Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1924, Page 10

Sa ee —— Oe ee e——————————eEeeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeGV35ye—e—eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ee NS TE = and more characteriz PAGE TEN. Che Casper Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the for publication of all news credited in this paper also the local news published herein. The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening ant The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- ter, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, opposite postoftice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1918. Business Telephones --~-------- -----------15 and 16 Branch ‘Telephone Fexchange Connecting All Departments. By J. BR. HANWAY and BE. E. HANWAY Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg.. es cago, Til, 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globo Mids. Bostor, Maas., Suite 404 Sharon Bidg., 65 New Mont gomery St., San Francisco. Cal. Copies of the Daily 'Tritstine are on file in the New York, Chicago. 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PORNO sch es Aafia The Veto Power It is yet to be determined whether or not certain Republic: their way clear to sustain the pr dent in his veto of the bonus, can figure out a way to ride} back into office by the medium of the president's popularity with the people. Have these sen tors fully estimated the strength of the veto power held by the people? And do they not know that the spirit of independence that more the exercise of the fran- chise is ine large factor that has brought condi- tions at Washington to the present chaotic state by susbtituting cheap aelf-seeking politicians for statesmen. And are these senators not vare that there are many more cheap poli- 1s in this country than there are states: And still again, have these senators so lipped from the high places as not to rec- ogn that it is suicide for them to abandon principle aud public interest for bloc popu r ity, and to descend generally to the politicians’ level in the face of the fact that the country is with the president and approves him; and since vetoes are fashionable the people themselves in arranging support for the man they desire in the White House may exercise it in behalf of} that man, and so recall some of these heretofore | statesmen, now mere politicians, to the old home town for reeducation? The Annals of ‘Teapot Pot Dome is not so tempestuous as it Tea once was. It don’t even sizzle anymore. As a matter of popular interest it is dead. All the startling stuff about it no longer startles. It is down to a level of truth and fact and these things are never exciting or surprising. The great procession of liars, ex-convicts, and disreputables, has passed and who remem- bers now what they testified and who would believe it in any circumstance? Whatever political effect it had among the unknowing at the time of the great outburst, | has certainly been dissipated by the subsequent correction of wrong impressions as well as by the thinly-veiled object of the investigation—pol- itical backbiting. It is wonderful how a sensational matter is tamed when it is reduced to a legal petition filed in the courts, with all ‘the romance and exaggeration and box car headlines eliminated! In due course of time the courts will hear the government’s petition to cancel the lease, and deny it. Teapot Dome will resume and try to live down the curse put upon it by one, Walsh, and others. Agricultural Aspects The May forecast of the winter wheat crop by the agricultural department is encouraging. As compared with a year ago the reduction in the acreage sown is nearly thirteen per cent, while the indicated production is less by 3.5 per cent. The 1, gest estimated increase in production as compared with last year is Kansas, where a total yleld of 4,000,000 bushels is forecast, as against 84,000,000 in 1923, while the largest de-| creases are in Illinois, Missouri and Californi The figures indicate te smallest winter wheat} »p since 1917, together with a materially in-| creased acre yield, which means lower costs of production, "According. to unofficial reports, cotton acreage will be much greater than last year, and larger quantities of fertilizer are being used. Generally good crop conditions throughout the Mississippi and Missouri val- leys give promise of substantial improvement in these | agricultural sections. an senators who could not see| ly in the relation between the movements of different groups of commodity prices, which has been such as to preyent a general drastic reduc- tion of profit margins. While wage levels; representing one important group of costs, haye been high, the prices of raw materials and other producers’ goods, representing another group of costs, have declined with relative rapidity. Morevyer, it must be remembered that wages, Which are a part of production on one hand, represent customers’ purchasing power on the other; so that high wage levels, while tending to restrict profits, at the same time operate to stimulate consumers’ demand and to sustain a Jarge volume of trade. It appears that this tendency has made itself felt during the last years. ‘The record of sales at retail, the amount of railroad traffic, and the general firmness of retail commodity prices lend support to this conclusion, The wages of industrial workers—that is, |. wages expressed not in terms of money, but in terms of what they will buy of the commodities which commonly enter into living expenses— are at the present time higher than they have ever been before, except possibly for one or two months during last spring. Although it is the practice in some establish: ments to regulate wages in accordance with fluctuations in living costs, the general move- ment of wage scales is governed by