Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1925, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Theea Y AND E. E. HANWAY Saturday, 1 Si ( ning) poste November Cas Wyo. fice as second class matter 1916 nge Connecting All Departments D PRESS Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) National Advertising Representatives rudd ve,, New York City: Globe Bldg., Boston, Mass.; 507 Montgomery merce Bldg. New York, Chicago, welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Mall The Casper Daily Tribune, every evening except Saturday yne Year, dally and Sunday ne siz Months, dally and Sunday Dne Month, dally and Sunday dne Week, daily and Sunday — The Casper Herald, eyery morning except Monday Ine Year, dally and Sunday Six Months, daily and Sunday — ne Month, dally and Sunday me Week, daily and day -d-+---$7.80 - 3.90 65 AS Walsh Makes a Slip Senator Dayid Ignatius Walsh, of Massachusetts, was a trifle reckless when he delivered an address to the Catholic Study club, in Detroit, the other day¢and there are a number of members of the national house of representatives out of the four-hundred thirty-five membership who will not exactly thank him for ng: “There is not one member of the hous of representatives who has a national reputation.” What would Nicholas Longworth, Fred Britten, Martin Madden, Louis Crampton or John N. Garner think of such a statement? But the assertion is no more curious than is the reason the senator gave for the imaginary. condition he de- scribed. He said that the obscurity of the representatives is due to the fact that there is no freedom of debate in the lower house, the appli ion being an argument against cloture in the senate. It is quite true that there are fewer outstanding figures in the house of representatives than there Were fifteen years ago, but this is equally true in the senate where unre: trained and unrestricted oratory still reigns. Of course the names of the senators as a whole are better known than are the names of the representatives. There are fewer of them and those few are more yocal both in congress and out of it than are their colleagues at the other end of the capitol. But the number of members of the upper house who are.an asset to the nation and are real statesmen rather than verbosities is pitifully smal]. As a matter of fact, and Senator Walsh knows this as well as the next person, the presence or absence of a cloture rule has nothing whatever to do with the quality of the members and work of cither house of congress. The thing that has pul a blight upon the standard of membership and legislation in congress more than any other one thing is that chief agency of progressive political degeneration, the primary election sys. tem. Neither the senator from Massachusetts nor anybody else need go farther than this to get a full explanation of the de plorable deterioration of our national legislature. The falling off in the general standard of the member. ship in the senate is, indeed, one of the reasons why the agita tion for a more stringent cloture rule has become neces: ry. Formerly to the a senator was to be a gentleman and a pat riot. A senator could be depended upon to lay aside partisan ship when questions really affecting the publie welfare ox safety were up for determination. But today so many dema gogues and pests have wormed their way into the upper house, that it has become necessary, if possible, to institute a protec tive check upon their pernicious obstructionism, and why: man with as much intelligence of Senator Walsh possesses fails to acknowledge that this is the situation, is difficult to under- stand. The Coolidge Program Back of the Coolidge program stands the peace-loving sen- timent of America. One speaks of the World Court as a cre ture of the league of nation no less ac te would be the statement that the coart grew out of America’s long continued fight for mut understanding among nations. When the council of the league in 1920 set up the commission of jurists to draft the statute which should create the court, one of the first men to accept membership on the commis ion was Elihu Root, eminent New York statesman and jurist. When elections to the court were made in 1921 among the first to be chosen to this international bench was John Bassett Moore, formerly of the American state department, nominated by the Italian group. It is the American World Court as much as it is the league of nations’ world court. The United States would be un- true’ to its principles maintained through the years were it to remain indefinitely outside the court. It is a timid American- ism that insists on an absolute “divorce” between court and league before we join the former—an Americanism so lack- ing in