Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 6

PAGE Six > Che Casper Daily Cribune Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postcffice as second matter, Novernber 22. 1916. 1 Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at asper, Wyoming. Publicstion offices: Tribune Build- 5. opposite posioffice. Business Telephi nec Branch Telephone Exc! Departments = By J. E. HANWAY AND B. EB. HANWAY =4 MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ The Associated Pres is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. peo MEME STE RSL. oe SAE See Ee ee Sy Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A- B. C.), © Advertising representatives ad Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., hicago, Ul, £26 Fitth Ave. New York City: G.obe dg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bidg., 65 New omery St, San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the. 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Register complaints before 8 clock. oe Millions in Dividends Thousands of stockholders iently for ten years, have received notice of div- idend resumptions, or extra dividends totalling =! something like four million dollars, bringing the ‘r total number of such payments announced: since 4; November first above the four hundred mark ~ «nd the aggregate amount involved into hun- 4, dreds of millions of dollars. z The biggest surprise was the resumption of y payments suspended since last February by the Anaconda Copper Mining company, directors of © which authorized a payment of 75 cents a share, “ or a total of $2,250,000 on the outstanding com- os Z ¢ mon stock. Announcement of the directors’ ac- nh tion was followed by an advance of more than ni two points to 4444, a new high for the year in o the Anaconda stock on the New York Stock Ex J. change = = ¢ ) On Gold Standard ‘New York and London soon will rule the + world’s credit. Great Britain is on the eve of a return to the gold standard, which action might -- appropriately be labeled “Made in America.” * There has been a steady American investment in British securities in the last few months. Speaking theoretically, it is not sterling rising, but the dollar falling. But the effect in London ir .is the same in either case, to bring Great Brit- © «6cain toward the most important milestone in et . post-war reconstruction. When the gold standard '; urrives one of the most important factors in the world today will happen. The Federal Reserve ~ Board and the Bank of England will go into in- e “Visible partnership. New York will not change .’ the discount rate without London changing it at the same time, and no great new moves ‘in policy will be undertaken in one city without the advice of the other being asked. o ed — D - a Portraying the President As the orator of the evening at the annual din- ner of the New England society of New York, Governor Cox, of Massachusetts, compressed into remarkable compactness a summary of that par- ticularly compact individual, the president of the United States. The governor said: “Used to frugality and knowing “the short and simple annals” of those unendowed with wealth, he seeks the good of those who toll, Being a train- ed legal thinker, he respects the rights of those who are not poor.” There you have Mr. Coolidge at his most Lin- colnian essentially in sympathy with the great mass of the people; one who knows their trials one of them. But because of spaciousness in ze thought, unmoyed by demagoguery, Mr. Cool- » idge not only knows that the common weal must be truly common and not proletarian, bourgeoise : or artistocratic—But he keeps it so. ' i Not Man Enough The senate campaign found committee has pricked the last bubble in the slanderous. “slush } “fund” charges made by Robert M. LaFollette be- fore election against those in charge of the nat- ional Republican campaign. After a careful in- quiry, Senator Borah and his associates say in 3 a a 1 1 w oC le n re t a thin air, and without any foundation whatever ; dn fact. P Though this finding of the committee natur- n is highly gratifying to the country at large it really conveys no new information 49 the »ub- Mr. LaFollette can no longer labor under any illusions, and if he has any sense of fair play or y sense of shame, he should now step forward 1ake his most humble’ apologies both to » whom he slandered and to the nation at Will he do this? Three Cheers for Betty \ good friend at Worland