Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1924, Page 6

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And this news ig very alarm- ing at times. As a sample, and a fair one, most people outside Casper and possibly Wyoming, have the understanding that the Teapot field flows at least fifty oe barrels daily. y have it much higher. 5 SS ee of fact the Teapot field, flows and pumps less than four thousand barrels daily from the sixty wells drilled by the Sinclair in- terests at a cost of six million dollars, exclusive e pipe line. ote te of Casper and Natrona county where this field is located have no fight, not} even a complaint, to make respecting the leas-| ing of the reserve or criticism of the manner of | development. They are pretty much of the opin-| jon that the lease is a valid one and made n} good faith for the best interests of the United} States, regardless of all the extraneous matters | that have been dragged into the investigation to becloud the situation. There are many who actually believe that the Sinclair interests got the short end of the deal. iis Well informed oil men, whose opinions are valued, believe that the present administration acted with greater wisdom in the matter of leasing the Teapot reserve, than the previous administration did in opening the south and east portions of the Salt Creek field to competi- tive bids with the result that the Teapot was largely drained by the drilling that ensued. In the event Teapot had been handled in the same manner as the south and east portions of Salt Creek were handled, there is no guestion that Casper today would be filled with bank- rupt operataors and doubtless the financial in- stitutions of the city, in which we now have great pride for their soundness, would have been sadly crippled. We never could see justification for the temp- est that has been stirred up. It is perfectly prop- er and necessary to discover and punish anyone within the government or on the outside of it, who haa been guilty of wrong doing. All of this could have been done decently and in order, without the hullabaloo that has seemed to be a large part of the investigation. One thing the senate has done for the coun- try’s greatest industry, it has brought it under unjust suspicion and crippled its further de velopment for a long time. The senate has given the country the best im- itation of being an ass, it has seen in a long time. Public and Private Virtue Fifty men or women in a community, going along quietly in their daily occupations, attract less public attention than one bad man or woman inyolved in some scandal exploited in the newspapers. Fifty public officials faithful to their trust, doing their duty honestly and well, attract less attention than one faithless office holder who goes wrong. Yet there are those who choose to judge the state, the church and society in general by the exceptions rather than the rules. Let one church member go wrong and there are those who be- lieve this to be evidence that religion is a sham. Let one official betray his trust and there are those who argue that the whole government is rotten. Let one citizen in a community disgrace himself and there are those who choose to re- gard this as a symptomatic of society in general and who are ready to begin spreading scandal against everybody. It ought to be recognized that the scandal- monger in politics who seeks to underming the! faith of the people in their government because | of some individual’s wrongdoing’is just as much of a menace to the public as the faithless offi- cial. Character is not a matter of partisanship or) of political point of view. It would be impossible to put into power any faction or party or indi- vidual who could institute a rascal-free govern- ment. Public business in that respect is not a whit different from private business and those who will look dbout themselves in their own communities will find plenty of evidence to prove that the percentage of crooks and grafters | is no greater in his state capital than in any other community. Nor is the readiness of an individual to assail others evidence of his own freedom from a dishonest taint. It is peculiar cl teri of the crook that he is censorious n disc the offenses of others. the gowernment gets more and more into business operations, the field for official wrong- doin for graft and blackmail, of course in+ Those who are loudest in their denun- | American people have not yet gone to the dogs, | planting. Lhe situation as a whole is somewhat gation of palitical graft are often those who Jso loudest in demand that the government great many things it is not now doing. Claiming that politics is rotten, their cure for the disease is’ more politics. i There has been a lowermg of public and pri-| vate morale during and since the war. But the nor are they even on their way to the kennets, Agricultural Prospects Preparation for the year’s crops is in progress in the extreme south and in the course of a few weeks farmers throughout the country will be better tan a year ago, and wherever farmers adopt their policies to the conditions which must be faced, the outlook is for still further improvement in 1924, It is especially important that the facts should be recognized in those areas where the} greatest difficulties have been encountered in recent months. War prices of wheat brought} about high prices for land and many new rates | were estublished with the result that nflat | were carelessly granted on the basis of inflated yalues which could not be maintained. As is al- ways the case in such situations, there is only one way out. That is liquidation, however unfor- tunate it may be for those affected by it. At the same time, temporary measures, such as are in process of being carried out, may