Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1926, Page 6

t PAGE SIX ie an e Connecting All Dep t THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ew this and also the tc Member of Audit Burean of Circulation National Advertising Repres *eudden. K $ Ride Aye. Montgomery (1 Chamber of GC SUBSCKIPTION RATES By Carrier and Mail ery evening except Saturday Local Funds From Local Resources Since February, 1920, Wyoming has paid into the federal treasury thirty-five million dollars under the mineral leasing bill which at that time became effective. Nine-tenths of this ast amc originated from activities in Natrona county ulone. Two years ago the mineral leasing bill produced thiv’.on million dollars in all the states of the union. Twelve million f this sum came from Wyoming. Last year eight million wa the total amount realized and seven million was Wyoming's contribution to the fund. One half of the fund so raised is paid o the irrigation fund of tLe nation. Her ongress is a vast fund being created under a law passed by ninety per cent of which is raised from industry operatir a single county in the whole United States, The un of the nsaction is evident to every person who stops long enough to consider the matter. The oil industry is levied upon and uncomplaingly pays tribute but nirness the people living and doing business at the source of this rev enue to nct receive the slightest recompense in return, in aid of sustaining their country when the great source of the revenue is exhausted, as it someday will be. taxation with no power of voice < be done with the proceeds. Far sighted citizens of Natrona county realize that the great oil resources will come to an end sometime and more than a hundred million dollars worth of industrial and public and private property will be left without yalue. What they would like to see before that sad day arrives, is something to take the place of a resource that has produced such great wealth. Not something in a distant part of the country, but something in the territory that has furnished the revenue. They have pretty generally settled upon the Casper-Aleova irrigation project as the most promising. It must be built with It is a tremendous direction in what shall in the next few years. The best informed, reason that a por. tion of the fund secured through oil royalties should be set aside and at once be applied to the reclamation of the 88,000 of virgin land west of the eit igation under a plant establ With such a plan in opera‘ion diversified crops could n, including sugar beets, and industries established to place of those which will vanish in the failure of the principal resource. and which is susceptible hed the North Platte is sound project from both standpoints and points the way to omething like forty thous: ory. There is nothin, for sper and economical and }usines sustaining prosperity to nd people now occupying the terri- now conceiysble that would save the day trona county like the irrigation project. There is an unfairness that funds a in one section of the country shall used to support another section which has dissipated its own resourei That is ex- actly what happens when Wyoming funds are used to build prosperity in the eastern sections of the country. The Casper: Alcovya plan has been laid before the congress upon this basis end the argument is altogether with the Wyoming id of jocal funds from local resources for local use. If there y fairness and justice in the congress sui‘able appropriation will be made and preliminary work will be begun on the Casper Aleova project at no distant d Drifting With Public Opinion It should be obvious to the observant man or woman that *® great many persons go through life with as little thinking as possible. To the cultivated, it is amazing how many per- sons are so willing to accept whatever they read or hear with- out stopping to think whether it makes sense or conforms to their own observations and experience Ask the average man why he believes suchy and such a thing, and the chances are he cannot tell you; for he never had thought about it. He is a Democrat or Republican be- cause his father was, he attends a church of a certain denom ination because it was cs) he was sent in his youth, and any ideas he has about po or public affairs, are no more than prejudices, which he cannot defend. Thought est and most neglected possession. ng from resources is man’s grez Nothing, at first view m seem more unbounded than the thoughts of man, which not only escapes all human power ind authority, but is not even restrained within the limits of ature and reality To form monsters, and join incongruous shapes and ap arance et the imagination no more trouble than t conceive the most natural and familiar objects. And whi the body is confined to one planet, along which it creeps with nd difficulty, the thought can in an instant transport us into the most distant regions of the universe; or even beyond the universe. What never was seen, or heard of, may yet be conceived; nor is anything beyond the power of thought, ex cept what ‘lies absolute contradiction, Man is a more perfect animal than the rest because he has better reasoning powers. However, few men utilize their reasoning power, most act blindly like automatons. Is your mind your own? Then you are different. Thinking for your. self, acting you think best, is like swimming up stream, and most people are content to drift along with what is known as public-opinior Same Old Stuff iness, “Trusts,” “Monopolies,” Mcrgan and Com are the moth-eaten