Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1925, Page 12

PAC Wr \c i = Diminishing Timber Reserves PAGE TWELVE Che Casper Daily Tritnme By J. E. HANWAY AND BE. £. HAPWAY Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second Ss matter November 1916. Che Casper Daily Tribune issued every ev Cribune every Sunday at Casper, Wyoming Building, opposite pogtoffice ig and The Stinday Morning Publication offices, Tribune ——__— —— Business Telephones ----. Branch Telephone Exc nge Cotnecting All Departments, 15 and 16 Adverti Prudden, King & Prudden, Ave. New York City; Slobe BI i6 New Montgomer: n Branc! tre on file in c Chicago, UL; 286 Fra; Fifth Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., Copies of the Daily Tribune SUBSCRIPTION RATES y Carrier and Outside State One Year, Da Six months, Da Three Months, One Month, Daily One Year, Su One Year, six Months, Dai Three Months, [ One Month, One Year, Su All subbseriptic insure d after subscription becomes one month {tn arrears. KICK, IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR TRIBUNE {f you don’t find your Tribune a ind it will be delivered to you by special m Lefore 8 + ‘clock. a Prosperity and Ideals The great interpreter of the American commonwealth— Lord Bryce—somewhere says in effect, that Americans ever have been inclined to regard theimselves, like ancient Israel, as a chosen people. He recogni the fact that religion played a great part in the early colonization cf America and stamped itself upon the character of the American people Tt would be absurd to affirm that America has always been true to the spirit in which it born, or to the high- est ideals of the republic. There has been moral obliquity here as in other nations, selfish greed, scheming politicians, vice and iniquity of many kinds— like Israel, we have forgotten God, and multitudes at different times have fallen down be- fore the image of Baal. But like Israel, too, the nation has never lost ideals even when it has neglected them. It be lieves it has a distinct mission, a mission of fraternity. It has worked out in this western world a great experiment in human liberty, based on religion and morality. It wants to help other nations to realize that blessing for themselves. It wants to be a blessing to all the nations of the world. In the Great War European nations spoke of us as idealists. It was a great compliment. We are not all idealists. Many of us are hard, crass mater- jalists, caring nothing for anybody but ourselves and caring for nothing but our own interests. But that is not the temper of the nation at large. Idealism is the c acteristic of Amer- ica. We went into the Spanish war mainly to deliver Cuba from an oppressive government. It was a great ideal. We took the Philippines from our enemy in that war and instead of com- pelling Spain to pay an indemnity, we paid the defeated enemy twenty millions of dollars for islands which we did not want, but which we could not hand back to tLeir misgovernment. In the Bo movement in China the European nations, Japan and the United States, all had to send expeditionary foress to rescue the legations. China had to pay big indemnities. The United States handed back to China her share of the indemnity and told her to use it for the education of ther own people. In the Great War the idealism of Amer responded to the call of the suffering nations of the Old World long before we entered the conflict, sending them food, clothing, nurses, medi- cines, physicians, and when that terrible war was over, though it had cost us billions in money and a multitude of lives, we put in no claim for reparations against the defeated foe. The lesson for us would seem to be reasonably clear. It is for us to preserve tly distinctive qualities which have made America a unique nation among the nations of the w ~Id; to preserve its idealism, its spirit of religion and spirit of liberty. The trouble of the world is the gradual substitution of mater- ial interests for moral ideas. It is this which menaces the true life of America toc in spite of its latent idealism. Nor is it but a passing pha it is one of the insidious results of an unexampled prosperity. If we lose that idealism we lose our peculiar power to help the world. The insistent demand for lumber in the United States and its high costs in the t few years, with building operations in unusual yolume, inyite attention to the country’s dimin- ishing reseryes of timber, The United States is the largest. consumer of wood in the world, using about one-half of the lumber, more than half the paper and approximately two-fifths of the wood in all forms. American nayal stores constitute more than two-thirds of the world production. Less than one-third of the original supply of timber in the United States remains. Almost half of the land area of the country, it is estimated, was originally forested, with a timber stand of more than 00 billion board feet. The re- maining stand of virgir accordi to the latest avail- able official figures—thc wa imated at about 1,600 billion feet, with some 600 billion feet additional of d and second growth stands. These supplies are being drawn upon at the rate of about 25 billion feet annually, off- t by annual growth of approximately six million feet. In the early period of the country’s settlement there