant survey of conditions existing from month to month. Production and industry are the two most in- fluential elements directly governing local con- ditions. With a market condition ready to ab- sorb the output, with prices entirely satisfac- tory, with labor fully employed at satisfactory pay, with demand for greater production, in the principal industry of the Casper section there is no denying an optimistic feeling for the fu- ture. The faith of the public utilities sets an ex- ample that is being followed by others, in other lines of activity. It is a contagion that is spread- ing and arousing those who have been content to “lay by” for sixty or ninety days to see what will “turn up:” This “laying by” is an old and discarded the- ory in communities that have the go ahead spir- it. It is responsible for endless delays, and countless failures. The successes in this com- munity, seen upon every hand, were due not to taking fortune at the flood but to makmmg the flood by faith and energy and riding to success upon it. The confidence in the approaching spring sea- son by every person of activity and enterprise is showing greater strength every day. Weather will not curb ambition much longer. The almost universal prophesy is that it is to be Casper’s biggest year. Another record building year is one item; a more widespread campaign of oil discovery and development en- couraged by. assurance of larger market and higher prices, a program of public improvements by city, county and state to more adequately care for constantly increasing demands of a2 growing population. A tremendously strong re- flection of these principal activities will be felt in the wholesale and retail. mercantile lines, building materials and supplies of all kinds. Every sign indicates a busy 1924. A year of work, a year of profit, a year of accomplish: ment. Why Not American Institutions? A New York clothing store advertises Lon- don-made overcoats and’ prominently announces that they are “British through and through.” Probably they are, but what of it? There is nothing in the advertisement intimating the' overcoats are any better than those which are American through and through. The mere guar- antee that the goods are British is expected to bring customers, and experience has proved that it does. To many shoppers an imported article has a glamor not possessed by one of domestic manufacture, and they will choose the former even thongh the latter may be cheaper and of better quality. Such worship of things European is reflected in other ways—in the choice of British ships for foreign tou in preference to an American vessel of similar size, speed and material com- forts, in the acceptance of Paris styles in pref- erence to those originated in this country, in the debt cancellationists’ concern for foreign tax- payers rather, than for. their own. _ The greatest influence that has made the Brit- ish empire what it is today is the conviction among Englishmen that their country is the best in the world. They believe that British ships British products of every sort, and British pol. icies haye no superiors, and they look with scorn on foreign attempts to change or supplant them. Whether they are right or wrong is not the question. They believe they are right and their country is strong accordingly. Some of the fame spirit ought to be more in evidence in the United States Patriotism means more than waving a fl nd going to a Fourth of July pic- nic, it 7 ring preference to American in- stituti id American products when they | come into competition with others, i | political problems, a common, eyery: Ameri can could stafid up lefore a group of marks. lin mind the fact that men like Dawes, Young BT CPE Se Che Casper Sunday Cribune reviously been vetoed tion just before arations tangle, are undoubtedly tackling the biggest job in the world today. Every citizen of the United States, after reading the opening statement of General Dawes in Paris as chairman of this committee, should be_ thankful that in these days of complicated into operation, by the Democratic relinquishing office. The average duty rate had ranged from 6.2 to per. cent from 1918 to 1920; but in the fiscal year 1922, with the emer- ae law in portation: we realized $356,000,000 customs duties and average rate had gone up to 13.67 That year imports of farm prod- ucts, which had been free listed by the Demo- crats, were cut 50 per cent by the lican makeshift which became inoperative when the general law went into effect—a law which gives. the highest protection on farm products that we have ever had. very reckless, and w! uncorrobo- rated, statements have been made by the Demo crats in recent months as to the effect of the no89 time