Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1925, Page 6

PAGE SIX . HANWAY AN “HANWAY Che Casper Daily Tritumne Except Saturday t_ Second Street, er (Wyoming) postoftic Noveinber 22, 1 Publication Off nnecting All De MEMBER THE OCIATED PRESS + The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for all news credited In this paper and the local news pub! a al Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. 1. Ps Nationa! vertising mere ‘s Prudden, King @ Exahonal Advertising Representatives Ave., New E San nel A merce Bidg.. $ New York, D i 3 0-23 « City: Globe Bldg.. » Cal; Leary Bldg., § os Angeles. Copies on fil turday ‘Tribune 0. Madison gomery St., ver of Com- in the ‘3 are 3 and Sun $ and Sun¢. $ per Hera $ One Month, daily $ One Week, da H j tlonal Find a W ay To anyone having yisited an irrigated section of country and familiar with such o visuy a beautiful and-productive stretch of country west of Ca once the waters of the North Platte river were brought to it, either by a dam up stream or by pumping plants urther mes past other to br tion ave brought the mi: seed th. it would do id contiguous to the n ritory under water and therefore culti forward and from time to time and it something would be ac apse and be apparently f rgotten or laid aside, ujority are placing no it hopes of its wtix If there ever Was a time in the history of Ca 1 some effort, aside from talk, should be applied to b uch an area as that lying along the highway west o' y under productivity, it would be about the present. It is true that e er ng. induce the federal government to establish irrigation wor in th cinity and place this territory under water. But have these efforts been persistent and insistent? And have they not been intermittent, or brought to publie attention by spasmodic st enthusiusm? There la id fertile tracts of land both es and west of Casper, potential sugar beet land, lacking only water and cultivation. On these Jands erops of. great yariet and value could be produced, sust in indeper Sucl Such ining the local population lence of shippers at a distance. rticles of necessity as milk, butter, poultry, eggs, ardén vegetables, not to mention the other products that fol- naturally in a cultivated country. We produce but a light fraction of what we consume, whereas we should pro- duce the major portion of our demands. We should find a iy to bring water to the lands about Casper., We should grow beets on these lands, W » one or more sugar wctories at or near Casper. Why don’t we do these things? Must we admit that we lack the enterprise to do what others do, and quit? Especially when we only lack the one ele- c to insure success. Or » we the will to go out and get hat we and go into the business that others find. prof- bl iere is no danger of producing too many sugar beets. There is no danger of producing more of the necessities of life, than Casper will consume. The revenues from such activities will do two things, increase the wealth of the coun- try, and increase the volume of circulating wealth. Of course all this all pulls wp at the same old stone wall. Water. Why not get the water, There it goes down the Platte river bed eve in the year. More of it than can ever be used for the purposes for which we need it. Shall it go down in local history, that we of this day were totally lacking in in- genuity and enterprise to get a little water on some fertile land to, build prosperity dor the place in whieh we live? There is not much that is absolutely impossible of accomplis ment, Why not find a way Mental Housecleaning Phe distinction between education and culture is more divergent than the usual dictionary establishes. Education is tumbled into everybody's lap! culture is something a few quire by design, The education of man, speaking collectively and individually, is continuous and uneeasing. We cannot d it. To the many, education is only experience; to the w, it is classified knowledge, The totality of the qualities ac- quired through individual instruction and social training, which further the happiness, efficiency, and capacity for social ryice of the educated—to put it in more formal terms, All of us are educated, in the sense that experi enced, but comparatively few of us have any rning and enlture. Education is meaningless unless it is inized. It unized in ar mind let a man te is of no value unless it is knowledge or; and ready to serve him instantly. F self and then he will be taught by others. With the growth of knowledge our id to time be organized afresh. The chas tak ordance with new maxims as they arise, but mains provisional. Every man needs to haye a must from time place usually in t always re- nental house- cle ing’ regularly. What is true today may be false