self-confidence that it’ cannot trust itself beyond the shadow of the capitol dome. There is no excuse for confusing the league issue with the court issue. They are separate questions for Amierica to an- swer. The only proposal now up for discussion relates to the court, and upon this we believe the country is pretty well agreed. The United States bélongs in the court, and the Hard- ing-Coolidge-Hughes reservations contain eyery safeguard on which the senate need or should insist. U Proper Bait c Gibbon 8 his “De Fall of the Romar e that in line F pir monumental as the work me Sadly missed, or else speciously overlooked the real r why Christiahity succeeded in dethroning the religions of the ancient world. The five re¢ his celebrated fifteenth ch sons in name only. For example, he says it was (1) because of the inflexible zeal of the early Christians; (2) becanse they taught a doc- trine of immortality; (3) because certain powers were as eribed to the early church; (4) because of the austere and pure morals of the early Christians; (5) because the Ghristian re public formed an increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire. None of these was the real reason for that triumph and none of these was sufficient in itself to attract either the Roman or the eek to the new religion being promulgate: by representatives of a despised and subject race. The five r sons specified were but evidences of a high faith which th Christians had in the risen and triumphant savior, and in the invincibility of his gospel to capture men. These things Gib bon somehow failed to note, The truth is that the least obvious of all reasons is the real one. In Christianity dissolute Rom nd decadent Greece came to recognize the power of salvation. Apparently it was not a tempting bait that these world-hunters used bnt it fective. sons which Gibbon enumerates in pter are, for the most part, res was ef Tremendous Growth With $15,400,000,000 new life insurance written and paid for in the United States in 1 ceeded by ¥),000,000 the largest pri l—that of 1924 As much life insurance was written in seven’ weeks this year 1s in the entire year a quarter of a century ago, Additions of loans to the Amertean people, in the way of financing homes, farms, industry, transportation and commerce in the year will reach $1,000,000,000 and the total invested assets of the Life in surance companies of the United States will reach $11,500,000, 000 by January 1, 1926, Tt should dawn on the a record on which they can b up in their seats and holle suggests anythin’? th IU gTess elected the in, never can mere not make by getting sident sper Daily Tribune Publication Ofiices: Tribune tC ~15 and 16 sively entitled to the use for publication of edited in this paper and also the local news published herein. len, King & Prudden, 17020-23 Steger Bldg., Chicago I1.; 270 Madison Leary Bldg., Seattle, Wash., and Chamber of Com- Los Angeles. Copies of the Daily Tribuna are on file in the Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are World Topics “It is important that the prohib!- tion forces shall practice restraint in using the enormous legisintive majorities now registered,” declares Wayne B. Wheeler, head of the Antl- Saloon League forces in Washington. “The future of prohibition depends upon the aggressive. ness and the Sanity with which the prob- lem ts handled. Extreme meas. ures that do not commend them- selves to the country’s s\ase of fairness would be disas- trous i the long run. 9 B- Wheeler’ He ng John quished. Elaborating his view, he said: “It is not an easy thing by law to change the habits of people: The time required to make the Jarger cities truly dry will depend ‘upor many things. I would point out, however, that no law. {s 100 per cent successful. In spite of the laws against robhery and murder, robberies and murders are ‘com- mitted. “Ww foresees a and arduous campaign before leycorn ts completely van- are making progress, never- theless. In volume the consump: tion of alcohol for beverage pur- poses has been reduced 90 per cent. Before the national prohibition act, about $2.500,000.000 was spent for drink. Eyen with the high prices demanded “by bootleggers, the sum now spent is, as an estimate, not more than $500,000,000. This is a saving of $2,000,000,000 a year. “As to the breaking of the hibition law by citizens who are otherwise law-abiding, I have this to say: Respect for law in general and for laws protecting property is weakened when good citizens violate the prohibition amendment: The disrecard of prohibition affects unfavorably the interests of. thore who believe in upholding the gen. eral structure of the law. Grad- ually men come to understand this truth, and some of those who dnce made an exception of the prohibi- tion law have begun now to observe it. That tendency is increasing. Certainly It is Imposs!ble for a good citizen to defend reasonably his violation of the prohibition law." pro- A soldier from the Rift war 4s now a visitor in thls country. He Is Prince se of Denmark, a member of the Foreign Legion. He is here on a six-month furlough’ a to make a lecture tour. The prince, who cousin of kin: of Denmark and England and a sphew of the late Queen Mother Alexan- dra of England is’ a soldier of Yortune, known to -his — soldier comrades Captain for he ‘believes is a the that the ~ only Prince AAG. thing which matters in the legion is a man’s ability as a fighter, not what rank he holds in the world. Upon his arrival in the United ates Captain Aage ex- plained that he had joined the legion because it offered a good means of earning a living. He foes not enjoy fighting, but it is an out of doors life and he likes to handle ghen. The, prince, who 1s 38, has fought in the Riff for three years without a furlough. He {s married to the Countess Calvi di Bergolo, an. Ita)- jan, whose lack of royal blood forced him to renounce his claim to the throne of Denmark. His modest fortune was lost at the close of the world war when two Danish banks failed. After the Riff difficulty is settled he feels that he will continue in the service and says, “There will be something to do. They"keep the legion busy.” | Inthe Graveyard | By MACDONALD CLARKE | mares ‘Mid the half-lit air, and the lonely urled Pleasures of per- ith her pallid face, turned to tears, beings once known, Who oft, in childish glee, Had jumped across the graves with mie— Sported, many a truant day, Where—now their asbes lay. There the dead Poet had. been placed, Who died in the dawn of thought, And there, the girl whose; virtues graced The lines his love had wrought— Beauty's power, and Talerit’s. pride, And Passion's fever, early chill’d The heart that felt, the eye that thrill’, All, the dazzling dreams of each, “aded, out of Rapture’s reach. when they trifled, on this spot, t long ago, they thought, 'twould be their at, So soon to le here lone and low. ‘Neath a chilly coverlid of clay, 1 few or none to go glimmering dusk of a sum mer day, ‘To the dim place where they’ lay, And pause and pray, And think how little worth, Is all that frets our hearts’ on, earth Tho sun had sunk, and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light, That melted soon, in the deep moon- rise, That flowed over Croton Height. or the Evening, in her robes of white, miled o'er sea and land, with per sive eyes, jdening the heart, lke the flr t fair night, After a loved one dies. Give Her « Qhevrolet for X \ Give something electrical ' @8)cannot be estimated with any 4 Aage. | gree of accuracy elther_as Invother For fifteen years I have been con- nected with an industry closely al- Ned with, yet independent of, any single faction of the petroleum mar- knetig industry. During these fifteen years it has been my pleasure and opportunity to study and observe the methods pursued by the oll marketers. It is with pride in the industry, with all sincerity and without bias that I am contributing the following facts; and I trust they will be received as the observations of an individual who hopes to help the readers to a better understanding ‘of the oll industry and its many problems. The advent of the motor car and the internal combustion engine brought { {ts train a great demand brought in its train a great demand was created the petroleum industry, with its many ramifications of pro- ducing, refining and distributing. ‘The demand for. motor fuel has reached such proportions that today Dillions of dollars are tied up in the many branches above named, and as this money {s contributed by the investing public, and as these stock- holders expect a reasonable return, must. necessarily fix and maintain a price that will cover the many costs of producing, refining and dis- tributing, with a fair margin in ex- cess as profit. Any one will concede the industry's right to a profit on its investment. However, ‘when gasoline is being sold at.a lower price at a private service station than it is being offer- ed at any of the established and larger marketers’ station, the motor- ing public immediately concludes, “The owest price being offered on gasoline is the fair price,” This is far froni true, Let us ro- view some facts pertaining to the price problems every marketer must | solve. The of] industry ts the Only indus. try existent without any knowledge of, or security as to the extent of its future source of supply. True, cerain areas are proven oll bearing fields and fair estimates can made as to the supply of crude avail. able, still two or three successive wells might go down dry and a for- tune dissipated. This money has to figure in the overhead as one of the uavoldable costs of producing, and if vfficient organization 1s to be main- tained and production carried on the selling price of gasoline must be equal to absorb such losses. Every other industry can foretell the available amount of raw mato- rial, and estimate closely the cost of getting it into manufacture, For example, the coal industry knows where there is sufficient coal to last the world a thousand years, and what {t will cost with present fa- cilities to mine it. The lumber in- dustry can estimate how long any tract will last and the time neces- ssry to reforest the land cut away. Not so in the oil industry. Some of the greatest geologists estimate as low a known supply as thirty years, while others are slightly more optimistic; the truth being that no man knows with any degree of cer- tainty what Nature has locked away in her underground storehouses. The cost of getting oil out of the ground CONOCO “Ye Balanced CONTINENTAL OiL COMPANY Producers, Refiners and Marketers products in Arkansas, RT Ree Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pyne, be} Che Casper Daily Cribune > ~ Oil Bootleggers Responsible for Fluctuation in Prices industries, The question come fo mind why do the prices jn the oll industry fluctuate so, up this month and down next? As long as oil holds out the lure to “get rich quick,” just so long will wildeatters scramble for money to Grill for oll and land to drtll on. These wildcatters absolutely prohibit any stabilization of crude cil prices. When crude ts high everyone starts drilling, and as a well takes up to six months to complete, and as the wwlls are started at different times, the supply canot be stopped as soon as the demand {s satisfied. The wells going down must continye and be brought in 90 per cent of the time. If & man owns a tract of timber and owners of \racts surrounding his timber start cutting, he can let his stand if for any reason he does not feel like cutting. It will not de preciate in value; in fact, may in- crease over the years. The owner of a plece of prospective oil-bearing land cannot do that. He has paid a large sum for the privilege of drill- ing, and if a well starts adjoining his lease, he must, in sheer” protec- tion, drill an offset, otherwise the other well will drain the oil that is on his lease. As there are’not prop- erty right a mile~underground he must drill whether’ prices are right for drilling or not. The refineries, large and small, tuke as much .crude as they can handle and run, and the gasoline-ac- cumulates in storage, the pipe lines become overloaded and still crude keeps. pouring in. Storage has to be erected at great expense; jt is im- practicable to move it, therefore, af- ter the present need vanishes, it is almost a total loss, ‘The rush of erude continues and only ore means is available to halt drilling, crude prices must be slasied. As in every business, price hinges on supply and demand. It takes some time for the production ta slow up even after the price is cut, due to the condition above described. In the meantime a great yolum? of Sasoline has accumulated in the hands of small refineries. They must move it. Cash on hand is ur- gent to prevent their going to the wall. They ‘cannot dispose of this gasoline through legitimate channels and the marketers are fully coatract- ed Into the future. Only one alterna- tive exists; sell to the bootlecger at the best price obtainable. Thus at such times as these, large ‘quanti- ties of gasoline of varying and often questionable quality {s thrown on the market. at a price actually lower thah the cost to’ the legitimate re- finer of refining, with no margin for profit whatsoever to the refiner sell- ing. at its retail destination at a tank car price to the boctlegger far below ice at which a legitimate mar- ould sell and hope to remain in business. Think it over. The oil companies which are selling standard adver- 1 WO—OIL BOOTLEGGERS experience behind them and are planning into the future, how best to serye the motorist. They are pro- viding Work for thousands of our citizens, contributing heayily to the treasuries of our towns, cities an REG.U.S. PAT.OFE. eMore Miles (Better Miles South Dakota, Utah, Washington and W) Naturally this gasoline arrives | Gasoline country, developing sections unde- veloped and in general adding to the wealth and welfare of the people. They represent a stable, permanent investment and an tmportunt factor in the commerc® of our country and the world. The bootlegger represents a pro- Ject here today and gone tomorrow. Bootleg operators: only exist when the aforementioned conditions pre- vall, they disappear wher conditions in the industry approximate snor- maley. Is this type of cervice the public demand? % The ojl Industry would like to find a solution to thts. problem of overproduction so menacing at times. ‘The greatest minds the in- dustry contains have tried, without success, to change the condition. It still exists, - In being solely to serve the motor- ing public honestly, efficiently and a8 economically as possible, surely all will agrée the ofl industry fs en- titled to a fair and just return on its investment. The industry welcomes the public to come {n with them and participate tn the business, realiz- ing that the industry will Prosper inereasingly as the public's: know- ledge of its problems and conditions increases, Be reasonable and fair to thts in- | dustry that has gone out into the unknown and staked {ts all against the forces of Nature, developing in the face of all obstacles the leading industry of the world. Unto the al ready multidudinous difficulties and problems confronting then® let us not add ignorance and prejudice. Look Into the facts of the oll indus- try; they are entertaining, worth knowing, mightily instructiy MILLARD F, BENNETT, Supt. Sales Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Co, Kansas City, Mo yaa aie Raa Real Gifts From this day until the last week in the month Americans will hear ®& great deal about the wisdom of shopping early and rhalling early, which, it must be admitted, is sound advice. But there are other things to which we might give our thoughts with even more serious- ness as we advance toward the anniversary of an event which,. ac- cording to the Christian > world, means so much to man. Practically all Americans, what- ever may be thelr religious beliefs. celebrate Christmas tn some fashion: but unfortunately a large number of us forget the true meaning of the anniversary—we forget it be- cause we are too busy thinking of shopping early and of’ mailing early. Surely it is a time when we might ask ourselves if we shouldn't love our brother man early, and forgive early those who haye wronged us and finally extend the hand of fel- lowship early, Some of us, no doubt, have been tangled in family rows; perhaps we have stopped speaking to some person; or perhaps. 5 ae 2 1 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1925 | we hold against somebody a feel- ing, bordering onto hatred, because of an ancient wrong. The next couple of weeks afford} an excellent time to readjust our selves to new notions; to adopt, somewhat after the idea of shop ping and mailing early, the {dea that it fs better to love and’ to forgive as early a8 possible than to hate and harbor grudges. Christmas Day 1s itself am anniversary of the birth of the Spirit of Love and Forgive: nese—a Spirit that was intended to be the abiding heritage of the Man whose birth is celebrated. Charity and kindness are striking phases of character, and typify. in large meas- ure, the real Christmas spirit—but that*are made splendid by a di d eternal Light. Make this an electrical € —_—-——>——— Why not an Essex for Rudderless Ship PORTLAND, Ore., The steamer. West Holbrook, has been ordered to proceed to charity and kindness are not] relief of the ste: fs enough. “Money is a material thing| which has been drifting Lobe is and ‘is soon spent. and forgotten:|several .days on the Pacific ahout timé and are|2,200 miles out from Portland. The costly gifts decay in not long remembered; byt love and forgiveness are Christmas gifts that 1 outlast life itself, for these two t West Holbrook will ald the st Dewey, which failed tn att the West O*Row: Colds Pain Rheumatism Headache Neuritis Toothache Neuralgia Lumbago DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggist Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manvfacture of Monoaceticacitester of Sallorlienci¢ Oe Ry: eo Accept only “Bayer” package OY ¥ things are of those qualities In n ‘istimas. Xmas? Will Be Towed In Dec. 9.—(6) route from Portland to the Far Ee mer West O'Rowa, pts to Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for vine < en- the = Five-young ladies who know the city. Apply Tribune Office. NOTICE All old accounts due The Casper Herald may be paid at the old cam- paign office, Gladstone Hotel Build- ing on West First street, or you may mail your check to M. M. LEVAND ‘Care CASPER HERALD Subscription accounts excepted Phone 1156 TRAIN SCHEDULES CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN Westbound ; Departs No, 603 . 1:50 p. m, Eastbound Dinske No. 62220... oe No Sunday trairis w CHICAGO BURLINGTON & QUINCY x Eastbound Arrives 9. ~+---~--8100 p.m. No, 82). gilded Weatbound No, 2 No. 31 300 pom. Departs 200 a, m, Op. m. HAA ih 2 = = = = = = — = z | = = =