Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 27, 1921, Page 2

PAGE TWO be Casper Daily Cribune Issued every evening ex Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo, Publication Offices. Tribune Butlding. BUSINESS TELEPHONES Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Entered at Casper, (Wyoming) #ostoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER OF THE UNITED PRESS + President and Editor Business Manager -Associated Editor eoeese City Editor Advertising RE. ANS . THOMAS DAILY Manager Advertising Representatives David J. Randall, 341 Fifth Ave., New York City. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, ml. Daily Tribune are on file in the New r cago offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year .. $7.80 Six Months 90 Three Months 1.85 One Month 35 Per Copy ... 05 One Year -$7.80 Six Mouths 3.90 Three M af No subscription by maii three months. 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Mr. Maxim has contributed no little to the controversy and we are giving his latest: “Wine and beer are liquid food and, in moderate quantities, may be taken with no more harm than po- tatoes or hominy. It is only in overdoses that they become poisonous or harmful, just like potatoes and hominy. It is not the quality of them but the quan- tity of them that hurts—it is not indulgence but over- indulgence that injures, and it takes a most extrava- gant use of light wines and beer, long continued, greatly to injure a strong man, proof that light wines and beer were responsible for frightful manhood-de- stroying ravages of drunkenness of our predecessors prior to the discovery of distilled liquors in the four- teenth century. Since that time, according to the pro- hibitionists, the havoc has gone on like a permanent pestilence. “The towering Nordic race of physical and mental giants, comprising the Germans, Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxons—the big-headed, broad-shouldered, big- eating, big-drinking and big-fighting sword-arm men of the north—were the architects of the modern world. They were the old Vikings who, before Colum- bus, ferried the Atlantic in an open boat. They were the conquerors of Imperial Rome. That race of men has civilized, enlightened and uplifted the entire world, banished the ages of darkness and savagery, and replaced them with this age of invention, discov- ery, enlightment and human well-being. But that was a race of boozers, wine-bibbers and beer-drinkers. “During thousands of years the Norse giants, with the divine old brutality of the cave-man in them, had their nightly wassail and carousal around the oaken table, in the glare of the great fire and under the flare of the torches, where they drank to one another's health and well-being until they fell under the table; while some Harry Lauder among them would sing ‘If ye can say ‘it’s a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht, the nicht,’ weel, ye’re a’richt ye ken.’ “While the hard-drinking Nordics were molding the world into a thing of beauty in their great hands, what were the non-drinking races doing? What were the teetotaling Mohammedan Arabs and Turks and the Buddhist East Indians doing? What were the ab- steminous Chinese doing? What were four-fifths of the rest of the human race, who were abstemious in the use of alcohol doing, while these Nordic sots were conquering savage races, reclaiming wild domains and building empires? I, for one, am willing to risk for the sake of good fellowship and a good time, a little of the light alcoholic stimulants with which the great Nordic people soused themselves for thousands of years without apparent harm. “It has been amply proven, over and over again, by undeniable and unimpeachable evidence upon the sub- ject, that the great mass of the American people throughout the con) are overwhelmingly opposed to the present type of drastic prohibition. We must re- member the name of the chief prohibition organiza- tion—the Anti-Saloon League. Whenever prohibition has been put to the vote it has won through emphasis on the suppression of the saloon. “Nine-tenths, of the people throughout the United States are opposed to the saloon, and would not have it restored for anything. An equally overwhelming majority is opposed to the drastic, iniquitous, liberty- cramping extremes to which the prohibitionists have gone. Nine-tenths of the people in this country are for the free use of light wines and beer in the home, and pretty good proof of that fact is that nine-tenths of them today have got wine or beer or both in the home, and those that have not got them are making them. We must remember that hard cider is a form of light wine. “Nine-tenths of the people in this country are op- posed to tying the hands of the medical profession so that a doctor cannot, without breaking the law and becoming a bootlegger and making himself liable to a heavy fine and imprisonment, prescribe and a¢minis- ter alcohol to a patient who has swallowed carbolic acid in time to save the patient’s life. Nine-tenths of the people in this country would exonerate a physician’ who should break the law and administer a little brandy to help revive a person rescued from drown- ing. Nine-tenths of the people in the United States would sanction the act of a physician who should break the law to save a mother, by the liberal use of alcohol for internal irrigation where nothing else would do. “Nine-tenths of the people in the United States are for temperance and are just as much for temperance in legislation as they are for temperance in matters aimed to be suppressed by