Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 10

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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 manny Six Months, Daily and Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Dally and po ey be bscriptions must Daily ‘Tribune wil not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month in atrears. KICK. IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR Ore. If you don't find your Tribune after look’ = fully for it, call 16 or 16 and it will be delivered vd hr by. messenger. Register complaints before o’clock. ‘An Unparalleled Situation If the last congress could with any truth be called a “do nothing” congress what in heaven’s name can be said of the present congress? This congress came in session on the third of last December. It was though that it would fin- ish its labors by the first of the coming June and then adjourn until next Deeember. It has now been in session for more than three months, and as a result less than thirty bills, all of lo- cal character have been sent to the president for approval. "Ths matters of major mofhent when congress assembled were eleven appropriation bills, from one of theree deficiency bills, the tax reduction Dill, and if the president’s advice was to be disregarded, the bonus bill. Aside from the passage of a tax Dill by the house only, none of the appropriation bills have been enacted and nothing else of moment has occurred. The time of congress has been occupied by an oil jnvestigation that began nowhere and is get- ting nowhere. The majority and minority lead- erships have broken down completely and both houses have been running wild led by dema- gogues and blatherskites who could not under other circumstances command aattention at a pig fight. Both Republican and Democratic leaders, men in whom the nation has some confidence, have sat idly by and permitted the public busi- ness to be wholly disregarded, while the cruci- fixion of public men and the nation’s greatest industrial operators has gone merrily on in an alleged oil investigation. Party members of both the great parties have appealed to these leaders to place the old ship in an upright position and proceed with the journey but so far in vain. Democrats believe they are. making a magnif- icent output of campaign thunder, and Repub- Ticans assert they are giving their opponents an opportunity to talk themselves out, when they ‘will dump the whole mess back upon the heads of their traducers. Be it all as it may. The nation is thoroughly disgusted with the unparalleled situation at Washington. With the absolute incapacity to transact the public business exhibited by the congress. And by the attitude the members of both house and senate have assumed with ref- erence to the matters and ‘things they were sent to Washington to do, pees : Regulation: and Its Responsibility There can be little questiop'of the soundness of the policy expressed by ident Coolidge when he said in his message to congress that “unless congress adheres to the rule of making a rate that will yield a fair return, it must aban- don rate-making entirely.” The president’s statement applied to railroad rates, but it applies with equal force to any kind of price fixing or governmental regula- tion. If the government undertakes any kind of regulation of private transactions, its exercise of the power to limit on the one hand carries with it the responsibility of seeing that the in- tervention of the government does no injury. Even prior to the inauguration of the policy of regulation of rates the complaint was not so much against high rates as against discrim- inatory rates—rates which favored one indus- try or one community or one class of shippets. In general the railroads must, in their own in- terest, maintain rates that will encourage busi- ness, for, if rates are so high as to curtail busi- ness, such a result necessarily curtails the amount of traffic available to the roads. In every section of the country railroads have made special rates or spent money from their treasuries in a very proper effort to nid in the deevlopment of industries which would supply traffic for their lines. But, notwithstanding the general rule that rates are made reasonable be- cause of the road’s own interest, there were so many injustices that government regulation was adopted as a fixed policy, and no one advocates an abandonment of that policy now. There are those who wonld have the govern- ment adopt a new policy—that of practically guaranteeing a minimum price for wheat. Those who favor that policy can scarcely escape sup- porting also the proposition that when the gov- ernment undertakes to guarantee the wheat far- mer a minimum price it must render the same service for every other producer of food and must also undertake to see that the food prices are not too high. In other words, if the government assérts and exercises the power to protect the farmer from too low a price, it must also assume the respon sibility of seeing that in favorable years, he does not receive too high a price. Tho duty to “| plan of regulation without unfairness either the producer on the one hand is no greater