be of value in affording a breathing space during which neces- sary readjustments may be made. The experience of the corn belt indicates clear- ly that what is needed is not governmental sup- port but intelligent and diversified agriculture, and relief measures should be directed toward those ends. During the last few months the corn belt has been passing through the closing stages of a period of liquidation as severe as that suf- fered from 1920 to 1922 by producers of cotton and since 1920 by wheat growers in the north- west and elsewhere. On July 15, 1919 hogs were quoted at Chicago at $22.10 per hundred. In Feb- ruary 1920 they were quoted at $14.80, in 1921 at $9.35 in 1922 at $9.85, in 1923 at $7.90 and in 1924 at $6.95. Thus, this product, in which form 40 per cent of all the corn of the country is marketed, has declined in price by 68 per cent from the peak and by 12 per cent from Febru- ary 1923. For months hogs have been selling below a profitable parity with corn. To those unfamiliar with the methods of production, it would seem to be a simple matter to sell the hogs and dis- pose of the corn as grain, but this is not prac- ticable, the only solution of the difficulties of the hog producer being a gradual reduction tn production. The price of cattle has been only moderately satisfactory to the feeder. However agriculture in the main part of the corn belt is more diversified than that in any other part in the United States and the soundness of its meth- ods has been demonstrated by the fact that this art of the country has been able to make its ad- justments without suffering business prostra- On the Toboggan The New York Tribune has been observing the partisanship of Senator Walsh, of Montana, in his manner of conducting his part in the oil straining party at Washington and its finest opportunity to impale him for keeps, came when the Wild Irish Rose of Last Chance Gulch wrote Mr. McAdoo assuring him of his freedom from the taint or the odor of oil. Here is the way the Tribune transfixes Mr. McAdoo from the testi- mony in the record and exposes Senator Walsh’s hyprocricy: ‘ “TI am committéd to the candidacy of William G. McAdoo, whose character is untouched by any revelation made before the senate committee investigating the naval oil leases,’ wrote Sen- ator Walsh to the McAdoo convention. Thereby the senator reached the bottom of the hill down which he has been sliding for several weeks. In no way could the abject partisanship of his pres- ent stand have been made clearer. “It is precisely the character of Mr. McAdoo that hag been attacked by the Doheny revela- tions. He is charged with no crime such as Mr. Fall is accused of. The latter stands suspected of selling his official influence and acts while secretary of the interior. Mr. Doheny pictured Mr. McAdoo as trafficking in influence after he had left office. The Doheny testimony could not be clearer. Q.—With reference to Mr. McAdoo, you said that his employment, so far as Mexican matters were concerned, ceased with the outgoing of the Democratic administration? A—No; I say that so far as his connection with our negotiations with the existing administration in regard to the Mexican matters—they ceased at that time. Q.—Oh! In other words, he was serving your company before the department or before the president so long as we had a Democratic ad- ministration? A.—Yes, Sir. “Mr. McAdoo’s defense was twofold. He ar- gued that this services were exclusively the leg- itimate servicess of an attorney. He also de- clared, with a show of indignation, that his sery- ices had nothing to do with the oil leases in Wy- oming or California. It was only Mexican oil that he ‘represented! The stupidity, the moral blind-spot which these defenses revealed grave- ly compromise the eligibility of Mr. McAdoo 'for any public office. “That Mr. McAdoo should now seek the presi- lency upon a platform of “honesty” and “turn he rascals out” is a piece of incredible impu- dence. That Senator Walsh should whitewash the oily figure of his condidate reveals the cheap partisanship behind the Senator's campaign. Oil is a nauseating substance.” Make It Real Support The leading Democratic newspapers of the country are supporting the Mellon plan for the reduction of taxation. Yet all those papers will just as earnestly support for re-election those Democrats in the house and senate who are op- posing the Mellon recommendation. If the “World” and the “Times” are sincere in their desire to have the Mellon plan adopted, why do they not announce that they will oppose the re- election of any Democrats who fail to support that plan? bs There is no more important issue before the country today than that of reduction of taxa- tion. While it is true that federal taxes are a far smaller burden upon the people than state and local and while it is also true that fed- eral taxes have been going down while state and local taxes have been going up, yet it is highly desirable that further reductions be made in federal taxes, for both small and large tax- payers. That is what the Mellon plan propo: and those Democratic editors who favor it ought to be willing to go the limit in its support, Dear Editov and Fellow Taxpayer: ‘We are going to vote on a half millioh dollar bond issue for a new court house on March 4. I always like to vote intelligently, and, in order that I may do so, I took a day off and investigated this proposition. According to a ‘speaker at’ the forum meeting, as the same was ‘reported in your paper, the pro- posed building will be 100x150 feet, four stories high and contain 60,000 square feet floor space. I am not an architect, nor thained in reading blueprints, therefore the size of a room as given in a plan does not mean very much to me unless I can find a room of the