writes to tell us this rful news of the town made famous the show e the hens in bit of corn o int Worland on mak : ig the Republi administration a prosperous one that they refuse to pay any attention to the onventional seas for their activities. Christ mas morning “Betty” a busy body in the O. L: flock lusty little brood of which she had hatched on the quiet "] ret nest known only to herself. Fried D chicken will be on the Easter inenu at the Mayes « lome if all the indications, become realities.” Public Buildings : By the report of the secretary of the treas- <ury made to congress it is learned that the gov- *~rnment is now constructing or preparing to con the several states and Alaska. Penn buildings a. evlvania leads with seventeen building then come York state, Ohio, Illinois with sixteen ach: Texas with fifteen, Missouri with fourteen Kentucky with thirteen; Georgia with selever throughout « the} ountry, some of whom have been waiting pat-| | ubstance that the LaFollette accusations were | | truect more than two hundred and eighty public “nee aa North Carolina with ten and all the others with from nine to one. Most of these buildings will be occupied by postoffices. In January, 1922, 5,846 postoffices were in rented buildings and only 1,119 in buildings own- ed by the government. The government in. the fiscal year 1922-23. paid $9,262,515 for rentals under lease of these privately owned buildings. Kentals not-under lease bring the grand total paid out by the government for rented quarters up to $11,660,056, not including garages, which brings the rentai expehditure up to $12,248,9 The government obviously could save money by owning its own buildings. . The Country’s'Growth When' the late “Tom” Reed was leader of the Republican party in’ the house sway’ back in the nineties, the Democrats twitted him about. the tremendousiy large appropriations, then amount- ing to a billion dollars altogether. Teed replied “Well this is.2 billion-dollar country.” So it is. The population is about. 110,000,000, and the total wealth estimated at $320,000,000,000. In 1896 when McKinley was elected president the population was only 70,300,000 and the total or- dinary appropriations of corigress only about $352,100,000. For the next fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, it is proposed to expend about $1,838,000,000 for ordinary expenses, and about $1,300,000,000 more to cut down the public debt, pay interest charges and various other funding operations, making the total outlay something like $3.100,000,000 out- side the expenditures due to.ihe postoffice. With | the deficit in the postoffice operation, the grand total will be about $3,700,000,000. But the population has grown to 110,000,000, and the functions and depaftments of govern- ment. multiplied -enormously. This is not. only a billion dollar country; it is a three and one- half billion dollar country; yet that is more than $10,000,000,000 less than the public expenditures in 1919. The Situation of Muscle Shoals | For the past two years there has been enough published in newspapers and other periodicals and enough talk expended with reference to Muscle Shoals to confuse everybody. The plain story of Muscle Shoals, divested of all frills and reduced to nut shell size is this: Just before the United States entered the World War, it was realized by authorities that there was an inadequate supply of nitrogen for fertilizer purposes. The national defense act of 1916 authorized the president to select a dam site and build an air nitrogen plant for the pur- pose of making air nitrogen for making powder in case of war and furnishing fertilizer in time of peace. The act. appropriated $20,000,000. Under that act President Wilson selected Mus- cle Shoals as the site. Portions of the $20,000,000 and other sums turned over to the president, were allocated for the construction of nitrate plant No. 2; and nitrate plant No. 1; and after the war a portion was allocated for the building of dam No. 2. The government has invested at Muscle Shoals about $80,000,000 outside dam No. 2; and when completed dam No: 2 will cost about $45,000,000 more. Henry Ford’s proposition was ‘before congress some time without .acceptance; when Mr. Ford withdrew it. Senator Norris then presented a bill providing in substance for the government operation of the whole enterprise. This was of- fered as a substitute for the Ford proposition. In the mean time the ordnance bureau of