other factors. The demand for labor is determined by the profits which can be realized through its em- ployment. These profits depend on the margin between costs and selling prices, and the volume of trade. . Except in a very long-term view, therefore, the explanation of the course of wages is to be found in the movements of commodity prices ag factors in business profits, rather than as items in the cost of living. Consistency Needed | Henry Swift Ives, of Chicago, discussing pub- lie ownership, goes to the root of the matter | when he says: A Chicago suburban village referred to as ‘Millionaire colony’ maintains a municipal electric light plant when not one yoter in a hundred in this village would for a moment | favor the socialization of his particular busi- | ness. In a prosperous Middle Western city, one |of the leading advocates of municipally owned traction lines is a prosperous insurance agent but he bitterly opposes socialists in their effort to force the State into insurance business. A lumberman in the Far West is fearful that ill go into business of manufacturing for farmers at cost yet he advocates € state workmen’s compensation in- surance to the exclusion of private enterprise and competition Editor ‘Tribun asked by several question? for his dollar. that is let without were as follow: Plain concrete, six thick ~. inches thick -. concrete base -. mitted the two Pelton, which, ing as to facts. I belleve that it wh he favor $1.86 price of our referred lithic, to is not A meat x advocates government owner- | P@rt! hip of the lroads but fights it for his own 3 business. Numberless instances of similar in-| ‘2 Warrenite bitulithic, | consistencies could be given. | It is remarkable that in industries most threatened by government ownership, many of the leaders do not seem to care what becomes of the other fellow in the same boat, provided they themselves keep a few feet ahead of the socialist sheriff with his writ of ejection. The real issue in America today is not whether certain industries shall be socialized, but whether the institution of private property shall be maintained, It is too much to expect people to take ser- iously protestations of one industry against government ownership when they find the lead- ers of that industry advocating government ownership of somebody else’s business. When you adopt socialistic schemes their pavement, commodities, Casper. Denver them any loss, must take them below par. The former tractors, while the you Soaking the Taxpayer The cost of “senate inquiries” for the present fiscal year will have drained some $825,000 in tax funds out of the United States treasury. Con- gressional investigations have grown to be a very expensive item in conducting the government. Throughout the nation many citizens are ask ing, “Why are these enormous expenditures nec essary in addition to maintaining regular gov. ernmental departments whose duty it is to attend to the very matters involved in these “special in- vestigations.” And, “Why does the legislative branch of the government assume the preroga- tives of the indicial branch, in inquiring into of- fenses against the laws of the land, when the case is already in the courts awaiting trial and disposition under indictments regularly brought?” Haa the investigation mania become a part of campaign propaganda carried on at public ex- pense? resentatives ment doing this, bid upon. As to ‘what is a Constructive Rail Laws The passage of the railway labor bill, now pending in congress, would destroy the results »mplished during the past four e the efficiency and economy in ilr®ads, rarrgd ten per cent more freight in than they did in February, 1920, || same policy was in force as that sought by the new bill. The railroads accom- plished this with 217,236 less men than in 1920, || with the result that wages were decreased almost $30,000,000, while employes were receiving more per he in almost all branches, Such factors, combined with greater diver. sification which it appears will be practised this year, better credit facilities, and the pro-| gress which hag been made in the liquidation of old debts, make the general agricultural outlook more promising than it has been for several years. Wages and Living Costs The continued advance in wage scales during} the last year has been one of the most peculiar, and at the same time one of the most signifi business developments of the period. This ad vance has proceeded in spite of the general declining price level which characterized the ater part of the y Considered in con nection with the changes in business activity, commodity prices and the cost of living, the fluctuations in wa scales throws a strong light on the broader aspects of the general econ.| omic situation During tl t of the pe ] fi the spring « , 1 of the general leve of conmodity price is been distinetly down ward Such a trend is commonly characterized by norrowing profit margins, smaller trade yol ume, and reduced demand for 1a with a con sequent decline in wage level The peculiarity of the situation during the last year lies larg Increase efficiency of operation which has |} ured since the railways were returned ate operation, has been the main thing s rendered possible the reductions in rates that already have been made, and a continuance of it must be mainly relied upon to make possible future reductions of rates, Both Right and President President © idge has done no harm to his political strength with the American people. As president and as governor of Massachusetts | he has never allowed cowardly considerations of expediency to sway him when a matter of prin- riple was in the balance, and such a record commands the respect even of political oppon ents, | Congressmen may win the votes of the bene | ficiaries of their spendthrift bounty, and again they may not, for the action of the congressman | in many instances is obvious; but the men and women of America will honor and support thi Math a a man who is both right and president, as he tands for the welfare of all the American peo ple instead of seeking the favor of politicians and | fearing their threats. you are all wrong about the mat % does not pay the It spends the tax money. No, Ame r Con ter, simply “What is all thié disturbance about these paving bids?” the question and the tenor in which it has been asked is such as to in- dicate that this condition no credit upon the city of Casper. May I attempt to answer that Bids were asked on May the 12th on paving district No. 4%. Only one bid was received on that date and council saw fit to postpone the open- ing until the 26th as the only way that the interests of the city can be protected in the matter of con- tracts is by competitive bids. petitive bidding and the city’s bond market are two of the taxpayer's most sacred institutions and upon them hinges the whole issue of the taxpayer getting one hundred cents Every contract that is awarded to an irresponsible bid- der (irrespective of price), contract that is let rejecting low responsible bids, and every contract is a knife thrust into the very vitals of the city’s bond market To summarize these bids, they Reinforced concrete, Bitulithic, five inches thick 104,970.51 Bitulithic, six inches thick 112,237.04 Bitulithic, six inches thick, ‘The Russell Kimball Engineering company of Casper, low bids Warren Brothers company have sub- Answering Sylvester F. Pelton An article appeared in this morn- ing’s Herald signed by Sylvester F. although uninten- tional on his part, is rather mislead- of Mr. Pelton to be falr no matter articular type of pavement Reference 1s made in this article to prices received in Denver on a five inch pavement} per square yard, Warrenite bitulithic here is bid $2.53 per square yard. The five inch pAvement in Denver but asphaltic concrete. ular type of pavement is gen- erally from 7 to 15 per cent cheaper The material conditions in Denver and the general working conditions are such that Denver Is able to get as well as other for less money than cpntractors paid 90 per cent of their estimates in cash each month, which to get their money without while Casper contractors improvement bonds payment for their work and sell finances the con- These are facts not new to any busi- ness man in Casper. Objection is made by Mr. Pelton to representatives of our type inter- viewing the property owners in the owners have any objections to rep- of any as naturally interested in receiving in- formation abdut the various types low bidder is a party who bids lower on any specific type than other con- on the same type, There | formation. Che Casper Daily Cribune City Paving Bids I haye been citizens today, ‘mitted the three high bids. They are all responsible bidders, there- fore the contract belongs to the low bidders. dt has come to be the practice of certain contractors and interests to 0 out among the citizens and con- duct certain propaganda by circulat- ing petitions and otherwise in an The nature of fects cil to compel them to award con- tracts contrary to their own best judgment. Taxpayers will serve their own interests best by making this propaganda so unpopular that no interested mercenary parties will have the nerye to resgrt to. it. In April nine districts in the city of Denver had an average bid for five inch black paving, with the asphalt shipped in either from Cas+ per or from California of $1.86 per square yard and the local bid wit jocal materials for Warrenite bitu- lithic five inches thick is $2.53. This price is 36 per cent higher with local asphalt than the Denver price with all the asphalt shipped in from Cus- per. If the Warren Construction company will bring their prices down so they are low bidders for equal paving I pledge them my sup- port as vigorously as I oppose them when they are high bidders. The all important consideration is to maintain the integrity and credit of the city, and this can be done only by handling its contract business purely on the merits of each case. I have written this, Mr. Editor, because I have received so many inquiries that I am convinced that it is of general interest. SYLVESTER F. PELTON. Com- every competitive bids invhes ~ 114,341.60 Wyo., have sub- and the might be five low bidders on five different kinds of pavement. Never- theless, each one would be a low bidder. We cannot meet the price of concrete any more than concrete can meet the price of the graveled street, or any more than a brick house can meet the price of a frame house—they are not comparable. ‘The price of Warrenite bitulithic is generally 10 to 15 per cent higher than the price of a concrete pave- ment. Our lowest bid om Warrenite bitulithic here is only 4 per cent higher than reinforced concrete, and approximately 8 per cent higher than plain concrete. Pavement should be decided upon its merits, and not first cost. LARRY HILL, Warren Bros. May By_Tom McMillan. is the intention said price being while the Warrenite bitu- This co, |? are silows | he’ merry rionth has come again with charming grace Brings warmer days with mild and balmy airs And laggard spring slips in at last, quite unawares, And shows her cheerful smiling face. Old Sol sends down his golden rays And everywhere all nature looks serene verdant sward once slowly coming green in latter does not. The more is Fe . , And soon we'll have the s | might just as well tear up the constitution, for nies eee ae bigu- aie, ” eee you wipe out the rights of the individual which | "ic Tha tae moatutines is imate | ‘The feathered tribs are hopping it was drawn to protect. Portland Cement association and Bie a eid : = thelr friends doing the same thing.| Ffom branch to branch’ of//every, Why? 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