Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1924, Page 8

I 1 t © t eee a er SAP Bi Th Dem tron #2 ome ates teen eee 1 a r { 1 t y ~~ $4,000,000 per day. *AGE EIGHT sy fhe Casper Daily Cribune Enicered at Casper (Wyoming) postcffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Prere is exclusiveiy entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Mentber of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening end The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. Pubiication offices: Tribune Build- ing, opposite pos.oftice. Bisiness Teiephine- — Branch Telephone Departments By J. E. HANWAY AND E. E. HANWAY Advertising xtepresentatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg. igo, Ul, 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; G obe dg., Boston, Mass., suite 404 Sharon Bidg., 65 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the y Tribune are on file tn the New ‘York, Chicago, and San Francisco offices and visitors ure ‘on welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrer and Outside State One Year, Daily and Sunday One Year, Sunday ony --- Six Month, Daily and Sund: t wo Saceos rhree Months, Daly and Sunday yne Month, Daily and Sunday Ver Copy — One Year, Datly and § One Year, Sunday Only 50 Six Months, Daily aud Su: 90 rt Me . Daily and Sun 26 y and Sunday riptions Must be Tribune will not insure d ecomes one month in arr IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE ‘ou don’t find your Tr ooking care- 5 or 16 and vered to you y for it call 15 Register complaints before 8 it special me: GEES o'clock Policy of Economy Many individuals, companies and corporations have taken the cue from the federal administra- tion, and working out policies of economy to suit their several activities. Notable among these are the managers of railroads. Since the cost of operating the railroads must eventually be paid by the people when they pay freight and * passenger charges, economy in railroad manage- + 2ment is pract as important to the public as }seconomy in the government business. Inspection of some of the railroad records, as transmitted to the interstate commerce commis- sion, shows that reduction in opératng costs s not accomplished by reduction of wages, but by better management which enabled the roads “to do their with a smaller number of men. > Recent high records in the handling of freight— 2 getting more freight into a car and more tons + of freight into a train and getting the trains over more miles of track per day—indicate the character of improvement in management which Shas made the reduction in costs possible. Chiefly by this insistence upon economy, the “railroads have been able to increase their net earnings, although they are still, in an average, short of the net earnings which the interstate commerce commission fixed as a reasonable re- turn upon the value of the property used in transportation. The commission fixed 5.75 per cent as a reasonable return. During the first ten ~“months of the year the average net return was about 4.95 per cent, but during the last two months period the rate ran up to 5.64 per cent. There seems *o likelihood that for the entire year the average return will reach the figure es- ‘tablished by the commission. Some comparisons indicate the extent of say- ing attained by the railroads through the adopt- ion of better management. In the fall of 1920 the operating expenses were running about $17,- 000,000 per day while in 1924 they are less than $12,900,000 per day, a reduction of more than This has been accomplished without a scaling down of wages. Moreover, this has been accomplished without any sacrifice of quality of service. During Octo- ber, the latest month for which statistics are available, the railroads carried two per cent snore freight than in the same month last year, and during that month loaded more ca’ n one week than in any other week in history, yet the equipment has been maintained in such good ‘ondition and the cars handled so expeditiously that there was a duily average of 100,000 surplus freight rs ready to handle more goods if of- fered. A surplus of freight cars is absolutely necessary to avoid congest It is a safe assertion t ation had been continued, there would have been an increase instead of a decrease in the number of ‘employes, and a decrease in the amount of freight handled per employe. The whole tendency of government operation is to load up the payroll and diminish the amount of work accomplished per employe. The ‘Transportation act, under which the roads were returned to their private owne authorized a reasonable rate of retu on the property valuation. Since there is no likeli- m. at if government oper- hood of the roads being permitted to charge high er rates, the only possibility of their earning that reasonable return was through reduction of costs of operation. Railroad managers have de- yoted their attention to that problem with a zeal that reflects great credit. Eyen if the stockholders do not yet receive on an av large a return as was held by the commission to be reasonable, they