Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1924, Page 8

a reat 7 38 nBoue BogeP Ee ae = . Bprene GO k pe? mie a BZA MH tu Os a ae a eet PAGE EIGHT : : e Che Caspet Dailp Cribune their sincerity raises a doubt as to his own Tn mereene. of the tax, burden, ta honesty of purpose. nal ce Ones, “Federal taxes Xesoclated Presa is exclusively entitied to the| Mr. Tumulty would have been unjustified, were five times thove of 1913; the cond 0 even in the midst of a cauii in using such snbecdhe t6-Mtute aetieiticme ‘Sean 158 use for publication of all news credited in this paper . t and also the local news pub!shed herein. an expression as “covetii the little, the in- per cent, while counties levied taxes = ¢|"tant gain, the brief security and easy-tongued of 141 per cent, and cities and other The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening an‘ NS ta athectibe “the “ee tien Tok tee i ig gee nage The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- | renown,’ to descril ie critics 0! ie Teague. ! ou ee aoe 1912." In. the per, Wyoming. Publ.cation offices: Tribune Building. | How much more out of place was such language ’school districts—the. total revenue | local taxation is $38.90 per capita. | ¢x0e8s ee te opposite postoffice. in an address in memory of Mr. Wilson on thejtaken annually from the people of aoe. Sd York Shy stoe ayers chs federal on eteety: ‘aust Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second/day after the former president’s death. Mr. Heopictig say ape - more yh a nf posing ctr ep Ts So thaw: Spe aie of! class matter, November 22, 1916. Tumulty and’ some other eminent Democrats | 000,000,000, can, tom dbateettne country’ conta oee capita bur. {the additional taxation there ts sald | Business Telephones —._-.-------—---—--15 and 16/were apparently unable to adjourn their politcs $350 for each family. At least that|den in New York would be $99.41,| to be no pee According to Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All even for the three days preceding the funeral.|\., the average collected in 192%,]This means close to §500-a family.| The Journal of Commerce. Department®__|No Republican made even a remote reference to} when total taxes amounted to £%,.| Not that the average family in New| “The simple truth is that we, al- By politics during that interval. 433,081,000, so the Bureau | York pays $500 in taxes directly— | ways an exirpuneant Boule. = a J. E. HANWAY and E. E. HANWAY nd prise ead the bye wk meet ngetiyperes: + on Taxes arejrecent vears got UES a a a - Sa “avi , Pat bile funds Advertising Representatives reatest. Artists tches from Washingt but they p'ay a far greater part than|enormous scale apparently in the has eo emitting arden e) viene! if World's G PeTRpies nollected te the Federal|is commonly understood. . In New ase y sia being re'atively umtouched lng ag iy : t : D ity two months’ rent for ‘war our resources are inex- = \dg., 55 New Mont-| It is to be regretted that with all the talent/government in the fiscal year be-} York city goes eee rag gg An baa Goniée of the Daily | there is in Casper and all the devotees of good|gining July 1, 1922, amounted to|taxes. Every tenant who goes to|haustible. The time has now come ‘Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Daly and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only -.. Six Months Daily and Sunday Three Months. Daily and Sunda; One Month, Daily and Sunday Per Co) eh By Mail Inside State oe One Year, Daily and Sunday --------------—-——$7-$0 One Year. Sunday Only ! Six Months. Daily and Sunday -—. Three ‘Months, Dally and Sunday Ove Month, Daily and Sun¢ay .-—-. 3 All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune wil not insure delivery after 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- rit, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you special’ messenger. Register complaints before 8 o'clock. _----$9,00 50 25 75 05 A Touch of Humor Honestly, if you were called upon to select a person to deliver an oration upon the subject of “Betrayal of Trust in High Government P laces, how many of you would select William Gibbs McAdoo? ast 3 Well it don’t matter. William Gibbs woul appoint himself anyway, and go ahead with his moral lecture without much consideration of how it would sound coming from him. William Gibbs who is on his way back to Hollywood from a trying ses*ion with the senate delvers into the dregs of the Teapot, and the whole subject of oleaginous corruption was fresh upon his mind and conscience, so he shot a wad at Kansas City. William Gibbs said: “There can be no govern- men with corruption in high places. This is a question of the life of the American nation. We must bring honestly back to government.” Quite right as a general proposition. But the trouble with William Gibbs is, that he is at- tempting to throw dust in the eyes of the public to blind them