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Keeping Economy Pledge

THE RESULTS of harmonious cooperation be-
l. tween the executive and legislative branches of
the government in reducing public expenditures
will be highly gratifying to the taxpayers of the
United States. Figures are usually dry reading
matter, but people who have just finished making
their income tax returns ought TO be interested in
the showing that has been made by Senator War.
rem, chairman of the appropriations committee of
the senate, and representative Madden, chairman
of the appropriations committee of the house.
According to the presentation they have made,
based upon the records, the total appropriations
for the fiscal year 1924 are nearly $23l,O00, 900 less
than for the fiscal year 1923. This reduction was
accomplished Notwithstanding the fact that the
1923 appropriations marked an enormous decrease
over the year 1922
The care with which the executive departments
and the budget bureau prepared their estimates
of the amounts needed is evidenced by the fact that
when Congress passed the Appropriation bills the
net decrease of appropriations as compared with
estimates was less than one per cent of the total
amount requested. That is the sort of business man
agement that give assurance to the people that
the affairs of their government are in the hands
OF competent and conscientious men.
But it is not alone in the reduction of the total
amount of appropriations that improvement is
seen in the manner of conducting the public bust
ness. For many years it has been the practice of
the executive departments to send in their regular
estimates and then after Congress has met and
after public attention has been diverted from the
estimates, send in supplemental estimates running
INTO the hundreds of millions. Under the budget
system, the aggregate of supplemental estimates
submitted to the recent session of Congress was
only slightly more than one million dollars. Any
business man will agree that it takes exceedingly
good management and a high order of business
liability to make estimates several months in ad.
vance which later require a revision of only one
thirtieth of one per cent.
All this has not been accomplished without hard
work. 1t has required close attention on the part
OF the heads of the administration bureaus, on the
part OF the director of the budget and on the
part of the appropriations committees of both sen.
ate and house. Moreover, it has required faith
ful adherence to the pledge of economy upon which
the Congress was elected in 1920.
The Republicans suffered a number of reverses
in the Congressional elections of 1922. They have
the satisfaction of knowing, however, that those
reyCrses were not justified by the. record of accom-.
plishment.
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Rates on Honey

BASIN-oliver Hover. the secretary
OF the Wyoming Beekeepers Associa-
ton hat N two-year fight
for the reduction of freight rates on
honey fom all points On the Burlington
in Wyoming has at last been won.
This reduction viii mean a saving OF
over $500 on freight on every car OF
honey which is shipped from Wyom-
ing for eastern destinations. Honey
producers in this section now have
the same liberal rate which producers
in California, Oregon. Washington.
Idaho. Utah and Colorado have en-
Joyed for several years.
The Wyoming -Beekeepers' Associa.
ton deserves the unstinted support OF
every geekeeper in tho state. Every
b%eekeeper who ships a car OF honey
after April Is. 1923. will ave enough
in freight alone on one car to pay his
membership dues in tho association
for the rest OF his life.
Tho new ate is $1.35 to the Atlantic
seaboard and all intermediate terri.
tory. When the association began its
fight for n reduction in rates two
years ago the rate in effect at that
time to the Atlantic seaboard was
sass.
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Output, Trade and P

THE MEASURE of tho Industrial, commercial
and financial situation is the relation between
physical output, productive cauacity and the ac-
tual movement of goods into final consumption
There is conclusive evidence that physical OUTPUT
ms a whole is at or near record rates. With I'M
important local exceptions, labor is fully employed.
and further marked increases in production seem
unlikely unless conditions alrer iii direction which
cannot now be foreseen.
There are no reliable deta aA to the rate at
which goods are passing into final consumption.
Car loadings of merchandise are at record levels
for the season, but this of itself would not be con.
elusive evidence of n satisfactory movement of
goods. However, there Is a consensus of opin.
ion that general retail trade Is and has been
good and that retail stocks are not excessive. Buy
ing OF agricultural implements and of other equiD.
ment and supplies used by farmers is more active
than it has been at any time since the beginning
and supplies of all sorts are being rapidly con-
sumed by the building and construction Industries
and stocks arc reported to be light. Reviewing
the situation as n whole, the conclusion seems saf 70
That the output of industry is still passing prompt.
~ INTO the hands of ultimate consumers.
With stable prices and wages, there would be
every reason to have faith in an indefinite CON
tinuance of business activity at present levels. But
prices of important commodities and groups of
commodities nre rising and they are rising rap
idly. Wages show n similar tendency.
In this situation, it is pertinent to inquire as to
exactly what is the significance of the frequent
statements to the effect that further business ex.
pansion is to be anticipated. Unless there is
work, higher prices cannot result in an increased
physical volume of goods. They merely represent
bidding in an effort TO secure the supplies al
ready available. Rising prices under these con.
ditions do not indicate business expansion. They
are certain to have as their aftermath curtailed
purchasing by domestic consumers and lessened
exports as a result of a domestic price level above
mat prevailing IN other countries
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rHE scuAREsT cHN
Bans Attractiveness