they put out a cir- tariff cost the ® n diplomats and cut right to the root of the pres- ent trouble, as Dawes certainly did in his re- of tiplied in that manner unless some lars are doing the figuring. The present law is giving the foreigners a market r than they had under the Democratic law, and it is also pro- tecting American industry. Our imports are because our people are presperous and have more money with which to buy. The National Hullabaloo Chieago Tribune. Isn't it about time for one of our)safe in the keeping of Calvin Cool statesmen at Washington to get|idge. This being true, we think so out on a balcony and in the his | far as sensible Americans are con- toric words of Garfleld on the/|cerred .the histrionic charging up assassination of Lincoln, assure us| and down, and blowing of trumpets that “God reigns and the govern-| by Democratic St. Georges as if the ment at Washington still lives"? dome of the capitol were about to The disclosures in the Teapot | be whisked out of reach, is a spec- Dome affair are sordid and ominous- ['tacle for ridicule. ~ . ly ambiguous; no honest American Perhaps Mr. Harding was. be- misses that. Perhaps they prelude|trayéd by Mr. Fall. Perhaps Mr. one of the worst scandals in our | Denby failed him. Perhaps the pub- political history. That as yet re- mains to be seen. But the strident demands for instant action and the ludicrous scramble to. get into the limelight as champions of ‘honesty and public spirit are so plainly cheap politics thag we think they will deceive no intelligent man or woman. If they were not the prod- uct of partisan Pecksniffism or Pharisiasm, they might be called hysteria. In any case, we think they will give all level headed Americans a distinct sensation of weariness. There is not the slightest occasion to doubt that if the oll land leases were fraudulently or even im- Providently granted,” they can be and will be volded. There is not the slighest occasion for doubt that if any of the agents responsible for the transaction committed an of- fense against thé law or even against the nation's interest, they will be prosecuted in the one case or politically discredited in the other. Mr. Fall, Mr. Denby, Mr. Doheny are all in the jurisdiction of the courts and of the senate. Mr. Sinclair fs out of the country, but can be brought back if-an offender. The statute of Hmitations is not abceut to expire against any criminal prosecution which it may be deter- mined to: bring against any one in connection with the leases. Then why the fulminations and the pom- pous thunders of the Democratic party captains? - Of course, all that needs no ex- planation. It has nothing ‘what- ever to do with the public interest. But there ts a wild and joyful hope that opinion ‘may be stampeded for the benefit of the Democratic presi- dential campaign. No doubt there Js. political..profit | ~ in the oil lease affair unless appear- ances are unexpectedly deceiving. But neither is there the slightest doubt—even in) the minds of the Democratic leaders—that the inter- ests of the‘ country are ‘entirely General Dawes’ opening statement should be read in every school house in the United States, so that the younger generation tould hear a bit of real, hard-boiled American reasoning that would be comparable to statements issued by our great national leaders who have made Amer- ican history since the Revolution. ® It is well for the American people to keep Eggsactly. There was once a hen who thought big .thouhts, And ambition completely filled her, She laid three eggs in a single da. But the over-eggsertion killed he AMERICA TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY The World is Full of Wanters Everybody wants something. The poor girl—riches; the rich girl—happiness! - John M. Stahl pictures them here. Pictures their lives, their longings; pictures fulfillment and then unthoughtof realization. It hits pretty close as Louis B. Mayer presents it from the story by Leila Burton Wells; adapted by J. G. Hawks and Paul Bern; directed by John M. Stah!, who made “‘The Dangerous Age” a marvelous picture. lic domain was looted of a rich treasure by citizens who put their Pocketbooks above private con- science or patriotism. Perhaps thé oll lands should be recovered. Per- haps there was crime or breach of trust to be punished. If so, all this will appear and proper action will be taken. Every honest man with the president leading, will demand full disclosure and condign punish ment. What was evil will out. What was justifiable will be justified. But the Democratic rum- pus of histrionic indignation is noth- ing but party politics playing to the gallery. One of Barney’s Followers A local Barney Google fan has| How they're