Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1925, Page 6

7 : 1 : 4 PAGE SIX Lhe Casper Daily Tribune By J, B. BANWAY AND E Evening Except Satu' Bidg., 216 Kast Second street, Casper, Wyo. Centered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter November 22, 1916 . HANWAY ness Tel Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments IBLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tly entitied to the use for publication of nd also the local news publishe: dited in this paper Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B.C) National Advertising Representatives ng & Prudden, 17 teger Bidg.. Chic: LL; 270 Madison rk City: Globe Bidg. Boston, Mass Montgomery | St Sap Francisco, Cal.; Leary: Bldg., Seattle, Wash,, and. Chamber of Com @rce Bic Los. Angeles. Coples of ) pune are on file Now i i Boston and & offices and viait ‘ico SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Mail ry evening except Saturday i Mon un oni@ Month. daily and Sunday Gaily and Sunday Casper Her: he National Puzzle lu coummeuting on the Joint Stock Land Bank system, a feuding bond house whieh is a wholesale distributor of tax- exempt government obligations, makes the statement that while the farm loan system has made loans aggregating more #100,000,000 in northwestern states, investors resident in have purchased not more than 000,000 of the bonds, ‘This is natural because the wealth which seeks exemp- tion via the tax-exempt bond route is not in the northwest- ern states—the capital in these states is invested more largely in productive, taxable enterprises, Continuing, the statement. says that interest rates of the Joint Stock Land banks to the mers are as low ag five and one-half per cent in some parts of the country and at no place do they exceed six per cent, and that being tax exempt in the same way as federal farm loan bonds, these securities have become especially favored by investors whose incomes require them to place their money largely in tax free bonds. In the last statement is the comedy of the whole. proceed ing. Why should the law permit tax exemption to the purchaser of this purely commerc paper? Why should the law furnish a method for investors to pe the taxation which must be levied for government needs and protection of all the people including those who are exempeted from tax payments? Why should the Jaw on one hand provide for taxation of all equally, and then permit exemption for those most able to pay? This is a national puzzle to which no satisfactory answer is offered toda Anti-Casualty Campaign When the women of the nation, state or city band together for righting a wrong or for defense of a right, they usually succeed. Just now the women of the nation are banding to- gether to fight the ever-increasing toll of death and, injury from automobile accidents. This means that organized women have determined that careless driving, or driving by drunken or irresponsible persons and careless walking must cease. The first attack of this army of women who would defend their loved ones and themselves from death or maiming is on. The crusaders expect to bring home to every man and woman who drives a motor vehicle the seriousness of the matter and exact a pledge for safe driving. The motorist hurrying’to get home or to keep an engagement, fails to realize that he is his brother's keeper. This new movement, with its slogan “Safety or sorrow,” warns the motorist and impresses on him the heartache and economic loss that comes from the death of man, woman or child in auto crashes Tbe man who walks often carelessly places himself in jeo- pardy by crossing streets at places where he should. not. and where the auto speed is higher. He steps from behind’ street ears directly into the path of a speeding motor. He permits his children to play in the streets. The women seek to save live: id their campaign will be educational. They only ask that motorists and pedestrians alike would exercise care. States Spend Money Almost staggering are the figures showing the tremend- ous increase in costs of state governments, using 1917 as a basis. Congressmen striving to make a creditable reduction in the federal tax levy condemn the apparent unwillingness of states to co-operate by at least not increasing their levies. No relief comes to taxpayers if a half-billion is lopped off in Washington and a half billion is added by the states, One of the chief points open to criticism lies in the in- crease in cost of maintenance and operation of the states’ gen- eral departments—in other words, the everyday upkeep cost. In 1924 this item for the 48 states stood at $1,001,465.258, or $9 per capita. In 1917 it was $4.19 and in 1923 $8.17. Turning to the total payments for 1924, including maintenance and op: eration of public service enterprises,.interest and debt out. lays for permanent improvements amounted to $1.513,628,021, or nearly three iimes that of 1917. The net indebtedne: funded and floating, less sinking fund assets, was $1,183,467,433, or $10.63 per capita, In°1923 as $8.72 and in 1917, ¢ If the states are to keep up it ¥ ar ment schedule, strict economy halt nd it will eral permanent improv al. True will not future, Ir t nsure th the policy of economy economy the end Eliminating Waste in his annual report, Secretary Hoover calls attention to the remarkable results American industry has accomplished in the last five years by organized efforts to eliminate waste. He culls it “ope of the most astonishing transformations in economic history.” Largely to these efforts he attributes the fact that whefeas in 1920 the wage rate was 99 per cent aboye pre-war and the wholesale price level 126 per cent above pre- war, in 1024 the wage rate had risen to 128 per cent aboye pre- war, while the wholesale price level had dropped to 50 per cent above pre-war. Discussing fundamental purpose of waste elimination cam: paign, the secretary said: “It is but ore purpose, that is, to maintain American standards of living for both workers and farmers, and to place production on a more stable footing. The high standards of living enjoyed by American people are re- sult of steadily mounting per capita productivity, There is only one way to further advance these standards, and that is by improved methods and processes, by elimination of waste in materials and motion in our production and distribution sys: tem Oil Outlook Improved “The outlook for American petroleum industry is consider. ably improved by a consideration of the petroleum situation in the world at large ys the November Index of the New York Trust compan; “North America both produces and consumes approximately 87 per cent ot the world’s oil and all but a fraction of this production and consumption belongs to the United States. Industrial countries in other regions may seon be expected to be calling for greater supplies of petroleum is world commerce and in/lustry progress. In Central European countries, for example, consumption of gasoline at present is only a fraction of one gallon per capita as compared with an- tual per capita consumption of 70 gallons in the United States. The consumption of gasoline in these and other areas may be expected to rise sharply in near future.” In order to assure an oil supply for American consumers it is essential that the American oil industry maintain its supremacy jn oll production for it would be a calamity in- deed if we ever found ourselves dependent on foreign pro ducers, aoe A tt tt ay. Publication Offices: Trilune 15 and 16] | computed | Who’s Who A new plan to develop the Amer!- can air service hab been put forward by Lt. Col. Harold Hartney, a reserve officer of the U.S. alr ser- yicé and Vice president of the Gen- efal Airways System, It. has been that it would cost 28 million dol rs to train be een “three ahd four -thousand ollote “ that are needed to’ aug ment the pres ent flying force * L Col. Hart y offers to de thig for five ton. He guar ras to have FAROLDEAARINEY established 150 training centers, dis- tributed throughout the country, construct 450 airplanes, carry his own medical inspection bureau, In- sure the men against death and in- jury and see that each rescruit re- ceives at least one hour's lesson each ‘rom instructors which he will n, He will run the planes for transportation and other purposes which will bring in sufficient reve- nue to overcome the huge expense involved. Lt. Col. Ha has held a ma- jor's commieston and during the war nded the ist, Pursult Group Air Service. Saisie Stand Idle? For want of knowledge the people perish.” No truer statement than that was ever.made, It applies to-all’ people, Hbut most of all to the American peo- ple, since ours is a government in which every citizen {s a potential sovérelgn 3 We have a vague idea that regard. less of our own sins of omission or the future of aur re will be cared for. But by ‘thom, if not by the people them: selves? And who are “the peopl but a gum of units ike yourself? If all who have at heart the welfare of the nation do no, more than you are doing-to shape its future, where {s the mysterious force that will pre- serve the American heritage of Iib- erty and sécurity This country is in bo danger ex- cept from that want of knowledge on the part of patriotic,men and wo- men which would arduse them to a gonception of the danger, attendant upon the unanswered appeals of de- structive elements to the ever-pres- ent spirit of unrest. The printed page:is given over for the most part to destructive criticism. There are few to,call attention to the value of established —institutione, traditions and ideals, few who gave them that serious, study, which alone will arm effectively in the battle for thelr maintenance. Within every organism are the elements both of growth and of de- cay. The permanence of any organ- {sm depends upon the comparative activity of constructive and