Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1924, Page 20

1 1 t 1 i « 1 ‘ 1 1 t 1 1 { ‘ SRCPKC PNB K-ORKe KB KEN KAKO HMM AA 1 I y Pe et PAGE FOUR. Code ered at yoming) postctfice as second 23, 1916. Casper Novembe (lass matter The Casper Datly Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sundsy, at Casper, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Build ing. opporitg posteffice. of Business Telephone: Branch Telephone Departments i. HLANWAY AND B. B, HANWAY Adveriist Trepresentatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, DL, 286 Fitth Ave., New York City; Giobe Bide., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bidg.. 55 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in she New York, Chicago, ton end San Francisco offices and vinitcrs. ure some. By J SUBSCRIPTION RATES Sy Carrer and Qutside State Daily and Sunday - Year, Sunday only nih, Dally and Sunday - fontus, Dally and Sund Jonth, Datly and Sunday Yea iy and Sunday Sunday Only - ly apd Sunday - tions must be paid In advance and ne will not insure delivery after sub- mes one month rears KICK, IF YOU DON'T Gist YOUR RIBUNE 1f you don’t find your Tribune atter lookieg care- for it call 15 or 16 and {It will be delivered to you special messenger. Register compiaints before 8 is wai ype : Thank God for Coolidge Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett is a leader of Vir- ginian aristocracy. She is equally prominent in Democratic politics in the old dominion. She was a delegate from Virginia to the Democratic con- vention, and made a notable speech seconding the nomination of Senator Glass for the presidency. She is representative of the clearest thought and the best intelligence of the solid south. The other day Mrs. Barrett delivered an address before a Washington audience in the course of which she made this illuminating remark: “I am a Demo- crat and I voted for Davis, but 1 thank God President Coolidge was re-elected.” Mrs. Barrett spoke the minds of many thou- sands of loyal southern Democrats who are intel- ligent citizens. They approve of the Coolidge standards of government, they know that Repub- lican protection is necessary to the industrial welfare of their section of the country, and they believe that American independence should be preserved from European entanglements. Yet the tradition of generations has laid hold upon them so strongly that they would no more think of deserting the Democratic ticket than of refus- ing homage to Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Many southern Republicans are colored and the white Democrats may have a legitimate objec- tion to voting for colored men for local office, but the race question does not enter at all into national politics. It would be perfectly simple for the southern voters to cast his local vote accord- ing to the color of the candidates if he chose to do so, but his presidential ballot ought to be determined by sound judgment as to the fitness of the men and their platforms. But, instead, democracy in the south has be- come a species of fanaticism. Emotional rever- ence for the past controls to the almost complete exclusion of intelligent appraisal of national is- sues. Ancestor worship by the Chinese has noth- ing on worship of the Democratic fetich by most of the southern voters. Having laid their votes as a sacrifice upon their political altars, they await the result with bated breath. When reason triumphs, as it did last month, they join, with Mrs. Barrett in laying unction to their own souls as devout Democrats, but all‘ “thank God that President Coolidge was re-elected.” The Pinch Hitter We may all have our opinions, our hobbies and our prejudices, but if we cannot co-ordinate them with inexorable economic laws, cherished dreams are doomed to failure. An article by Senator Ladd of North Dakota, in the Saturday Evening Post shows the differ- ence between fact and theory in public affairs. Commenting on Senator Ladd’s article which has to do with Muscle Shoals and which may be summed up in his words which state that “neith- er a nation nor an individual can rush into com- mercial chemistry without risking heavy losses,” the editor of the Saturday Evening Post says: “The conclusion to whith this line of reason- ing leads is that if Uncle Sam desires to slip a government harness on a public utility he should choose a sober, steady one, some sleek and yen- erable Dobbin that is safe for an old gentleman to drive with comfort and pleasure, a dependable nag that will not shy or bolt or suddenly go loco with new-fangled ideas, Let the young daredevils of finance and industry drive the fiery stallions and the restive fillies. Good old Dobbin is the horse for Uncle Sam. “This argument cuts both ways. If private capital is such a trustworthy pinch hitter that it alone can be counted on to bring off hazard- ous operations with success, if we frankly con- cede that any industrial problem requiring real genius, high