Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1924, Page 18

Che Casper Sunday Cribune The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening anc The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- per, Wyoming. Publ.cation offices: Tribune Building, opposite postoffice. —————_—_—_——_—_—_————— Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22. 1916. ss Telephones ~...-----------------15 and 16 ranch Telephone Exchange Connecting Departments. _—_—_—— By E. HANWAY and E. E. HANWAY Advertising Prudden, King & Prudden, 286 Fifth Ave. New York City: a. gumery , San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily 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. ©) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Qutside State One Year, Daly and Sunday - One Year, Sunday Only --~ Six Mon Daily and Sunday Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday Per Co; — = By Mail Inside State One Year, Daily and Sunday One Year. Sunday O1 Six Months. Daily --$9,00 | -- 2.50} -- 4.50) 105 = $7.80 2.50 $3.90 Three Months, Daily and 8: 2.35 One Month, Daily and Suncay --.. == ts A)l subscriptions must be paid in Dally Tribune wi'l 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- fully for it, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you by special messenger. Register complaints before 8 o'clock. Inducing Capital to Strike “Tf we had a tax whereby on the first working} day the government took five per cent of your on the second day ten per cent, on the : twenty per cent, on the fourth day thirty per cent, on thes fifth day fifty per cent and on the sixth day sixty per cent, how many of you would continue to work on the last two days of the week? It is the same with capital. Surplus income will go into tax-exempt secur- ities. It will refuse to take the risk incidental to embarking in business.” This is from the president‘s Lincoln day address in New _York, and furnishes an excellent text from which to appeal to the good sense of the people. The right of labor to quit work, rather than continue under conditions it regards as unfair and unjust, is conceded in this free country. There is no law or executive or judical author- ity in America which can compel labor to re- main at work if it chooses to strike. Capital is as independent in this respect as labor. It cannot be compelled to work under con- ditions it regards as oppressive. It will “walk out” as a protest against conditions which it re- gards as unjust. . Whenever by legislation or judicial decision or executive order conditions are imposed upon capital in any country which are regarded as unjust, capital goes on a strike. History is re- plete with illustrations proving this fact. It will not only go on a strike but it will, for its own protection, leave the country. - During the French revolution capital left France rather than remain subject to conditions imposed upon it by the revolutionary leaders. A very large per cent of it never returned, re- maining abroad to enrich other countries and de- velop their industry and commerce. Some of it came to America and assisted materially in de- veloping this country. Two striking illustrations may be found today in the flight of capital from Russia and from Germany. The soviet government imposed condi- tions upon Russian capital which it regarded as unjust, with the result that it fled the coun- try. One of the underlying causes of the finan- cial breakdown of Germany is the flight of cap- ital to other countries, which is now being in- vestigated by international experts to see by what means it can be persuaded to return. The bolsheviki enlisted the support of the Rus sian masses in their campaign against capital. They promised to promote the welfare and pros-| perity of the people by compelling capital to work under*conditions which offered no profit. When capital rebelled against these conditions | the bolsheviki then took more radical steps in the form of confiscation of the property of the rich. Confiscation of wealth is a vice which feeds | right should be done by the states; for mtermin- able and obstructive red tape procedure; for the diminishing privacy and initiative of the citi- zen. : A strong central government is a phrase enat | sounds well, but the dangers of centralization are now too obvious to admit of any misappre- hension as to their character. “Let Uncle Sam do-it!” is on a par with “Let George do it!” We have been tricked into the habit of turning to the government for practi- cally everything. The government must help build our roads; it must tell us how to care for for the calendar while the publicity tion of rection. To this end we must have bureaus and more bureaus, taking more and more men and women out of the fields of constructive business and industry. These appeals for new bureaus, sinister in any guise, affect many zood ci Bureaucracy will not easily be checked or|the Department of minimized; it is the child of political demago-|the organization |production.” jehecking