have some | atisfa tion in seeing a nearer approach to it, with a prospect for its possible attainment at some indefinite future time. Wallace's Last. Word: Some very practical suggestions on the sub- ject of co-operation among farmers were con- tained in the annual report of the late Secretary of Agriculture, Henry C. Wallace, which report was written a few weeks before his death. There are two things in particular that M#. Wallace wart ainst—domination by government agen nd over-enthusiasm. Briefly summar- ized, his remarks on this much discussed subject p as follows: ‘Good, sound growth in the co-operative move- ment has been somewhat retarded in recent years by over-enthusiastic persons who haye held | it up a panacea for all the ills from which the _ farmers suffering. The mere organ i of a co-operative association is not the ~bs attaiz It is only the beginning. Success in co-operation depends on finding men capable 7, of running co-operative sociations, on the loyal ~<support of the membership, and on getting a suf. ume of bu ne converts to co-operative movement rge that the government should proceed to or nize the farmers in co-operative associations ~ But if the government should ask farmers to join soo particular co-operative association it would put iteeif in the position of guarntecing an enter ‘* peise without having an authoritative yoice in its management. There is confusion in the minds of promoters of co-operative enterprises as to what the government may properly do. “Bills have been introduced in congress in the last two years which would put the government squarely into the business of promoting co-oper- ative associations. Some of these bills would cre- ate a gréat federal overhead agency and _sec- ondary boards of control and would have these bodies assume control of a number of highly im- portant activitjes such as the dissemination of market news, a service which is already carried on efficiently by the federal department of agri- culture and which in the interest of the farmers should be kept in the control of a well-organ- ized impartial permanent government depart- ment devoted to the service of agriculture and free from entangling business alliances. ‘The relationship of the government to co-oper- ation should be one of service. It should help the farmers market their crops just as it helps them to produce crops, not by doing the work but by supplying information which the farmers can not get for themselves. To go further would be to | injure rather than aid the co-operative move- ment. “The need for strong co-operative marketing associations can not be overemphasized. They are absolutely necessary to bring about efficient }and economical marketing and standardization | of crops, but the movement should be truly co- operative and should be controlled by its mem- bership. “Agricultural co-operation should be kept free from domination by government agencies or com- interes’ Great Is Publicity “One of tthe most-ambitious publicity stunts in the history of advertising. The visit to this |} country of the Grand Duchess Cyril, wife of the self-proclaimed czar of Russia, was free of cost to the royal visitor and thousands of’ dol- lars have followed her home. Free passage was provided by the French line, the presidential suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel was provided | by the hotel, and the manufacturers of a high- priced automobile placed cars at her disposal; the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, Philadelphia, of- fered its royal suite; the New Willard hotel in Washington did likewise. Crawfishes | It is now shown that Samuel Untermyer’s eleventh-hour attempt to poison the public mind against the Republicans in favor of the LaFol- lette Socialistic Communistic group was a frame- up. Untermyer, while protecting himself in a measure by saying he could not confirm the story, nevertheless day by day during the last hours of the campaign kept hinting at a terrible slush fund expose. It appears that the whole basis of this unsportsmanlike affair was forged des- patches recording an aiieged transfer of $1.900,- 000 Republican funds to banks in St. Louis, Kan- sas City, Minneapolis and San Francisco for cam- paign purposes. Untermyer found it quite impos- sible to attend the senate campaign fund commit- tee meeting to support his charges. Map Making There is more than meets the eye in Austen Chamberlain’s answer to the question whether he and Mussolini had discussed the Morocean sit- | uation. “In a two-hour conversation with Signor | Muesolini,” he said, “it is not likely that we} should have oyerlooked ‘the fact that there is a | northern part of Africa:” The northern part of | Africa is a holdover from the days before the war, the last remnant of:an era’ of colonization and expansion that had not a little to do with making straight the path toward Armageddon. ‘There in another portion of the globe, remain lands: whose status has not been finally and def- initely fixed, whose boundaries are still imagi- nary lines, whose peoples have not been brought within the