Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT. Che Casper Daily Cribune Tue Casper Daily Tribune issued every cvening ané Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas ite postoftice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second cinas matter, November 2) 1918- Business Telephones ~-—--------—----—-~7 15 and 16 Branch Telepbone Exchange Connecting All; Departments. By J. B. HANWAY and E. EB. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper re ‘also the local news published herein. Advertising Representatives : Prudéen, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger. Bite cago, Ill, 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Glo! es Bostun, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 65 yer ae gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of tl eied Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago. Mone and San Francisco offices and visitors are we Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. 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Not long ago at Genoa, this international cham- ber of commerce, which has no official stand- ing, adopted resolutions strongly protesting against “flag discriminations” in international trade, and, in fact, it is understood by some to ly equally to domestic trade. Santd ts rested against the United Btates, which for over 60 years, in pre-civil war times go successfully discriminated in favor of Ameri- can flag ships in international trade, congress having shown a strong and more or less deter- mined intention of readopting that early suc- cessful policy. Now, as the progress of events discloses the popularity, in the- United States, of laws that would discriminate in favor of American ves- sels and the goods they carry, the protests of the international chamber of commerce, par- ticipated in by American chambers of com- merce, are inyoked to prevent “flag discrimina- tions.” Existing trade treaties help ‘the oppo- nents of “flag discriminations” in their fight against the readoption of that policy in this country, a policy on all fours with our tariff policy of protecting American products against the competition of foreign products. These foreign protestants would make it ap- pear that the good faith of the United States was likely to be violated if “flag discrimina- tions,” against which an international chamber of commerce protested and in which protest ‘American chambers of commerce participated, should again become the policy of the United Btates. The state department of the United States, which takes precedence, naturally in all mat ters of an international character, is decidedly opposed to “flag discriminations” or any dis- crimnations that would favor American ships, and this attitude of the state department is adopted as the attitude of the executive branch | of our government, But protectionists have} this opportunity to see what would happen to our present protected American products if, by any cessation of vigilance on our part, any| law or treaty should place our home products at a disadvantage as compared with foreign} products, as, for three-fourths of a century American ships in our foreign trade have been placed at a disadvantage in competition with foreign ships. The Season Opens The fishing season has opened and with it comes the annual contest of plain and orna- mental liars, If the state, which is thoughful enough to require a license from the fisherman providing a limit to the catch, would have been equally thoughtful with respect to the liars, there would have been some means of checking up on the latter and holding them to the limit. As it is, it runs at loose ends. Credulous peo- ple are inposed upon, close friends are deceived and accuracy and truth have gone on a long ya- cation so far as piscatorial matters are con- cerned, Isaak Walton, patroa saint of the art of hook- ing ‘em was a fisherman of the striciest recti- tude and scorned the slightest misstatement with reference to the size of the fish or the number which he had lured from the stream, but it can- not be said that his present day disciples have the same high regard for old Isaak’s ideals. The season is ouly three days old and still we have evidence of perjury equal to the amount contained in the record of the Walsh and Wheel- er committees at Washington, which are mak. ing a special collection of such data. Cost of § Ve wonder if parents of children know what it costs the taxpayers of this land, themselves included, by permitting irregular school attend- ance? It cost the sum of $250,000,0000 last: year, Just one quarter of the entire cost of public edu in the nation In addition to School Absence robbing this 1 their children schooling. children enrolled schools of the country“last year, hools were open an average of about Approximately 700,000 teachers ere employed and that number was sufficient themselves of depr f two month tl 22,000,000 rvera re were tw instruct every child enrolled every day of tho| sense of fair play inherent in eight months the schools were in session, The total cost in all the states combined was about $1,000,000,000. By permitting their chil- dren to miss school one quarter of the time, par: {ents caused the waste of one quarter of the | money paid to maintain the schools. yoming. Publcation offices: Tribune ae 4 telligence prevails, our form of government can- | | industrial output, in 1920, more than $2 of in- ab If parents will not wake ips to the pe.