up our are held in higher estimation than the general} {'e™® ‘redited to from the table of All power to the president in his arduous ef- fort to scotch this serpent whose trail already winds through all the corridors of the nation’s public life and activities! totaled nearly meats are a farm imal oils, fats and ation: People’s Own Fight In his New York address the president told the people that the fight for sane tax reductions was their fight. “They alone can win it,” said he. “Unless they make their wishes known to the congress, without regard to party, this bill will not pass. I urge them to renewed efforts.” The decision of the houge Democrats to stand solidly behind the Garner substitute for the Mellon bill intensifies the need for emphatic and unrelent- ing effort by the people. If it had not been for the flood of letters received at the capitol favor- ing the Mellon plan, that bill would now be re- posing in the files of the Ways and Means com- mittee and a compromise measure succeeded in getting the Mellon bill out of committee and on the floor of the house with little substantial change. It will be passed in that form only the renewed and unremitting efforts of the tax- payers. Not until the revenue measure is out of joint conference and on its way to the White House should the taxpayers cease his drumfire of personal letters, telegrams, petitions and resolu- tions upon the bomb-proofs, strong points, dug- outs and funk hole of Capitol Hill. Neither oil $19, 000; vegetable oils $36,000,000; tures of, about cotton $807,000,000. of hops to boost and more of other ducts, so that ed for about 45 per |_ The computation | $65,000,000 worth manufactures, If congress, by as Mr. Mellon has Mexican Affairs Improved The Mexican revolution seems to be subsiding, thanks in large measure to the wise policy of peecent Coolidge in selling munitions to the Mexican government. There will probably be more outbreaks in the future, until the genera- gene Pion ria tion of professional revolutionists who seem to action. Journal. become too ok to fight. Had Mr. Coolidge been | credit enough ped with less courage in carrying them out, there might be a different story to tell of Mexico. The issue was squarely presented to the president when Obregon asked permission to buy arms. He had either to reject the request or grant it. We had recognized the Obregon government, and to have refused it aid would have been equiva- lent to expressing the wish to see it destroyed | ple.” a candidate. nomination. for the Obergon regime. The arms we supplied con- tributed to an earlier peace, not to a prolonga- tion of war. ne gives soviet Patriotic Ad Men One thousand American delegates to the As-|seeking a way to sociated. Advertising Clubs of the World conyen-| When she finds tion in London in July have engagedgaccom- modations on United States passenger ships. upon itself. Once the machinery of confiscation of property is set in motion, it does not stop with the rich. Those who have nothing seize con- trol of it and proceed to confiscate the property of all those who have anything. The attempted punishment of wealth in Russia has hurt the peasant more than the wealthy. The latter fled the country, taking with them whatever they could. The peasant was compelled to remain and see his cattle, his few implements and his grain seized by the soviet authorities. Attempts to “soak” the rich always result in this manner. In this country some states have attempted to “soak” insurance companies do- ing business within thir borders, with the re- sult that those companies haye refused to do business at all within those states and left the people without means of insurance. There is nothing more susceptible of conclu- sive proof than the fact that capital, like labor, will refuse to work under conditions which it re- gards as oppressive or confiscatory and there is no law or authority which can compel it to do so. There is nothing more susceptible of proof than the fact that when government attempts to shoulder unfair burdens on capital it goes on a strike and automatically shifts those burdens to the shoulders of the less wealthy. Again, there is nothing more susceptible of proof than the fact that whenever a tax is laid on capital which it regards as unjust, it immedi- ately passes that tax on to the mass of people in the form of higher interest, higher rents, higher freight rates, and higher costs in every particular. It is a process which economists for generations have attempted to prevent but without success, because the process is a natur- al one that cannot be suspended or stopped by -any human law or authority. A Growing Menace Bureaucracy is fast becoming the bane and menace of government, and if such overcentral- ization is not checke and reduced the day is coming when our situation will be even as that of Evrope today. It is encouraging to learn that President Cool- idge, realizing the imminence of this cancerous danger and the inevitability of its noxious and destructive influence, is preparing to resist any further federal aid for the states. Too long has this development of an insid- jous and baneful system been permitted to go unchecked. It is responsible for an army of government employes doing the work that of Sst: yarn They will sail on the Leviathan, (ieorge Wash- ington and Republic. About the same time some] during the police 900 members of the Ameri¢an Bar association will sail for a convention in the Cunard liner Berengaria, thus depriving | Times. eae tr Cain Outings tee rakae American ships of a passenger revenue of About * Retnaen cionssis, Pentre Clove: WEDNESDAY $250,000. open io eisrthetray land.