than the duty to the consumer on the other. Ps The Esch-Cummins law recognized this prin- ciple, for it requires the interstate commerce commission to fix rates which, as nearly as prac- ticable, will afford the railroads a fair return on the actual value of the property used in the service, but, in order to prevent them from se- curing an unreasonably high return, the law pro- vides that one half of the returns above a certain per cent shall be turned over to the government to be placed in a fund for the aid of the weaker roads. It must be admitted that this scheme is not entirely free from criticism and yet it sup- plies what appears to be the most practical for or against the railroads. Without some such provision, there ‘would be a fatal defect in government regulation, for there is no denying the soundness of the principle enunciated by Mr. Coolidge, that “unless the government adheres to the rule of making a rate that will yield a fair return, it must abandon rate-making entirely.” Sig Transit Gloria The Lundendorff that was the brains and or- ganizing center of the far-flung German battal- ions of death just a few years ago is one fig- ure. The Lundendorff that faces a Bavarian court charged with a serious crime against his govern- ment—a euphemism for treason—is quite an- other. Grown plump and paunchy with inactivity, but still the “old grad” of Prussian militarism, ready always to lend himself to parades and ir- nocent pomps of a discredited cause, he faces his accusers and his judges confident of the whatewashing that is to be his. As a matter of fact, his part in the Hitler beer hall putsch makes him out little worse than sev- eral kinds of a donkey. He was a donkey for not realizing that the time was not ripe for a Ho- henzollern restoration. He wag a donkey for not finding out béfore hand what the Bavariar royalist, Rupprecht of Wittelsbach, thought of the affair. He was a donkey by reason of his association with donkeys. He might have gone far, at that. With von Kahr and von Lossow in the putsch, Freddie Hohenzollern might have been carried into Ber- lin amid the applause of the populace. But these two asked the Bavarian Prince of Pilsner about it and a word from the Wittelsbach wrecked the whole works. Still, the Wittelsbach have no overweening de- sire to punish a henchman of the Hohenzollerns. Afier all, princes must preserve certain amen- ities, or why be a prince? So for old times’ sake and in memory of the good old days and because he was @erhaps, more sinned against than sinning, Ludendorff will be gently but firmly whitewashed. Bureaucracy Gone Mad The treasury department has set the business world into wild confusion, by a recent order to corporations subject to income tax to return to the department by March 15 a list of all stock- holders, the amount of stock each one. holds and the amount of dividends received by each in 1923. The American Telephone and Telegraph com- pany has something like 300,000 stockholders, the United States Steel corporation has. more than 200,000, the Pennsylvania Railroad has nearly 500,000, if we are not mistaken and so they go, millions on millions of them altogether, Nobody but a treasury official would think of issuing such an order as that these returns should be made within two weeks. It will take an enormous amount of labor to get them out, and an unlimited number of clerks to sort them and handle them. If half the money wasted on such a business as that were turned into the post- office and allowed to expedite the mail and keep the service up to what we all know it ought to be and what everyone knows it is not now, by reason of lack of funds, something would be done for the country. As it is, this order seems to be nothing, but a promise of confusion with a pos- sibility of penalties. , Peanut Politics “The calling of Mr. Slemp as a witness in the oil investigation,” says the New York Trib-|in une” “was an act of extraordin: ti even for Senator Walsh. There ay ea of relevancy to the questions asked him. He was summoned purely because he was the secretary to the president and in aid of that persistent ef- fort which democratic senators have shown, to bring Mr. Coolidge’s name into the oil ques- tion no matter how unfairly or preposterously. “A politician who by lie or trick seeks to be- smirch the name of the president of the United States is something too small and empty for easy description. “Peanut politics” gives Mr, Walsh far too much. Perhaps Peanut-shell ap- proaches the truth.” —_____ Now that McAdoo has admitted another fee of a couple of hundred thousand dollara for se- curing a refund of two million dollars in the taxes of a steel corporation, is it not in order to-call another convention of his admirers to pass another vote of confidence in his ability to trade his political influence for money?” Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the govern- ment, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us haye faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we un- derstand it—Abraham Lincoln. After experimenting for a number of years, we have concluded that the way to make people the maddest, is to tell them the absolute trut] The Democrats have imposed rather an un- fair burden upon Hiram Johnson in the pre- convention campaign. They depend upon him to split the Republican party in twain so com- pletely that it cannot get together before the No. vember election. The Democrats of Flori Tefuse to send Wil- liam J. Bryan to the New York convention as a delegate from that state. They know that it is of no consequence of late what or who William is for when he goes, but what or who be for when he comes away is the thing that really ; counts, ‘ She had bobbed hair And blue eyes, and When I first met her She had bobbed hair * And blue eyes, and I I didn't intend to propose, but “She had bobbed hair And blue eyes, and I finally married her; not Because I loved her, but because | She had bobbed hair And blue eyes. They Were the telephone) “Bob, you come over to @ dance to- tr She (over can The Once Over By H. I. PHILLIPS The following is a m1 report of a severe grilling by Sena- tor Dumm and_ Representative Dummer (now conducting an oil in- quiry of their own) of members of the crew of the steamship upon which Mr. Harry. F. Sinclair re- turned from Europe. It is ing and will shock the Sonshes rates assuming the country is capable of further shocking: Examination of Table Steward. Q. Did you or did you not accept & gratuity from Mr. Sinclair? A. I'll tell the world I did Q. When? A. The ugual time. About five hours before the ship docked. Q Was there any conversation? A. hot. much. Q. W2ll, will you ‘please give us the exact language? nd A. Mr. Sinclair just sald, “Here this is for you,” and I just said, “Thankya, sir. I'm much obliged.” Q. Did you know he jwas an oil millionaire? \ A. No, sir. If I hadda known that I woulda expected twice as much. Q. Was the amount he gave you satisfactory at the time? A. Well, sir, no boat steward ever thinks no amount he gets from any passenger is entirely satisfac- tory, sir, t Q What was the consideration? A. The consideration? Q You heard me. A. Well, there was very little con- sideration on either side.. It was like all such cases; the passenger was looking for all he could get from me for the least consideration and I was looking for all I could set from him for the least con- sideration. Q. But what specific service did you render Mr. Sinclair in return for his mysterious sum of money? A. Well, you see I was the waiter, or steward as they call it on ship board, and I smiled at him at every meal and made a great fuss about napkins and plates and things and gave him the idea he was getting special attention. . : Q. Isn't it true that on or about the 18th day of February in latitude 42, longitude 33, you gave him two extra butter patties and an extra basket of buns? A. No butter, sir, I wouldn't say that, sir. Q. What was it then? A. Oleomargerine, sir, if my memory is correct. Q. And how ebout the extra buns? A There wasn'ta bun on the ship, sir. This was an American- owned vessel, sir. Q. You mean to stand there and tell me there was not one bun on this ship? A. Yes, sir. A gentlemann on B deck fell down the companionway the first day out but’ I feel it only fair to say he slipped, sir. Q. One more question. Did you or did you not on the fourth day out put your thumb, and forefinger Mr. Sinclair's consomme? Q. Why not? A. Mr. Sinclair didn’t have any consomme that day, sir. of. Deck Q. ‘Did you accept a gratuity from Mr. Sinclair? A. I'l say so. Q. In return for what? A. In return for serving him tea and toast every afternoon and treat+ ing him as if he was my equal. Q. TEA, DID YOU SAY? A. Yes, sir. Q. Was this tea served in a THA- POT? . A. Yes, sir. Q. Did Mr. Sinclair show any agitation when you brought on the teapot? A. I remember he looked at it and muttered “No dome, no dome.” Q. Ah! And what did he mean by that? A I thought tt was a refererce to me, sir, Q. Why should he use “No Zune, no dome,” in reference 'to you? A. I dunno. Lots of passengers do, sir. Q. What was Mr. Sinclair’s con- duct as a rule? A. He used to sit nice and quiet in the deck-chair and every little while exclaim over the wonderful view. Q. On what occasion did he refer to the wonderful view? A. Generally when we passed an oil tanker, sir, (To be continued, perhaps.) — ask to Horlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk Ask for t all Fount: 82> Avoid Imitations — Substitutes “Mandy, read what {t sex on dat “Well, it sez, ‘One teaspoonful fer adults’.”* : Mrs. Hogan—‘“An’ d'y. know my sister? Shure, alike t’ be relayted.” * Mrs. Murphy—"Shure I know yer Yez look so much like her that I would know yez was sisters even if I niver had seen aither of we look enoughtpiayed by they picked before they ripe,” Noot Bo Good. “Lookin’ over m; other amateur production.”’ dist of acquaint- ances, I’ve figgered out that most o’ th’ fellers who brag about bein’ self-made men-are just Ike any try, of its effect upon American po- Htical, economic, and gocial life, and a network of these war breeding combinations. Yet. we are told that the League of Nations points. the way to peace and that all Europe wants is America’s moral guidance. —National Republican. | C. T. 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