closed circle of the dominating powers. That these powers feel at liberty once more to turn their attention to these lands is an indi- cation that diplomacy is itself again and that the ancient order of things did not entirely go up in the smoke of the World War. The main differ ence is that the map-makers in northern Africa need no longer fear that a kaiser in shining arm- or will interfere in their doings. Smashes the Myth Commenting on President Coolidge’s message to congress which urges Turther tax reduction and economy in public affairs, the New York Times quotes him—“Economy reaches every- where. It carries a blessing to everybody.” The Times then says, editorially, “We cannot have too much economy. We are more likely to not get enough of it. Mr. Coolidge whacks the myth that ‘the rich,’ by some magic process, can be made to pay the cost of government. By the sweat of our faces, in one way or another, we all pay taxes, whether tax bills come to us or not. “The refusal properly to reduce the high sur- taxes was an outgrowth of this mythology. ductive entreprise haye the benefit of the capital | that will remain withdrawn from it until the | surtax rates are scientifically scaled downward, | with a view to revenue, not to the punishment of | ‘the ha 7} As the national tax load is reduced, let cities counties and states profit by the example and lower the burden of local taxation, Encouraging Home Products Montana is to have the first new sugar factory | built in the United States since the war, the | great $1,500,000 Holly mill at Sidney. Several other mills may be built in Montana, where the sugar beet thrives well. There could be no sugar manufacture in the United States Without a prtective tariff to equal- ize labor and capital costs here‘as compared with foreign sugar production. Under the present sys- tem, the equalizing tariff of about 1.75 cents per pound furnishes governmental revenues that | would have to be raise! by some other form of taxation and encouragement is offered the home sugar industry which pays out about $100,000,- 000 a year to American farmers and laborers. Ready and Willing to Aid “America must constantly be ready to help both at home and abroad where American aid is desired and will be effective,” said President Coolidge at Chicago. This is but a restatement of Republican policy from the beginning. Amer- ica has always stood ready to aid, but it is the Republican belief that American aid can be most effective when applied by’ ourselves independ- ntly of any league of nations, Had American strength been dissipated in attempting to carry Mr. | Coolidge renews the recommendation that pro- | nto exceution the various obligations of. the ‘eague covenant, we would be little better off to- lay than the countries of the old world, and in no position to give aid of any sort. SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD ee Start out by filling in the words of which you fee) reasona! sure. These ‘will give you ‘a clue to other words crossing Small Investors and they in turn to others. A letter belongs in each white i space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either Since 1981" American railroads horizontally or vertically or both. have purchased 454.654 new $2,250 ears, 7.348 new $50.000 locomotives, HORIZONTAL VERTICAL and 8,000 new $30.000 steel passen- 1—Inhabitant of North Africa 1—Competent ser cars, at a total cost of more 5—England’s greatest possession in Asia 7—To strive on equal terms 11—Christian na month 12—Surname of 11 13—Army officer (abbr.) 15—Prefix, same as ex 16—Duck noted for Its down 17—Part of body 19—Stupid 20—Familiar’ tree 21—Organ of the body 23—Cunning 25—Frozen water 27—A playing card 29—Long braid of $1—State of being achromatic $2—A popular drink 83—Poilnt of compass (abbr.) 34—Personal pronoun 286—Possessive pronoun 38—To grow old 41—First sign of zodiac 43—Pigment 44—Suffix, forme superlative of ad- Jectives 48—Light boat 47—Latin for water (abbr.) 60—Right Worshipful , 61—Large seaport of Ireland 53—To bind oneself by promise 55—W Ithered 66—Racket 67—Above PUZZLE SOLUTION Crossword IGALA PL NIST ONTO RIUM INAIGH EIAIT Sit tT} Answer to Sunday's youth, health and beauty may be MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1924 credit and industrial stability. Insurance {is a penny business in France as compared to the Unfted States. Think of an undertaking of that sort here with fifteen or twenty own funds in fifteen annual install- ments, taking over all the business staff, assets and machinery without compensation. ‘That ought to suit Eternal Youth Professor Carlson that argues he socialists of noted Amer. Ican diplomat, traveler and writer born 100 years ago this 2—To give sanction 3—Ever, always 4—Exposed 5—Girl’s name 6—Took food 7—Perlod of time 8—Suffix denoting an cil to poetry 10—Language of Scottish High- 9—Relati landers 14—One remarkable for tact 17—Poasesses 18—A thickn 21—Before a stated time 22—Yellow earth used as palpt 24—Outward seeming 26—Nationa! bird of she United States 27—Section of a 28—An epoch 29—A coin (abbr.) 30—Point of compass (abbr.) 35—Not translucent 36—Anger 37—To cause to rest 39—Ma name 40—A relative 42—Goods on board a vessel 43—Tablets 46—Water-pitcher 48—Tavern 49—Compeneation 62—A close relative §4—F road thoroughfare (abbr.) Proposed to expend on of fostering American The demagogical outcry against thus foster ng privately owned mi chant ships will probably be as conserved by fasting. Dr. Carlson is head of the department of phys!