courage and perfect organization for its solution can be mastered only by non-govern- mental agencies, we are very ne; to admitting that Uncle Sam will be better off riding as a pas: senger behind a fast horse handled by one of these smart private daredevils than he will be if he drives old Dobbin with his own hands. “Senator Ladd's concise brief for the private development of the Muscle Shoals. project does him signal credit, His theories, prepossessions and bent of mind all favor government operation. And yet, the moment he, as a responsible member of the government, undertakes to express a rea oned opinion on a concrete case he casts prefer: ence and prejudice on the ground and allows his unbaised practical Judgment to trample them under foot. “Herein lies the essential difference between publicists of Senator Ladd’s stamp and the radi- cal advocates of government ownership who end with theory as they begin with it, and painstak- ingly shelter their houses of cards from every wind of experience and sound thinking that might destroy their pretty castles, If these people would tell the Simon-pure truth abont their views it would all boil down to the fact that they are not founded upon economic principles. What they really want } freight rates, smaller gas and bills, cheaper railway tickets, lower jee of every sort. Tue ghting electri ——$——$——— + —. Casper Sunday Cribune | Need for Sensible Laws In dealing with the problem of redu traffic accidents, there is much confusion of effort and waste of ideas, much proposed and little done, In view of the fact that exceeding 22,000 were killed and 678,000 injured in traffic accidents in this country the past year, remedial measures are necessary. School children, drivers, legislators, city fath- ers and police must be educated on this subject. There should be uniform traffic laws governing af vehicles instead of the present confusion which provide a type of heaally it in one state which is unlawful in-an adjoining state, which subject a driver to arrest when he crosses a state line because of different traffic regulations with which he is not familiar; which require all an- tomobiles to pass a trolley car on the left in one locality while requiring that drivers keep to the right in an adjoining city. Some states have a good automobile law that is enforced and motor. accidents show a decrease. In other states there is much room for improve- 3| ment. Inspection is strict in some states, in oth- ers lax and the same rule applies to the issuance of automobile licenses. Standardization of motor vehicle laws will help lessen motor accidents. Rejecting ‘Government Meddling Emphatic opposition by the people of the United States to governmental invasion of pri- vate enterprise ix readily seen from recent elec- tion. results. In Minnesota a proposition for state grain ele- yators was defeated, and in California the vot- ers turned down a proposal for state ownership and operation of water power. In the state of Washington the voters rejected a proposal to permit municipalities to sell electric light cur- rent outside of their own boundaries. Missouri and Illinois defeated most decisively proposals which were submitted for the facilitating of con- stitutional amendments. In like manner thé states of Maryland, Pennsylvania and South Da- kota, by large pluralities, decided not to call con- stitutional conventions. Rebukes were handed government interference attempts were made to create state monopolistic workmen's compensation funds. Massachusetts and other states having referendum on the sub- ject soaked the federal child labor amendment. The defeats dealt these socialistic proposals can lead to only one conclusion, and that is that the public in widely seperated parts of the na- tion is, most emphatically opposed to govern- ment interference with private business. Where Will It End? At the end of the first year in operation the California gasoline tax of two cents a gollon produced $12,226,145 for the state, When a Ford owner puts in ten gallong of gas and pays a twenty cent state tax on the same, he doesn’t think so much about it as he would if the got a single bill at the end of the year two cents a gallon on 500 gallons of gas or #10. When the gas tax has been raised as high as the traffic will stand, we will see a tire tax. It will only be a step from this to a tax levied on bank checks, railroad tickets and newspaper sales—a cent here, a cent there—millions in the aggregate. After we have gone around in a circle long enough in this manner we will come to the con- clusion that tax reduction is not secured by shift- ing taxes or finding new sources of taxation. In the long run, the consumer pays the bill and Ke the time all the various special taxes with whic! he is now loaded are added to his regular tax, the tax item in the cost of living will be larger each month than the family grocery bill. The gasoline tax is a beautiful illustration of the enormous amounts