Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1925, Page 10

s k . PAGE TEN Che Casper Daily Tribune HANWAY AND E. E. HANWAY sper (Wyoming) Novemt postoffice as second class matter, 22, 1916. The Casper Daily ‘Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning nd Tribune Tribune every S ay at Casper, Wyoming, Publication offices building, opposite postoffice. Business Te): B: phones —._ ich ‘Telephone MEMBE! ‘The Associated Press is exclusi xchange Connecting’ All Departments ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 and 16 y entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this puper and also the local news published herein. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B, C.) 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Some of the yellow journals shout continuously that the poor have no opportunities in America and make appeal to class prejudice to convince the poor that the rich haye stolen their birthright and doomed them to industrial servitude, The best answer to this is given by Roland Hayes, the sen- sational negro soloist, a launc boy whose mother was a slave and who has ch the heights of a great art and become one of the most popular singers in the world. Inequalities of life are inherent in human nature and will exist in spite of the most highly paternalistic government. The Socialistic idea that all that is necessary is to pass more laws and take wealth from those who e and give to tho who have not will never create the utopia of human equality All over our country men and women, who, like the negro Jaundry boy, are overcoming handicaps of poverty, ignorance, quality, social ostracism by their native ability, capacity for work, endurance and character. Individual effort helped Roland Hayes to seale the heights of success, and the door of opportunity still opens freely to those who knock. Preaching discontent to bring about class conflict and social revolution will probably continue to be the favorite and profitable occupation of “demagogues, No Longer: True Through the Adam Smith frge-tr: the cheapest market,” manufacturing mendous world trade that laughed at now, England faces foreign factories that can undersell her own and the traditional English free trade policy leaves the English markets open to assault from a whole competitive world. English workmen, trained to sell abroad without care for the nationalism of others, now buy in the spirit of their own teaching, and F: elgium, the United States and Germany are capturing the British market. If free trade was ever true, it is so even today. But Great Britain dares no longer believe it; with their own factories idle, a free trade theory breaks down. They are superseding it with the “Safeguarding the Industries” act, a thinly cam ouflaged but violent protection measure. The situation justifies our own reasonable tariff to pro- tect workmen, farmers and industries in the United § S. If we needed a lesson from England, it’s here. Righialaennus A point of great public interest has been raised by the United States treasury department in its ruling that city of ficials and employes of Chicago whose salaries are paid from the city water fund are not exempt from federal income tax. This ruling applies to the earnings of all employes of publicly owned utilities such as water works, street car, electric light and other systems. It is held that public utilities are proprietary rather than governmental activities. The employes are not performing gov ernmental functions in oy a Street car system any more than they would be if opers a municipally owned brick yard or grocery store, The courts have held that when a goy- ernment authority engages in a business enterprise, it lowers itself to the level of the enterprise in which it engages instead of elevating the business to the governmental standard le doctrine of “buying in England built up a tre local competition. But Business Take Notice ause the Standard Oil company of Califor: in an honest and straight forward manner opposed an increase in th gasoline tax from 2 to 8 cents a gallon, a legislative committee of the state legislature demanded that the president of the com pany withdre his opposition to the gas tay The growi tendency of legislators, both state and nat ional to use the power of their office to force priv individ uals ate business into submission to their schemes with sition, is a menace to the nation ell for the public to remember that it pars the ga tax l! as all other taxes, The public is gradually coming 1 tax against any industry is merely a zainst the consuming public which uses the pre s of that industry. Lambasting the Senate feneral Dawes is planning to spend his summer enlighten ing the Americar public on the shamefulness of the senate rules, Judging by press comment on his initial effort, his cau ‘ paign will open with a considerable measure of popular sup port. The senate is distinetly out of favor. A good rousing at tack on it meets With applause, But as yet no single senator has deemec ie present attack of sufficient importa to honor it with « retort, and the merits of the eas: have come i ve little scrutiny. Unlimited debate in the senate ha its disadvanta but to our mind, any limitation what ther, perhaps than that debate shall be relevant has real danger In the first place, we do no int more laws, unless there is a definite, vital