- ology at Chicago university and he ‘not only practices what he preaches, but he prevails upon his students to follow his example. He applies his treatment for 15 days at a time. By abstaining from food for two weeks the body fs able to renew its youth and get a fresh start. The usval processes of _| marvelously stimulated. words, the ty cells and "| undergo vital chonees more rapidly, Instead of remaining stagnant, as they are apt to do with jucreasing ‘| years. When nourishment is t:ken ft is then dizested better. It 1» more thoroughly assimilated. This improvement will continue after the temporary want of food has been made up and the body has returned to its normal weight. The professor argues that there is nothing painful about the fasting Process. There is. possibly # tem- porary weakening of the body, but there is no disturbing mental reac- tion. After the first two or three days it is ed@sy, and one may go about his usua! labors without dis- comfort or danger. It is at least a simple and inexpensive method of competing with the hazards of years and excess. to than $1,600,000 000. on order, 49,702 285 locomotives. These expenditures are made hbe- cause the roads must have equip- ;ment to give satisfactory service The average income rate from rail- toad securities is much below a . standard mortgage or tax-exempt ‘ond rate. But for the courage of the small investors who have come into the industrial field vacated by so many big capitalists who buy tax-exempt securities, rather than hold industria's, there would have heen no railroad stock or bond mar- ‘et to finance these purchases; and the nation would be short of rail- road service, the factories short of businéss, and the workers wages. < Industrials on which the nation lives should not bear the burden of heavier taxes to make up for what the tax-exempts escape. Tax ex- emption is wrong in both theory and Practice; it should be wiped out. SSE Let Us Hope Secretary Hoover is having. an- other national conference on high- way safety. Th's ts the upsetting question of the time. | We lose more lives in our traffic tragedies than we do in war. More men were killed fighting for the right of way in crowded cities than were slain fighting for their country's flag on the fields of France. These confer: ences of traffic spec’alists do bring forth helpful suggestions and grad- ually there will be evolved some Practical and sensible plan for the regulation of the ‘highways—plans There are still freight cars and (abbr.) this program shipping. fine and put France o! Russia in the matter of financial > I, a par with| billion dollars of -property interests Good Will and Good Cheer Go Together Good cheer and good will go together. Swift & Company puts its good will into acts of service, which extend from * year’s end to year’s end, and are not confined to holiday seasons. City homes that had to depend upon the country cousin for holiday fowl, and country homes that had to shoot. wild game on the wing to make a feast for the assembled family clan — both now draw upon Swift & Company’s vast supplies of delicious, fine-flavored roast * beef and steaks and Premium Milk-Fed Chickens Golden West Fow!} Premium Hams The system of the old days was good—for those times—but today’s method is infinitely better. With the enormous increase in num- ber of homes throughout the land, only a big organization, such as Swift & Company, can assemble and distribute enough fine holiday meats to make good cheer for everyone. Ideals are of no avail unless translated into action. Swift & Company’s ideals of ser- vice go into practice every day. Look for the mark “U.S. Insp’d & P’s’d” on fresh meats and “Premium” and Keep Flag on Ocean The proper limitation of govern- mental activity has been laid down by the ecorfom’st who wrote: “The government should do what the in- dividual will not, cannot or should not do.” Aplying this theory to the prob- lem of our merchant marine, the federal government should do no less and no more than is necessary to the maintenance of an American cross-ocean merchant marine, — for the protection of national prosperity in tithe of peace and of national safety In time of war. There is much pr8paganda’ and plotting,.of both domestic and alien origin, all of it selfish and unpa- triotic, against an American. mer- chant marine carrying the flag and the products of America to foreign ports. This intrigue jis usually op- erating under camouflage, but is all the more dangerous on that ac- count, If government operation of cross- ocean shipping is essentin] to the maintenance of American vesse}s on cross-ocean routes, then it should be continued on the