the war department prepared a bill providing’ for a cor- poration to operate the plants. That bill passed the senate but failed of .passage in the house. That bill was followed by another making an ap- propriation of $10,000,000 to complete dam No. 2. That has passed the senate but the house re: fused to accept it. A few years ago congress changed its. mind and appropriated enough money to finish dam No. 2, and it will be com- pleted by next July. The Norris bi!] provides for government com- pletion of dam No .2 and the establishment of great reservoir dams for the development of electric power. The bill creates a government corporation to. develop power; and tarns over to the department of agriculture the making of nit- rogen for defense and for fertilizer. The bill pro- vides for further investigation in the matter of producing nitrate from air, which thus far has not proved a success. The Underwood plan, modified to meet the suggestions of the war department and the presi dent, provides for leasing within a reasonable time, and if no lessee is found by Julyafirst next willing to pay the government four per cent on all the government money invested, and produce 40,000 tons of nitrogen annually, then.a govern- ment corporation {s to be organized, with five di- rectors, all stock to be owned by the. govern- meut. The corporation must produce 40,000 tons of nitrogen annually for fertilizer, which is equal to ubout 250,000 tons of Chilean saltpeter, or about 4,000,000 tons of ordinary fertilizer. used by the mers. The south and the east support the Under- wood bill, while the west leans toward the Nor- ris bill. The south has enlisted the east to get| its capital..The cast is looking, for good invest- ments-and for national defense. | The biggest nee for the Underwood bill lies in the support it is receiving fromthe president. The public will rejoice when the matter is safely | through congress: and out of the way. | PE | ‘The Total Figures | President Coolidge received” 15,718,789 of the 28,920,070 votes cast for the three leading presi- dential candidates in- the November election; John W. Davis, 8,378,962, and Robert M. LaFol- letie, 4,822,519 votes, -giving Mr. Coolidge the argest plurality ever recorded for a candidate— 827, or 334,980, more than Warren G. Hard- s plurality in 1920. The Harding count of | 00, however, was greater by 433,411 than | bis successor’s because the total, over the four | years ago was shared.in the main by only one other leading candidate, James M. Cox. | Aspires to Stage | From London comes’ the news that Margot As- | quith has startled, hér friends by declaring she) is perfectly willing, if a suitable part can be) found for her, to go on the stage. What would ‘she perfer for a part, she was | asked, Shakespeare, Tbsen or Shaw? “None of | them,” Margot answered. “Tt*must be low com- | edy, really low comedey, Nothing else would mult me at all.” | Tf the fair lady can. create as great furore from the stage as she did by her gossippy books England should welcome the:thrill. The suggestion is not so bad, coming from a Democrat, to enliven the journal of enlighten- ment, known as the Congressional Reeord, by a cross-word puzzle. The one outstanding difficulty, jin the Suggestion—is there a member of congress vith the ability to solve a cross-word puzale? Cleat ao nre ype mewn 7 ihre 221 Che Casper Daily fribune CROSS-WORD PUZZLE SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES { » Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably | sure. These will give'you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both, ‘ HORIZONTAL 1—Performances 5—Trall 9—Into 10—Monkey 12—Bleat of sheep 13—Thus 14—Negotiates 17—Pa 18—Clamor 20—Cuts 22—Blemish 23—Betore 24—A parcel of land 25—Warm 28—Push ti—Title 32—Period 33—Foremost id in the Mediterranean ir relative (abbr.) 38—Poem 40—Man’s name 42—Elongated fish (pl.) 4—Meadow 48—Ingrained 46—Size 49—New England State (abbr.) 5i—Auto 82—Perlod of time 63—Prefix—two 54—Feed a furnace * 85—Sheepfold VERTICAL 1—A vapor 2—Exclamation 3—Careful 4—Mineral spring B—A cavity or receptacle 6—Gentle strokes 7—Bone 8—Cook 11—Finished ‘ 12—Poisons 14—Entrance 15—Title 16—Rescue 18—Rested 21—Sorrow 26—A dessert 27—Man’s name 29—Possessive pronoun 30—Raw metal 33—Part of verb “to be” 34—Distributor 35—Quit 36—Mistake 37—Carries 39—Cave 41—Used by blacksmiths 43—lill 45—Wild animai 47—Girl'e name |48—Tire |50—Pronoun '53—Unlversity