tomor. One hundred years ago it could be stated with certainty ould 1 fly through the air i machine, The mind, ths, w rid itself the new falsities. I we more readily confess to errors, mis r con tha our thought i pleasure in being roud, al forced to reeait is I | lengths have gone to ayoid con their errors’ Taxes and Productive Enterprise hould mean getting one’s money's worth of service ks, in roads, in public buildings and schools, whatever can minister to the public need. Perhaps the atest pro- rainst taxes is the fecling that impersonal public super uot to be trusted; things cost more than they would under private administration of equally important enter et its money's worth for expendi “0 on until the big bill and its big- useless taxes we pay the less money we have to t in useful w which employ labor. The com g reduction in fe ¢ taxes will release hundreds of lillions of dollar ctive enterprise. Cities and states h ] the federal t reduction 1 match They Go Together er trife between the two essential umption, performs a worthy dy ire one and the same thing; capital erda Jabor, ‘1 is tomorrow's capital. City and of and fact bank and farm, all are but mani- tions of the same thing—human labor Out of Politics able tariff the farmer, Would they openly advoeate repealin yense the present r beets) wool list of farm produvts now protected? Why ean nable about the tariff and keep it out of pol If all the taxes that are now collected in the United States ere apportioned evenly among all the peop’ nand child would have to pay #704 on thirty-five years 3.88. each man, wo. year, Tax bill per per z0 was $ erations, would have little trouble und. There has been in eat deal of talk of projects of one sort and an- ul taxation, Public organizations and private citizens omplished; but each time ie way still retain their faith in such a scheme, but the the forts have been made in the past to uy it is of no benefit to | xifts. Smoke House. Who’s Who One of the few privates to rise to the rank of major general {s Pres- ton Brown who was elevated to that position a few days ago. In 1894 he enlisted as a pri- vate and on De cember 10, this eg es year, became ma-| ne jor genera He will succeed Major General Brewester as commandant of the first army ps of New Eng: land with head. quarters at Bos- ton. He is a gradu- e of Yale, the army staff colloge, army school of the line, and the army college. He Preston Brown mea captain in 1902 and a brig adier general in 1921, During the orld War he was chief of staff of he second division at Verdun Cha- Thierry, Soissona and St. Mi 4 was also at the battle of e Meuse-Argonne, After the arm- ice he was sationed at Motz for a time, The distinguished ‘service medal was awarded him “for excep- y meritorious and distinguish- ed services.” By critical judgment and quick action his division was ible to gain an important objective. He is also a commander of the French Leglor d'Honneur and a commander of the Belgium Order Crow t f Delinquent Assess- ments Editor Tribune: Comes now our city fathers with a maudlin sob- like the howl of a dying wolf because some of the citizens of Casper are delinquent in thelr spe jal assessments. They say “deft-| action will be taken,” also that “property owners were allowed 30 days in which to file their com- nts, etc. They say that no com- plaint ‘had been made so the city allowed the bills. They threaten “stringent measures,” and a levy of 6 per cent for all delinquent as- sessments in addition to the 6 per cent they are collecting now. For the benefit of this cry-baby body of cracker-box solons who are all the time breaking loose with a bunch of small-town comedy, and passing the buck to the taxpayers, we say this— that complaints were filed and pro- tests made when these paving and other improvement districts were be- ing created. Enough was said by the taxpayers at the time to show these “shining lights" that the city of Casper was framing up a nice jack-pot for itself, the bondholders, and the individual taxpayer. They just simply could not rest unless they runged everyone into unneces- sary debt. Now they have started to howl and have instructed the city attorney to draw up an ordi! nance to force the issue. They don't stop to think that levying an additional 5 per cent {s the same principle as putting a man in jail for debt! The people can't meet their assessments as they are now at 6 per cent because the assess- ments are too enormous, They are way out of all proportion to cost and value of property assessed. If a man had to pay an additional 5 per cent he never could pay any- thing on the principal, and if tt could be made legally possible for the city to,take his property in leu of special lassessments, then what better off would the