same size, can go in, shut the door and see how big it ts. Since 60,000 square feet floor space means to me and to the average taxpayer, but a set of figures, I proceeded to find some building to compare it with, and here are some of my conclusions. ‘There is an average of 30 elected officers, deputies and stenographers employed in the court house. Divide 60,000 square feet by 30 and you have an average of 2,000 square feet desk space for each person, and 2,000 squaro feet makes a room 45x45 feet or a room 20x100 feet in size. A 50x140 foot city lot con- tains 7,000 square feet, and the floor space of the proposed court house will be equal to more than 8% lots. It is conceded that no one can work to the best advantage when occupying crowded quarters. Just imagine the fabulous speed and magnificent efficiency to be de- veloped by your elected servants when the boss can sit in the center of a room as large as the America theater and have one stenographer ted in the lobby and one on each side of the stage. The America theater, including stage and lobby, contains 8,400 square feet. Each of the upper floors of the Midwest building, which is Casper’s largest office building, contains 8,050 square feet floor space includ- ing the hall. The proposed court house will be 50 per cent larger than this building and the assessor and treasurer wjth their six office deputies may have as much room as the whole Midwest Refinery company, which I understand, occu- pies the fifth and sixth floors with a combined capacity of 16,100 sqyare feet. I tried in vain to find a building in Casper big enough to house the county clerk and her force of twelve cerks. Earl Boyle’s garage is the largest, but remove all the parti- lions, shops, showroom and office, and you can not find desk room for eight clerks, allowing each/ the liberal space contemplated by our commissioners, as the building is only 110x140 feet and contains only 15,400 square feet floor space. By using the America theater and the Frantz shop in addition to Boyle’s garage, you would have a total ‘ea of 26,300 square feet, or 300 feet more than the required space. The Rialto theater including the Smoke House, fruit store and millinery shop would be 1,000 square feet too small for the clerk of court and her two deputies. It_is a well known fact that the most economical way to place office furniture is to place the desks be- hind each other in a row. If you allow an aisle ten feet wide on each Musical Possibilities of Casper BY HUGH E. PETERS Apropos of the Tribune's editor- ial of Thursday, the 21st inst., cap- tioned “World's Greatest Artists,” comes the fact that Casperites need not necessarily go to Denver or Bond Issue and New Court House side of the desk, you can certainly not be accused of being stingy with your space, because even the tallest stenographer would have plenty of elbow room with a ten foot aisle on each side. Yet, place 30 desks in & row up Center street and allow 2,000 square feet for each desk and the above mentioned elbow room, and you will have a row reaching from the court house to the front door of the city hall, or a distance of one block more than one half mile. The speaker at the forum meet- ing failed to state what system will be used to communicate with the various desks. I wontler if they intend to have a telephone at each desk with the necessary switch- board, or will they install an over- head trolley system like a dry goods store; pages such as they use in the legislature, or perhaps a young man on a motorcycle to make the rounds and carry documents from one clerk to another. It is certain that the stenographers can- not walk from one desk to another to receive their papers and have any time left to do any work. Approachtng this study from an- other angle, I called at the Midwest offices. I called there because their office managers are noted for their efficiency. Their auditing depart- ment is housed in a room 15x78 feet, a floor space of 1,170 square feet, and it contains 17 desks (several of which are large enough for two men), about a dozen typewriters, numerous small tables, adding and bookkeeping machines, filing equip- ment, etc., and houses 26 employes, each of whom gets along very nice ly with an average floor space of exactly 45 square feet. With the same efficiency in office management, the offices now occu- pied by the county treasurer, clerk, clerk of court, sheriff and assessor could house 63 employes and have 36 feet to spare. I have come to the conclusion that, at this time, Casper does not need a court house larger than the court house in Omaha; that with a little management on the part of the county commissioners, such as building a new vault, and getting suitable office furniture when need- ed, we will not need a new one for many years to come; that the monstrosity now planned by the commissioners would be entirely out of place on the Sandbar, flanked on three sides by warehouses, coal and lumber yards; that an industrial track at the back door may be a valuable asset to a factory, but never an ornament in the grounds surrounding a public building, and that Casper will never grow so big that we will need a spur track to facilitate loading convicts for ship- ment to Rawlins. My fellow taxpayer, when you go to the polls on March the 4th, you must carry your tax receipt with you in order to vote—that’s the law. When you go into the booth look at the aforesaid tax receipt and if you find the amount there writtten too low to suit ycu, vote “Yes,” and if it carries, the county tax will be boosted about $60,000 a year for the next 20 years, but if the amount of your taxes is large enough, or, perhaps too large to be comfortable, vote ‘‘No,”’ because the only way to reduce the taxes is to reduce. TAXPAYER. any other out