destruct. ive, elements. ‘The battie goes on, regardless of the inactivity of any factor. Placid indifference on the part of those who are the natural defenders of ali our country stands for does not stop the warfare con- stantly being waged by subversive elements for {ts overthrow. There never has. been a In all the history of this repub- Mc when such direct and’ pow- erful challenge was offered to Amer- {ean institutions as we confront, to- day. There never has been a time, despite our unprecedented national prosperity, when there was so much discontent for destructive elements to play upon. There never has been a time when the summons to pa- triotic duty was so imperative; never a time when that appeal has fallen upon duller ears or minds less un- derstanding, It has been the history of all the cataclysms which have engulfed na- tions that up to the moment of up- heaval warning signals have been flown only by the few. Except for the indifference of citizenship these disasters would not have come. To those who care to know and understand, the portents of our na- tional undoing are at this moment clear. The vast majority, compla- cent and ‘indifferent, 1s dead to the menace offered here and elsewhere throughout the world militant, ore: savag n tles intent upon nothing less than the uproot ing of civilization. One sixth of the world's surface has already been conquered, the shadow {s dark on a third more, and the most’ desired ob- jective of all this world-wide cam- paign of destruction is the republic of the United States. “Why sit ye here idle?” Why not lift your voice and your hand tu time against a rising force which counts upon your indifference, your tim- idity, your dnaction, to leave the cit- adel of ordered freedom unprotected? paar ced to. | Why commission, public time Drink Hillcrest Water. Phone 1151 TODAY DENVER POST LATEST NEWS BEST FEATURES 10 PAGES COMICS ON SATURDAY 7 DAYS A WEEK Delivered Anywhere in Casper 65c Per Month EARL KEENAN Agent Office at Pep’s 146 S. Center. Phone 18 ie = i 'posed to any Che Casper Daily Cribune. The people of the northwestern part of the state are unalterably op- extension of Yellow- stone Park boundaries, believing that the federal government has gone quite far enough In seeking jurisdic- tion over resources and property of western states. The sentiment against turther government control in Wyoming !s shared by the people In other sections of the state than the northwest and the government has heard dircetly from these. Ques- tions of this sort seem to be born at regular intervals in° the minds of eastern touriets and others who have visions of preserving all western scenic beauty to the public by in- cluding It in federal controlled do- main. Fede-ai officials of one de gree or another ‘take up the cry and promote ithe scheme, for the jobs it provides and the increased power It gives them. The ladies of the Jackson Hole country have made a statement con- cerning the proposed extension which they are sending broadcas' it explaines the situation as they see it. We fully approve their state- ment and are giving it additional circulation by publishing it. Here it ts: We, the ladies of the Jackson Hole valley, do hereby solicit your most esteemed assistance in defeating the measure to put the Tetons in the proposed extension to Yellowstone National Park. We declare ourselves opposed to the extension of the Park to include any more land, belonging to the State o f Wyoming, now and FOREVER. ‘ Why do they want the Teton peaks added to the Park, and placed under park control? They claim for their scenic beauty and to preserve them. Nothing can take from the Teton recks thelr rugged graudeur. They ace too broken and high to be of any commercial value, And as for their preservation—can they ever be mar- red, or removed? ‘This is not their reason at all, but the value of the Teton peaks to the Yellowstone Park, is, that nestled at thelr base are six of the most beau- tiful lakes in the world. Tourists are now beginning to visit them and they would be a wonderful source of inceme to a corporation or company iv the running of lake concessions, transportation company and big ho- tels, Every angle of this question has been discussed, except that of the pioneer settler himself, He came to this valley through the invitation of the government, because of the fact that the land was surveyed, thrown open to homestead entry, and a U. S. Commissioner appointed for his con- venience in filing. upon the land. The range in the foot-hills was ex- cellent, the country beautiful and plenty of water to irrigate the fertile soil. The streams and lakes abound. ed in fish, and-game was plentiful. He started to improve the homestead he had taken, and built a home for his family. He cleared off the sage brush, made irrigation ditches, plow- ed the Jand, and formed wonderful green meadows of alfalfa, timothy and clover (that game protectionists aud park protectionists now claim are the right of the elk), and the hay Produced through his efforts is used to feed his stock, and a portion to save the elk, otherwise they would not be here now. No one but the early settler knows the pitiful con- dition of the eld tn early days, Dur- ing the mild winters the elk increase in numbers, then the inevitable se- vere winter comes and they perish for want of food. The early ploneer established schools for his children, churches for his religion, roads and bridges for his constant use and worked toward a general development of the whole family. After 35 years of hard work and all the hardships that attend p!