Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Che Caspet Daily Cribune MEMBER THE Brose Sree ‘cite The Associated Press is exclusively en! se for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. “t The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening an The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas per, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, opposite: postoftice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22. 1916. Business Telephones -. Branch Telephone Departments. eS By J. RB. HANWAY and E. B, HANWAY Advertising Representatives . Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bids. Chl- New Mont oO, Lil, 28€ Fifth Ave., New York City; Boston. ‘Mass.. Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 65 he Daily gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of tl aay Tritune are on file in the New York, Chicago, lowly a and San Francieco offices and visitors are welcome. 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But there were dissatisfied citizens in Frog- land, who wanted a change, not because condi- tions were bad—but because progress seemed to call for something different. ~ Prayers ‘went up for a new ruler and suddenly one appeared in their midst, in the form of a solid, substantial old stump with ifs protecting strength rising up above them. This did not do at all—it was no great change such as they desired. Prayers were again sent to Heaven and be- hold the frogs were sent another ruler in the shape of a stork. As he stood in their midst his crafty eye sur- veyed the scene and he smiled to himself as he saw what fine pickings he was going to have in the land for frogs. The next thing the frogs knew the sharp bill of the stork was gobbling them up one by one. They had secured a radical change from their old peaceful and safe government under a kind ruler. Forevermore they were kept busy dodging the troubles they had brought upon themselves by unwarranted discontent. The moral is that persons seldom know when they are well off. The frog story runs closely parallel to the dissatisfaction and restlessness manifested in our own nation today. We have among us those who would change radically our time-tested and well-established system of government, which gives to the individual all possible freedom of thought, action and business, unhampered by restriction interference with private activity Our government was founded to offer protection to its people, not to compete with them in busi- ness. ° For nearly one hundred and fifty years we have prospered as no other nation on earth. . But we have the dissatisfied with us as of old—they are always croaking, they want a change. They would put the government into business. They would restrict or remove the right to private property which has heretofore been considered the dearest birthright of every American citizen. They would make the. people exist for the government, rather than have the government exist for the people. Warnings in plenty have been presented from the wisest and most experienced citizens, They mostly go unheeded: The dissatisfied ones: will never be happy until they are gobbled up by the stork, as in ‘he fable. But the serious thing about such a calamity is that when the foolish ones are devoured by the disaster their action has brought about, the wise and the innocent are made to suffer likewise. Let well-enough alone. ‘The Voter to Blame Once upon a time the American congress conld consider measures in the interest of the national welfare. Today men go to congress with the col- lar of some minority welded about their necks. There are plenty of farm bloc and bonus and labor congressmen, but the national legislators who represent all of America and who are able both to think and vote in terms of the national interest are few and far between. The American congress has become a congress of cliques, gangs, groups, factions and other minorities, Greedy groups have discovered how easy it is for an organized minority to throw congress into a cowardly panic. The five-year history of the efforts climaxing in the passage of thé bonus bill over the White House veto is a shining example of the power wielded by an organized minority with sufficient funds to maintain a lobby at Washington. For this situation the voter“ back home” can- and Sunday - not e the final responsibility. In bitter truth deserves exactly the kind of congress he has, If he is a farmer, he wants the govern- ment to help him, If he is a worker, he demands special consideration. The manufacturer seeks always to advance his own interests, The veter- an demands a subsidy or a pension. A dozen groups try to send men to congress who will keep group interest rather than national inter- est first. That is why Washington is crawling with lob- byists, wire-pullers, log-rollers and professional “fixers.” Because of thin, half the capital's of. fice buildings are crowded with lobbyists’ desks, It-has caused a flock