| Asbestos And Its Manufacture | ance of such a situation and indolently pre- fer to pay the cost out of their own pockets and at the same time practice unfairness upon their own children, we we not know what can be done about it The benefits of a change of policy accrue di- rectly to the taxpaying parents so far as a mere matter of money is concerned, without even con- sidering the welfare of the children, whose edu- cation is worth more to them and to the coun- try than any moucy consideratign can pos- sibly be. Our National Faith Speaking tn Boston recently Speaker Gillett expressed confidence that “our government as a/ whole is sound and not tainted with corruption.” The American people have never believed the contrary. Their faith in the nation is as strong today as it has ever been in the past. Where in- not be distarbed. Our security rests largely upon understanding and that is the very reason our people should struggle to gain it. It is quite natural at. times, things come to the surface that are displeasing There are oc- casions when the people are over fed on alleged governmental scandal. It is on right now and we are all surfeited. But it is in Just such cases that American in- telligence comes to the rescue, You cannot fool an intelligent public. It discerns the motive back of the process being worked by the partisan con- gressional investigators. It is well understood that in the disclosures now being spread all over the newspaper pages have no honesty of purpose and that truth and fact are being sub- ordinated to hoped for political advantage. The people understand, and very properl3 too, that some men in high public places have done things that are improper and thereby for- feited confidence and respect, but that does not disturb their faith in their government, neither does it impress them with the belief that cor- ruption is widespread and our institutions are! on the way to the scrap heap. They are perfectly aware of the location of the fault. The great mass sometimes make mistakes, not often, however, and when they do they do not shift responsibility for them, Railroad Efficiency Among the many unjust charges brought against the railroads in recent years, particul- arly by self-seeking politicians, one of the most frequent accusations has been that the railroads were inefficient. It is true that the railroads are not a perfect machine by any means, but this, is also true of all other industries, On the other hand, the railroads’ efficiency is improving all the times and improving faster than the efficiency shown in many other indus- tries. A striking illustration of this is found in| the report just made public by the National Transportation Institute. This report shows that in the twenty years between 1900 and 1920 the railroads tripled their | transportation output, although the number of {| their employes and the amount of their capital merely doubled. Manufacturing, on the other hand, increased its capital five ,times, doubled | the number of its employes, but only a little | more than doubled its output. For each unit of} vested capital had to be supported as against $1) in 1900; whereas, with the raWroads, for every unit of traffic in 1920 only about 65 cents in- vested in capital had to be supported as against $1 in 1900, Each worker in agriculture used 3.7 times as much capital in 1920 and yet brought | forth only one and one-third times his product | | of 1900. | These figures show that it is the advance in efficiency by the railroads that is alone re- sponsible for their ability to pay existing wages. When you hear demagogic talk of the ineffi- | clency of the railroads remember these facts. Hearsay Evidence Supposing a witness before a justice of the peace in any rural district in this whole country would begin his testimony by saying, “The neighbors say the defendant is a crook.” Would he be stopped and promptly told that it was not what he had heard but what he knew, that the court and the parties at interest desired to hear? He surely would and each time that witness wandered from the realm of his own actual knowledge he would be again hauled up short. If a witness were to relate a rambling story recounting incidents unrelated.to the issues in hand and then drew inferences from such sources, even the Justice, who did not under stand more than the rudiments of law, would stop him on the ground that opinions or beliefs, whether biased or not, were not pertinent or per- missible when it came to proving anything against anybody