city be? What could they do with a lot of fore: | closed property that's not worth 10 per cent of the original investment? How would that give the bond- holders their money? The city of Casper should have lstened to the protests of the taxpayers two years ago instead of chasing a black cat into a blind alley and then screech: ing like a mad hyena trying to find a way out, and losing the cat be- sides! There are people trying to be Casper Daily Tribune ticle on the subject pany of Hartford. cumulated and held in the physica! property. replacement "in event of destruction are vital to the of insurance sh an annoyance or a favor to a in the insurance business. “The business man whe pre- arranges, so to speak, a bill of sale for his insured business inte sured than or company. to fears of business bein livered, is the contract upon ty should he negotiated with the thought that the loss may come on Since. ip event of loss, the insured will look to the for indemnity, the morrow. ad insist tha are correct should know “His interest of time for which the run is as he desir n of privi- leges granted to him, restrictions placed 1 Cotton production has an important feature o: it is proposed to make bond Issue of posed for thi les in facilities fc and making the bay re; manufacturing cehter. Callfornia, Arizona ern states are biddin the cotton state col It has been shown that on, | demand fo y ion a cotton} Certain publicists have suggested t all electricity be generated at the mouth of coal mines. the best Egypt manufacture of be produced as the Intermountain un cotton used in the utomobile tires L profitable cr p in} tons ¢ World Topic the French you French sociolog icle in the N French young people life than thet lived | know Nttle or nothin, rent out rooms to help out who hayen't obtained any revenue that way for months. I offered two rooms with bath furnished, also lights and water—gas bill to be paid by lessee, for $15 a month. The party thought {t was too much, If T had asked $5, and furnished their groceries, car and gasoline, they might have considered it, but would probably have “looked around” first. Anyone whg 1s any cheaper than this would give a lead nickel to a blind man for a pair of shoestrings, | and then ask for change! ‘This all | goes to show what the taxpayer t agal and that the city Casper hasn't got any howl com 8 It should be made to like it ter of this article mac i it ninst this ¢ in dis 38 (paving), w st is in the elty records. ne the city council mt that time could vote all this stuff across, and | expect the people to meet the ex- pense, whea property was depreciat- ing and the bubble had bursted is a mystery. Now the city is howling {or its money and would fain tear down the Constitution of the United States to attain its purpose. This illustrious body of solons would fain pass an ordinance legallizing the extortion of 6 per cent additional interest out of the taxpayers who can't meet the payments that hav been forced upon them. They will get by with it too if there is a possible loop-hole.as big as a gnat’ eye that they can wiggle through, The taxpayers are tired stenting to this doleful wail on the part of the city of Casper, "The thing for the | city to do ts to hang onto its boot: | straps until the taxpayers can dig up the money. How the city could | have issued improvement — bonds when it was going into a decline, | and wages were being cut, Is an: | other mystery. I guess it imagined it was at the consummation of a xigrious golden uge! Instead of our clty dads realizing that wages had to be cut, and living costs were soing up, they were entranced with the rosy dream of opulence brought on by thelr distorted imagination. The dope has played out. The rude} awakening 1s nt hand. Let the elty drain the cup to its bitter dregs the same as the taxpayers have to, GEO, L, ROWE, 831 South Walnut st eRe erable e up ndi ich Gifts You'll Be Happy to Give If you'll only listen to us, we have a really worth- while suggestion that will help you answer that an- nually bothersome question—‘‘What shall I give for Christmas?’ For instance: For Mother—from one, or perhaps from all, the children: The Table Stove—cooks 2 meal right at the table. Tron that Women Designe —there is no many advantages. For Mother and Father— you might give it alone, of you can get others to join with you: The Percolator—never was such good coffee! hether her hair is bobbed or not: ling Iron—it keeps the hair For the Younger Brother— Smokers’ articles for Christin SS Give something electrical. Your Insurance Policy by people of their own just that proportion that them discon lot and ¢ 1 it have ne real good,” he said. -| The reproach {s frequently made j that our f Ss ar ha | content, v ing t own work | tea 1 jattendince at the movies, cording to I Ss COM { I wea ineli effects, mak: social me own of American fil not keep an efficient can pictures to do with tha » doctor Ml the ute ut the cinem ell windows, fine new fur ull kinds of c wa like tl ja p mine, Fre trical enginee: question was typi ception regarding ment of electrical indu futur ey do vunning a nerate less electrica » plant In Chfea two per Miss! elect overlook the fact t Electricity can onl ally generated by st am ne ter. supply of pure Y le s turbin t near y te about | ‘The oth ivering > the customer. of electricity | plicated busine: appointed “friend: the vice who harp about “se tho’ everyone will be glad he got it: The Waffle Iron— the most popular electric ap- pliance developed in years. For Baby—for old people, also, and for all others: The Cozy Glow—warmth without waiting. For Everyone—splendid gifts to anentire family group: The Warming Pad—the modern successor to the hot water bottle. The Turnover Toaster —no other device makes such wonderful toast. Dolet us show you this line of Wonderful Westinghouse Gifts- Any article in our entire Appliance Department sold on easy terms—payments with your light bill. MOUNTAIN STATES POWER CO. 421 South Center St. Phone 69 sort, lowing their own employments, ited with their termined to ameliorate it mful dl young for their id Hyes. Innumerable ases are cited of young people being crime through too insiduous the effi- pe- | tion of the war ‘Toulouse, these cases non than is made out. thinks it is only the more or less «minded and those naturally so ed upon whom pictured scenes of a life better than theirs have bad them seek to obtain such things for themselves “by anti- ‘The others, the doctor, are stimulated to obtain them in a proper manner by s. He related the his who complained that they had not firs’ ard of comparison Think It Over mere coincidence that Sar] the heads of the British government. | rorces of destruction which even now Jacksonville, | Who looked upon ‘the idea with some | jer are the | favor, but -a ° most expensive cities in the country | Known that such a conference we to live in at present, according to a|belng held, the participar statement just issued by the national | be thrown industricl conference board? 5 happens that each of these cities is] President Wilson advanced the pro- a “municipal ownership” city. The announcement of the natfonal industrial conférence board gives the index number, or United States aver- age, as 100 per cent. to this average the ratings of the i San and Seattle, so | Was delay | “What on earth have the e girls spend every spare | friend's answer, “and there they se TS coupe tat | nothing but palatial American offices ture, azy contraptionst money—and then the in ap office that discontented with ch. office cksonville, 115.6; Detroit, 118.1; Se- n Francisco owns a street rail- way system and the famous Hetch- Hetchey water power development. Cleveland, Ohio, owns a “success- ful” munielpal light plant, according to municipal own Jacksonville, es Know Facts ‘ship advocates, iso has been pointed to as the owner and operator “successful” A farmer in North Dakota asked “When will 1 Falls reach out here?” al of the miscon- Ughting experiences of Detroit» and | Seattle with their municipally-owned and operated street raflw: are too well known to call for repe- tition of facts, except that in both 8S promises of low fares he- fore purchase of the systems not only have not been fulfilled, but fares act. ually have been raised and taxes in- | ry. y systems | ‘Niagara Falls furnishes on per cent of the nation’s le Shoals, when completed full’ capacity, 1 energy Again it is interesting to note that of the thirteen large cities wHere 1 ing expenditures run below the av. nt of the coun- ter power is west ppl, while 79 per cent of the energy no municip: gas, street railway or telephone utill- These cities, with their ratings, Houston, Texas Indianapolis, be economic. For every ton of coal burned in an light and power plant 490 water must be pumped the steam that drives the Most coal mines Boston, Mas: New Orelans, La Cincinnati, 0, Scranton, P: Ttichmond, Va. — Baltimore, Md. — It is Just possible that public own- ership of industry has something to we something to] of concrete street pave- nt could | private plant and these would not +: Re the finest looking pave- the general taxpayer who, In many instances, could by the municipal though taxed to support it. Red tosaupeertes Give Her a Chevrolet for Xmas. nsmitted economic: The longest distance which tricity ean be tr: nly over wires present | pare favorably with local Cost of rating electric do with high ta managed publi ) per cent of total bill, r S80/per cent is cost of rvice from power