- oneer development, along comes the park extension propagandist, who has money enough to buy influence, and asks him to give up his rights and privileges in the beautiful lakes of the country he loved and cultivat- ed, that favored concessionists may re to the ample fortunes they while he pays the demanded price to enter the playground where he picked huckleberries over the ‘wooded mountain slopes and walked the shores of the beautiful lakes that always had been his, In 1890 congress admitted Wyom- ing to state, the Union as a with s: sovereign e rights and privil tates, defined by cer. To change these ake from her a portion of without consent of her and lines. her area, people, or action of her legislature would be an {infringement of estate right. ‘The Teton range {s separated from the Yellowstone park by a distance Opposing Yellowstone Park Extension of 30 miles wf auto road, They are a part of Wyoming territory, the settlers around their base pay taxes to the state, they buy license plates from the capital and pay taxes on the gasoline they use. Why give these mountains and lakes along their base, to be commercialized by a non-resident monopoly, that pays no taxes upon their property held within the sate, procure no license number for their cars, pays to the state no tax on gasoline and still fur- ther, give them the monopoly of the transportation business of the Yel- lowstone park, Including the Teton additions. . This mountain range !s entirely surrounded by National Forests, whose rangers have shown themsel- ves competent and willing to take care of the fire hazard, sanitary con- ditions around the camps and per- form other duties, {n as capable or a more superior way, thah the same are performed in the Yellowstone Park. ‘The Forest Service, unlike the Park,, on conservation, try to make use of surplus that would be waste, {f not put to some use. Thus a grazing fee is charged for all stock grazing upon the National Forest and ,selling excess or damaged tim- ber, The amounts received in this Way are used in building and Im- proving roads and for helping defray expenses of ‘the public schools. The following CAPITALS, were taken from a letter by Mr. Albright, Superintendent of the Yellowstone Park and sent to the Isaac Walton League convention, held at Rock Springs, November 13, 1925; presum. ably to influence their action on res- olutions on park extension: “I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY SUB- JECT SO BADLY TANGLED UP BY MISREPRESENTATION AND HALF INFORMATION, AS THE TETON EXTENSION PROBLEM.” We agree with him, hundreds of pages of magazine articles, hundreds of newspaper statements have been published, all of a mis-representative type, propaganda for park extension; in an endeavor to favorably impress the ‘people, Wyoming particularly for park extension, He further states: “IF WE CAN EVER GET IT STRAIGHTENED. OUT IN THE MINDS OF THE OUTDOOR PEO. PLE OF THE STATE, THERE WILL BE NO DOUBT AS TO WHAT THEIR ATTITUDE WILL BE.” Again he fs right, if the people of the State of Wyoming understood the object. of adding the Tetons to the Yellowstone Park, with one voce, we are sure they would sop- pose it. Mr. Albright further states: “NO QUESTION THAT HAS BEEN UNDSR CONSIDERATION IN THIS STATE FOR YEARS—.” Yes, for twenty-five years, that we know of, it has retarded and discour- aged development of our valley and has been a menace to the welfare of the settlers. It has created an un- settled labor condition of the settlers themselves, who feel that any fur- ther development on their part is useless until this question is settled. The value of the land has been af- fected in as much as the cattle men can not get adequate range. When the Forest Service was requested to withdraw certain areas from graz- ing, until this momentous question was settled; the cattle men lost range for their stock, no range meant no cattle, no cattle meant that his range was of no value to him and he don’t know whether his ranch is worth fifty cents an acre or $50. This has also been a disadvantage in the development, inasmuch as peo- ple of means come and would like to buy ranches and homes, but when they find this unsettled condition, they do not stay, as they are seeking permanent location, “HAS BEEN MORE IMPORTANT FROM THE STANDPOIN oF CONSERVATION OF THE