ground of na- tional interests, even if that opera- tion is not for the time being dl- rectly profitable. The maintenance of privately operated ship lines in competit’on with foreign shipping is a difficult task for a number of — reasons. American vessels maintain higher wage scales, better food and quar- ters, and better terms of employ- ment for seamen than the mer- chant vessels of other nations. The original cost of the ships, if bu'lt in American yards, {s greater. These are higher costs imposed by reason of the higher standards of American living. A number of foreign gov- ernments directly or ‘indirectly sub- sidize their merchant mar‘ne. The Proposal to equa‘. labor costs and meet the subsidy Jiscriminations of foreign maritime powers has been so effectively fought that congress has failed to extend this form of protection to our cross-ocean mer. chant marine. Such subvention would be only a measure of justice and if they had been adopted as or- iginally proposed by Senator Hanna more than a quarter of a century ago, this country would have been saved in freights alone, including the excessive charges of the war ried, 50 times as much as it was fective in the future as it has been in the past against the creation of a merchant marine by this method. The anly alternative seems to be a governmentally owned and ‘operat- ed fleet of merchant ships. 'Thié un- dertaking should be abandoned whenever private enterprise will agree te take these ships off the government's hands at a fair pr'ce, “nd guarantee their operation on given lines for a period of years. Until such a guarantee {s forth. coming, the effort to break down government shipping should be re- sisted. The competition of such vessels results in lower ocean freight rates than would otherwise prevail. They prevent th’s country from being in the position of the merchant who is trying to build trade while using his “competitors’ delivery wagons at such time and on such terms as they may prescribe. Our foreign trade is increasing. It is vastly Jess im- Portant than our domest’c trade, ents the gap between Prosperity and Cleaner Literature Back in Massachusetts the Watch |, and Ward society of Boston has established censorship of magazines, and its secretary is said to have predicted that within a year the society will have a total of 56,000,000 copies of current magazines exclude@ from distribution in Masachusetts on the ground that the contents of those magazines are injurious to public morals, The American News compiny, it is said, as a result of that censorship, already ts declining to distribute several magazines Which . specialize in “frank-confes- sion” stories and others which are alleged to contain a good deal of “smut.” Tt also ie forecast that after the Watch and Ward society gets ts campaign against magazine smut well launched it is going to turn its attention to motion pictures. Censorship by a religious or semt- religious organization is not a thing to rejoice over. Even emut is hardly more sickening than smugness, and such censors are too likely to look on all art ag did the late Mr. Com- stock Of New York. Much of the world’s greatest achievement in art literary dramatic, pictorial or sculptural—would have been made Impossibla by such censorship. If Boston brands a lot of publications with the scarlet letter it isn't going to crush out immorality any more than it did with {ts original scarlet letters in early days, which never succeeded in banishing human frailty, but certainly proved a great boost for hypocrisy. some of the maga- zines have brought this situation on thenfSelves—and some of the movi seem determined to do it if they con. The success of one or two of those magazines has inspired others to follow their lead, and the result has been a flood of fiction which ts simply vicious, vulgar and degrading. peat A eal castes READ THE “Gifts for Him" col- umn in the Classified Section—and be sure that his gift will tickle him ‘way down to his toes! that can be put ‘into effect every- where and understood by every- body. over the physical face of the coun- try In the doirg, but it will be don Secretary Hoover guide the national expression along U.S.A. these lines. make insurance a state monopoly. The bill is not expected to pass the present Chamber of Deputips but {t has strong backing. all insurance stock at par, the stockholders off out of their “Golden West” identifying tags on poultry. It may be necessary to make Swift & Company to is, striving Competing With Russia France 1s considering a bill to The bill proposes simply to seize paving In Our Homes Is the Heart of Christmas! And a Christmas gift for the home reaches everybody's heart. Te must be en unusual gift, a : practical and welcome one, for the whole family. It must be one that will give lasting pleas- ure throughout the whole year —for years to come. The Shop-o-scope shows you many presents of this splendid sort — moderately priced or more expensive. You'll find them described under “Gifts For The Home” i “Chri: today’s Classified Section. By all means—look through ‘The Shop-o-scope today!