in any court. It has, up to now seemed unthinkable that the highest lawmaking body in the land could, in proceedings of a judicial ‘character, fall below the absurd standards of even the primitive court presided over by a justice of the peace, who ia not untler the obligation of knowing anything about the rules of evidence or even the law, ex- cept as his legally untrained mind is able to} divine it without knowledge. And yet it is true that senators and repre sentatives who call themselves lawyers, and are prond to think that they are distinguished at the bar, have been guilty of so demeaning them- selves in order to gain gelfish or partisan ends, that they have made a mockery of the so-called tribunal they have set np to function in what they assert to be a great government emergency, | Rumor and gossip have ever been available to accuse, indict and try for misdemeanors and high crimes any man in’ any walk of life, but it has remained for the present congress—for the first time in our history, so far as we are in formed—to try to fix criminality upon people by innuendo, hearsay, rumor, wild charges and mere assertions coming from characters from the underworld called ostensibly in all serious ness as witnesses to condemn and impeach per rons holding responsible positions We may be wrong, but we believe that the the Americ: < ple will move them to refuse to consider PF Le vincing proof of damnable deeds by anybody the weird tales told by characters with police or redlight district records, | Asbestos And Its Manufacture | And ‘The automobile industry and auto- mobile owners consume 50 per cent of. the asbestos manufactured in the United States. Asbestos in‘one form or another is used in a dozen or more parts of the present highly developed motor car, but its princi- |pal use fs in the manufacture of brake Mnings. It ts estimated that the annual consumption of asbestos brake lining is 70,000,000 feet, of which 15,000,000 feet is in the new cars ahd 55,000,000 feet in the re- Placement market. Tt 4s only within the last fifty years that asbestos products have been manufactured on a commercial scale, The United States holds first place in their manufacture, yet it produced only 1 per cent of the total world output of raw asbestos. More than nine-tenths of the asbestos con- sumed in this country ts imported. Nearly the whole amount comes from Canada, although considerable quantities also come from South Africa. The major asbestos-produc- ing countries are not important manufacturing countries. Asbestos is the only commercial fiber of the mineral kingdom. Its high resistance to heat and chemi- cals and its insulating value as a nonconductor of heat and electri- city, coupled with the fact that it can be spun and woven, assure tts usefulness in modern industry. The longer fiber is used for spinning nd weaving asbestos fabrics, rojies, brake linings and egine packings. The shorter fibers are used in the manufacture of asbestos cement, shingles and lumber, the employ- ment of which is rapidly growing in the building industry. Other im- portant uses for asbestos are {n the manufacture of pipe coverings, in- sulating materials, paper and mill- beard and paint. New employment is cantinually being found for this unique mineral fiber. Asbestos is found in nearly all Parts of the world, but especially in Canada, the Union of South Africa, southern Rhodesia; Russia, the United States and Italy. Canada alone produces over 80 per cent of e Casper Daily Cribune Its Manufacture the totsl world production of as- bestos. Canadian asbestos {s impor- tant commercially because of ita ten- silo strength and consequent suita- bility for spinning. * In the United States, deposits of asdestos have been found in Ari- zona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Vermont, Maryland, Wyoming and Oregon. The mines in Georgia have boen exploited for many yrars, and Never By GEORGE I'll travel no more in winter time, In snowy Wyoming's windy clime; |Never again will my car break down, Forty-four miles from any town. Never again will I fiz a tire, Forty-four miles from aay fire. Never again will I suck a thumb, That thirty below has frozen numb. Never again will I break a trail, Right in the midst of a howling gale; Lines And Angles BY TED OSBORNE Fiction Customer—"What have you in the way of ight summer fiction?” Bookseller—"We have the plat: forms and speeches of the prospec: tive Presidential candidates.” Our Dally Song Hit “Our Politicians Are Not Abroad, But Most of Them Are at Sea.” Uncle Hook Says “Th' man who is too trustin’ paves th’ way fer th’ feller who is goin’ t betray him.” try. ‘The man with a crest on his shoulder Is often a worthless fop. Editor Tribune: It is always the hope of those who believe in and expect an equitable fair and com- mon-sense program by legislative bodies, whether federal, state or municipal, that such bodies in the ardor of their enthusiasm, when a spasm of reform is upon them, will not resort to extreme