was excuse in some. districts for treating trees as weeds, to be burned merely for the purpose of cle 1g the soil for cultiva- tion. That condition quickly passed. But for many ye: there- after abundant supplies were available near the main point of consumption. In recent years, however, one of the major difficulties in connection with the supply of timber has been the great dis tances between the chief sources and the points of greatest utilization. Accordingly, transportation costs ag affecting the final prices of lumber came to bi serious burden upon users. On a large part of the lumber now used freight charges alone exceed the entire e« consumer's door thirt t of comparable supplies delivered at the years ago. In some part, of course, this change may be explained by the general decline in the purchas- ing power of money With full allowance for every other factor affecting costs of timber in its final forms, the location of the s of supply bas a marked influence upon living costs. This influ: ence can be traced not only through housing but also through the multitude of other uses for wood. I jeally every com modity of ordinary consumption represents the use of forest products in one or another form somewhere in the course of its production or marketing, with the result that few other materials of commerce represent so nearly universal consump: tion. It follows that the final cost of wood are important items affecting standards of living. sour No Crown Prince Congressman Victor Berger of Milwaukee has announced that he would not be a candidate next autumn at any rate for the United States senate to succeed the late Robert M. La- Follette. The Socialist party of Wisconsin, of which he is one of the leading spokesmen, would not fuse with the LaFol- lette, or Republi s to elect Robert M. LaQollette, Jr., to the senate, he said. “This is not an inherited monarchy, especially in Wisconsin. Why should we have to take a crown prince * lot of people are not sympathizing with China in her present dilemma. They have recollections of Mah Jong. The folks who write the “helpful hints” column haye. not yet informed us what to do in case of earthquake or cyclone. r looking carefully for it call 15 or “16 ister complaints ! Tha, Who’s Who | an who will some day in- f the largest fortunes tn ot has just become betrothed ss Mafalda of Ifaly, second of King. Emmanuel and daughter Queen Helene. That Prince Hesse man Philip ts He is the eldest surviving son of, Frederick Charles of Hesse, and not! only his heir but! also the heir of his father's elder} brother, the blind and childless Landgrace Alex. ander of Hesse, who between them own all the yast entalled private pyiLip HESSE. property and ex- tensive estates of tne former soy. erelgn Prince Electors (‘‘Kuftuer- sten") of Hesse-Cassel, the wealth having been accumulated by the sale of their subjects to King George Ill for use as soldiers. They. were the foreign contingents of his arm- jes known in the American War of ndependence as “the Hessians." Prince Prilip of Hesse ts next heir to the great wealth of his Prussian mother, the youngest ‘sister of the ex-Kaiser. Princess Margaret was ne favorite daughter of her English born mother, Empress Frederick, sister of Edward VII. She was the most devoted companion and com- forter of the Empress during the terribie illness and martyrdom of her father, Emperor Frederick. It may be remembered that her mother was embittered by the persecution to which she was subjected by her son, the ex-Kaiser. When at last she too succumbed to the dread malady that had killed her husband {t was found that she had bequeathed to her daughter Margaret the bulk of her large fortune, most of {t invested abroad, beyond the reach of the ex- Kaiser, also her superb collection of Jewels and her beautiful country seat, the great castle of Friederich- soff, near Homburg, the home of her widowhood. iF There are no religious difficulties connected with the Prince's marrl- age to the Princess, for Prince Phil- ip has agreed to become a convert to the Church of Rome, following in this respect the example of his fa- ther's mother, the late Landgravine Anne of Hesse, a Princess of Prus- the ex-Kaiser, forsook the Lutheran church for that of Rome just a quar- ter of a century ago. sia, who, despite the opposition of pas iss SS a tag Grieve Not BY ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Oh grieve not, ladies, if at night Ye wake to feel your beauty going. It was a web of frail delight, Inconstant as an April snowing. In other eyes, in other lands, In deep fair pools, new beauty Un- gers, But like spent water {n your hands It runs from your reluctant fin- gers. Ye shall not keep the singing lark That owes to earlier skies its duty Weep not to hear along the dark The sound of your departing beauty. The fine and anguished ear cf night Is tuned to hear the smallest sor- row. Oh, wait until the morning light: It may not seem so gone tomor- row. But honey-pale and rosy-red! Brief ights that made a shining! Beautiful looks about us shed— They leave us to tho old repining. Uttle Think not the watchful dim despair Has come to you the first, sweet- hearted! For oh, the gold in Helen's hair! And how she cried when that de- parted. Perhaps that one that took the most The swiftest borrower, wildest spender, May count, as we would not, the cost— And grow more true to us and tender. Happy are we if in bis eyes We see, no shadow of forgetting. Nay—if our star sinks In those skies We shall not wholly see its setting, Then let us laugh as do the brooks That such immortal youth Is ours, If memory keeps for them our looks As fresh as are the spring-time flowers. Oh, grieve not, ladies; if at night Ye wake, to feel the cold December Rather recall the early light And.