of town community to hear good music. The latent musical talent is here. The only question is, is there, in Casper the desire for the refinements that ac- company the development of this that will give the opportunity. ure few real music lovers who can afford the out of town trips. No need of it. Casper can furnish the) Swedish immigrants and their off-} spring. Bethany society has a) chorus of six hundred voices and an orchestra of seventy pieces. ony was very young, a woman with a vision, Mrs. Carl Swenson, organ-| director. wagons or walked in wooden shoes, meeting place. In the summer time talent there? other community; only the will to do. Organization and training did there was no selection, society to bring to Casper, individ- ual singers and performers of note usic lovers their, Unfortunately there) Proof? All right. Lindsborg, Kansas, has a popula- tlon of about twenty-six’ hundred! Forty ars ago, when this col-) ized this society and was its first] Its members came in ox- through the muddy streets to the| under the maples. Any special | No more than in any A vision turned into a reality. the presume to say There was,| but the latent talent was there. It is in Casper. In the rendition of Handel's “The Messiah,” I have seen three thous-| and people held spell bound—and,| by the way, this village of twenty-| six hundred people has an audi- torlum that will seat three thous-| and persons. This society ren- dered “The Messiah” in Ameyican) Live Stock Pavilion in Kansas City| on November 19, 1922 before an audience of seventeen thousand | The “Hallelujah Chorus” lifted that vast audience from their seats, bod-| ies inclined forwardj faces {llumined) and eyes kindled with the enthus-/ {asm created by music, As Prof. Brase lowered his hands, he seated, not only the chorus of six] hundred, but an audience of seven- teen thousand. Real music. And remember that this organiza- tion has grown in a community of) less than three thousand people, recruited from the hotel dining} room, from the farm, from behind the grocery counter, from the print- ing office, from the bank. Do you get the idea? The people of Lindsborg and vi-| cinity furnish the material for this chorus and orchestra. In Kentucky, twenty miles from a railroad, where “The Death of Jesse James” is supposed to repre- sent the pinnacle of musical taste, here, in a little Cumberland Presby- work. I don’t velopment of those refinements that encourage the growth of spirituality and the finer qualities of humanity. wallow in a mud hole. | 4s sufficient evidence that Casper this wonderful’ ers, jeal training can unite your forces by it) than any other producing point in the world. All the more reason for the de- The hog ts content with those things that put on fat, and is satisfied to Not so with refined humanity. hat there is no demand in Casper ‘or anything but the mpdhole. Do you believe it? I don’t for a min- ute. The fact that one of the theaters here, where there is good music is crowded nightly, in fact the overflow has to be barred out, appreciates and enjoys good music. Again, it is said that the class of people who make ‘up the bulk of Casper’s population are not edu- cated to a realization of good music. The theater again contradicts that statement. The man who, some time ago, a gested my attendance at this theater is a mule skinner. His reason was expressed; “You may not find any better pictures, but yqu will hear some music. To give Casper what she should have requires money, organizing ability and sacrifice of time. Harry Wheeler, who driects the Arrarat band of 90 Pieces, in Kansas City, is a realtor, yet he takes time from his business to train and di- rect this musical organization, made up of business men and wage work- MUST SACRIFICE 1923 Maxwell touring; 8,000 miles. A Bargain Phone 313 = 231 E. First They give a free concert monthly, in the Convention Hall in Kansas City and the audience ts not made up exclusively of high brows. Is your interest in Casper some thing more than what yéu can get out of it in a material way? Is your whole - interest centered in feed and mud hole? I can conceive of the bootle, being so interested, but not the real man or woman, You who have the money: you who possess the ability to organize and direct; you who have the musi- 365 -—- 1=366 Your Gain? to give to Casper what she deserves, WU! you do it? ——__ Expert watch and jewelry repair- Casper Jewelry O-S Bid: Your Day Draws Nearer Read Thursday’s Tribune terian church, I listened to a cho- rus of twenty-seven voices that had been trained and was being directed by a young tobacco planter who had studied in Oberiin, Ohio. He found his material (raw) in the burley tobacco fields of his nat tive country. But it was: real music. In my wanderings I have found many communities where this la- tent talent has been unearthed and utilized. In villages peopled by Welsh coal miners; among Bohunk lumber jacks; in the Italian quar. ters of cities. It’s everywhere. It needs only the guiding hand to bring it out. © But this does not fully cover the idea conveyed by the editor. His point Is that, under the conditions,! we cannot get the world’s best in music. True, We cannot bring the Chicago Grand Opera Company or any other like organization here, (and that is particularly a fact since we have no adequate housing, but we can get individual singers and performers. It has been-done re- cently. It takes decide wh best Coffee. only a few mornings making the Folger Coffee Test it takes , only a few mornings to you like best. Alternate Folger’s every other © morning with the Coffee you are now using. In | a morning or two your | family will proclaim the s The Best Coffee Wins ’ Established. 1850 = Coprright 1924J. A. 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