—New York Times. In comfort, size; and speed the American ships'| Meadco. —Houston Post. are the equal of any afloat, and the Shipping Board is prepared to make rates as low as any offered by British companies. The comparative | —Boston Post. patriotism of American advertisers and lawyers is a matter for our citizens to ponder. The for- mer understand the value of publicity and they = vole ee Che Casper Sundap Cribune _ Total of Agricultural Exports Exports of ogricultural products nearer $1,825,000,000 than the $260,- 000,000 indicated by an export or ganization in a recent which has received wide distribution. It all depends on what the propa- gandist is trying to prove when he sits down to compile his figures, tatives rs the facts and disseminates them. 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chi- infants; it must supervise our habits and direct | ‘This export organization recently ¥ Globe Bidg.,| Our morals; it must yield to the ululations of | published a statement asserting that jass.. Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont-/ the reformers and create bureaus for the correc-|“‘the total farm production for 1923 everything that they say requires cor:' Was $13,235,602,000, with less than 2 per cent of these values exported.’ Nothing és said as to what items are |considered in the category of “farm It wi izens.|year from the official summary of in question 235 | guery arid hectic reform whose selfish interests |De¢? Very arbitrary in its selection Taking some of the largest items that exports of meats for the year $150,000,000, products totaled over $27,000,000; an- over $158,000,000; grains and prepar- $311,000,000; feeds, nearly $22,000,000; vegetables 000,000; frults and nuts $69,000,- $11,000,000; sugar and slrups, about tobacco and manufac- $179,000,000; were $6,000,000 of starches, $5,000,000 $1,800,000,000 and easily $25,000,000 Products classed under this category account- domestic exports for the year. in which jamount of domestic hides was used. and while the Department of Ag- ; Assorted Press Opinions capital to withdraw from places of refuge and accept the hazards of business in the hope of reasonable More and more we see the impera- tive need of calmness of judgment, fair play and avoidance of rash We have much to be thank- ful for at such a time in the position taken by our president.—Providence if congress just goes rap? ahead and reduces the taxes with- have formed the habit in the last ten years, have|out any more argument, there'll be for less accurate in reaching conclusions and equip: | Amsterdam Recorder. Colonel Bryan says he has picked le picked him in 1896, *}1900 and 1908 and just look what -| happened.—Los Angeles Times. “Coolidge the Tribune of the peo- Also the mirror of the Times, and another set up in its place. Mr. Coolidge | the Herald of progress, the hope of saw where justice pointed and did not hesitade|the World, and the great American. to give practical expression to our approval of |—®0ston Transcript. In other words, Secretary Hughes understand that it must wash its i hands if it wishes us to shake.— Indianapolis News. It is announced that she will pass the recipe along.— Los Angeles Times. 2 ‘The statesman who kept his head can be ‘trusted to keep it during the same city on] the oil strike in Washington.—Troy Bloc legislation blocks legislation. Among other spectacles the worid riculture lists wool products under agriculture, these are not included here, although they totaled $146,000,- 000. Our cotton textile exports to- taled $138,000,000, and American cot- ton was used in their fabrication, but they are not included here. The statement given out by the export organization goes on to say that “the farmers’ plight proves the imperative need of a well ba‘anced, permanent year-in and year-out for- eign trade policy for every line of in- dustry,” and that among “the fun- damental causes of the farmers’ present distress, and particularly that of the wheat farmer, are the reduced purchasing power of Eu- rope, together with the inability, owing to high labor costs and in some quarters superfor grain qual- ity, in comparison with other for- eign wheat production, to meet for- eign levels.” The organization in question is no particu’ar friend of the protective tariff policy which has kept the farmer from experiencing a