goods the Democrats are try on the Coolidge administration. It now is “an et going.” Thus far the Democrats ha: ~ ircugurated he Aluminum “Trust,” the riff Commission and ral Trade Commission. They have other inqairies ope to blend into he picture in the’: effort to the administration is entirely sympathetic with the of “Capital.” if not run by it. But some Democrats e that they came a “cropper” in 1924 by over-dotng the ] scandal and the Daugherty investigation when the public Disarmament ‘ « preliminary ¢ rmcment con ‘enee at Geney I stretch into the summer before the agenda is sponged off he sl the general opin Washineton, Por this re hearsal it is not Coolidge’s intention, apparently, to send “star” ors. Such men as tu nd Hoover he plans to put on the hen the first full are performance begins. It is indl 1 that the naval phase of the conference may possibly be din Washington “The have felt k } posed to lc offi A | foretgner: Chinese The Casper Daily Cribune Reclamation Matters and Wyoming’s Claim has done great In a general debate on agriculture, of the foreigner | irrigation and reclamation, In con- ul Meeker | gress on January 7, Hon. Charles B. labor sta-| Winter, representative from Wyom- Ing, sald in part: In Natrona county, Wyoming, | contiguous to the ofl-refining center | of the State, with 40,000 people who | must now ship in over 50 per cent Jot thelr x food, He 90,000 ssary . | acres of good soil in the basin of the |trom | North Platte River. The cost of mon | this Casper- Alcova project is estl- China a | mate sut midway between the ber of g | lowe: i the highest of the pro- slo; | posed new divisions and n Pro- has been defer- This project c | red for 20 years and more. Its bulld- aiw | ing, ning now, Is absolutely yi- ind! }tal to the existence of the modern | city of Casper, which has beer erect- ed in the main on the ofl industry. exhaustion of said e efforts to stir | Meeker h the the oll, up feelin t them have been | in time is inevitable, must atten poli! : ul strate- | I 1 extinction, unless in gists which been ; me the water Is brought scocessful, but the whole feeling of to the land and the agricultural re- the has nged since this | sources develor ft in untow | f its underground resources. ssion attempted | 1° | ‘The State of Wyoming two years sourid out dvisability of star |ago paid into the United States Ushing a tute for | cia as Treasury $12,000,000 out of a total economtcal research in China, to be | S°St%'0%, t0'oe mineral royalties for started and partly f »Y | that year under the leasing bill. Amer ted give™ | Last year {t contributed $7,000,000 sehally tose ii tunities | OUt of a total of $8,000,000 from’ all | in bet Nise hie aoa the States. It has contributed in all 000,000 in royalties since Febru- nine-tenths of which came atrona Coun One-half of nas gone into the reclama- ninen Meeker ht in Ve were ar | Jects are rehabilitated and cured of ebay cle SEY! Px And yet that county and ing classe ¥ fa the policy announced by | which is a definite 1a ratte Jann unc ment that no y pros cts | lene they | HH be recommended all pro- | n capit able. T They hi they 5 consurr attende made from to blush the realization of the great need of | every Ill, is denied ar ject, which of ruin private been Inve ineries, rail | business houses building: e | nec amation pro- alone can svo'd the tra More 1 $100,000,000 ul and State. funds ed in that section in otfice buildings, hotels and public roads and scho to develop tt | trom which the United Stat | moneral ne Americans do not feel that ed by foreign 1d be he! Chlhese royalties in far greater = ,|@mounts than it has ever returned population 1s e 1 | : 0,000,000 to 450,000,000. | to the S Who will say | justice ave no idea how much op ell as sound | sroducettos How sition economic development, should deny | ne. At a recent conference 1| ths project? I have Introduced bills | d the Chinese officials had | *Uthoriz’ and he for their country because | You will have an opportunity to vote upon them. | suc facts had not come to them. Arrears of payment by water users | “The y t unrest in China is|on some of the projects, amounting due. in ¢ to the disintegration | in all to but 18 per cent, Yor reasons of the specially in the obvious and common to all agricul- | dustrial centers, and to the chang-|ture, without even walting to give | ing economic conditions. The cost | them the benefit of the better con. of living has risen, and wages have | ditions of 1925, credit for incres | lag: nd. Within the family | payments, the chance to im: | unit th old authority of the father | their record under the new law of jis waning to a certain extent. All| one year ago, surely can not appeal | these things make for social unrest. sur judgments as a sufficient I consider China of tremendous im-| reason for stopp! mation con. porgance to the world, one of the|struction of hea aking slow | hot points on the globe. India 1s| growth at & janother, and still another. These illustrations, as well as gen |I fee our rela: eral principles and facts, prove that one Be next fewlno such policy of cessation should es ane dees ©” | be laid down; it is unnecessary, {t is ré peace of i |unjust to the States which have a ie right to the steady development and | Search for Issues for the Nation which has yaks | ind will be served by these “Partisan opponents of the Cool idge ad: exhibitt to man they he for the! election: | des pany genius num y Today which pose: out of the common reach unless the | a successful ministration give some