degree (abbr.) Prohibition and Erudition Instead of losing ground, as a cer- tain element had hoped, prohibition constantly is gaining in public: fa- vor in this country. One hears very little just now about the proposed compromise which would admit the sale of light wines and beers, but still would bar out the saloon and the strong drink which was its chief stock in trade. In the last ditches of the “wet" army—communities where {t was thought that the Volstead Act never could be rigidly enforced—there is still to be found some opposition to the law; but these strongholds are becoming less and less tenable. As for the rum-runners and bootleg- gers, they are beginning to see that their effacement is only a matter of time. Those who have been loud in the assertion that prohibition does not and never can prohibit now have so little ground to stand upon that they may as well capitulate. Prohibition does prohibit. It is PUZZLE SOLUTION Solution of Monday's Puzzle, BRAG F Seat Oi BHGE Oaeo BAGS INET INS| BHEO AAR AE AG AO BOD AN Oe BED BEAM eo D ARE AI NIOIN] TIOMORIE ME ISMARIE| IRIOSTE MEST TUT) sane @ on 8 A} SOSO AGHEE RNA [SINIOIRIE |S] LIAL DIDIETR) ‘handshake than Europea: weakening of this force. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924 their hats when women they do not It is true that prohibition” does | know are in the lift. not prevent the surreptious. facture and sale of alcoholic: erages; but neither do Until of late, unless his name =| were’on her well-filled dance card, the laws }a lady at a ball rarely would accept against theft prevent frequent rob-|as a partner a man who asked her beries. state in’ which penal laws did not occur. There has..never been a/jto dance with him, but now at most violations of the}functions of this kind dance cards But only/are not seen. The man does not those crassly stupid would offer/even request the pleasure of the these violations as pretexts for re-|lady’s company, but simply takes pealing the laws. persisterrt violations The effect of] possession of her and they swing has | always | into ihe fox-trot. been to make the Inws more strin-{ Formerly among Puglishmen “no- gent and the enforcement more vig-| body spoke to anybody without an orous. hibition laws. “Those who have read the reports ‘This will be true-of the pro-| introduction.” This social maxim, which never bound the American, no longer binds the Briton. He has of the decisions upon some of the} become quite approachable and re- debates of our collége men with the /eponsive.. The fact is deplored by a touring . Oxford and Cambridge} London newspaper, which holds teams have noted that, while the! that “the old stiffness and stand- Englishmen pictured in the most|offishness of Englishmen had its the use of intoxicants, they winiin a sing ican college they debated. dents shows that at the Univergity of Cincinnati the vote was 17i4 for pro- hibition to 698 against ft. At the University of Michigan it was de- cided by a vote of 1,247 to 520 that the Britishers gvere worsted. At the University ‘of Minnesota there were 1,348 for the prohibition defenders to 493 against therm. By an over- whelming vote of 437 to 95 the Coe college folk decided that the Ameri- can team had made the most con- vincing arguments. At the Univer- sity of Kansas the vote was four to one for the “drys” and at Hillsdale college it was over five to one: Of course, the college debaters on this side of the water did not repreé- sent all the sentiment of all our stu- dents, but it is noticeable that among our varsity men {t !s no longer generally deemed a emart Ine flagon, Though were many young bloods in our halls of learning who. regarded the Volstead Act as a bit of leeis‘ative pleasantry, the great majority, in street parlance, are sold on prohibition. This is one of the most hopeful signs of a time that is not so cheerful in all’ re- spects as the immediate future ts bopnd to. be colorful language the advantages of | savantages. the “personal - liberty” enjoyed bY | points to reccut cases in whic’ thet} couritrymen ;. with: pase 2 confidence game has been worked not/upon Londoners who have conser bout arith the Amer-led to talk with strangers as being with whom | examples of what happens because A‘ summing up of these reports | versations constitutes one of the And the journal the the refusal to enter into such con- things which aren't being done. Boston formerly was a great place for fopmality. It 1s not so