need for them. At the end of every session a great mass proposed undigested legislation dies, Occasion ally, a g Il goe v1 ith the rest, but its-fate is one of delay ot death it has real merit; it will reappear at the next session strengthened, perhaps, by the period of delay and the added popular support which has accumulated behind it. We remember no really important piece of legislation sup ported by the people, which dilatory tacties in the senate have done more than dela In the second place, some safeguard must be maintained against the modern pr nda organization. No one unfa millar with the mechanics of § nizing public opinion” gauge the strength of an up-todate pr campa It is often like an avalanche. ping all before it; then it melts away. It may strike the senate with full force, but under present rules, a few men, perhaps more intelligent or e courageous than the can keep that body from being yept away. They can force delay, which, in the face of hasty ation that comes in the wake of many propaganda can 1 godser . it may not be vears befo group of wilful men,” today radical group, will be bulwurk of the conservatives, It comes, swe Beside mur a 8 A Leader and a Sequel Man may read many things worth reading dnd forget nine-tenths of them. Nobody remembers all the Bood editorials he has read eyen though a Dana or a Grady may | written them. But there wag in days now remote a free-trade article so powerful that it has been reprinted hundred times, It stated the ob- ts of the free-trade movement ve with a clearness never to be forgot- It may be sald that boys who spoke of {t when hers in this coun- Whoever were grandf: Ca: la Au wrote this article lea think and to express ~ him: haps no ananymous writer since Junius had made a deeper“impr sion on his readers. Trade so t ader, Was an economic ide “The true reason why men are so cheap {gs that the whole system of our laws and government rests upon @ie princple that we should have’a reverent of the material produc- tions, and leave the men to take care of themselves... It 1s not the dress- maker we consider, but the dress; it tralia is not the butcher whose well being we! care, for, but the meat; it is not the grocer whose moral and physical condition is the object, but the gro- , it is not the baker or the bread- eater whose sole satisfaction we seek, but the bread. Nor {s it even these goods for the sake of their ulil ity to man, it is the goods as salable commodities alone, The bread may be adulterated so that it passes and gets the price of a loaf, it is the same with the butcher's meat, {t may rot, with the gown, it may be of coun- terfeit stuff. But it is the trade in the gown, the meat, the grocery, the bread, etc., that {s the object of existence; and It is the trade to which our lawmakers look, not the trades- man, the workingman or the consu- me Under the Tudors and even before them a nobler {deal had prevailed Something had been gained by bring- ing European workmen to England The Flemings and Huguenots had aided in making thelr adopted coun An England of diversified had borne the shock of the Napoleonfe wars, But free-trade id not care for the old traditions. What the leader said in cold blood was said less cruelly by statesmeft who advised the unemployed work men to emigrate. He took the advice. Yoemen and mechanic# whom Queen Elizabeth would have been proud -to count among her subjects left England for this country, Canada or Australia Today there {s general uneasiness over the number of skilled work men who are leaving England. Here a factory cannot fill {ts orders. There a building ts unfinished because ex- pert mechanics are leaving the land of their birth. It is only a few years since the Middleton report. A veteran official warned England that she had n slected the farmer while German: hal looked to his welfare. Who doubts now that Germany would have trod- den England under her feet had it not been for the help that came from this country? Now come the report of the car penters and masons, the {ron wor! ers and the textile operators leaving England. The policy of worshipping materials and letting the workmen | take care of themselves does. not seem to have been a success. It {s the workman himself who should re celve protection rege ee Limitations of Slang constructive feats “The fine: American slang are achieved by means of strikin picturesque metrophors,” notes the New York Herald-Tribune, “This picturesque metaphor of slang has certain mani. fest virtues, but, likewise, obvious limitations. It is usually concrete direct and vigorous, but {t makes the mistake of saying too much and leay ing too little to the imagination. It is too adequate, too pat. A hat is a ld by a very appr te metaphor. A hat fits a head lid fits a pot— nothing could be more apt or more final. But when one gets the point, | there is nothing more to get. The metaphor leaves nothing unrealized, nothing to be visioned. It ts\ a re: mores: precise epithet com: pletely satisfactory that emoves situation from further human . The literary value of suct a figure is ow. One “can admire 1 smile at the ingenuity | employed in securing so striking But th Perfection of the adap’ of the image to an ha or 4 mom conclusiveness that seems as on. | ht as a happening in the ron ature. But their figures are on the same level maginatively as the platitude in the int ual world. | The