waiting round the sent us the following bit of verse stand: inspired by a close and constant] Hit it up on two tonsils, perusal of the Tribune's funny Make the race a winning hand! strip: ‘Which do you regard as t and Robinson are characters who can develop most important to human hap} only in a free country, unhampered by the rule of thumb laid down by too much artistocracy and official red tape. They are men who have come up from the ranks. They are men who have worked their own way. They are men to whom money, merely from the standpoint of repre senting wealth, means nothing. They are men who out of courtesy or deference to the royalty of Europe, might doff their hats, but so far as being awed or impressed by foreign diplomats or rulers with rows of decoration on their coats, all that means nothing to them. And as a Frenchman says of Dawes, “He is one whom you cannot do.” Is This Inspiration Asked to offer his suggestions as to what “qualifications” young people should strive for in order to fit themselves for responsible posi- tions in public and business life, one of our greatest national industrial leaders and stu- dents of human nature, drawing from his fund of knowledge gained through sixty years of study and contact with persons in every walk of life and in every country says: “Business geniuses, like men successful in statesmanship, are not taught. They are created. Every man of great achievements carries very far beyond anything which he ever learned ex- cept in the hard school of experience, added to heaven-given endowments. “The average teacher, preacher, writer of theses, college professors and thousands of men who are ready to tell twenty others what ‘were good to be done’ are as a rule pygmies in compar- ison with such men as Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Bonaparte, Mussolini or other men of great industrial achievements, like Rockefeller, Ford, etc. They were not taught, nor given any rule of procedure, nor did they follow a chart. With their heaven-given endowments they blaz- ed their own trial and immediately stepped into an arena unaided by any writer of formulas. “The stride of such men and their accomplish- ments are ond the reach and quite transcend the imagination of those whose function in life is to teach how such things should be done. , “The men who become great leaders and rise to the heights were not taught what they should do, or how they should do it, nor in most cases did they start with any, conception of their own future. They started to make the best of their endowments, and then a personal consci- ence, seizing opportunities and indefatigable work did the rest. No man ever did much work by any mechanical chart, or Sepenied. upon what he was taught either in.school or from the pul- pit. : ; “The successful young man, instead of giving heed. fo mechanical and formulated directions, is working out his own problems, and ‘he only succeeds by going further and accomplishing more than anybody who has ever preceded him in a like field of endeavor. The teacher or writ- er of theses is limited in his sphere by what he has learned of what has gone before. “ ‘Qualifications’ are endowments and they cannot be taught. Qualifications are the very foundation of every great life, and no teacher can create qualifications. “T think the experience of all men’ who have accomplished much is that whenever a ‘teacher’ or advisor intervenes with lessons as to how they should accomplish their task, or whether they should undertake their task at all, the re- sult has been a weakening, not a strength, and to the extent to which such counsels were heed- ed, inspired work was chilled and measurably paralyzed.” i. The department of agriculture reports a de- crease in the acreage sowed to winter wheat, and~an increase in the number of~ sheep on farms. This 1s one shift in farm operation that ought to prove beneficial to all concerned. The Race Come on Barney, let’s get going; Show the world Spark's not a bluff; Folks are betting—yes a’ gambling, Come on Spark Plug, do your “You can't hare everything? he told her. “Is it worth while @ giving up all G Come on Jockey—Little Sunshine; Come on Sparky, atta boy! Show those old time razor cheaters That our Barney's not a toy. Dodge those heebie jeebie toodles, Tell the Doctors they can wai There'll be weenles—O just oodies! Right there at the Golden Gate. for the foolish ¥ things that you want?” Step right on her, little Barney, We'll reward you in our will ‘Cause we've bet our last round Hear them singing! Yes they're sing- ing, Hoping—wishing time will fly, They are singing “Barney Googles, With his great big googly eyes!” —FLORA B. FLEMING Lines And Angles BY _TED OSBORNE j penny On