queer| ‘The ar Inst regular and ons in th led efforts | continuous development of irrigated ufacture ‘issues’ from which] agriculture, reclamation construc- ope to extract some benefit | tion, and settlement to the effect ir party in t s of 1 that we do not need and should not its products because we now e congressional Boston | have notes the Transcript. “The have overproduction and surplus 1s by Congressmen C absolutely untenable, Secretary Jar- and Black of Ni rk in their} dit%,at the reclamation conference assafilt upon the president for in-|held in Washington In December, stituting the investigation.into the said, “There is no need for British rubber” monopoly, these | more agricultural production now," gentlemen evidently regarding it the |and that further extensive reclama duty of the president to investigate |tion of waste lands at this time certain domestic trusts before at-| would be "inopportune." He calmly tacking one having Its headquarters | ignored the fact that it takes five to in London. We would remind these|ten years to construct and make excited statesmen that the purpose | productive an i nm project of of the rubber investigation is to re-|the size of the Government enter- duce, if possible, the price of tires| prises. In the same address he ad- and other articles of common use |} mittéd: which bid fair to command prices} In 10 years the country will reach stage when greater agricultural British manipulators see thé light,| production will be needed. follow the advice of some of their] Reclamation and prodiction there- own leading journals and retreat|from do not spring instantaneously from a policy which promises Great |into being. The projects are a mat- Britain much ultimate embarrass: tollsome growth. A sur. ment. If the Democratic party, un- rin'the ordinary course der the leadership of such friends of the people as Messrs. Connally | in the ten-cent stores. Oll {s a risky and Black, does not care to asso-] and highly competitive business and ciate itself with this investigation, | unless {t were produced {n large so much the y for the party. quantities by great and “We hold no brief for any Amer! anizations demand would fz jean tru but we would point out,| run supply and the pric in the rest of the higher political | double what it is. It was education, that the demand for thei tefeller who brow on usually come al oil" down from n | professional politicians, i no congressmen r | they are the lifeblood, and not fron ly capital, of the political v the people who use their duc derived from attacks on tru ‘or example, the users of aluminum | “Most of the demagogues In con ware are not complaining of the| gress get there by attacking indus operations of the Aluminum Com- | tries they would lack the brains to pany of America. When that com-| organize and manage. ‘The saner was organized r meern nen of the Democratic re gradually returning party, who to control, through the and made a| of Andrew W, Mellon, alumi-| after an era of cheap political and was almost a precious metal. | costly radical domination, are not aluminum ware, without| opposing the -administrat pro. no kitchen equipment is su am or trying to protect the to be complete, may be b ? ught ' public. and argument emp! of course will be a deficit next year. ‘The sit- uation with reference to surplus of a given product may change in much less time. Last year 200,000,000 bushels surplus ef wheat was wiped out and wheat doubled tn price in less than three months. This year there is no surplus wheat. The crop of was 670,000,000 bushels all told; bread wheat was 600,000,000; and our food, f and seed needs of Wheat require 630,000,000 bushels annually on the basis of our present population. There should always be a reserve surplus of trom 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels. “This 1s less than one bushel for each person im the United States. As with wheat, so with other food products. There is an occasional surplus. In a 10- year period, however, deficits’ may recur several timés. A war can come in a year, a month, a week, and re- quire enormous, quick, extra produe- tion of many food products. It has been said that the world 1s removed but 30 days from starvation. ‘The atural increase in our population is 1,500,000 yearly, Even under the present immigration law from all sources there is an additional 500,- 000 anfually. Two million increase and more each succeeding yoar for 10 years means 25,000,000 additional population. In 1924 we fmported food stuffs to the amount of $915,- 600,000 The Depdttment of Agriculture tells us that net exports of food pro- ducts from the United States declin. ed rapidiy in the decade prior to the war. Statistics demonstrate that that trend ts now again appar- ent; that our net food exports for the crop year 1925-26 will be less than the annual average from 1912 #17, and may be as low as the record for 1913 and 1914, when’ we imported practically as much food- uffs as exported. You-are all tremendous swing of rom the farm to the poséd new dtvisions of and the new pro- asked will full pro- x h We will this country in that 10-year food we can, produce, & the utmost we will be able to contribute from all the reclama- tlon projects we may be able to bulld and settle. My own judgment ts that we should not only be able to all the food necessary for our own people bit that it is incumbent upon us, because of the man power, financial power, inventive genius for machinery, intensifying labor result- ing in greater, increased production per grower, to