of faddist, pacifist, jingo industrial business and other groups to piteh | their tents in the very shadow of the dome. | That is why the federation of 1 : ibor and Sam Gompera and the rail brotherhoods maintain expensive lobbies and expensive offices, It has brought the American farm bureau's watchers and the white-collared suave, f self-styled apokes- men for other “dirt-farmer” groups to the na- tion’s capital. Likewise it explaing the presence of the anti-Japanese propagandists from the west coast, to haunt the gallerics and rub elbows with a 3-60 0| which the Republican party was chosen to di- the other self-entered minorities engaged in the great siege of capitol hill. Washington has become a city of lobbyists and the government a creature of lebbies and minorities. Given a selfish idea, a dues-paying constituency or a good fat bankroll from any source whatsoever, and a minority is ready to function. We have developed a breed of para- sites, of nrofessional corridor lizards, who sell their services to any “cause” as mercenary sol-, diers sell their swords. Washington is their bivouac and their happy hunting ground. The voter is to blame. He has made Washing- ton and congress what hey are. Until he sees that every bonus and subsidy dollar is picked from his own pocket and that it is not gathered from some money tree, the selfish minority will flourish. The day he understands every tre: raid lays another burden on his own back will be his beginning of wisdom. Until then the Si- mon Legrees of selfishness and the minority head-hunters will loll in the galleries dangling a sinister noose for congressmen’s necks from the gallery rails. Not to Be Ignored Everywhere throughout the nation men are arising to condemn the perfidy of congress and to demand that the traitors to the policies upon rect the people’s affairs by such overwhelming yote in 1920, be torn from the places in which the confidence of the people placed them to aid in the great relief from war burdens they sought and believed they had a right to expect upon the face of the platform presented by the great party they had voted into power. The sorry spectacle which has been made of congress and the nation will in all probability serve its purpose, for it is destined to arouse the voters to such a state of indignation that they will right the wrong, regardless of the | politicians’ efforts to confuse the issues before the people. The people have given unmistakable evidence of their intention to continue undgr the leadership of President Coolidge and those men who have stood by him in this critical period. The passage of the bonus bill over the president’s wise und courageous veto.marks the beginning and not the end of the battle. The Republicans in congress who have be- trayed their trust are undoubtedly relying on the popularity of the president as the vehicle on which they will be carried back into office. What assurance is there that men who have knived their leader in the present congress will not knife him and the people again if re-elected? | The bonus raid cannot be undone, but men who | have perpetrated this outrage should be pre vented from repeating it. A great opportunity awaits the framers of the Republican platform to place before the people a clearly defined policy | which cannot be evaded and to which any weak- kneed politician can be held strictly accountable. This means the repudiation of a large propor- tion of the present Republican members in con- gress. The presidents principles and policies are not only sound but they are popular. The ac- | tions of these members of the Republican party in congress have been absolutely incompatible with the policy adopted by the president, the platform on which the Republican party came into power and the policy of that party through- out its history. The recent conduct of public af- fairs by congress cannot be reconciled nor ignor- ed by the Cleveland convention. Tt must be frank- ly and openely repudiated if the party expects to receive the support of the people. ‘A. Jackson's Prototype Mr. David Rockwell, chairman of William Gibbs McAdoo’s campaign committee tells the world in his most solemn and confiding earnest that “William Gibbs McAdoo is the twentieth | century prototype of Andrew Jackson.” Old timers who knew Mr. Jackson well, will | smile at the outburst of Mr. Rockwell, and the younger generations who have read about “Old Hickory” and found much to admire in his life’s | history will hasten to the library to review and learn low they came by their impressions if Mr. | Rockwell’s view of the matter is correct. I all that as it may, we have Mr, McAdoo himself right here on earth and we have his public record, to read, and whether we know much about Andrew Jackson or not, we are able to judge Mr. McAdoo on his merits. First off, even with limited knowledge, we will all agrre that any comparison, in any respect, whatsoever, William Gibbs MeAdoo with Andrew Jackson, would be as silly as