to his own and his party’s sins in the past by prating of official morality in the present. If anything could be more morally putrid and financially decayed thar the late administration in which William Gibbs was the main stem and held.all the jobs, then point it out. Also, while William Gibbs is moralizing and hypocriting around, about a two by four oil seandal and kidding himself that there are no grease spots on his own raiment, let us present him*with five of his own kind to every one of ours that were splashed by the Teapot upset. It is fine for William Gibbs-to go about the country pulling a long face and discussing mor- ality in high places. What’s he trying to do, add humor to a dull and draggy presidential campaign? Should Retire It is never pleasing to an official to resign under fire from opponents in politics; the general good of the Coolidge cabinet, Harry Daugherty should surrender the attorney gen- eralship and retire. It is altogether imprebabl that he is anything like the character of offi- cial the vigilantes of the senate paint him and we don’t believe tie peopis of the country think so either. But Harry Daugherty is now and always has been too much of the politician and too little of the statesman to fit in with a national group of executives. He arouses naturally, and the. char- acter of his department accentuates, a lively opposition, from powerful interests, aside from politics. If a cabinet officer desires to constant- ly remain in hot water, and loves to develop an- tagonisms and enjoys fighting and is a winner! in his contests, the attorney generalship affords an excellent opportunity presented ‘at no other time in recent years. Harry Daugherty has lost some of his zest for fighting and he is on the.run as often as he vanquishes his foes, which makes it bad. In addition to all this the country at right or wrong, has reached the conclusion that he is a very mediocre official. Well wishers of the Republican party are in accord with Demo- cratic enemies that e better situation would obtain on the Rotomac if Mr. Daugherty would return to Ohio and resume the practice of law, Politics and Eulogies Mr. Joseph P. Tumulty gained nothing for himself, for the memory of Woodrow Wilson, |make the holders o nor for the cause of the league of nations by in- jecting into his eulogy of the former president a bitter reference to opponents of the league. There has never been any .question, anywhere, that Mr. Wilson was sincere in his belief that the league furnished the best hope for world peace, and that the United States should join it. Neither is there any reason to question the sincerity of others who believed that the league, as constituted, would in reality be a breeder of future wars, that it established and would per- petuate injustices, and that the United States could not join it without sacrificing its right to be the judge of its own national rights, du- ties and responsibilities. Advocates of the league have the common ing of assuming to themselves all the high ideals to and rectitude of purpose while openely ascribing oth to their opponents the influence of political jeal- ousy. A survey of the names and records of the leaders in the opposition to membership in the league leaves no opportunity for reasonable|t® be in the market for 100 question. of the high motives of those leaders,| St around $10,00,000. Apparently there is no When well-known conservatives like Brandegee, | #ticipation of a change h Smoot, Harding and Skerman stood shoulder to| ditions that now prevail or in the administra- such liberals as Poindexter,| tion that has brought them about. shoulder with Borah, Cummins and Lenroot—all of them men of unblemished record through many years of ‘ 50; music that we are denied seeing and hearing the really meritdrious things that appear upon the stage. The excessive cost of bringing the worth |, The er capita amount of while attractions to Casper precludes even the hope of such things: But now and again our peo- ‘ple make long journeys to gratify their longing for better musiq They cannot be blamed. They should be congratulated upon their good for- tune. . The appearance of the Chicago Grand Opera company, in Denver in the near future, number- ing among its members many of the world’s greatest artists will be a great temptation to Casper music lovers to avail themselves of the opportunity to attend and enjoy the splendid feast, by so short a journey. The world is the gainer by hearing the>great singers and the great orchestras. The influence of music is all for the good of humanity. We never knew until he passed the real value of Caruso, and singers of his type. Many of us were thrilled by him in his lifetime, and what a blessing that American inventive genius made it possible to preserve his marvelous voice in phonograph records. The Chicago Grand Opera company program is a magnificent one and it is rather an event in this portion of the country to be visited by such an organization. Subsidising the States One thing that limits: the bureau of the bud- get in cutting federal expenditures is. the sub- sidies to states. In the three years ending June 30, next, the states will have been handed over $400,000,000 of federal cash for one purpose or another. Those distributions, are directed by various congressional enactments, which are be- yond the power:of the budget bureau to amend or repeal. President. Coolidge has registered his opposition to the state subsidy system, and de- clares that its extension will never win bis ap- proyal. Proper Punishment Twelve wealthy bootleggers of Cincinnati have arrived at the Atlantic penitentiary to begin | ree sentences ranging from one to two years, aving already paid fines of $500 to $10,000 each. Evidently there is a judge in Ohio who thinks liquor law violators should realize they are be- ing punished. ‘ The Virginia Way would be interesting to fail-| his The state of Virginia is discussing the best. method of imposing new and heavier taxes to provide additional revenue. And the Democratic congressmen from that state are quibbling over the method of reducing federal taxes. If these gentlemen are such experts on tax reduction, 4 why don’t they show how it can be done at home. Revised the List investigating the Bok award has developed the fact that only the better than twenty- ever found their way to the eyes of the jury of award, and that prac tically all of the seventy-seven dealt with the league of nations in one way or another. Those facts confirm the public suspicion of the meth- ods of the Bok organization. Checking the Foreign Flood The sentiment of congress for very drastic restriction ‘of immigration continues to grow. Even the recommendation of the house immigra- tion committee that ‘quotas be limited to two per cent of foreign populations of 1890, instead of three per cent of 1910 as in the present law, is deemed too generous a provision by a great many senators -and reprtsentatives. Chairman Johnson of the louse committee says that in sixty years the population of the United States would probably reach 200,000,000 without any immigration at: all.. The attitude of the aver. age citizen is, “Go as far as you like in. stop- ping the alien flood, compelling: those who are admitted to conform to rigid specifications.” They Should Pay Every issue of a Yarge commercial paper con- 8 advertisements of issues of bands Tor one “exempt from federal, state, municipal and. lo- cal taxes.” These bonds are beipg sold to rich people who thereby escape taxation, and the rad- icals in congress are obstructing all effort to f these securities pay their share of.the burdens of government. Adds Foo Great ‘a Burden Under Secretary of the Treasury Winston Says government actuary figures on total cost of bonus, allowing ‘for expected percentage of selettion between various options and probable cash borrowings, will be over $5,000,000,000, of which $1,000,000,000 comes in first four years. It would take an average of $211,000,000 a year to meet payments and sinking funds for first twenty years, With this increased burden of taxation, it know what portion of qwn bonus every ex-service man would have pay through increased income taxation or er taxes during the twenty-year period. The New York Central railway is reported new locomotives, to in the prosperous con- Life, is of the opinion, in view of all the hub-! public service—and all of them united in op-|bub and controversy over war and peace, that position to the effort to involve the United]it is not less wars and more peace, but bigger States in the league, the man who questions and better wars. $3,204,133,000, which was almost five times the amount collected in 1923. The per capita amount’ of the gov- The sources from which the fed- era! government's taxes came were: Customs duties, $562,189,000; income and profits taxes, $1.691,090,000; oth- er miscellaneous internal revenue taxes, $935,699,000; tax on circula- tion of national banks, $4,304,000, and federal reserve franchise taxes, $10,851,000, Taxes collected by other than the federal government totaled $4,228,- 943,000, or an average of $38.90 for each person. General property taxes were $3,329,380,000, or 78.7 per cent of the total. Special taxes, in- cluding inheritance, income, etc., contrilvuted $258,034,000; poll taxes, $29,190,000; licenses and permits, $408.597,000; and special — assess- ments, $203,747,000, The state government collected $867,468,000 in taxes, an increase of 183 per cent ovér 1912; the counties collected $742,331,000, an increase of 141 per cent; cities and other Incor- porated places collected $1,627,339. 