contemplate and plan, and if necessary legislate on the ba- sis of a continuous surplus produc- tion in many-food products, for the simple reason there are millions throughout the earth, in China, in Indla, and other regions of exhaust- in ed soll and ignorance of methods, where starvation occurs and the mass of the people are always with- out sufficient food. President Coolidge, speaking of mation projects, has. pub- licly red; Criticism of such a program of en- co ment on the ground that there already is:an overproduction in agricultural products lies in the lack of understanding that these projects take n pars for devel- opment; that they furnish but a small portion of the total increased food supply required even by our in, crease in population, and that the utilization .of thelr supplies Hes in the development itself. It is my purpose to unremittingly stimulate encourage the development of these great projects by every author- ity of the Federal Govrnment. The fallacy of the overproduction s used against the con- tinuous progress of the reclamation policy and tonstruction is further ed when we note that all the production of last year on all the 25 reclamation projects amounted to but 1 per cent of the total agricul- tural production of the nation. This, amounts to nothing in the way of competition, even if these projects were competitive, but they are not because of the character of the products, the location of the projects, and the transportation dis- tance to the thickly populated areas east of the Rocki While just at this tion is almost synon: rigation of arld lan lose sight of the fact that the word and the policy of the Government include reclamation by drainage of mp lands, by development of y tme reclama- ymous with ir- we do not cut-over timberlands, and by fertili- zation of exhausted farm lands ‘all through the eastern part of the United State All will be needed in tim Ou natilo: necessities will mpel 1 fg rward oll along When America comes to realize that it must in self-preservation re- tore to the soll those three great elements which she has been ex- hausting without replacement for: a hundred years—nitrate, phosphate, and potash—and we exercise the wisdom to build up American indus. tries in the pre’ tors for the salvation of our lands, instead of maintaining the potash industries In Germany and Calumet is the world’s biggest sell- ing baking powder, because it is the world’s best baking powder. Use it and practice true economy. CALUMET THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAKING POWDER SEsTBYTxst SALES 2'/, TIMES THOSE OF ANY OTHER BRAND aration of these Boh and the nitrate businuess of Chile, the arld Western States now asking for a continuance of reclamation construction and settlement by Fed- | | surface leucite volcanic matter con- she has vast hills of phosphate for- trate covered, which shall help to rehab- and the southland with these enrich- eral ald, from funds derived trom resources of those States, will ‘heip save American agriculture not only by contributing the production of these projects for the people but by furnishing these three priceléss and Indispensable elements for revitaliz- ing the soll of the Nation and main- taining indefinitely its fertility. Utah and California today can fur- nuish the potash from their lakes; Wyoming, according to the report of the United States Geological Survey, has in the Leucite Hills above the taining 200,000,000 tons of potash; mation, and rock but recently large ni- deposits have been dis- illtate the t, the Central States, ment with which we have been blessed and for which we, with our new soil, will not have the first, but the last need. We must develop these industries; {t is a long process. We should begin now and go for- ward steadily. This is a national program; {t contemplates no less than the welfare of the Union and all its people,, Food is absolutely the first essential; it 1s necessary to our preservation, Finally, reclamation is not only a matter of producing food for our people. ‘The great thing is the trans- formation of the wilderness to civill- zation. It is the occupation and cul- tivation by the capital and labor of the’ settler of the unoccupied lands of this country. It is the creation of taxable wealth to help sustain the Government for all future times. It is the establishment of homes. It is the strength of manhood and woman- hood contributing to the safety and defense of the Nation. It {s the ad- dition to our population of a splen- did, enlightened, industricus citizen. ship which will enhance and enrich the security, the order, the welfare of our common country, Are we to hesitate, much less call a halt, in the great polloy of reclama. tion, the irrigation of arid lands, which built up the first great record- ed civilization of the Babylonians and the Assyrians on the Tigris and Euphrates, in Mesopotania, on which the greatness and prosperity of Egypt was based, on which the n and Aztecs erected other civ- ations, and which is carried on | today on an immense and increasing scale by other great, modern na- tions? ‘The intelligence, judgment, and patriotism of the American peo- ple and of ‘his Congress must, it seems to me, answer in the negative and go forward, meeting and curing all obstacles and difficulties, which are after all but incidental in this magnificent and supremely tmport- ant governmental enterprise. gees Watch for mammoth indus plete survey of Wyoming in 19 the ‘Tribune-Herald's al edition. 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