that* humped-back whip-poor- will, And the weenles! O some weenite! John M Stab] Production , The man ‘Who does Business without Because the more you puff him, The smaller he grows. Needs a Cure, He—I told your father I just dote ‘on you. + She—What did he say? He—He said I'd better get an antfdote. * What he fs doing But nobody Else does. Love. Love is an epidemic disease that has taken a firm hold on the nation. and it is particularly prevalent dur- ing the spring months. The germs seem- to be more active on moon light nights than at any other time. > This disease has a peculiar action An actor is very-much like a‘ cigar, | on the heart, and it is a great deal As nearly everyone knows, like measles—it takes you when you The way some of my creditors act, you would think I was living above their means. “P’ve given you & evi ing you have ever want- % ed and look at yourself. now.” Have you ever been in court? Have you ever followed a great, sensational trial from beginning to end? Have you ever sat on the edge of your seat eagerly, breathlessly awaiting each new development, any one of which might mean life, love and happiness to someone? If you have, you know the irresistible grip of such a situation; and you will not miss this stupendous, lavish picturization of the great mystery story that took New York and London by storm! . ACQUITTAL featuring CLAIRE. WINDSOR NORMAN KERRY BARBARA BEDFORD - RICHARD TRAVERS And a hosteof film favorites from the Sensational Stage Play ~by RITA WEIMAN _. As Produced by COHAN AND HARRIS If you like a picture that is different, don’t miss this one! Not until the very end will you know how it turns out! It’s a sensational mystery romance filled with startling surprises and tense moments—-see the picture that will keep you guessing and leave you gasping! Revenues and the Tariff When your Uncle Samuel checked up his cash register ‘on the night of December 31, 1923, he found that his receipts from customs revenues had reached the unprecedented total of $582,- 764,105. That was on the importation of $3,791,- 938,000 worth of foreign goods, wares, and mer- | chandise, which means that the average rate of i duty on all imports for the year was a slight) fraction over fifteen per cent, not a prohibitive | rate by any means. It was considerably lower than the old Republican Jaw in 1909 and jn! operation until 1913, the’ average duty rate. throughout its lifetime being about twenty per) ent; and it was’ just a trifle higher than the Democratic law of 1913, the average of which for the first year of its existence was 14.88 per cent. And, it may be added, imports in 1923 in- creased just one hundred per cent over 1914 when the total was $1,894,000,000, another proof that the Republican law is in no sense prohib-) itive. The average duty rate throughout’ the life of the Dingley tariff law, which lasted for twelve years, was about. 26 per cent. The record year for imports during that-period was in 1907 with $1;434,000,000 worth of goods which yielded cus-/ toms duties in the sum of $29,480,000. Five years after the close of the Civil war the aver- age rate was up as high as 45 per cent or three times the average rate of today. ! The Democratic tariff law never lived up to the expectations of its sponsors as a r enue producer. Mr. Underwood, who was largely re- | sponsible for the measure; as chairman of the ways and means committee of the house, prom- (l great things for his bill in this respect, his idea being that under the low rates imports would crowd, in in’ such volume that the cus- toms duties 3p Peep anything recorded by Republican laws. But as imports increas: 1- ties, fell off, and in 1920, when we Sancheea e So Said the Great Emancipator --and so Says This Bank : It was this moral power, this strength to do that which he knew to be right that gave him immortality. You may not become immortal but you will gain a large measure of happiness and contentment, if your life is built upon this same.conviction. Right living means thrifty living, which is nothing more than careful expenditure and wise saving. This Bank will be glad to help you live rightly and thriftily. i : A Fuil Grown Job The American members, Charles G. Dawes, Owen D. Young and Henry M. Robinson of the committee appointed by the Allied reparations commission to investigate German finances. with a view to arriying at solution of the rep: 238,000,000 worth of goods and realized but $325,646,000 in customs duties, the Republicans. who had taken over control of the congress felt that something had to be done. The Ur ited States was being rooked both ways, competitiy was getting dangerous and the treasury mn losing out. 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