measures. Extremes are invariably followed by reactions and reactions are usually unwholesome and often destructive of the very objects which they seek to accomplish. Casper at present is experiencing the regime of a city administration evidently imbued with a determina- tion to do something, a most plaus- ible determination, if that some- thing is necessary and expedient, but not so praiseworthy if this ac- tivity fs not pointed in the right direction. My attention has been called to @ report, which may perhaps, be only an idle rumor, that the city administration is considering the advisability of exacting a license fee from all householders who rent one or more rooms to persons other than members of the family. In making protest against such line of legislation, I wish to say that I am in no way ‘personally affected by any regulation of this character; ain not engaged in the deer house business directly or indirect- ly, nor have I ever been so engaged. My protest is actuated solely by a sense of the injustice and hardship that would result from such legisla- tion. There are many abjections that might be offered against a lMcense regulation of this kind. In tho first place, it 1s not done; {t is not the practice in other cities, and in Casper there are peculiar con- ditions which make it decidedly objectionable. Casper {s notoriously a city of high rentals. A person drawing a moderate salary, especially if such person is the responsible head of a family, cannot pay the rent of an adequate dwelling house, unless he is able to get assistance through the renting of rooms. It is safe to say shat 75 per cent of the heads of familles, men working for wages or moderate salaries, are obliged to re- sort to this means of augmenting their resources. It is a common practice here, where the rental of a four to six-room house ranges from $75 to $125 per month, to en- gage a house somewhat larger than tho actual] needs of the family de- mand, and rent one, two or three rooms, In no other way can he get by #0 he follows the only plan that permits him to provide proper domicile for his family. To demand a license fee from this man would be patently unjust. It is not difficult to distinguish between the person who engages in Casper Mirror Works We are prepared to take cave of any aa z order. Framing and Resilvering Contractors Plei Take Notice 827 Industrial Ave PHONE 1283 Si ee USED CARS THAT WILL RUN We have a few carefully se lected Used Chevrolets and Fords, open and closed models. Easy Payments May Ba Arranged Nolan Chevrolet Co. Temporary Office Globe Shoe Company Phone 64-3 f The Housing Situation - the rooming house business for profit and the one who takes in a roomer or two, to help pay the rent. City officials of average in- telligence will be able to make this distinction. ELIZABETH O'BRIE: the mineral mined there {s suitable for spinning. It 1s doubtful, how- ever, if many deposits in the United States justify developmelt on a manufactures from the United/rhroughout the wide States amounted to pounds. Twenty-six per cent of this| And spring to earth amount was paper, millboard and roll board, forty-two per cent was/In feeble tones thy voice is heard 18,515,000 |'To every sleeping dormant thing © again. ¢ pipe covering and cement, elght per| On mornings calm and chill cent text! les, yarn and packing and ut bee Enver eee arena rene the remaining twenty-four per cent|The balmy alr does fill. included all other manufactures of asbestos. Again Tify voice is in the rippling brook Where glittering sunbeams dance And {fn the budding trees and flow. ‘Where shadows serve to glance. The Voice of Spring fz BY_A WYOMING POET During 1923 exports of asbestos| Thy voice is gently calling to awake) The little raindrops hum thy tune domain HURSHMAN. I'll travel no more in winter time, In snowy Wyoming's windy clime. T’ve read of kings, and lords, and dukes, And many kinds of wealthy flukes; I've heard about a Turkish king, A thousand maids around him sing. T've heard about a Wall Street king, A thousand clerks xwait his ring; Of all the kings I'd rather be, “The King of Swat” appeals to me As the gardener aa; “The older ‘The seed is, the worse the crop." si es; Parlor Wit. erica her a “You have probably heard of the woman who is so cross-eyed that when she cries the tears run down her back,” said a friend cf ours the Church st., Lynchbu yes, of course,” we answered gourteously. “Well, they hays taken her to a hospital,” he continued. ~ “Go on," we murmured encour- agingly, “What for?" “They are going to treat her for bacteria.” The world Would be a Good deal Happier If the Women who Think they can of Dr.Caldwell’s: Read men tion written 30 Like books ago by Dr. W. B. - Would stop well, who Trying to ¢ 47 years. You Start can buy a bottle in any Private Libraries. are made 25 per cent less elderly people’s blood pressure increases 28 per cent. Realizing this Mrs. Carrie Moss of 1714 rg Va., Mr. Louis C. 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