to compare a jackal with a Numidian lion or a soda-fountain sheik with a Roman gladiator. ; Andrew Jackson was practical. William Gibbs McAdoo is a visionary. Andrew was as honest as the sunshine and loyal to the peopele. Wil- liam is a grafter and a traitor to every interest except his own. Andrew possessed intestines. ¥il- liam is the owner of more gall than anybody even dreamed existed. Andrew became president at the urgent call of an admiring people. William desires to be president at his own urgent call, in spite of the kidding the people are handing him. The dissimilarity could be extended world without end. Mr. Webster says that a prototype Is a model after which anything is copied, a primary form or pattern. If this be so, and if William Gibbs | then the world is under the necessity of doing con- McAdoo is a prototype of Andrew Jackson, then siderable revising. Where Fools Rush In The mere fact that advocates of socialism have been conspicuous by their failures in gov- jernment operation of industry is fair warning to beware of their schemes. Men like Washing- ton, Jefferson, Lincoln, Adams and statesmen of similar caliber pinned their faith to the right of the individual’ as paramount to oppression by any system of government which would eur: tail the right of business enterprise. Men like these who helped lay the solid foundation of this nation, knew that when you stifle initiative and ambition through the dead hand of too much gov- ernment, you destroy the most precious asset of any race or country. Telephone Supremacy There were in the United States at the end of 1922 fourteen and one-half millions of tele- phones, better than one telephone for ev 'y eight people. If it were possible to construct a single telephone circuit between the earth and the moon, and these telephones were all connected | to this line, they would be equivalent to nearly 60 telephones per mile of circuit for the entire istance between the two planets. From 2 tel. Che Casper Daily Cridune Replying to Mr. J. B. Griffith Editor Tribun It ‘1s indeedythat is bound to be spent on this gratifying to know that I do not|very highway latter on. ~ have to defend myself with the} It is true that Casper Mountain readers of central Wyoming for the/offers a fine picnic ground for Cas- boosting I have done for good roads|per people for a very few short during the last fifteen years. The|months of the year. I dotibt if any- many letters I have received and| body knows more about that than I the assurance that the different|do, for I have lived up there for papers up and down the Yellow-|many months of many years, both stone Highway (now the Park-to-|in summer and in the dead of win- Park highway) have given me by|ter. The best we can get, on top reprinting hundreds of my articlea|of Casper Mountain is a very few. on Good Roads, is the best evidence ;sbort months and while it is glor- in the world that this “hobby” of|ious up there for that short time, mine is appreciated by the reading|what is that short perlod for just public. ourselves, when we can spend our T do deny, however, that I have|good money on the main backbone ever claimed to -be t “king” of|}highway and still have fine play good roads ‘boosters, though I/grounds to go to for our own Ci should consider it quite some honor|per people and at the same time to be considered as suc! build a highway that is helping to I was one of the active members|build up the entire state of Wy- of the first good roads association|oming, by paving the matn artery ever organized {n the United States,|of the state? © whith I joined in 1880, at a jtime| I say, and I know that thousands when my good friend Jamé B.}of people agree with me, that Wy- Griffith? if he was then alive, was|oming needs the Park-to-Park high- still hanging on to a nursing bot-|way, more than any other highway tle with one hand and a hunk of/or road in the state of Wyoming. rubber with the other to cut his/And I am talking against my own teeth on, and yelling Ike an Indjan|personal financial interest too, in because they hurt; and I have been/not boosting the mountain road in- a close student of roads and condi-|stead of the main artery. tions ever since. No one has more financial inter- I do not retract one word that Ijest on top of Casper Mountain have written about the absolute, than I have. No one person In Wy- necessity of paving the Casper tojoming is more benofitted by that Glenrock highway. It has been/road than I am, but I am not boost- proven beyond any shadow of ajing good roads for my own personal doubt that gravel roads do not long|interest. I am boosting for the withstand the hard constant use by) permanent good of the state of Wy- automobiles and trucks. omin, And for the city of Casper, It is true that we have in this for the mountain road will never do particular plece of highway the best the city of Casper ope hundredth highway today in the state of Wy-|part of the good that will the oming, but why not keep it