striking metaphors of slang imaginative platitudes, fatal to uine poetry, And as slang always oc curs in concrete and familiar sttua- tions in {t a highly effective machir ery of expression {s applied to a re or thought. annot nee of an unusy sinative quali nd. Slang ts n promise of greater elevation in th the Americ seed HOTEL RAMONA J.UMurphy ‘Meneoer San Francisco 174 Ellis St. near Powell eee al rooms are Butside rooms rooms the'sime Tale ‘person 22 por 2 persons HP Hi4- Win Beds 4% Hy, {| Che Casper Daily Cribune duct of things already existing. It is the expression of the practical, not of the poetic American imagination. Its highest quality is mechanical tn- genuity, not poetry. Lowell.once de- scribed American slang as the raw and formless material in which poe- is to work, and by virtue of which America ere long will give Europe a new sensation. American slang, he declared, was “the omen for our having a swan at last But the omen of slang did not really point in the direction of poetfe swans, and poor Europe, {f it ever new sensation. American slang has new sonsation. American slang has a genuine interest of its-own, but it will take a strong alchemy to transmite it into the pure gold of poetry?” Our Forest Trees The Amer up under th nation has grown {dea that we have that our forests are in Starting in 1492, with an estimated forest area of 822 mil- lion acres, we have used, burned and destroyed this basic national resaurce with @ lavish hand. New England, New York, Pennsylvania, the Lake states, the’ south, and now the Pa- cific coast, ever westward the pend- ulum of depletion has swung. Kipling “The great Amert- can nation seldom puts back any- thing it takes from nature's shelves. It grabs all it can, and moves on. But the, grabbing is nearly finished, and the moving on must stop.” A prophecy, truly. We have today over halt of the remaining merchantable timber in this country on the Pacific coast. And we are now en- gaged in cutting the last great stand of our virgin timber, with no suit- able stands of young growth to take its place. Eighty-one million acres of potential timber land are stand- ing devastated and practically idl No longer can thinking men say that we haye trees to burn, that our timber will last forever. The hand- writing is on the wall, and he who runs may well pause to read, The burning of mature trees by the care- less man-caused fire {s serious. It means wealth, needlessly destroyed The burning of young trees on cut- over land is more. serious, for it means {dle land and costly timber for the future peers Wor results try a Tribune fied Ad rees to burt Class!- Paying for Experi- ments “State insurance is advocated in various states, including Illinois, by theorists and organized labur. In con- gress there is the Fitzgerald bill for state insurance {n the District of Co- lumbia. In theory it may do. In practice tax payers have to pay for an wneconomic experiment. Politics east thelr bane over it," says the Manufacturers News of Chicago. Representati Underhill, —com- menting on the Fitzgerald bill, said recently “Government operation of insur- ance has been uniformly more ex- pensive than private insurance. State insurance’s greatest weakness is that neither the employer nor the employe is given proper service. The private insurance companies are doing great accldent prevention work—regular inspections, . publica- tion of safety codes, machine design- ing, and plant construction, while » insurance funds have spent practically nothing for acci- ation work, er. state insurance has gained a foothold politics has enter- ed to play havoc with the system: Favoritism in rates, favoritism in settlements, inefficiency due to pol- {tical appointments and all the other customary weaknesses have crept in. I do not belleve in government ownership of insurance business. I do bel: the principle that ad- advancement in the future must come from private initiative. SS SS Typically American The annual report of the Amert- can Telephone and Telegraph com- pany {g always interesting reading because {t is a record of achleve- ment which ts ty; American. It is a democratic institution with uniform and universal service. Fitty years after the first words were transmitted by telephone, 15,906,550 telephone stations in the Bell sys- tem are serving some 110,000,000 people. Rich and poor alike use the tele- phone. Service to the most {fsolated farm is the same as that rendered to the finest mansion in New York City. In both instances it {s possible for each station to talk with any one of the other 15,906,550 stations. The average telephone user has no , value .of equip- Seen ment at his disposal when he has the power to connect up-with 15,906,- 550 other telephones. It 1s an in- spiration to review the fact that one man and a few friends made such a service possible. They had the cour- age of their convictions and put up the money to back their ideas. The average banker and investor thought they were crazy. They however, laid the foundation for the greatest tele- phone system.in the world. ‘Today it 1s owned by the people of this nation as it has a total of 345 486 stockholders which number ts creasing at a present rate of over 60,000 a year. Among the more recent telephone accomplishments are ship to shore wireless conversations, trans-oceanic radio telephoning, broadcasting of a presidential message