of COURSE, if a school superintendent Insists
" upm projecting himself into hot water, 1t Is
mo more than fair that he should accept response
-bility for his act. And if he can extract any en-
torment from such a caper, let's let him have that
also
T. Hot water, in this case, is a relative term You
ran draw your own conclusions, when you learn
moro about what the SUPERINTENDENT did actu-
ally do
He announced that he would reemploy mono OF
the twenty-five young lady school teachers under
his Jurisdiction, who had received in the past
school year attentions from young gentlemen.
Since all of them had so received, it placed a ban
,pon the whole kit and biln'." Left twenty-five
excelIent samples of feminine pulchritude without
Jobs in the Greybull schools. For that Is wher'
all this occurred.
The sound waves Of the announcement had not
mora than reached the outer edges of the town
Mat. when the storm broke. That superintendent
was figuratively flayed alive. Twenty-Five maidens
speaking at once furnished a sufficient entertain
ment 70 hold public attention, but when the ad-
mirers of the school teachers, and each one Is cred
tied with at least five, Joined in compliments to
the superintendent, it La said the chorus was worth
hearing.
Just what Is wrong about school teachers en-
couraging the attentions of proper young men, the
superintendent does not explain. He should have
been proud that his teaching force was so blessed
as to command the attention of discriminating
Young men 1t would have indicated his own
Judgment as q picker of charm and beauty, as well
as brains.
If that old boy insists upon carrying into effect
the rule he has promulgated we should like to see
a group picture of next years teachers. Well
wager the scholars would decline TO attend school,
) and all the desirable young men would quit the
: town
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One of the Old Guard

THE LAST of that famous group of Republican
politicians headed by Roscoe Conkling and
Thomas c. Plat, who for so many years controlled
party affairs in New York and were powerful in
the national organization as well, has just died
at the rige age of IS, Louis f. Payne, credited with
being the brains Of the machine and the premier
practical politician of all time in New York.
Payne had a most interesting life's experience.
In politics from eerly manhood, he began by sup
porting Fremont in 1856, and has been a factor
not only in the election but n the nomination of
every Republican president down to Harding.
His record as a delegate to national conventions
probably has never been equaled. He attended the
convention in 1864, was a delegate from his congress
sional district in 1865 and has been d delegate to
every convention since then. In 1912 he asserted
that he was through with politics, but in 1916
he was again a delegate and in 1920 he was among
the first TO arrive in Chicago.
The order has changed and there will likely not
be any more politicians of the type of Payne.
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Seriously Injured

BAsIN-F1oyd Loman, ~14.yearold
son of Jay Lomnn. was brought to
the Basin hospital with a fractured
skull. the result OF a kick from a
horse.
The boy had gone into tho corral at
his home on the Norwood to catch his
saddle pony. and coming up suddenly
she kicked, striking him over the
left eye. He was rendered uncons-
cious. IN which cond ton he was
found by his father who with tho
assistance OF B. +. wlckwiro brought
him to tho hospital.
An operation was found necessary
and It was found that there was a
hole in tho skull over the left eye,
through which the brain pressed.
The lad is resting oasy At this time,
but tho outcome OF the case lie us yet
uncertain
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anything fall down" That's the spirit
that makes a city. He says build that
cement highway INT Casper will be-
come Just as big and just as important
as Denve is today. We have every
thing to make a great city but that
highway In Colorado Mr.. Thomas has
seen sugar beets hauled out OF the
field by four horse teams. and after
they were on the cement he has seen
two OF tho big loads. each of which
took four horses or mules to pull out
OF the field. hooked tgether and hauled
to town with one team OF horses. Not
only would the highway bring the
tourist with his easy money to spend.
but 1t would encourage agriculture,
and develop farms and irrigation
more h any other thing that Wyo.
ming could do. So let's build Il.
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Accident to Wheatland
Sheep

WHEATLAND-Two carloads OF
fat mutton. one OF them the prop
erty of D. NJ. Southworth. were
ruined for consumption when a fast
passenger train colided with them
head on, while they were standing on
the main track in the Chicago yards.
The accident occurred when q
switch engine was shunting stock
cars. and ran the two cars on the
main line to get them out of tho road
for a lew minutes. Only So sheep
were left alive out of the $50 head
in the two cars. The only INJURY
suffered on the passenger train was a
broken leg sustained by the engineer.
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Desert Visitors

LARAMIE-The desert horned
larks. which are not by tho widest
stretch of tho Imagination a harb.n-
ger OF spring. were seen downtown
this morning. a whole flock feeding
on the depot platform. The larks,
which spend most OF the wihtcr in
the hills. always coule closer to
town when there Is n storm. and
often they tr-ive hefnrS the storm
hits the city. Usually they stay
around the suburbs but the worse
the weather the farther into town
they come. They are so unafraid
thnS it is possible to up cacn within
a very few feet of a flock without
disturbing them.
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Fremont Institute

LANDER - The first Fremont
County Institute for city teachers
will begin mex Monday, March 20,
and continue for four days. Teach
ers from the schools of Shoshoni,
Hudson. Riverton and Lander will be
here to attend tho sessions. About
rs OF these teachers will be present.
Monday will be observation day,
during which the out-of-t6 wn teach.
ers will visit the Lander schools and
watch them work. After Monday the
schools here will be dismissed for the
balance of the week.
Beginning Tuesday morning at $40
there Will be regular instructive SEES.
sions and round table discussions the
other three days of the institute at
the Vocational High school assembly
room.
Among the instructors and educa-
tors of note who will be here and par
t1cipate in the sessions are B. Il.
Proud. Cean OF Teachers college
at University Place. Neb.: Mss Ann
Merriam, supervisor of the primary
grades in the Casper schools. Mrs.
Katherine Morton. state super!ntend.
ent of public instruction; and Miss
Elise Seyfarth. state director OF spe-
cial classes OF Cheyenne.
President A G. Crane of the Uni
versity OF Wyoming, who was to have
been here on one day of the insti'
tute. will be unable to make h trip
here.
Several entertainment functions
have been planned for the visiting
teachers throughout the week, and
tho institute promises to DO filled
with instruction and pleasure.
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Moving to Maverick

SHoSHoNI-C. B. Wilde, vice pres.
ident and general manager OF the
Maverick Drilling company. was a
visitor here this week. Mr.. Wilde ia
making arrangements for tho re.
moval OF their drilling equipment
from the lander vicinity back to
Maverick Springs. and this work will
be done Just as soon as the roads
in that district are IN condition to
stand the heavy hauling. The re-
urn OF tho Maverick Drilling com.
pany to their original field Of opera
lions will be good news to all.
The Maverick Drilling company is
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Roped An Eagle

LIGHTNING FLAT-without a
doubt Hans Borchgrev1nk accom-
plished something that has never
been done before. when he roped an
eagle a few days ago.
Hans was riding along the hill
side at the edge of the timber when
he noticed a lalss eagle flying to-
ward him at a short distance above
ground The thought occurred to
toss his iariat at the bird. anc 10 his
great surprise the moose dropped over
Its head. The bird Topping so near
frightened his horse and caused him
to drop the rope. He managed to
regain the end OF the rope after the
bird had lit in a tree. and pulled II
down.
The bird was full grown and large
In size.
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A Great Public Service

