Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1924, Page 10

| ) : | ' J “)PACY TEN Pel (AeeeaeEa eenens) (Continued from Page One:) BUDGET SAVING OF MILLIONS 13 ‘SHOWN; TAX REDUCTION OPPOSED “The gross public debt was reduc- und the Air Mail Service, the esti- | ed $1,098,894,375 during the fiscal nates, including contract author-za-| year ended June 30, 1924, and stood mS, amount to $38,945,000, This | at $21,250,812,989 on the latter date ; sntemplates diture with'| This reduction was accomplished the industr.c 00 for the] through (1) the application of the rocuren: airplanes, engines | sinking fund and other public debt The maintenance, op- ond ace 0,658,000 is ories for remaining requirements required to be made from ordinary, receipts aggregating ration, experimentation and re-| $457,999,750; (2) a reduction in the search. The amount of $38,945,000, | géneral fund balance of $135,527,639; however, does not include all that] and (3) the use of the entire sur- will be available for this service in| p'us of $505,366,986. The annual in- 926. Amount contributing to the | aw charges on the debt repre- ir servi carried in other esti, | sented by this reduction are equiva- mm and le war supplies, will | lent to over $45,000,000. BARR, &,, tot lity, conserva: he total reduction in tHe’ debt tively esti 3 00,0605 since the high point of $26,594,000,- The ar requested for nat-| 000 on August 31, 1919, amourted to onal defen: cludes $50,118,000 for | $5,343,000,000 at the close of the } > the army and navy reserves, national | last fiscal year. This total reduc: 3 cuard, < r military training | tion has effected a saving in inter- camps and other civilian training | est amounting to approximately activities. $225,000,000 annually, a saving “There is also included in the] which equals nearly one-third of national defense estimates $7,444,000 r increase of the navy. This will provide for continuing work on the fleet submarines under construction and for beginning work on two of the four remaining fleet submarines ,uthorized in the 1916 program. With Siregard to the navy estimates, legis- “Siation is now pending which provides additicnal vessels, including gun- for ure on the Yangtze river, urther e&timates for increase in the avy’ are dependent upon «the en- ctment of this legislation. It wil, also be necessary to request of con- gress legislation increasing tf au thorized cost of the two airplane carriers now under construction. If this be granted it will require funds for the next fiscal year not proved n the estimates contained in this budget. “For rivers and harbors $56,237,600 is recommended. In this is included 3$40,000,009 for maintenance and im- {provement of existing river and har- {bor worka, $10,500,000 for flood con- ‘trol on the Mississippi \and Sacra- mento rivers, and $5 00 for the operation and maintenance of canals and the removal of wrecks and oth- er obstructions. Of the $40,000,000 for maintenance and of rivers and harbors, improvement for new work and $1 maintenance. ‘This will’ x pos bie mo al progress on the most important projects approved by con af . estimated that $6,541,590 will sded to complete Dam No. I Shoals, Of this amount will be required thi 1 covered by a supp! n Lie for 19: he bul 5,040,390 is provided for in estimate There Included in these esti $50,000,000 to be set aside in he adjusted service certificate fund tablished under the World War ad isted compensation act of May 19, “4. This is for the second payment o the fund to be made January 1, For the first payment, due Jan uary 1,1 + $100,000,000 is included in the deficiency bill now under con sideration by congress, The app'ica tions from veterans so far have been below the estimfted number which * the records indicate as entitled to the benefits of the act. If the two appropriations recommended, be made, it is estimated there will be a sufficient amount in the fund on January 1, 1926, to meet the de mands of the act. Should the num ber of applications increase beyond what present experience indicates probable, there will be ample to submit a supplemental estin for the additional amount nece: before that date. “For federal aid to states the est! mates provide in excess of $109 000,000. These subsidies are pre scribed By law, I am convinced that the broadening of this field of activ ity is detrimental both to federal and state governments. Pfficiency of fed eral of ons is impaired as they relinquish and turn over to the fed ‘al ernment responsibilitie mute me ate ry which ghtfully theirs. I am op posed to any expansion of the > lies. My conviction ts they can be . curtailed with benefit tq both the * federal and state governments. For reclamation purposes I am recommending $9;777,257 for 1926. It is highely desirable that the con- gre: 8 a basis for this and other future reclamation expenditures, en- uct the legislation embodying new reclamation polities proposed in Resolution 9611, Sixty-eighth gress, first session. FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE Mrs.Bradford RecommendsLydia * E.Pinkham’sVegetable Compound Phoebus, Virginia. — ‘‘ Having this opportunity I justcannot refrain from saying a- word of raise for the sion required for twenty years, and my three sisters have also used them, and always with the most atifying results. 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If you are suffering from nervous troubles, irritability, or if other an- mptoms appear and you are times, you should give thi le Compound a fair trial, For ery where, sale by druggists the total annual pre-war expendi- tures of the government. “The fixed-debt charges are in- cluded in the regular budget of the government under a definite plan worked gut soon after the close of the war for the gradual retirement of the public debt, and must be met before the budget can balance. The most important of these fixed-debt charges {s the cumulative sinking fund provided in the Victory Liber- ty Loan act. Retirements through this fund during the past fiscal year were about $296,000,000. ‘The next items in size among the fixed-debt charges are the retirements of se. curities received from foreign gov- ernments under debt settlements and the purchases and retirements of securities from foreign repay- ments. These continuing reductions of the public debt have a very ma-; terial effect in maintaining high prices for Liberty bonds. They permit the issuance of new govern- ment securities for temporary and for refunding purposes at low in- terest rates, with consequent fur ther economy in government ex- penditures, Interest paid in the fis- cal year 1924 amounted to $940,000,- 000. It is estimated that this item will be $865,000,000 in 1925 and *830,000,000 in 1926. This saving of $110,000,000 in two years is the re- It of the reduction in the amount of the debt and decrease in the av- erage ate of interest paid. The inking fund is a part of the con tract between the United States and the holder of the United States ob- ligation, and, therefore, not in od falthpbe changed. The continual dy effect of these debt reducing factors. {s to cut down the largest single item of government expendl- ture, and permit further reductions in the burden of taxation. “During the last session of con- ‘gress a bill was introduced author- izing a yearly appropriation of not exceeding $10,000,000 for a progres- sive building program tn the Dis- trict of Columbia. This bill has my indorsement. I earnestly recom- mend Its enactment-by congress. “I have recently appointed a com- mission to investigate agricultural conditions. The purpose of this was to determine what action, through legislation or otherwise, should be taken to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other in- dustries. The findings and recom- mendations of the commission are ‘or the use of the congress. I men- tion this commission here for the reason that I will shortly submit to the congress an estimate of appro- vriation to meet the expenses of the mmission. “We are now in the fousth year ef our campaign for reduction in the cost of government. Our alm is to reduce the burden of taxes, In this we are fast reducing our ex penditures to a minimum ccnsistent ste with efficient service. We herve be- “ore us an estimated surplus of $67,000,000 for the current — fiser! vear and $373,000,000 for the next iscal year. Shall embark upon new projects involving expenditures. whieh will prevent the aceumula tion of these expected surpluses, or shall we continue the campaign for economy? I am for economy. If we cohtinue the campaign for econ. omy we will pave the way for fur. there reduction in tax This. re- duction can not be effected inrmedt ately. Before it is undertaken we should know more definitely by ac- tual operation what our revenues will be under our present tax law. But the knowledge of our revenue under the existing law will avail us rk upon any new nothing if we eml large expenditur program.” MANY TOTALS SLASHED IN THE 1926 BUDGET WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The of running the federal gov- nment in the fiscal year 1926, was fixed by President Coolidge, in the annual budget sent to congress to- day, at $3,729,519,846.48, or a reduc- tion of $59,225,931.72 from the es- timated expenditures of the current vear. The estimates of six major de- partments or other agencies of the vovernment—Interior, Navy, War, ‘Treasury, Shipping Board and Vet- st srans Bureau—were reduced in the new budget while there was only ne notable increase—that for the Department of Agriculture. Practically all of the $26,000,000 | reduction “in the Interior depart ment ‘total was due to the smaller allotment for the Pension bureau. t bureau's outlay was cut from 4,616,000 for the current year to $199,116,000 for next year, largely | because of the decreasing pension roll resulting from the death of pen- sioners. he cut of $23,000,000 in the total was scattered, over many items of expenditure, but a j large part of it was due to a reduc- tion of the land set aside under the heading of “Increase of the Nav: Tt is understood supplemental es timates for needed construction will @o to cone s later, The budget director's report to the president de- |clared that under the total allowed the navy can continue at its pres- ent enlisted strength of 86,000 men; marine corps will have provi sion for 13,000 men inst of the | nt 19,500; the naval reserve force will continue practically on Che Casnet Daily Cribune BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG A CONFOUND “THAT DUKE WHO OWNS THAT ENGLISH NAG! “To KNow How MUCH 1M GONNA PUT UP AS A SIDE BET THAT SPARKY WILL WIN ---- 2 DONT WANT TM BROKE OR ITLL ~ SPOIL THE WORKS - * LNG OF BUNK | WHAT DOES & MAP MEAN ? DO YOU THINK THAT IF SIO SHARES WERE JUMPING TO $25 NEXT. ANYBODY WOULD BE. COAKING YOU IN) 2 THEY WOULD NOT, THEY’D BE SHOOING YOU ANID 4 LOT OF OTHERS AWAY. the present basis; it will be possible to increase the average steaming range of battleships from 19,400 miles to 7 two more of the submarines authorized in 1916 can be laid down; new aircraft can be purchased; and it will be possible to continue work “at a normal rate of speed on all new ships under construction within the limitation of authorized cost."" « There were ‘scattered reductions totalling $8,600,000 in the war de- partment’s allowance, but no par- tleular branch of the military ser- vice was singled out for reduced ap- propriations. Under the total auth- orized the budget bureau declared, the regular army can continue on its present basis of 12,000 officers and an average enlisted strength of 118,000; the number of reserve of- ficers who can be trained wil) re- main about the same; attendance at the citizens training camps must be limited to 29,000 instead of 33,- 900 in the current year and the militia bureau will be able to main- tain an average strength of 173,500, a reduction of 3,500 from the pres- ent authorization. The air service allotment was increased from $14,- 900,000 for the current year to $17,- 000,000 during the coming year to “enable the air service to make rea- sonable progress toward cutting down its present shortage in heavier than air craft and at the same time assist in keeping’ alive the aircraf{ industry for use in time of emer- gency.” The total fixed for rivers and harbors improvement—$59,277,- 900—is practically the same as for the present year, It was in the veterans bureau es- timate that the budget director made his biggest cut under the fi- gure submitted a year ago. A net total of $79,000,000 was lopped off, in spite of increases in some depart- ments of the bureau's | activities. The factors which more than offset these increases included a drop from $89,000,000 to $88,000,000 for vocational rehabilitation, due to the decreasing necessity for giving vo- cational training to men wounded in the war; a reduction from $127, 800,000 set aside a year ago for pos si use In bonus payments, to $62,000,000 which the budget direc- tor estimated would be sufficient to carry the payments through next ear if avplications continue to come in at their present slow rate; and a $7,000,000 luction fh the mount set aside for hospital con- struction, The treasury department's reduc- tion of $16,810,000 under the total for the present year was largaly ac counted for, by the fact that tax re- funds amounting to $16,140,000, re- sulting from the 25 per cent reduc- tion voted by congress at the last session, were included in, the ex- penditures of the current. year and no like item was necessary in the new budget. ‘The coast guard al- lotment was Increased by $1,680,000, as a part of the drive against rum runners, while the total given the customs service was cut $712,000—a reduction declared by the budget div- rector to be due to decreased activi- ties and an estimated falling off in refunds. Included in the factors contribut- ing to the Shipping Board's reduc- tion of’ $6,000,000 were enumerated improved methods of operation, to gether with the conso'idation, cur- tallment and reduction In the num- ber of trade routs, and an improve: ment in ‘freight rates. The budget bureau informed the president in its report that the net increase of $62,000,000 in the amount set aside for the agricul. ture department was “due primarily to an increase from $13,000,000 ‘to $80,000,000 for the’ construction of rural post roads.” There were vart- ous comparatively small increases WEEK AROUND HE WANTS SAY JIM WHERE CAN ‘ RAISE A HIM To KNOW Bucks 2 GASOLINE COUPLA THOUSAND You2 Raise 42000% AND WHEN You OWE EVERYBODY IN “TOWN — 2% DONT MAKE Me LAFF Ey APPLESAUCE 1.00 You THINK SUONIK A 4 SOMPANY EVER L EXCEPT WHERE SOME GEOLOGIST SAID THERE'D BE OL? IF YOU THINK A PERFECT STRANGER IS CHASING Yoo AR THE SEST TO GIVE YOu ‘rT You NEED A GUARDIAN ALLEY—AVERY TELLS °EM wett— Itt - GO To THE DUKE © OUGHT To BE ABLE ‘To PUT OVER A PROPOSITION OF SOME KIND THATS: SPORTING! YES IVE THOUGHT IT OVER AND THERE'S YOUR Map. A MAD DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO ME. IF THOSE SHARES WERE SUMPING TO $25 NEXT WEEK Yau'D BE SHOOING PEOPLE AWAY— NOT COAXING "EM IN, RITE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF THE (Continued from Page One.) tle. The wife of Captain Carr Connell of the United States air service shattered the flask of water from Lake Michigan over the Chi- cago. And the Boston and New Orleans were christened by the wives of two other air service offi- cers, Maj. M. F. Hamilton and Lieut. T. J. Koenig. Huge bouquets of flowers were placed with ceremony on the world cruisers, and the name of each was printed in four inch block letters on each side of the cowling under the exhausts, % The Hopoff for Alaska Two hours before dawn, the morh- ing-of April 6, 1924, the world fllérs were on their way from Seattle to Sand Point field ‘to climb aboard their aerial cruisers and fly north toward the land of the midnight sun. Tens of thousands of gold crazed argonauts had taken that same route to Alaska, but never before had any one attempted to voyage up the famous “inside passage” by airplane. At 8:47 a. m, they taxied out over the waters of Lake Washington, circled around once to gain altitude, and then headed toward Puget sound on @h y to the land of totem poles, Eskimos, volcanoes and caribou, “Land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers run God only knows where; Where there are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair.” Lieut. Les Arnold and Jack Hard- ing both kept diartes of this part of the flight and in them recorded the emotions that swept over them as they got their last glimpse of the United States dropping away be- hind them, Sitting in the rear cockpits of their respective world cruisers, both jotted down the thoughts that sped through thelr minds as they flew north toward the polar rim upon the first leg of the journey which all hoped would enable them to carry the’Stars and Stripes around the world. How Arnold Felt “I find it difficult to express my emotions,” wrote Les Arnold But as I look down on Lake Washing: ton and Seattle and see them grad- ually growing smaller and smaller behini us, I cannot help but wonder what all those people far below us in the streets are thinking of. One of Jack's friends tried to cheer him up last night by telling him that no one in Seattle thinks we have even a fighting chance of getting through and that we are going to almost c¢ ain death. Ww don’t selva a cv aa aber be . war fraud.” The war frauds {tem in the budget for the present year amounted to but $500, but in the new budget it is $1 000. The amount set aside for enforcement of anti-trust laws was increased from $203,930 to $228,000. * A net increase of $23,000,000 also was shown for the post office de- partment, but the whole expendi- ture of that department is expec ed to be returned to the treasury, a’ong With a surplus, as a result of postal revenues, In theory the pos- tal service always Js regarded in the budget as self supporting, although in other. activities of the depart, ment. More than half of the ; increase in’ the allowance for the justice department was accounte for by a decision to n than ‘triple the amount set aside “for th investigation and prosecution it has not always been so in fact. The budget bureau declared rev- enues for the fiscal had been conservatively imated at $647,410,000, while the amount to be advanced to th partment for expenses {s only $ . Should these expectation’ be borne out, a ostal surplus of more than $10,000,+ 00 woutd be turned back into the of | treasury. WORLD FLIERS agree. But at that one cannot help but wonder in setting forth on a trip like this just how many of us will get around, and which planes will finally turn up at Boston. “We all have confidence in our- selves, ‘of course, or we wouldn't go; but whgt is just as important, we have a great faith in our Doug: las cruisers and implicit faith in the chief of our air service and his staff sistants, as well asin the men in the other branches of the gov- ernment who have prepared the way for us all'along the route. “Although we know what has happened to the other ill-fated ex- peditions! that have been sent out to fly around the world, the most of us feel that at least one of our Planes will get through.” Until the cold made it impossible for him to write, Lieut. Arnold kept jotting down notes as they flew along and then, when the weather would delay them at Prince Rupert or’Sitka or Dutch Harbor, he would write them up more carefully in his diary. Escort Planes Say Good-Bye. “A number of other planes been following us for about thirty miles, But now, after coming up one by one, dipping their wings and giving us the salute of the air, they all tarned back, and disappeared into | the haze. Visibility is only fair this morning, but above the haze that half ells the earth tower snow- apped Rainier; the peaks of the Olympi¢ peninsula and the Canadian Rockies, ‘The summit of Rainier stands out as clegr as crystal. No wonder the people of the northwest almost worship that monarch which the Indians called ‘the ‘mountain that was god.’ “Instead of turning out through the Straits of Juean de Fuca; through which the steamers pass on their way from Puget sound to Japan, Hawail, the south seas and | Australia, we © heading north along the coast of Washington. } Ma}. Martin is leading. A moment ago Ke left the formation just long enough to swing out over Belling: ham and give a ewell salute Lo the iriends in Lis home town who (Pacific and Atlantic Photo) Disaster trailed Maj. Martin almost from the start of the world flight On the hop from Seattle to Alaska his ship dropped thirty feet into a roar- ing sea, but that time he escaped and was able to continue after his cruiser was repaired. The picture shows Maj. Martin with his wife and their son at Clover field, Cal., at the start of si PAS AE TTR rasan the round-the-world flight. said they were going to be on the lookout to see him fly by. “Now we are swinging to the left and flying above the \ Strait of Georgia, which separates Vancouver island from the mainland of British Columbia. The city of Victoria has just disappeared on our left and out there through the struts of our right wing I can see the skyscrapers of Vancouver, Good-Bye to Mount Rainier. “Our last American friend has just bid us bon voyage. Old Mount Rainier is no longer visible. We are flying through a fog bank now and the mountain that has been watching us for nearly a hundred miles, long after we reached Canada, has passed out of view. But there was something almost spiritual about that mountain. I saw Lowell glance back over his shoulder at it several times and I. am gure the memory of the grandeur of it will serve to inspire us all the way around the world. Somehow it seemed to symbolize the spirit that men should have when starting on an undertaking of this kind—an un- dertaking that makes you feel the presence of the Ruler of the Uni- verse. “I wonder just how long it will be until we see old Mount Rainier again? Surely no more fitting spot for the start of a flight around the world could be found than at the base of such an awe-inspiring moun- tain, Through a Perilous Fog. “But these are not the things to think about while flying through a fog. Now we are passing through a haze like the smoke from a forest fire.” At this point Arnold found other things to think about than his diary, things that might have made his hair stand_on end if he hadn't been wearing a tightly -strapped flying helmet. But the next day he wrote rest of the day’s ventures in V4 soon discovered that this haze was the forerunner of a fog which gradually got thicker and thi ‘ and lower fog that fore until we wer 1 us lower 2 soon flying TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1924 DUKE = INSTEAD OF PUTTING UP By Billey De Beck ANY. MONEY IN THIS RACE OF OURS mS LISSEN = Xou SMASH ME IN “THe JAW— AND IN CASE I WIN—-- = SOMETHING \F I Lose SAY, DID ANY COMPANY EVER DIG A WELL ANYWHERE SAID THERED BE OIL ? NOBODY’ EXCEDT WHERE SOME GEOLOGIST leas 3 ‘Ss a GOING TO FOLLOW ME AROUND r S| TO HAND ME THE BEST OF fT, YOO MUST THINK | NEED A, GUARDION! only fitty feet off the water. At times it hung over the waters of the Strait of Georgia like a blanket and forced us down to the water's edge so that our pontoons looked. as though at any moment they would dip into the white caps. “Over little inlets and passages, and between islands, we flew.' The land on both sides was heavily wooded right down to ‘the shore. Just imagine what a terrific racket the roar of our Liberty engines must create up here in these Canadian forests where ordinarily everything is so still! “The region through which we passed locked utterly uninhabited except for wild animals. I wonder what the bears, wolves, and other forest dwellers think of ‘our thunder birds'? Once in a great-while on on¢ side or the other we passed a evttage in a clearing, probably a trapper's shack. Or sometimes we would shoot by the mouth of a creek where huge fishing nets were going up and down, Twice we saw people, Indians, I suppose, paddling vanoes. Occasionally the fog would break for a moment and we would catch a glimpse of a waterfall or rugged forest covered mountains. Almost Crash Into Steamer. “When we passed over what the map calls ‘Discovery’ and ‘John- stone’ straits, part of the time we were nearly skimming the water again bécause of the thick fog, and several places where we passed be- tween islands the sea below us rushed and boiled like a mill race. 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Center St. just imagine the emotions of people on that steamer and what they must have thought when all of a sudden out of the fog a fleet of giant plancs came swooping toward them at terrific speed. As we swerved and went bellowing by, the passengers all waved, and we waved back. “It certainly does cheer you up to come in such close! contact with people and be able to wave to them, especially when you are flying over a strange region, and more espe- cially still if it happens to be over a sea where you know the nearest land is uninhabited.” Willard Mack Recovers From Liquor Poison NEW ROCHELLE, N, Y., Dec. 2, —Willard Mack's sight is now per- fectly normal ahd within a weels the playwright should be able to re- sume his ultimate duties, Dr. J. H. Brennan, his personal physician, said. Mack's vision was impaired by liquor bought on a recent motor trip in New Jersey, he now is at his home in Pelham Manor, recuperat: ing. 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