special taxation extracts from the public by five and ten cent store methods. President Coolidge refuses to support the child labor amendment to the federal. constitution, which would give congress jurisdiction over la- bor of all persons under 18 years of age. The child labor amendment advocates will try to force every legislature in session this coming year to submit this question to a vote of the people. Massachusetts and some other states have bur- ied the amendment under enormous negative ma- jorities, taking position that it is a question for every state to deal with. Business organizations, some forty organiza- tions of manufacturers and about eighty state and national organizations of farmers and hun- dreds of chambers of commerce and other associa- tions are opposing this twentieth amendment. The federal child labor amendment would ere- ate a new department at Washington with an army of officials traveling all over the United States and telling families of good American citizens how to bring up their children and isau- ing permits whether boys and girls up to the age of 18 shall be permitted to labor, and under what conditions. A Lean Year This was a lean year for the Democratic cam- paign chest. Despite the most frantic appeals by the Davis managers, the flow of contributions was mostly in the direction of the Republican organization. What more natural, therefore, that the Democrats should seek to have their future campaigns fininaced by all the taxpayers, be they: Republicans, Democrats, third party fol lowers, or what not? Senator Caraway, of Ar- kansas, has drafted this ingenious scheme into the form of a bill which directs appropriations from the national treasury to defray all future casts of campaigns. With rare naivete he places a limit of $1,000,000 on presidential campaign ex- penses which was considerably more than his party was able to collect in the last contest. . The Inalienable Right Freedom of speech won a great victory in both England and the United States in the recent elec- tions in both countries. In the campaign in Eng: land the radicals sought every opportunity and adopted every means short of murder to break up public meetings where their opponents were try- ing to discuss the issues with the voters. Even women speakers were made the objects of insults abuse and assaults. In this country a similar pol- icy was pursued although the violence was not so marked. In one case where the radicals had usked for a joint debate with a Republican, and this had been granted, the radical speaker was listened to with respect but when the Republi- can tried to talk his voice was drowned out by spectacle of many purveyors of such services only a leap or two uhead of the pursuing receiver makes no appeal either to their desires or to their judgment. They want the best of service and they want it for less than cost, the taxpayer, must stand tke dificit.” radical shouts, hisses, and other forms of noisy disturbance, The people of America, like the people of Eng: land, believe in freedom of speech and they re- eorded their disapproval of radical suppression of free speech when they marked their ballots, { in private business in Missouri and Oregon where | 2 HORIZONTAL 1. An absolute monarch. 4. Showy. 7. A hitbual drunkard. %. Transfix. 4 10. Personal pronoun. 12. Vehicle. 14, Toward. 15. Bring forth young. 17. Short fibres on surface of rug. Liquor. | 19. Strike lightly. 21. Old horse. 22. One-half cent in Japanese money. 28. Corrode. 24. To convert into leather, 26. Wood boring tool. 28. Long snakelike fish: 29. Title of knighthood. 31. To anoint. 83. Indefinite ‘article. 34. Titles. 36. Father. 37. Bread softened in a liquid. 38. Female parent. 40. Scandinavian god of thunder. 41. To challenge. Britain Takes Hold Interested persons who have been sitting on the fence waiting and watching for the British Empire to fall over dead have been given a lit- tle thrill of the unexpected sort by England's competent handling of the Hgyptian situation. The compe tence consisted in Egyptian matters to reach a point where they might properly be called a situation at all, Call the last-straw episode, which resulted in English intervention an excuse, a provocation or frame-up and the estimate of what was done is not changed much. The’ point is that Egypt has beon indulged in the appearance of independence and a large measure of domestic autonomy, with a very large result of misgov- ernment resulting. The British government stepped in skilfully and sensibly at the right time, under the right clreum- stances, to restore Egyptian condi tions to the normal state that is ex- pected by a workaday world of a supposedly effective organization. Egypt will be more largely governed | ; from London from now on and gov- erned in the interest of the world of which Egypt is a part, even if Egyptian dreamers and demagogues do not know It. The empire ts in reality a federa tion. England learned long ago what Germany had