you CAN FIND interesting facts even in a tel
L ephone c%ompanys report And the first one
that comes under your observation is how nearly
universal telephone service has become in the
United States.
Forty years ago we had no telephone service and
even after it did come the great majority of us
did without it for a long time.
There Is one telephone 1t seems, for every eight
Inhabitants in the United States, including every
man, woman and child. This means that ~practic-
ally every one of us-if we have the not very large
price-can have a talk, ear TO ear IL not face
to face, with practically any one of our 10 million
fellow-citizens old enough TO talk. Not all are Sub
scribers" or the employees or relatives thereof, but
nearly anybody can be summoned to somebody's
telephone in case Of need.
The company boasts that its service must be
worth more than what it costs, because, without
the slightest effort at craftsmanship, il Is not
able 70 meet the ever more and more rapidly in
creasing demand for the facility 1t offers.
Go into any place Of business today and the
owner does not think of attempting TO do business
without the telephone. In most places of con.
sequence there are several telephones, and from
mat on up TO hundreds in the larger concerns.
hAsn you look back 70 the first telephone you
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knew, a box nailed on the wall from which you at
tracted c%entral's attention by turning a bell crank,
no wonder you did not esteem it highly and cared
little whether you used it or not; and even though
you owned a telephone, you often preferred TO
trudge off afoot to transact important business.
Very different today. More business, by long odds,
is transacted by telephone during a business day
than in any other manner, Business running into
more millions.
without the telephone the business of the coun-
try would be paralyzed. 1t holds u great place in
affairs and it has won it in forty years.
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Chosen Queen

SHERIDAN Miss Ruth Horton
vas elected queen Of the H-Y and
Girl Reserves circus 10 be given here
April G and Z. Students Of the high
school balloted on three candidates
for the honor. Miss Horton. Evelyn
Towle and Grace Blackledge. Ernest
Kaaz, Carl Pearson IND Merrill Jen-
kins won the honor OF appearing IN
the circus as the owners. Formal an?
nouncement OF the election results
was made in the assembly.
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In Operation

BASIN-The new machinery at the
municipal water and light plant is
functioning as had been predicted
and the gas engines indicate that the
anticipated saving In a will be
made in the plant operation. As soon
az the river breaks I'D and the muddy
water comes. a rull test or the plant
will be made and the mayor and
council believe that the new installa-
ton will furnish an abundance of
clear water for all purposes.
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Another Wyoming Crop

MEETEETSE-It is estimated thot
20 carloads of dressed turkeys viii
be shipped out of Big Horn Basin in
1928. Three and one-half cars were
shipped out of Park county in 1929.
Turkeys are worth about $4,000 a car.
It is believed that this is to become
one OF the leading farm crops of
Wyoming.
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Another Oil Field

MEETEETsE-It is Gained by
good authority that the test WE'LL be
Ing drilled east OF Beaver. Big Horn
county. by the MISUNDERSTANDING OIL
company has been declared to have
been a winner. AT a depth of 1000
feet. a 25-barrel flow was encountered.
The next sand will be speedily drilled
to. On account of severe cold drilling
was Suspended Now drilling Is In full
blast.
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The Casper Tnbune's Program

Irritation project west Of Casper TO be author
lied and completed at once.
A complete and scientific coming system for the
city OF Casper.
park system, including swimming pools for the
children of Casper.
ward as planned by the county commissioners TO
Garden Greek Falls and return.
Better roads for Natrona county ana moro hish-
ways for Wyoming.
More equitable frelghtrates for shippors OF tho
Rocky Mountain region. and more frequent train
service for Casper.
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very anxious to see a pipe line from
the Maverick field. and Is ready to
cooperate financially or otherwise TO
bring about the building OF q pipe
line as soon as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-20
DOMESTIC DAYS
By ROY L. MCARDELL

Have you heard any more about how Gertrude's engagement with the milkman Is getting on?" asked MT. Jarr, as that ight-running do- mestic rushed to the window of the front room and hung out in the hopes of seeing her new fiance go by.
 She was crying this morning." re- piled Mrs. Jarr. She says that when she sent down the milk bottles and called down, How are you, darlingY the milkman answered her coldly."
 It was cold morning." remarked MT. Jarr.
 Mrs. Jarr acidly. T will have all the trouble with Gertrude moping around and smashing dishes because her heart is broken without your jokesr
 T don't see how her heart can be broken. when it was a man whom she has never seen, a new man on the route" ventured MT Jarr.
 That's just it." said Mrs. Jarr. The milk company has so many men and they wear caps and coats all alike and are changed about so much that Gertrude thinks the man she called darling to this morning is an- other man. and not the new man who proposed to her up the dumbwaiter shaft the other day.
 But if it was anotheE> new man the one who answered her coldly this morning-the second new man may be driving the other new man. s wagon" suggested MT. Jarr.
 That's just it." replied Mrs. Jarr, and Gertrude is afraid that this was another new man this morning and that he may be a married man. will have my hands full with her as 1t Is, but if she thought the new m man was married, she would just have mysteries and would go home to Ter married sister, and I am expect ing company. We will let her be- lieye that the milkman who proposed to her is on another route, and may return years from now-like Enoch Arden or some other sailor sweet heart in the moving pictures.
 Then the screen will say, ten years lave slowly passed and you'll see the sailor rescued and return home from some desert island with palm trees only to find his lass has mar ried millionaire and is most un- happy in her limousine and diamonds and her stately mansion with an aching heart!"
 "A limousine will look fine in the stately mansion with an aching heart" scoffed MT. Jarr. But do you think this milkman sweetheart has sailed away in Wagon No. 13 only to be shipwricked on a barren railroad crossing, to return in after years to find Gertrude welded to 8
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-20
THE LOVE GAMf.. A CITY
 ROMANCE M NIRlNN TEaNRE WNkNaIN
CHAPTER PIP

Winifred Scott was glad that Christmas was coming. The prepara- tions for the festival gave her some thing to think about.
 For she was lonely. She'was forced to admit this to herself. Not that she missed Richard-for she did not. The thought of him brought pang of disillusionmen accompanied by a sense of humiliation.
 Someone has-said that there is no humiliation more bitter than the re- maintenance of an error of which we are ashamed. Wipifred Scott was proving the truth of this statement
 In spite of her efforts not to re- member she could not help recall ing her guardians tactful warnings before he knew that she and Richard were bethrothed. She was sure that he must remember them too.
 But if he did, he gave no sign. In fact she was with him only once during the days intervening between his last call and Christmas. One morning he telephoned and suggested taking her that afternoon to see a Christmas tree in one of the chill drens hospitals.
 T think you will be interested in watching the little folks with their toys" he explained.
 "Oh !--may l take some things for them?" she asked eagerly.
 "of course you may" he replied.
 She hurried downtown and tiled the limousine with toys. That aft ernoon she and Donald took them to the hospital. She wanted to cry as she saw the lame and deformed babies laughing Mover their gifts. The sight softened her heart. Once she fancied she detected suspicious moisture in Muir's eyes, too. He was silent as he drove her home. She thought he was looking tired. and wondered If he was worried about anything,
 But wh II. as he bade her good by, she asked if he were well he re- piled that he was in excellent health. He would prove this at dinner on Christmas night, he said.
 He would be here for that din- ner in only three days more! She caught her breath with happiness at the thought. Then she sighed, and wondered why she was so sad. It must be because Christmas was a lonely time for people who had no families.
 She thought of Richard. She won dered where he was. The next day she found out.
 ITO Re CouftuuedN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-20
FILM FABLES
By DON ALLEN

Once Upon a Time there was a Great Film Comedian who Wasn't Satisfied. In Fact, he looked upon his Ability to Make Elm Laff as something Trite~and Non-E Essential.
 And so, Deep Down in His Heart, and Completely Covered by his Smil- ing, Shrinking Exterior, there Lurked his Great Ambition.
 Some day" he announced. T shall make the Greatest Tragedy of the Screenm
 Of course, Knowing he was a Com edian, everyone Gave Him the Hyena, but he Shunted Off their Laughs and Set About to Do Things.
 And it Came to Pass that within jewelry, limousine, a stately man. sion. and cold, harsh millionaire?
 What foolishness you talk!" snap ped Mrs. Jarr. But hush! Here comes Gertrude. Don't let on you've noticed anythingw