WIL- DERNESS THAN THIS PARTICU- LAR MEASURE.” Then why not extend it to include the green forests and rocky canyons of the west slope of the Teton range and extend {t northward to conserve the great numbers of elk that an- nually migrate in that direction that are ruthlessly slaughtered by hunt- ers and allowed to starve for want of food. Again Mr. Albright states: “WHICH WILL GIV: PARK MORE NATURAL DARY LINE Then again Mr, Albright states: “AND FOREVER PROTECT FROM EXPLOITATION THE VERY BEST OF THE TETONS.” At each session of the Wyoming legislature, the people of the state (beca of extension lobby malin: THE BOUN. tained there by Park Extensionists), have through their representative: protested against Park Extension. But when certain {nterests had all but secured the privilege of bullding and maintainjng reseyyoirs within the park Imits; the citizens of the State of Wyoming, through thelr representatives were the first to pro- test against commercializing any portion of the Yellowstone park. A telegram dated November 13, from Mr. Albright from Gardiner, Montana, to above convention, from which the following 1s copied: “IF FAVORABLE ENDORSE: MENT OF YELLOWSTONE BOUN- DARY ADJUSTMENT IS NOT VOTED, WE URGE APPOINT- MENT OF COMMITTEE TO IN- VESTIGATE AND REPORT TO STATE PRESIDENT.” We cannot understand Mr. Al- bright’s intense interest and activity, in support of park extension to in- clude the east slope of the Teton range. It must be costing his a considerable sum to tour our state and other states, publish newspaper articles and for numerous other ex- penses. Now, on early Sunday morning after the chores are done, we take our kiddies, hop into our auto, drive over the splendid roads the Forest Service has bullt for our use and taking a lunch along, spend the day at the lakes, And as we drive along the shore, see the vast number of autos parked there and the happy throngs, cooking camp fire lunches, fishing arid visiting, all jolly and gay, and the clean camps, the good roads and the kindness and protec- tion that is given to them and to us by the well organized Forest Service who provide competent, genial, well mannered forest rangers, that make us welcome. These Rangers are to this country what the life guards are to the ocean shore—they render every service to thé visitor neces- sary. The question will arise in our minds, why should the Yellowstone Park management control/all this and change the conditions that are so ideal, World Topics “What we want, what the men j dependent upon the»industry need, is some guarantee of peace and an opportunity to operate the . mines continuously,” said W, W. Inglis, chairman of anthracite operators’ negotiating com- mittee, in a re- cent interview, relative to. the issues in the coa] strike in the hard coal re- gion, “We are weary of strikes and suspensions that are strangling the industry to death. We can- not agree to a ‘frozen’ wage that may through the force of eco- nomic conditions make ours a part- time industry. We have no desire to weaken or destroy the union. If we could we would make it ag strong constructively as it ig politically, “Therefore we insist that some ‘arrangements be worked out that will) guarantee the industry peace and: afford the opportunity, should thesnecessity arise, to adjust con- ditions from time to time to meet economic needs, This is ag neces- Sary to the men’s well-being as to ours. Who can say that a fair wag¢ today may not be hopelessly inade- quate within five years? oe “As meang of getting this peace we have proposed and we shall con- tinue to propose that the men re- turn ‘to work at once under the wage rates prevailing on August 31, 1925; the highest rates ever ‘pald in the industry; that scale nego- tations be immediately. resumed and that, falling agréement within 30 days, all matters be, referred to an Impartial board of arbitration. “For generations up to 1922 ar- bitration was the basic creed of the United Mine Workers. Under it in the anthracite region {ts mem- bers prospered as no other group of workers in America have pros- pered. “Since its abandonment in 1922, its members have gone through two long and avoidable strikes that have cost to date nearly $300,000,000 in wages. “In. proposing a return’ to that system—aye, in insisting upon it— we are trying not only to help our selves but our employes and the public, Fe “In offering to submit ‘all. phases f the wage dispute to arbitration the operators meant exactly what they sald—that the offer was made without strings or reservations, and that in making it they realized fully that the arbitration board might rule that many things, including the opening up of thelr books and the granting of the check-off, The Midwest Commissary Wishes to Announce to Its Customers That the Store Will Be Closed 4HURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 On Account of Taking Inventory sary. 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