the best |Park-to-Park highway. by paving it now and saving it for} By finishing the Park-to-Park all time as the best? highway to Glenrock, and then to Why wait, and spend hundreds of|Dougias, and then west to Ther- dollars on the maintenance of it as|mopolls, Casper people will have a we are doing at this very time, while; couple of hundred miles of high- We spend more money making other! way that will offer more pleasure roads to spend more of our good for outing parties than $100,000 money in keeping up? ‘Today there|spent on top of Casper Mountain are at least two crews at work with| would do, and have an all the year big graders and drags trying tojround highway too. One that, will keep this best piece of highway injalways ‘be a direct feeder for ‘both Wyoming,, fit to ‘ride, upon. To say} business and pleasure. I say spend nothing of the crews who are piit-|the money where {t will do the most ting new gravel on the thin spots.|good for the greatest number. By using a little good horse} The Park-to-Park highway Is for sense and profiting by the exper-|all the people. Wyoming's great- fences of other states such as Newjest feeder. The mountain road is Jersey, Indiana and Michigan, we|only for the elite of Casper. reading they made. War bulletins from the World war never half as interesting. Of course no one. had any to complain unless he had been cealing something,, and ~then wasn't good policy to talk. There was nothing to prevent people “‘kid- ding” one another. . nothin’ o’ the sort. Here's your /own figures and it's worth just $25."" “But look at that hunting outfit the other fellow replied. “That fine dog, your gun—you said the gun alone cost $150—why, the whole outfit comes to only $25. Right there's your own figures.” ‘What do you suppose happened a year or so later? bd ‘The actual returns of property in- creased in the various precincts from 12 to 20 sper cent, notwith- standing that it was between years when everything was supposed to be going down. This simply meant that the honest man ceased to be penalized for being honest in turning in his property. ‘The next chapter in Mr. Keefe’s story has to do with bridges. <A cloudburst in.1920 destroyed scores | of bridges in Thurston county. “Fol- lowing a county-wide insistence on replacement, the commissioners de- clared an emergency levy for new bridges.” And right here is where these farmers embattled in the cause of tax-reduction “saved around $30,000 and since have caused other counties to scrutinize matters of this sort more carefully.” It seems that “‘after the bridge contract had been let and the bridges were going in, there was a frequent allowing of county warrants on the contract in excess of funds on hand, and these warrants were natural: tered at 7 per cent interes’ ple began to be alarmed over the number of these warrants and over the lack of available records show- ing just “how things were standing. When the Farm Bureau took hold there was a balance of $22,671.85 un- paid on sixty completed bridges costing altogether $131,898.77. The Farm Bureau appointed a commit- tee of taxpayers to investigate, and an engineer was engaged. They went to work: During five ‘s more than eighty bridges were ed. Bolts, washers, cost of material had come down] for, elther you are going to admit $33.5 . i Since our bridge experience other counties doing some checking “up, and we have been building some of our own bridges. The conclusion that, after all “you determine your own taxes. If you check up to see what ape are spending your money tion of taxes rested with themselves. THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1924. In his opinion— The biggest thing that we accom- plished in our county was not tho saving of more than $30,000 on tho bridges nor the cuts in taxes in the various school districts, nor the resurrection of much hidden prop. erty-, The biggest thing was that the people found out that the que: in Nebraska* have been of. the writer is How To Keep A Child Healthy GENERATION peo parents easy without or A’ thought that wasa_ strain. It not cont nar- of achild’s life, but we know _cotics, day. sells Pepsin, 4 her and the cost is less acenta in fect health dose. Give teeth a ieeepooetal to Zi \well’s any ailing baby or at night ‘and Mrs. L. Smith of $19 when you put it to bed and you Ave., East Ure ya nes says will find a happy, young- her iy of tires fave ster in the morning. T: never been 8 since 1 yourself when cons! prove mdf tittaic dite Nigra ee ET Address or chocolate. Syrup Pepsin is mild and gentle ‘in action and your child will have an "Not more than one free trial botils to « family > can save ourselves a lot of money FRED PATEE. Tax Reduction at Home Literary Digest. he way to reduce taxes ts to reduce them, wnd the place to begin is right in the vicinage where the outlay is the heaylest and can most easily be cut down.” ‘This ts the comment of the New York Times on the successful effort of the farm- ers in Thurston county, Nebraska, to cut down thelr local taxes, As H. L. Keefe tells the story in the current’ Farm and Fireside (New| These blanks were compiled with York), this is what was accom.