{n your loved one’s arms, re- member. “Doing Good” In his speech of acceptance of the office of Grand Exalted Ruler, un- animously conferred by the Grand Lodge B, P. O. E. at Portland, Ore. recently William H. Ativell, , deliv- ered an‘ address containing some of the finest patriotic’ sentiment | re- cently heard by the American publle. So fine, in fact, that it {s reproduced here for'the splendid effect it will have upon, not only the members of the order but on°the general pub- li well. Mr. Atwell’s address fol- lows: ' Henry Ward Beecher said that, “next to ingratitude the mos’ pain- ful thing to bear Js gratitude.”*’ Doo- tor Johnson wrote that “gratitude {9 @ fruit of great “cultivation; it is not to be Yound among gross) péo- ple." Talleyrand ‘said ‘that “gratful- ness ts the least ‘of virtues; ingrat- itude the worst of vices,” while Addi- son assures us that “there is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.” Whatever may be the logic of the poet—whatever may be the philos ophy of the great essayists—the. so- phistries, pitfalls, or heights of grat- itude, I cannot allow you to go with- out letting each one of you know that an ocean of gratitude rolls. and swells, an‘ ebbs, and flows in my heart, Thore 1s the courtesy of the offer. ing. A unan{mous choice. Though twelve full months have parsed since Boston's great union, and, though the order {s teeming with worthy and deserving brothers, no one ought this r’s honor competitive. iS Ther too, not a single promise of proferment has been made. T enter upon the dutles of the office — of Grand Exaited Ruler without com mitment. Not even my private secre- tary “has been chosen. There has ulterlor force of any sort been no or kind. I enter’ upon the duties with an open mind, and without ckles of any fort: It {s a great thing to be chosen by the ballots of citizens to political of: fice, it Is a great thing to be chosen by the governor of a state or the president of a tation for important work, but it is a still greater honor to be chosen by the voice of a great Che Casper Sunday Cribune jeleven months ending with May, our Our Best Customer Reports of the department of commerce show that the United Kingdom Js still our best customer, with Canada as second best. For the exports to the former were valued at $1.007,759.970 and to the latter at $587,694,320. For the like period of last year our exports to thore coun- tries amounted, respectively, to $845.877,767 and $553,846,988, It thus appears that our so-called “high tar- ifc’ is not ruining our export trade, as fres-traders £0 confidently pre- dicted. Instead, our expérts have in- creased to a very marked degree, The increase in our export trade is not by any means confined to these two countries. Our total exports to all countries for the eleven months fraternity where selfishness plays no part, and whore love !s the dominat- ing spirit. . For,this fine thing that you have done to me I am intensély grateful! I summon all strong-thinking and nation-loving Elks to a twelve-month consecration to the motto. This: fraternity, made up of men who do not waver, worry, whine, nor wrangle—this fraternity, that is made up of men who love, and‘laugh and serve—this fraternity that does not slur its tasks—this «fraternity that {s not one thing within and an- other thing without—this fraternity that {s not hard and cold and selfish; this fraternity which 1s .made up of men of the morning, this frater- nity—men of the sunrise—I salute! You are to be guardians and sav- fours to little men and women. You are to hear the call of life; you are to know that bodies are more than gold, and that the soul of a child or the virtue of a woman are of more value than the building of a city! Your fields are to be broadened. The city is not to be neglected, but the smaller town is to have a re- doubled energy. Christmas and Thanksgiving are to be left on the calendar, but any day, and any need, and any time are to be the hours of service. “The way js long and sometimes very weary, and we crowd and bruise one another in passing,” but to re- lieve somewhat thu great emptiness that frightens so many from the right we are to labor, and when old and gray our journey will be more joyous because we have done so, The petty shams of clever men and the mistakes of foolish good men shall not stand between us and the ‘Old Time Religion”—tonic for both person and country. “It {s the old-time religion, It is the old-time religion. It Is the old-time religion, It's good enough for me. “It was good for our fathers, It was good for our fathers. It was good for our fathers, It's good enough for me.” I want. to see printed across every letterhead that is in every lodge room. in.America during the noxt twelve months: “He Went About Do- ing Good.” I wish to see it indelibly impressed upon every heart, burned into the busy brain of every one