plant] would be tax e development and distribution 1 technical and com- bout which undertaking, “Sun ian Ny UY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1925 “Mis j although In view of the fact ‘plain, good French ffice’ is a mess Lo t Opportunity that that looks as though it had never been dusted, painted or washed. The} The recently published memoirs of | ; furniture is disreputable, the filing | Lord Grey show that tn 1916 Prest- |, system so untidy that one wonders |dent Wilson offered to Europe an} One ef the how he ever gets through any busi-|Pportunity for peace which, in the tne ¢ ness and makes the money he does. | ight of sub: It is dark, repressing, il! heated. It |#lmost suicidal folly to reject. is an excellent thing that our young | Mel House, stenographers—especlally cient ones—should be showing their | bassador Page a ¢ for such surroundings, cause in time that means that the|tion of Belgium ly surroundings will improve. And how | ces*' would they ever have felt distaste if | and the compensation of Germany 3 ad some stand. |territor{al acquisitions elsewhere. in the United. States the Con- gress is the only constitutional war- king power, President Wilson uid have gone no further vil results of wars ation of a psycholog 5 loses all. hold on common Colo-|-rhat psychology prevailed in Bu- a visit to several rope while President Wilson was laid before Am-) showing a way cut of the holocaust ‘oject for termina- |i which European civilization was Jon the evacua-| peing consumed, Every European rmany, the | statesman knew Jin 1916 that it had ne to Brance.| already been demonstrated that in such a war as the last one, ‘ther are no victors; all participants are eated. Yet fear of public opinion quent events, it w: fter European capitak n of Alsace-Lorr: Ambassador Page ridiculed the idea, and declared (loyal ambassador) t made It possible for these very ‘lead England had lost confidence in Pres-|ers to think of ending the World ident Wilson. War before it engulfed all Burope But Colonel House did confer with |}in common disaster and set loose e th® world. And so the war went on, with all Clits frightful sacrifice of blood and $ would} treas heaping up debts which Action | yenerations yet unborn must carr 1, and while at the time|on her shoulders, and stunting the very populations of Europe throug bosal, every nation in Europe was|the killing and maiming of the flow war weary, delay raised German | er of her youth hopes, and through reluctance on at President Wilson. made ‘this both sides to cease a struggle already | praiseworthy effort, vain as were his clearly disastrous in its ultimate re-| tater effort e Versailles confer- sult to all concerned, the opportunity |ence, to effect a peace, permanent to save millions of lives and billions | pecnuse based upon generosity rath of dollurs was lost. President Wil- momen dvantage; fs a son in his memorandus proposed that, only now iy revedled whicl the United States should serve no- eat credit to him. tice on Germany that unless she —_ would treat with the allies on this| Give Her a Chevrofet for Xmas, basis, the United States would prob- a ably enter the war against her. | Make this an electrical Christmas Objection was raised in London to a the inclusion of the word “probab-! Drink Hillerest Water. Phone 1 ared t) if it we to the TL me! 29,939,000 square yards of concrete street pavement were laid in 1924 rerage for the United States there is al ownership or electric, Concrete Streets This Year The reason for this na- tion-wide popularity mentisthe fact thatitis penetit ment money can buy, al- and gives greater ser- vice value per dollar than any other type. Our free booklet,“Concrete Streets for Your Town,” will tell you the whole story. Ask for your copy. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Ideal Buildin DENVER, COLO, A National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete OFFICES IN 30 CITIES NOTICE All persons having bills against ti Publishing Company should pre M. M. Levand, at the OLD CAMPAIGN OFFICE, Gladstone Hotel Block Casper Herald ent them to Mr. All persons owing accounts (subscription accounts ex- cepted), to the Casper Herald Publishing Co., which were contracted prior to December 1st, 1925, should call and make payment to Mr. M. M. Levand. OLD CAMPAIGN OFFICE, Gladstone Hotel Block All Herald subscription accounts, both old and new, are payable at The Tribune office. CASPER DAILY TRIBU HEDULES CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN _ Westbound Arriver Departs No, 608 ___. 1,30 p.m 1:60: p. m, thound Departs 622 45 p.m, 6:00 p. m. No Sunday trains west of Casper, CHICAGG BURLINGTON & QUINCY thound Arrives Departs No. 80 ND Bais daneaeeyieece,: Westbound No, 29 No, 31