plight more distressful than would other- wise have been the case during the past few years. The chief diffi- culty with which the wheat grow- ers have had to contend is the restoration of almost normal pro- duction ‘n Europe. Gratin crops mean the quickest food production following the devastations of war, and the Europeans started them as soon as conditions permitted. Nat- urally, they were not going to pur- chase from us what they could raise themselves. Considering the difficulties of Eu- rope incident to the s'ow recovery from the most exhausting war in all history, our food exports show up mighty well, for Europe takes the bulk of them. Meanwhile, domestic competition from Argentina, Aus- tealia, Canada, and other food pro- ducing countries, has been restrict, ed to a point which has_ greatly tempered the winds of Democratic adversity to the shorn farmer. year 1923 were statement Husband—“I won't man ascertains others.” got—only you.” ould seem, after ‘How now?” exports for the Commerce, that had att agriculture. exports we find and Dairy product. each other seriously. us imagined that it 800: - No more will we greases came to fodders and except that we are and fats, nearly in the hammock. and Then there his strong arms. these figures to agricultural pro- a time. properly they can never come cent of our total does not include of leather and a large A scientist, tomorrow's hash. tax reform such proposed, tempts Democratic party in search of a leader.—Omaha Bee. Uncle Hook As for Mr. Cooldige, the student of events can put his finger on him, a dead one.” scandals nor political smoke screens should be | reward, tax-exempt securities will A permitted to draw the public attention away |lose thelr attractiveness and the Guicneo eRe nobody's thumb:— |’ -7+ve. often from this vital tax-relief legislation. If the tax-|f@rmer will gain by the prosperity Seat aes eats that ayer fails to follow u is ct | which inevitably results in steady auty will sup with trouble aa reat the bitter ‘ba Nq [development of existing and new| ‘The McAdoo wake is\now taking| Is all that of diboppotntiient ‘at the bitter bread | enterprise.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. | place, with a limited amount of] Women have to ppointment. Aa grief among the mourners.—Hart-| Fight with. Well, ford Courant. None of the Cordell Hull now realizes what it is to go off half-cocked.—Omaha Bee. —_ The Extra Day 4 February is rich in notable days —ranging from Groundhog Day through Lincoln, Valentine and Washington days to Leap Year Day. There are some favored souls who have five pay days this February, which is certainly a fine and noble prospect. But the point remains that there is an extra day this year and the problem is how best to use it. It is evident that the odd day cannot be used to finish the Second street tunnel or to make the country completely dry, but it has its place on the calendar for service and suggestions are in order. What shall be done with this dividend from the bank of time? ‘Shall it be spent with fair women or in dis- passionate reflection? Shall it be awarded to business or pleasure?— Los Angeles Times. >__—_ Two Sturdy Oaks The president's official family cannot be foisted upon him by the senate. That body, even though it proudly boasts that it is the most august assembly on earth, must re main within the metes and bounds marked out for it by the Constitu- tion. By his bold and immediate assertidn of the power of the execu- are inclined to everybody.— the Democratic HENRY HULL STORY OF government to France is cancel her debts. it. here's hoping strike in Boston The Urge of Business It is announced that Mr, Sinclair has sailed for America. Possibly he feels that business calls him home. Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. tle worry is the No matter how poor ts a failure, but some are more fortunate in what they get than Wife—"You are quite right, dear; for instance, you got me while I Honesty, and Good Policy. “You can't tell me there is*no honesty in the world.” I left a box of cigars somewhere the other day. Somebody found it, smoked only one, and returned the Her Lament. Puppy love, they called it! they were right, after all. one said that we were too young— too innocent—too flighty. to take so real and so true that neither of and dances, oblivious of everything ‘o more will I tell him that my hair is terribly é more will he whisper his words of love in my ear as we sit up at night mussed, and then cuddle closer into Never again will we go through all of the motions of saying good night, for hours at Ah, those were happy days—and so darned sure whether I'm glad we're married, or not. Aeronutty. in a balloon Expected to see some stars soon. The old balloon crashed— The man lit—and—splashed! He saw eighty stars and a moon! Sauce for the goose is gravy for “Just ‘cause a feller sends flowers to a girl is no sign ho thinks she’s EDITHROBERTS MONTAGU LOVE NORMANTREVOR DIANA ALLEN WALTERBOOTH — DAGMAR GODOWSKY MAURICECOSTELLO