many years ago that a man entering a Boston store where there were women would carefully remove his hat, but now one who would do so would be smiled at as an old-timer. This, along with many another act of politeness that was considered good form from a Back Bay stand- point, isn’t belng done. Chicago threatens to put a lot of discarded courtesy back on the social map. The superintendent of the public schools of that city, who pru fesses to see in the present laxity of manners the development of a race of boors, has directed that con: crete lessons in courtesy and eti. quette be taught in all the school’ ton as a “ assembly halls of the city, so that what he deems the lost art of po- liteness may be rediscovered and again practiced in the community. Nobody reasonably ean gbject to this program. Of courtesy it may be said, in the least Mberal view of it, that it harms no one. But has it so fow-advocates and adherents in the home that public educators must add to their many ‘Juties that of special pleading in its behalf? MARTIN CALLED IN FORBES GASE . 30.By The As- sociated Press)—Major Frederiek-L. Martin, commander of the army world filers at the outset of) the flight, was called as a witness for the defense Monday at the resump- tion of the Forbes-- Thompson vet- erans bureau conspiracy trial. Charles R Forbes, former director o? the veterans’ bureau and J. W. thy Chicago and St. cter, are on trial for nl- éd conspiracy to defraud the ernment through veterans’ bu- rau hospital contracts. Major Martin, the first ‘witness for the defense, after a seven-day Christmas recess, was questiondd as to the general reputation in Wash- ington of Elias H. Mortimer, chiet government witness and fo! contractor's agent in veterans pital negotintions with Forbes. He had known Mortimer since 20, the witness said. He ‘testified Mortimer’s reputation for truth and veracity was bad, and affirmed that Mortimer known in Washing- lever fixer.”” CHICAGO, D Out of Date Uttered with a finality that leayes nothing mere to be said upon the subject, the good and sufficient dic- tum of a social arbiter, “It isn’t being done,” often is heard In these days and too often meets with quiet acquiescence, It would seem that there were hundreds of good old social usages which to disregard would have put one in the pariah class a few years ago, but which to observe in these days of flapper efflorescence stamps one as a back number. The toplofty handshake has been retained, but its use is restricted to special occasions. Americans al ways have been more chary of the though, Mike the Efiglish, not a few of our people used to shake around in coming to or going from gathering. But now the practice is more or ivss negligible. ‘The World war is. held responsible for some of this laxity, In ante- bellum days a man lifted his hat to a woman acquaintance in the street and the more Chesterfieldian ones stood with bare heads while holding an outdoor conversation with her. But, in a general way, this sort of thing isn’t now being done, and what are known as our “gentleman ly girls’ don't seem to expect it. With many -men the lifting of the hat has given way to a mere touch of the brim, a gesture savoring of the military salute, for which the war doubtless was responsible. one of the great rumng forces of tuus coumry, 1d the will be no Except in hotel or apartment ele- }vators, and often not even there, men, as a rule, no longer remove hands all) | home party or any other sort of | 6 OFFEE -none better TOWNSEND HOTEL made. good. CASPER TO RAWLINS STAGE CARS LEAVE DAILY AT 9:30 A. M. Saves you approximately 12 hours’ travel between Casper and Rawlins WYOMING MOTORWAY Salt Creek Transportation Company's Office Natrona Power Company FARE—$12.50 PHONE 144 The History of 1924 is about Our good deeds are credited to us and our. bad deeds are charged against us. The balance is struck. The book is closed; we can’t erase the bad, nor can we add to the Let us hope that 1925 will record more good deeds and less bad deeds. shall be to accomplish that. Should we fail it will be failure of judgmentt, not of desire, | Our resolve 2 : TRAIN SCHEDULES pa CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN No ears ound Arrives Departs No. 613 ~ spades Easthou Departs 2 (ULF Rages eateries, Te LM 5.45 p. m. 6:00 p. m. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY Eastbound A nenat en Departs No, 30 8:38 | Westbound Dona Naver De . 2 oe 7:10 a. m fo. 31