000, an increase of about 80 per cent; townships co'lected — $151,318,000; school districts $738,433,000; and all «other civil dgvisions, $102,069,000, New Yorkd:s are worse off than court under the rent laws knows that taxation is listed by the land- lord as an expense to justify rent. Income and corporation taxes are charged to business costs as realty taxes are to rents, and four or five sets of overfiead charges intervene between the consumér ducer. and the pro- consent, if they can avoid it, to that reduction in expenditures which alone renders lower taxes possible. Lines And Angles I once Knew a So-called Poet whose Verses were 80 Mechanical that he Had to get them Patented Instead of Copyrightedy Uncle Hook Says. “Never write to a girl on a post- card, fer she'll think yo don’t care two cents.for ‘er.” A Different -Matter. Faith Healer—“Before I can help you, you must make up your mind The loss of about $1,500,000 by a Scotch company of distillers, which resulted in the suicide of one of the partners, is attributed In London dispatches to the fact that boot- leggers on this side of the Atlantic accepted the ‘exports but refused to hand over the money due in payment for them. This episode and other tragic features of the {ilicit trade in contraband beverages’ impels some British joutnals to consider the “example” of prohibition as it is displayed between the United States and Canada and the United States and Great Britain. The Lon- don Daily Chronicle recalls that England imposed restrictions on commerce in drink before America ‘did, when the war revealed the necessity for a more rigorous con- trol of this trade and it goes on to say: “It showed more clearly than it had ever been shown before that the drink business was an excep- tional business, and that a civilized state is bound to control it in the interest of national security. It re- stricted it at that time with severity because it was a danger to the bare existence of the sate. It has pro- hibited it in America betause it was @ threat to industrial efficiency. For centuries it has been recognized, as a potential Gause of lawlessness, dis. order, poverty and crime; and be- cause the state is directly concerned in checking these disabilities, it is bound to resort to legislation and control.” ‘ These are matters, thinks The Daily Chronicle, which the legisla- tor, who has a more limited task than the reformer, must bear in mind. Hoe will not wish, it believes, “so to remove one evil that he will | put in its place another.” He will not be willing to impose “legal re- strictions which can not be carried out,’ and it proceeds: “It is just here that the example of America is valuable to us. We think it 1s generally agreed that though the prohibition law is con- stantly evaded and mocked at, none the less it has vastly reduced the Rational consumption of alcohol. Butin' America there is a growing alarm at the contempt for law which the easy and often habitual Of cou Aheres - t —in the It’s full food value, plus its laxative l- ities, makes S) DED WHEAT the peer food in biscuit’ orm. Try it hot —with butter and half and Shredded neat A full meal intwo iscuits ~ The English View of Prohibition breach of .this particular law is engendering {ff American society. It is questionéd whether this weak- ening of the law-abiding which the prohibitionist aimed. Ukely to lead Enclish reformers in another direction. The drink trade must be controlled, and far more abuse.”* nse is not more harmful than the evi! at “The experience of. America is stringently; but it is more likely to to help yourself. First, you must banish all fear, even of the devil! himself.”* “ Patient—“But, my good man, it isn't a qestion of the devil at all; it is my wife.” Too Good. “I don't see why Glibly doesn’t make a good salesman. He's the smoothest talker I know.” “That's just it. He is so smooth that everyone suspects him.” A Certainty, Milllonaire—“How can you tell a genuine Old Master from an imitation?” | Another—“It is really very simple. If. they Cost over fifteen thousand dollars, they are bogus.” be effective if we strike, not at the moderate use of alcohol, but at its Make better percolator coffee the same percolator, will work: wonders HE reason many women find it difficult to make delicious, clear coffee in their perco- \stors is principally because most coffees are ground for the coffee-making utensils of ten years ago. Even a high-grade coffee can’t overcome this obstacle of - improper grinding. Solitaire PERCOLATOR GRIND necice lp the same high q moun- coffee that has nde the. Solitaire flavor famous for four- teen But it is specially ground for per- machines, and is ground to a uniform size that is just exactly ‘right for k percolators, It makes clear, golden coffee, full- bodigd and delicious. ; The grocers named below carry Solitaire PERCO- meee you use tors. aet-accen Codes for yourself what delic- ious coffee it will mcke in your percolstor, Corcolatot Etind COFFEE is on sale at these stores: Albin’ Bros. 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