-|the names in alphabetical order. plished by the activity -of the Ne-| Then we proceeded to paste these peake, tanpaeaty blanks. up in the postoffice, banks, It saved the county around $30,000 | Stores; and other public places, right in the man’s own communities. on the one item of bridges alone. You can imagine what interestin: It secured cuts of from 8 to 20 ae per cent in the local taxes in in- , dividual precincts. It increased the amount of prop- erty returned from 12 to 20 per cent in years when the valuations were generally falling, thereby reducing taxes for the man who had always been honest in making his return. Best of all, the net result was a feeling of confidence and general satisfaction, instead of mistrust, un rest and suspicion. Mr. Keefe, who is president of the Nebraska State Farm Bureau Fed. eration, goes on to tell in an inter- view how this was brought about. The first thing was to find where the tax money went, so charts were prepared showing in each school district ‘what every man paid on $1,0v0 actual valuation. ‘There was and it might even be said spikes and nails, were counted. Then the charges made by the bridge com- pany were carefully checked. In some cases where jthe bridge com- pany appeared to have charged too little, something was added, but in most cases deductions were made. Here the deductions exceeded what was added by $7,665.50. Bear in mind that we were not finding any fault with the bridges, but only with the cost. The bridge company agreed to this réduction. A little later we discovered state- ments for twenty tncomplete bridges. We went through these in the same way and here we made a net reduc- tion of $6,125.47. The bridge com- pany again promptly agreed to this reduction, Then we were able to secure an- other reduction of $11,576.08, be- cause we were able to show that the county offices: and copy off the books the amount of property which each man in the county had turned in. We had blanks. printed where each man’s name could be listed with the value of his cattle, horses, autempbiles, jewelry, in fact every- thing that he owned, according to the figures he had given the assesor. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS All taxes for the year 1923, not paid by June 1, 1924, will automatically be- come delinquent and will be advertis- ed for sale according to law. - AGNES M. CLARE, : ‘County Treasurer — not any hedging or guessing, here was everything tn black and white.” was subdivided off to show even somewhat minor expenditures.” Public meetings were held all over the county, a “the first thing learned was “that most of the tax expenditures were for things direct- ly under contro] ef the people.” That is— Politicians had sometimes talked as if the state capitol, the state gov- ernment, the university and normel schools, the state institutions for de- pendents, state roads—as if these things were taking the money. But The sun , rises in the West ° upon a cup of coffee STREAMING wisps of rare coffee fragrance call the West to breakfast. A vigorous OUR SERVICE We want to keep our faith with the public—as we feel they have reposed their inus. Our whole aim to please if we had cut out all of these things altogether where I lived, it would have decreased our tax bill only about 10 per cent. The largest ex- penditures were concentrated right down in our own communities, in matters over which the people had the most intimate control them. selves, We found that there were wide variations in different parts of our own county, and that taxes in in- dividual school districts varied all the way. from $10.60 to+$30.20 on $1,000 valuation, When the people began to find these things out, we are told, at- tendance at the annual school dis- trict meetings greatly increased. Ways were found to economize on ma ment, sala and the pur- chase of supplies: in this way cuts varying from 8 to 20 per cent were effected in the taxem of individual districts.” This accomplished, “the next us| thing was to discover hidden prop: erty which was escaping taxation throughout the county.” Our tax system has always been so constituted that the man who is honest about turning in his Prop- erty at its rightful value indirectly pays the tax of the man who just forgets that he is quite éo well off when the tax assessor comes around. You know an assessor hates to raise a rumpus with his next-door nelghbor, and too often a whole lot of things do not appear at all on the tax books. So the tax committee decided to sive the community another shock, ephone standpoint, this country is by far the best developed in the world, and something to talk about for months afterward, We hired a« couple of men to go down to the ©1924, Hille Bros. —————— start for a work-filled day. 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