who wears the antlers, “He Went About. Doing Good, only to the individual but “He W About Doing Good” to his country. The stirring days of the present and the mysterious, velled, unseen days of the great future that lics out before us, must not dull our in- tellécts to the vital importance of continued watchfulness for the per- petulty-of our country and the glory of our institutions. Every Elk must be not an inter- mittent foe, but a continuing gladi- ator—a foe—of a band that would seck to play the “Internationale” in the United States of America. There is no place in any of the forty-eight rooms of* this great national man- sion for red except as one of the stripes in Old Glory. There must never come a moment of mistaken freedom when we may look on le- tharigically while tho orator, either onthe soap box, or on the rostrum, either in open, or in secret, attacks the fundamentals of our government and gives utterance to treason. Because our, government was a free gift. to. us; because it cost us nothing; because we take it as we do the air, and the sunrise, and the sunshine and the showers, we must not forget that it is the result of a struggle that lasted for more than seven hundred years. It.is the child ef,the blood of our forefathers. It is the body that was bought by strug: gle and sacrifice and bitter suffering. It came to'us the harvest of a hundred battle-flelds all seared with wounds, all grimy with blood, all eloquent of banishment and confis- cation; redolent of prison and dun- eon; the recompense of rack and thumbscrew and cruel punishment. Are we to enjoy, and with such en- joyment allow it to die? Or are we to continue to be militant lovers. of the constitution and militant soldiers: of freedom, constant, everlasting cru- saders for this great thing that) we call the freedom and liberty of the United States of America? We are to stand beside the presi dent when he takes the oath of of- fice, when he signs the lays, when he orders out’ the army: and the We are to stand in the cham- ber“of tle supreme court, when that the greatest earthly tribunal, cour- ageously strikes the life from un- constitutional enactment, or breathes the spirit of energy into necessary decision. We are to stand in the halls of congress and inspirit the legisla tor with the fulness of his oath of offic Silently and reverently and constantly present are we to be with every office-holder,{n the land, that he may be just and constitution-lov- ing and.constitution-keeping. We. are to be in all places of amusement, tho theater, the moving picture, the ‘amphitheater, the colis- eum—everywhere, standing {mmut- ably ‘for our great country and its everlasting, mission, ——— Mr. and Mrs. ©. T, Turner of Cas- per were Newcastle business visitors last. week and- while here’ were guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. 8. Jack- son. Enroute to Newcastle they stop- ped with Mrs. Turner's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Douglas, where they left thelr children, Ned and Marjor, for q few weeks. Mr. Tur- ner expects to leave for Boston very soon, where he ,goes to con fer with a wool commission firm 1} represents. Mrs, ‘Turner will a her band.—Netveastle Ne Letter, ending with May, 1925, were valued at $4,542,36: 2, as compared with $4,004,667485 for the corresponding months of 1924. ,’ That our export trade does not de- pend upon our buying of other na- tions in proportionate degree is shown by a comparison of the im- port figures with those of the ex- port figures we have quoted. Our im- porte from the United Kingdom for the eleven months above referred to Were Valued at $365,348,207, while those from Canada were yalued at $370,740/076. These figures illustrate the fact which we.have often stated namely, that the free-trade slogan, “We must buy {f we would sell,” is nothing more than ». catchy expres- sion without foundation in fact, Other nations buy of us because we have the products needed by them and because it is, for some one or more reasons, more advantageous to them to buy here rather than else- where. We buy of others for the Same reasons, Anyone with common sense would realize this if he would give it a Uttle careful consideration. Nations do not, as a rule, buy of other nations. Individuals and com: panies buy and seli, and the buyer is seldom also a seller in internation- al trade. Our wheat {is sold in Eng: land, but those who sell it do not buy English products. We buy a SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1925 of pronounced free-traders and in- ternationalists who are free-traders at heart, are proven to be fallacious by “the logic of events.” Frea-trade theories are not borne out by actual facts. so far as direct:dealing !s concern- ed. Hence the sale of our wheat to England does not depend .upon our Purchase of English textiles, and vice versa. ‘Thus, one by one, are the theories great many yards of English textile fabrics, but those who sell them to us do riot also buy our products..‘The grain dealers and the textile dealers belong to two different classes, of people and have nothing {n common, [See a Bargain Festival Week BOYS 3T08 KNICKER SUITS And Odd Pants 25 Per Cent DISCOUNT It Won’t Be Long Until School Begins—Outfit Your Boys Now Campbell- Johnson Co. 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