to be taught by a world war, that force alone can- not hold any group of peoples. to- gether or bring them together. Hol- land learned that same lesson of ef- fective empire before England did. Mutual interest is the only lasting cement, the only bond that holds. Community of traditions, oneness of language, the sentimental adhesion that comes in time from sharing troubles and successes together, these all help to make the going easier and better. Egypt has not yet been thorough: ly sold on the modern empire idea, but the Egyptians will be. It re quired a civil war and more than a century of time ‘to sell the federal idea to the United States, under vastly more favorable conditions than Great Britain has ever enjoy- ed. Great Britain has had a Hercu- I task on her shoulders for gen- erations. The empire will fail only when the English heart fails. Flash-thinking Americans are prone to get tangled up in addled conceptions of empire politics by a misunderstanding. We should mind our own business and draw the weight of our opinion on the side that is best for the world. Ina more positive and helpful way, while the British Empire continues to ex- ist we can contribute to its integrity and own welfare by contributing to it the helfulness and sympathy of American opinion. a anneeien @ Protection and Wages During the recent campaign, so- clalist orators and labor agitators repeatedly stated that protection does not help the wage earners, and that a new system should be es! Ushed whereby ‘wage earners obtain the full value of the pre produced by their toil." Enemies of protection now tell the wage-eatners that In the devel opment of national wealth from $1, 000,000,000 to $300,000,000,000 in gold, the wealth has not been fair- ly divided. It is charged that the wage earners do not receive their fair share, that they shou'd have the full value of the wenith they produce. It is urged dustrial democ be under a that an in| substituted no capital workers. Wage earners will . ft is said, Ret justice. According to the tensus of 1920 the value offll manufactured ots in the United Stutes in The instigator of this crime went abroad for some of his words, found them already adopted in this country, not allowing | [ATO MPILTATY[E]RIS| 19 was about $62.500.000.000. of _| establishments in the United States. VERTICAL Conquer. Roman weight of one pound, Dispute. A machine separating cotton fibre and seed. 5. Indefinite article. 6. Smallest particle of an element existing alone. 8. A color. 9% An artificial drink, 11, Devour, Matter in the aeriform state. Drag with great effort. Pronounced through the nose. Relationship. ty. vigor. Tilt. Orient. Undermine. A primary color. Crippled. Conjunction. Gloomy. In the same degree. Mother. PUZZLE SOLUTION Solution of Saturday's Puzzle. foIn| Sess): ul Ys only about $10,600,000,000 went to wege earners and the balance to the manufacturers, that is, the cap- ists an dstockholders — one-sixth of the total value of the products to wage earners nd five-sixths to the capitalists his is the claim of the industrial “reformers,” among them the ‘socialists. Let us see about this. Does the ive-sixths or $52,000,000,000 go to capital or stockholders? Hardly. More than $37,000,000,000. went for cost of materials used in mantfac- ture. More than $2,000,000,000 went for federal, corporation, state, coun- ty and local taxes. 000,00! More than $1,- 000 went for new machinery SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” — Genuine Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed Colds Headache Pain Neuralgia Toothache _ Lumbago Neuritis Rheumatism Safe— Aspitio te the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Moncacet More than $500,000,000 went for in- surance, interest, repairs, advertia: ing, rent, freight, ete. These several items of expense foot up approximately $41,800,000,- 000, all of which had to be paid be- foré there was anything left for Profit or the stockholders, or capl- tal. The net profit was about $10.- 000,000,000, or a little less than the ‘wages paid by the manufacturers in that year. . As a. mater of fact, the average net profit for dividends and sur- plus in 1919 was not over ten pet cent among all the manufacturing Manufacturing establishments — net- ting a profit of 15 or 20 per cent are rare. * Socialists who undertake to mis- lead wage-earners in these matters should be cailed to account. The League Pauses ‘The burst of speed the league of nations put on at Geneva last Sep- tember was more than the traffic of world politics would bear. In the protocol for the pacific settlement of international disputes the attempt ‘was made to go too far in too short a time. In laying down a system for the outlawry and punishment of aggressive war the league assembly too sharply disregarded the funda- mental factor that the United States is not a member and that no plan would work in practice without as- surance of Amertcan co-operation or, at least, neutrality. So now the league pau: s if to regain {ts breath. The machinery set in motion at Geneva has been slowed down at Rome. The council meeting there ylelded to the British request for more time, based osten- sib'y upon the exigencies of imper- {al policy, actually upon the necessl- ty for determining just what stand the United States would take in case oceasion should arise for action by the league members against an ag- gressor nation. Further discussion of the proto- col, which has already been signed by sixteen nations, has been post- poned until the council meeting next March. By this token the arma ment conference, scheduled for June, 1925. is indefinitely delayed. It is made plain, howéver, that the proto: col has not been scrapped, but only fied for future reference. Foreign Minister Chamberlain, of Great Britain, journeyed to Rome at some inconvenience (he had to miss the opening of Parliament) for the purpose of delaying action. Now that this has been accomplished, some move 1s evidently expected on the part of the United States. President Coolidge in his congres- sional messaze stated that the arma- ment conference he has promised waited upon a decision regarding the conference proposed by the Accept only Also bottles of 24 and 10)—Druggiste, league. The league conference is shelved, so far as next year is con- cerned. The way has been opened for America’s proposal. With regard to the attitude of the states toward the plan for outlawing aggressive war, some clarifying in- formation is likely to come out when the question of participation in the world court arises. The relation of the court with the league, will, in view of the Geneva protocol, admit of further elucidation. It is already clear not only that the United States cannot co-operate in the system devised at Geneva but that ft almost inevitably would be pushed to’ forcible objection in case an attempt were made to apply it in practce. But thé United States does favor reduction ani limitation of armaments. The world is now wait- ing to see what America has to of- fer in this line, and the league con- ference is held in suspension against the presentation of an American plan. —$__>__——. Illiteracy There are 3,000,009 native-born and 2,000,000 foreign-born illiterates in the United States. By some kind of neglect in providing schools, in compelling parents to send their chil- dren to school or in making educa- tion seem worth while, 3,000,000 of our native-born population have had no schooling whatever. Of the 2,- 000,000 foreign-born illiteratés a great many must have arrived with- by physicians 24 years for — “Bayer” : Bayer which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets. | package ‘SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 19z4 {n the borders of the United States while still of school age, so consid- erably more than 3,000,000 of the iiterates of the ‘country have been counted in our schoo! population. Now that all immgrants are re- quired to take a Iterary test, {llit- eracy among our foreign-born should disappear. But the problem of pro- viding education in some degree for the nearly 5,000,000 adults remains. It is immaterial for practical pur- poses how they happened to be here —whether they grew here or came here. The duty is the same. The mass of ignorance is with us and it is hanging over us Nike a pall. , It gan and should be removed. ‘The public school plants and machinery can be used. *With some additions in personnel and appropriations it ought to be possible to teach all the illiterate youths and adults of the United States to read newspaper English, to write letters, to read signs and direction and to make most of their wants known in writ- ten language. Without considering the wider, finer life that would in this way be brought to the I'literates, it will be good business to change them to lit- erates. The time and money will be Well spent. Low earning gapacity and low average incomes go hand in hand with illiteracy. Education produces wealth. Every child of school age should be kept in school until at least the rudiments of an education are acquired. If this is done the problem of il'iteraéy will be solved within the present genera- tion. | ee SHOP-O-SCOPE BUYING means Christmas saving, ¢ Troop Centralization The war department policy of cen tralizing troops at a few well chos- en points, rather than having them y is asking authority of congress to dispose of more than a score of use- less pieces of real estate owned by and with contem other large pieces of be abandoned and sold. The treas- ury can make other use ofithe mon- ey and the people will be saved a large sum for upkeep. SHOP THE Shop-o-scope way this Christmas! Salt Creek Busses Leave Casper, Townsend Hotel 8 a. m. and 2:30 p. m Leave Salt Creek 8 a. m. and 2 p. m. BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS -Bus Leaves 2:30 Daily Salt Croek Transportation Co, TELEPHONE 144 a ! 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