to the whole nation and photographs sent by tele- phone circuit’ almost instantan- cously. v While the rest of the world {s as- tounded "by the American telephone system, we take it as an everyday matter the same as wealrink a glass of water. Soe Near East Relief Editor Tribune—A number of the friends of Near East Relief in your state have written to this office, ask- ing as to the relations existing be- tween Near East Relief and the So- viet government in Russian Ar- menia. One such letter, received this morning, says: “Will you kindly explain the press dispatch from Moscow that Near East Relief assisted in building the new irrigation canal near Mount Ararat, which was opened by the bolshevist premier and other soviet officials a few days ago? I should like to know if Near East Relief contributions are being used to help the soviet.” The part which Near East Relief had in the construction of this canal dates. back several years. At that time, Armenians were dying by the thousands of starvation. We did not meke any cash contribution to con- struction of the canal, although the idea and plan originated with one of our American engineers. ‘We happened to have 7,000 tons of corn given us by the American Re- lief administration for the relief of starvation, and. we had large quan- tities of refugee clothing. Instead of giving corn and clothing to the refu- gees free of charge, leaving them in Hams ana Bacon. ENIOY your Easter’ repast with greater satisfaction by serving Puritan Ham and Bacon. : meats are Appropriate for Gifts in the Special Lily Easter Wrapping In Puritan you are assured of a finer flavor and greater tenderness because these choice by the special Cudahy slow curing process, which retains the natural, rich juices of the meats and prop- erly diffuses them. You can obtain: this quality only. in Puritan. The Cudahy Packing CoUSA. Makeré of Puritan Hams-Bacon-Lard-Sausage Like off other Cudahy products “The Tastelelis” FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1925 bz Ne a irculating me- company has ns to put Secre- IC silve dium, idleness, we did with this canal what we did with other public improve- ments, we gave able bodied men an opportunity to work, for which they thi nstead of paper recelyed in wages enough food and a an ORR clothing to ktep their familles alive | money. John Shermenieea until the next harvest. that the ) : ment is ‘ a fact so ¢ only but brow we not lives, In this way many thousand considerable areas of otherwise arid] that financiers statest ; land under {rrigation, enabling these | overlocked st. That Is the case now: same people today to support them-|the way to use is to uso tt. sel and the business of silver mining T think mdst Americans will agree | will come back to par. that this method of giving relief was n silver has not r 1a wise and strategic. actory price, this year promi: CHAS. V. VICKERY, to be a bett ver year than 1924 General Secretary, | Silver is still the world New York aan hand | promise to tz » for coin | year than during the past few Lead, copper, find zinc, the metals with which silver is almost invari- ably found will be benefited by uter use of silve ee Circulating Real Money The Burgess Battery company at Madison, Wis., recently paid {ts 1,400 employes their full regular two- weeks’ payroll of $72,000, in new] silver dollars, The banks and stores of Madison saw more silver in the next two days than they had seen in years before for silver of dollar size has been almost unknow Mrs. Henry R. Arnold of London s arrived in America as a delegate m the National Housing and Town Planning Council of England he International City and Region- Planning Conference to be held BAKING POWDER amePrice Ounces for More than a Pound anda half fora Quarter i WHY PAY HIGHER PRICES? - Millions of Pounds Used by the Government RANT ENS LT LOOK AFTER YOUR OWN INTEREST The quickest and most effective wa can do this and at the same time lower your taxes a establish economy in the management of public bus ness, is to join the Taxpayers’ Association. ‘ yin which you d This association has taken upon itself the public duty of ascertaining how public money is expended and whether or not an expenditure is advisable and justified by the public needs. The association desires the co-operation of every taxpayer in Natrona County. In order to make an overwhelming success of the movement we must have you with us. Use attached coupon. Cut Out This Coupon and Mail It WE ARE FOR TAX ECONOMY Nutrona County. Tax Ass’n, P. 0. Box 862 Casper, Wyoming. I am in favor of lower taxes and business economy in government affairs. I approve of the objects and purposes of the Association. Please enroll my name as a member for the ensuing year and forward me a membership card, Enclosed find $ in support of work. (City) NOTE—Make the payment in E the amount you feel able and justified, whether one do ar or a hundred dollars, CASPER TO RAWLINS STAGE CARS LEAVE DAILY AT 9:30 A M. PARD—$12.59 Saves you approximately 12 hours: travel between Casper end Rawlins WYOMING MOTORWAY Salt Creek Transportation Company's Office TOWNSEND HOTEL PHONE. ms | TRAIN SCHEDULES CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN Westbound i Nos 608 Dacasece mete ies os iene astbound Arrives Depart: No. 622 Sattar net tween nnneee--. 645 p.m, 6:00 p. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY