Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1921, Page 2

SE TWO Che Casper Daily Cribune every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona nity, Wyo. Publivation Offices: Tribune Building NESS TELEPHONES___--___-__1._-...15 and 16 ch Telephone Exchange Connecting Al! Deparunents ced at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice as second-class matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS FROM UNITED PRESS « HANWAY President and Wditor | tL BE. HANWAY. _---Business Manager H. HUNTLEY . Assoviate Editor £. EVANS . -- City Editor Advertising Manager iOMAS DAILY Advertising Representatives David J. Randali, 341 Firth Ave., New York City ?rudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, &_ 2. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New “York and Chicago offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPIION RATES By Carrier One Year -... Six Months Three Months One Month nn LEA) Three Months weeeeeeene--= No subscription by mail accepted for leas period than thre months. All subscriptio, must be paid {n advance and the Daiiy Tribune will not insure delivery efter subscrip- tion becomes one month in crmars. Member of Audit Bure: ircuiations (A. B. ©.) -- Member of the .ssvctated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and algo the local news publishc* 1 rein. Kick if You Don't Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6 and@ 8 o'clock p. m. if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be deliv- ered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. aE RAE nae SEES EE ESSE SHE HAS TOLD IT ALL. The readers of the Cheyenne Tribune’ owe the gen- tleman in charge during Mr. Deming’s absence, a vote of thanks for at least repudiating responsibility for) the continued appearance of that disfiguring editorial page feature sailing under the title “Confessions of a Bride.” If the gentleman would exercise his full rights of proxy and eliminate entirely, completely and for ever that particular drivel from the sacred page, no doubt he would find suitable reward upon his doorstep the next morning. For a public service like this, the reward would not. be less than a dozen original packages of a certain nectar known to old timers as Green River, 1900. About all the worth while confessions have been made and there is nothing new or thrilling in what the more recent brides are telling. If a suggestion would be received in the kindly spirit in which it is offered, a new interest might be aroused in this same general subject if the public could be informed «s to how the bride’s husband re- ceived all this information she has been confidential- ly imparting to Trinune readers. Or the third degvce might be applied to the hus- band himself on a chance of relieving the monotony of a one-sided confession. Indications are that if Mr. Deming goes away fre- quently and remains absent long enough, he will re- turn some time to discover that his newspaper has undergone improvement. SERRE Sh a PROPRIETIES AND FREE SPEECH. . The constitution guarantees to the citizens the right of free expression of opinion. To enjoy and exercise this privilege does not mean that it may be abused, to the annoyance of others or to the detri- ment of the country or its institutions. There have been war obstructionists and their defenders who seem not to agree with this view for you find one of the journals which rather goes to extremes in such matters maintaining that “the old fashioned belief is, that any Amerjcan man has the right to spread his views, no mati@r how wrong they may be.” If that is an old fashioned belief, it has had but little vogue. We recall no period in history where any man had such a right. On the other hand, the farther back you go in history the greater restriction you find upon the right of men to express their opinion. The| more old fashioned the belief the more it sustains the| right of the whole people to protect itself from the wrong teachings of the few. The right of free speech is, strictly speaking, a modern institution. But to get to the merits of the question, is it wise to permit every man to spread his beliefs ‘no mat- sider the overthrow of government, nor of the law- fully created institutions of that government. It would be a transitory reform, indeed, which depended only upon its power to destroy what it opposed, with- out regard to whether the destruction wrought was) lawful. “There is no real need of the working-man today | which the rights guaranteed him under the constitu- tion fail to give him means of meeting for himself. If the constitution must be overthrown, or the courts nullified, or any other power of this republic set aside.in order that rich man or poor man, employer or employe, shall have his desire, that desire is evil. “Some of the declarations of the executive coun- cil of the American Federation at its Washing:on con- ference were fine. These can be uphéld by every good citizen. Some of them were mistaken senti- ments. These already are being repudiated by labor union members who are good citizens above anything So it can be safely left to honest labor, and to|* honest labor’s true friends, to choose the safe way else. at the worker to go in answering the committee's call.” Pesebih ase RES ab) oy BLAMES THE MIDDLEMEN. Middlemen are now levying a toll of 28 per cent! on the value of all food and most necessities used throughout the entire United States is the informa- tion gathered from data furnished: by Secretary Da- ; vis of the department of labor. The facts collected dealing with this subject eome by way of emphasis of the exposure made by Presi- dent Harding in his message to congress, that drops in prices to consumers were slower than drops in Prices of basic materials. It is shown by the figures that the consumer is pay- ing a leve) of sbout 58 per cent above the 1918 prices for such ‘things as meats, eggs, butter, coffee, tea, lard, flour, milk and cheese. The wholesale dealer is paying about 50 per cent above the 1913 level for these things. The farmer gets an average of 29 per} cent higher than in 1913, Re-consignments, high freight rates and the open price system of price fixing are responsible for the discrepancy between the prices paid by the consumer and those received by the producer. As revealed by the federal trade commission. Re-consignment is the practice of re-selling food and other commodities in the railroad car before they are unloaded at the point to which billed. In one in- vestigation, the trade commission found that a car of coal was re-sold twelve times between tle mine and the wholesaler. Each seller boosted the price to make a profit. NE eS FREIGHT RATES AND VALUES. “Northern papers are commenting on the story of a fur trapper,” says the Houston Post, “who shipped a bundle of furs to market and was presented with a bill for 7 cents, the furs lacking that much of bring- ing freight charges when sold in the open market. The case is unusual only because furs occupy com- paratively small space and their value is high. It is an illustration of how the high freight rates affect the producer. “It is nothing unusual, however, in this part of the country for the freight charges on products to ex- ceed by far the amount the producer receives. Re- ceivers here of corn from Oklahoma pay almost as much freight on the shipments as the shipper receives for the product.” In the case of hay from West Texas, the freight charges are said by dealers to frequently exceed the price of the hay. “The more notorious example, of course, is the one of cabbage shipments from the Rio Grande val- ley. The grower receives $6 per ton. The freight and icing charges to Houston and Dallas amount to practically $15 per ton, or two and a half times the original cost of the product. The rate to Kansas City is more than $31 per ton, or better than five times the amount the grower receives. “It may be, as a contributor to The Post recently suggested, that rates are not too high, but that prices of the products are too law. At any rate, there is something radically wrong when _ transportation charges mount up to as much, or to several times the value of the product shipped, and it is a condition that will have to be remedied if production is to continue.” pach. [is Aisies ME SES BREWING GRIEF. Although there promises to be several exchanges between the wet and dry forces in congress when the questions of taxation and transportation have been ettled, there can be but little doubt as to the out- come. There is, on the part of the wets, a well-defined effort under- way to restore beer and wine through repeal of the Volstead law and submission of the! proposition of manufacture and sale of these two bev- erages to a vote of the people of the states. No effort will be made to bring liquor or the sa-! loon back, this is the bridge upon which the wets hope to cross. Sentiment for a restoration of beer and wine un- doubtedly exists in certain quarters, and there will doubtless be proposals for the repeal of the Volstead ter how wrong they may be?” If they relate mere-| ly to religion, to economics, to philosophy, to magic, to literature, to art, or to partisan politics, undoubt-| edly it is well to give free scope to expression of opinion. But there are matters, concerning whic an unrestricted spreading of views is not permissable. If one man incites another to murder or arson or} theft, he is, under the law, guilty as an accomplice) or as a principal, according to the laws of the juris-| diction in which the offense is committed. The laws! making the instigator of the crime a party to the} crime is wholly sound, and due punishment is a ben- efit to society. The laws concerning libel and slan- der are also very proper and necessary restrictions upon the right of men to spread their views “how- ever wrong they may be.” Counseling men to com- mit a crime is very properly made a crime in itself. | Therefore, when the United States was involved in a war for the protection of the rights and liberties of| all of our people, and, for the success of that war,! enacted a law making all the citizens equally liable for military service, violation of that law was a crime) and it was very properly made a crime to instigats others to violate the law. Men who were convicted under the law were not convicted for spreading their views—they were con- victed for instigating violation of law, for interfer- ing with the defense of the republic, and for attempt- ing to establish an inequality in the bearing of war burdens. The Socialists will not get very far with the effort to make the country believe that some of their lead-| ers were punished for “spreading their views,” when, as a matter of fact, they were punished for near-| treason. i Loe ee) oe ee UNION LABOR’S CALL TO WORKERS. “When the executive council of the American Fed- eration of Labor called upon ‘the workers and all our people, to give their support, their effort and their} combined strength of righteous purpose’ to aiding la-| bor’s cause, it voiced a fine sentiment,” asserts the! St. Louis Times, “To that call not only the labor union member, but the friend of labor everywhere can respond. Very largely, too, the friend of the toiler will respond with appreciation, sympathy and honest, effort in insuring justice to every worker everywhere and at all times. There r r has been a day of the world’s history, perhaps, when so great a proportion of the human race stood ready to make industrialism’s welfare se-| cure as is the case in this hour. ers and non-unionist alike,| if sober thinking, will demand that support and de- fense and aggressive effort on behalf of the toiler| shall square with that plea for ‘the combined strength v righteous purpose.’ Such.a purpose does not con- “But labor union me act, but the great majority of the people of the coun- try are not in favor of any such program. sentiment and considerable disturbance need not be mistaken for an overwhelming demand. No such hing exists and the American congress will not be in any hurry to backtrack on so important a mat- ter, involving the moral welfare of the nation, and restore the means of evil among the people. (ERE eat eae at HOW BONDS ARE REDEEMED. The automobile people of Wyoming have a tax based upon the horsepower of the car. The average machine will be around thirty horsepower, or $12 per car, per year. If we have 27,000 cars in 1921, the license fees paid into the office of the secretary of state will be approximately $325,000. Such a sum of money demands consideration i: the matter of good roads. The automobile people of Wy: g will pay for the good roads, and when we say “automobile peo- ple” we reach every class and condition of mankind. The building of these roads will give the people an unparalleled road system which can be used every day in the year, and which will be paid for out of automobile license fees. Better roads will help the farmer, the laborer, the business man and the housewife. They will lower the cost of living, help our school’, improve social con- ditions, add to the attractiveness of both farm and city life, increase land value, lead to enlarged busi- ness activities and promote the geheral prosperity of the state, eee DULL DINNER DEBATES. “Just when we were beginning to think that New York was in advance of Gopher Prairie,” growls the New York Herald, “some grown-up New Yorkers who gather. together under the name of the Society of Arts and Sciences held a dinner to discuss whether marriage is a failure! “There are so many comparatively sensible topics which might be debated that it seems too bad to re- vert to a discussion which was sidetracked by the Thursday Afternoon clubs of 1888 as being a little too stale, flat and unprofitable for live persons to waste time over. Men and women who go to the ex- pense of having a dinner in a fashionable hotel should pick a grown-up subject for talk. Should relativity be taught in the public schools? Is canned spinach better than fresh? Why are car seats double? On which side should an artichoke be eaten? Discussion of these questions might lead to something. “This chatter about careers interfering: with mar- riage and marriage interfering with careers is too much. If the dinner debates do not improve there will have to be a censorship for them. They are so dull as to be utterly wicked.” A little |j People’s Forum NOT A CURE-ALL. Editor Tribune: In discussing the matter of commission-manuger form of government, I am somewhat ap- prehensive that some enthusiasts are | scheduled for disappointment. is not, however, for the lack of merit in the system, but rather from an ex- pectation for the system to- function in a manner which is not clajnied for it and to which it is not adapted. Our present form of city goyern- ment is a model of our national goy- ernment. A model has been defined as “a small imitation of the real thing,” and is never expected to work well; and government is no exveption. In the case of national government, geographical representation js the only feasible way of administering government by the people, and tands to unify the governed and make pos- sible the due consideration of the needs of different geographical sec- tions which are under entirely dif- ferent conditions. These varying conditions, geogranb- {eally, do not exist in municipalities, and, what, in the national government |tends to untfy the governed and pro- duce efficiency, in the municipal gov- ernment tends to divide the governed, to divide responsibility and to reduce efficiency. The nationsl government is composed of various units with va- ried conditions and needs and must be administered with recognition of these facts; the municipal govern- ment is a unit, indivisible in its con- ditions and needs and must be admin- istered as a unit with centered re- sponsibility. Nevertheless commissioner-manager government is not a panacea for all municipal ills. *If we think-that with the advent of commissionér-manage- ment government we automatically have the exit of all the evils of our present form of government with the entrance of no compensating dur.gers, we are doomed to disappointment. If i srould be prima facie evidence that it |is un-American. Municipal govern- |ment of any form, if effictent only to |the extent that good citizens do not | take an active interest, the bad ones will, and there is no system that can make good government by bad citi- | fens. The danger Mes in the fact that with the advent of commissioner-man- ager government, citizens will feel that their troubles and responsibilities are at an end. A poor system well administered is infinitely better than a good system poorly administered. “Bternal vigilance is the price of Iib- “Trust in God, erty.” Cromwell said: but keep your powder dry.” Commis- sion-manager government does not claim to relieve any citizen of his re- sponsibility as such. Let us have commission-manager goyernment; but let us realize our personal responsl- MOTHER'S FRIEND For Expectant Mothers | Useo By THREE GENERATIONS werre ron BOOKLET ox MOTHERHOOD |ABY. vaee BRADFIELD Reeuraton Co. LANTA, GA. This) spet Daily Cribune bilities under it, and let us discharge those responsibilities with the same enthusiasm with which we clamor for it. It ts not claimed to function otherwise. , SYLVESTER ¥F, PELTON. ee Question Box (Any reader can get the answer to} any question by writing The Casper Daily Tribune Information “Bureau, FrederickJ. Haskin, Director, Wash- ington, D. C. This offer ‘applies strictly to information. The Bureau jeannot sive advice on legal, medical, and financial matters, It does not lattempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question |Plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose two cents in {stamps for return postage. All re- | plies are sent direct to the inquirer.) Q. What are the small birds that re main on Dakota eps through A. The biological survey says that the small birds which remain on the Dakota prairies the year round are horned larks. Q. Where was the first battle of the world war in which American troops took part?—D. W. R. A. The earliest actual engagement of Amarican tiiops in the world war was at Cantigny, captured on May 28, 1918. The first division, however, hah occupied a sector in the vicinity of Breteuil on April 28 and 29 pre- vious, Q. What is the origin of the name Californis?—E. I. A. The name “California” is said to have been applied first to an im- agirary island, abounding in gold and precious stones, which was described in a Spanish romance “Las Sergaste Esplandian” published in 1510. Q. What are the products of distil- ling wood?—F. E. M, A. When wood is distilled in a closed vessel, water, asetic acid, acetone and method (or wood) alcohol are the chief products, but many other products re- lated to the above are produced. The Saved My Life With Eatonic Says New Jersey Women “I was nearly dead until I found Eatonic and I can truly say it saved my life. It is the medicine ever made,’ writes Mrs. Ella Smith. Acid stomach causes awfal which Eatonie quickly rid of. by taking up and out the acidity and gases which pi i$ good tablet taken after meals ah Bealthy asd ele te the cr) iy ¢ ib many ills so liable adatth tess ex- iseries when you can get a box of Eatonic for a wide wie. your Innociat’s onerantar | this in all colors. See our labor-saving devices in granitewere. D 105 S. Center | JAP-A-LAC Makes old furniture look like new. and Brushes, and get our prices. Visit our kitchen utensil department. New ouds- Hardware “Where the Best Costs Less” Opp. Henning We sell stock of Paint, Varnishes aluminum, tinware, and relative as well as the total’ amounts of the products, depend upon the kind of wood, how old the tree was, how long the wood was seasoned, and the rate at which it 1s heated. It is said that even the manner in which the wood is arranged {2 the atill affects the result. Q. How long does a person have to serve in the army to be known as a veteran?—R. H. B. A. Strictly speaking, a veteran is one who has had long service as a soldier, especially one who has served one enlistment and enlisted again. As a matter of fact it has become the custom to call any one a veteran Who has served in the army, whether for a long or short period. Q. What stones are precious stones? —L M. CO, A. In strict commercial sense only diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emer- lds are termed “precious.” Many other stones are designated “sem!- precious.” Q. What is the dueation of a dream? —I. W. P. A. Authorities are not agreed on the exact duration ¢*/2 dream. Some as- sert that we dream with great rapid- ity; others that a dream extends for a considerable period. In a trial re- corded by J. Claviere, the duration of a dream was fixed at 22 seconds. Q. What is the categorical impera- tive?—H. L. P. ‘A. The term was applied to a rule of conduct enunciated by Immanuel Kant the German philosopher, It was: “I must act in such a way that I can at the same time will that my maxim 4 —_—_————— KI-MOIDS (GRANULES) Eox INDIGESTION Dissolve instantly on tongu © or in water—hot or cold; do met have to crush. QUICK. RELIEF! ‘ALSO IN TABLET FORM FOR THOSE THEM. Tear. Br ty, wes Lucky STRIKE © i arette should become a universal Jaw.” That is, one should do only whut it would be safe and proper for everyone ‘to do. This {deal of conduct, with its sweep- ing denial of individual right and priy- ilege, has been much ridiculed by later philosophers, and especially Nietzsche, Q. Where is the oldest tree in the ‘world?—C. C. G. A. The sacred bo tree at Anurad- apura in. northwestern Ceylon is said to be the oldest historically authen- Heated tree in the world. It grew from a branch of the original bo tree at Gaya, which was brought to Anurad- hapura and planted in 245 B.C. Q. 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