EFFIE SHANNON MARYCARR FLORA FINCH JACK RAYMOND 12 STARS IN SELZNICK'S PRODUCTION OF —— WILLIAM MACHARGS TUESDAY RIALTO. Lines And Angles a convict is, Or how little is his gain, He can always go to prison And get a watch and chain. say marriage Maybe Every- But it seemed would end so go to parties together. No back. I'm not Says. are entitled to all they can get from their pat-* ronage of a struggling American industry. The latter deserve equal publicity for the aid they are delibérately extending to the bitterest com- petitors which American shipping has to meet. Amicable Relations The readiness with which the American public absorbed the $150,000,000 worth of Japanese bonds recently placed on the market not only indicates confidence in the character of the Jap- anese people, but also is a reflection of the im- proved relations with that country growing out of the Washington armaments conference. Had the Washington meeting not settled the long- standing controversies between the two govern- ments, and definitely removed the shadow of war, there would have been little desire to in- vest in Japanese securities, Overdue Obligation \ It is likely that another reminder may soon be sent to foreign debtor countries advising them that the United States stands ready to con- sider any funding offers they may wish to make. There is at present more than $7,000,000,008 of the foreign debt still outstanding, of which there has been no arrangement for repayment. The | treasury holds demand notes for the full amount, but no attention is being paid to them by the | signers, and there will be no receipts of interest or principal until detailed terms of repayment have been decided upon. My Topics of the Melto Quartet 1—Opening Ch eaenony and experience has increased our ad- miration for the Declaration of Independence— Calvin Coolidge. Z : PAR’ Manhatten Trio.Richardson, Alexander & Evans MUSICAL NUMBERS 2—Poppy Land . 8—Casper Town . 4—Finale ..... It pays to advertise CONTINUOUS SHOW—2:30, 4:45, 6:45, 9 O’CLOCK _DICK HYLAND'S REVUE “ODDS AND ENDS” The Season’s Best Review CAST PART ONE (Prologue) Stage Carpenter . -Dick Hyland Property Master . a8 . Bob Evans Booth Wellington Ham Shirley MacDonnell Stage Manager Sarl B. Bonner Primo Donna Soubret ... Prospective Choriesters . PART FIVE Incense Dance ....... Goldie Wayne PART SEVEN iT TWO PART FOUR Day Bonner and Hyland PART SIX te... Richardson, and Hyland revue that's different) Evans, Bonner Right end man Left end man Interlocutor . horus Entire Company nder and Chorus - Mr. Bonner and Chorus ntire Company First Run Pictures PART THREE ...Shirley MacDonnell and Company “AS A MAN LIVES” (Ten minutes of an up-to-the-minute minstrel Mr. Hyland GLADYS HULETTE in and Girls Ir. Evans r. Bonner select that hat I went out and two hundred ” ot ea “ ee ‘Ambition Modern young Stage, But the Audience Exged yy. of.” Flappers, or Whatever the New word for »Reason Enough. ‘Them is, 7 “Don't you wish you had your ‘Will. be life to live over again?” 2 Afrested for < “Well, I should say not. I have Carrying a, twenty year endowment policy Concealed. maturing this month.” ‘Weapons. Can You Beat It? Every time Hiram Johnson gots all set to run for president some. body moves the grandstand.— Dallas News, There's this in favor of a thor- oughbred dog: Its owner is more Mable to keep it shut up. Wifie—“I'm so glad, dear. You'll need it.” —————____ SEND IT TO THE PEARL WHITH LAUNDRY PHONE 1702 Hubby—“You women are so slow. During the time it took you to “WHEN A MAN’S A MAN,” HAROLD BELL WRIGHT’S ; STORY AT AMERICA JOHN BOWERS AND MARGUERITE DE LA MOTTE “When a Man’s a Man’ Harold Bell Wright’s great novel has been given a photoplay version which is so real, and true to the story that the author was amazed when he saw it on the screen. As one of Wright’s greatest books, it-is equally as fine a film. “When a Man’s a Man” starring John Bowers and Marguerite De la Motte, was produced on the original locale in Arizona. _ It is being shown at the America Theater today and Monday. On the same program is a screamingly funny comedy, “The Income Tax Collector” and Fox News containing more scenes of Teapot Dome, showing the Mammoth Camp and other scenes of interest in that much talked of oil field. There will be Community singing tonight at nine o’clock. Shows start at 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. TODAY ONLY WM. RUSSELL —in— “GOODBYE GIRLS” FIRST TIME SHOWN IN CASPER Iso Western “ROUGH GOING” —and— “BLOW ’EM UP” Comedy ONLY TODAY PuUBLIc utility institutions which are not out of step with the times constantly strive for the Jowest possible rates. Reasonable rates make for friends and a greater volume of business. A greater volume of business spells success. There may be a few stupid utility operators who do not sense this fact. They are out of step. The growth of our list of friends is in keeping with the growth of our business. —which means we are in per- fect step with the times. Natrona Power Company