legislation. Nine-tenths of the peeple are opposed to the enactment of any laws that cannot by any possibility be enforced. “Dr. A. A. Brill, the well known alienist, has shown that practically all alcoholics are defectives—persons bearing the stigmata of degeneracy. The old Nordics who smashed their way to world domination did not make great sacrifices to save the defective, but let them fall by the wayside. The declared object of the prohibitionists is to save from the immoderate use of alcohol those who cannot save themselves, namely, the defectives, and they are willing to sacrifice any num- ber of normal persons to save an equal number of defectives, “If prohibition, as it now stands, were to be en- forced, the number of normal persons that would be sacrificed in this country every year from the lack of the moderate and medicinal uses of alcohol would be many times greater than. the number of defectives that could be saved by prohibition. “If the present laws of prohibition were to be-en- forced, the lives of more people would be sacrificed from the lack of alcohol to ward off colds, influenza and pneumonia and for their after-treatment than all the lives that would be lost by the unrestricted use of alcoholic beverages of every sort and description. “Those who nature would eliminate for the good of the race prohibition seeks to save and let their tainted blood and their pe'sonous protoplasm be turned into the blood stream of the race; instead of the fittest, they would secure the survival of the unfittest, an act as damnable as to turn the sewage of a city into its potable water supply and destined to result in far geater calamities, far more colossal miseries to future generations than could ever be produced by the freest use of alcoholic beverages.”” —— es WHO STOPPED RAILROAD REBATING? “Holding with many impartial and competent stu- dents of history,” says the Wall Street Journal, “that government regulation of the railroads has cost the country incalculably more than the safeguards it was supposed to impose were worth; that it has been not merely negatively but positively mischievous, that opinion, expressed in this place, has been challenged by a reader, who says: “*At least you will admit that the Elkins law of 1903 and President Roosevelt, supplementing the pow- ers of the Interstate Commerce Commission stopped rebating.’ “We chall admit nothing of the kind. When the Elkins law was passed rebating had been stopped by the railroads themselves who were the chief suffer- ers from that form of blackmail. Roosevelt was a } great man particularly in the unsuspected diplomatic ability which prevented many international and some domestic questions from ever becoming acute. He was a great politician and like other politicians was not above seizing the prestige to be derived from what may be called killing dead giants. “It was A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylva- nia railroad, backed by the capital and credit of that great institution, who stopped rebating, some years before the Elkins act was placed on the statute books. Carnegie was the great rebator. He retired from busi- ness when rebating stopped. “It is an interesting piece of unwritten history. In the late nineties Carnegie was playing off the rail- roads to which he gave his western business one against the other—Baltimore & Ohio, Norfolk & Western and Chesapeake & Ohio—and using any or all of them to club Pennsylvania. Rebating was de- moralizing, and good railroad management hated it. To none of these managers was it more repugnant than to A. J. Cassatt, with his sensitive honor and his fine foresight. “He anpounced his policy to the Pennsylvania di- rectors. He said, in effect: ‘We will put $170,000,000 into the purchase of control of Baltimore & Ohio, Norfolk & Western and Chesxpeake & Ohio, not to absorb them or even to hold control permanently, but to bring their standards up to those of the Pennsylva- nia and eliminate rebating, once and for all.’ This he proposed and this he did. From the moment of Pennsylvania control no rebates were allowed on these systems, which among them controlled the Pittsburgh freight. Carnegie saw that the old order had changed, giving place to new. He sold out to J. P. Morgan and the Steel Corporation. It need hardly be said that the latter, although the company was formed two years before the Elkins act was passed, never received a re- bate or asked for one. “Business, as usual, rdformed itself from within. Government regulation had nothing to do with it.” ee i eee s Che Casper Daily Cribune yt People’s Forum } MR. MASSEE EXPLAINS. Editor Tribune: I desire to say that I was the duly and regularly appoint- ed undersheriff of Lee Martin, the sheriff of Natrona county, and that at the time of the resignation of Lee Martin as sheriff of Natrona county I was given to understand by the board of county commissioners of Na-| trona county that I would be the reg-|$ ular appointee when the board would) next meet in regular session, and I was also led to believe from the read- ing of the statute and upon the ad- vice of certain prominent attorneys that I, as undersheriff of Natrona county, was legally entitled to the office ‘upon the resignation of Mr. Martin. With this cenderotanting, and. with cies ob: of being in a weer 2 nar ane most efficient possible a alleges in the Car agp! tervice to the citizens of Natrona|that et ad Spon by 7 county, I disposed of my home andj ‘icers me aap 2 Gienrock me pal ag household effects and moved into the | from w’ was stolen; quarters in the county building and purchseed from Mr. Martin the house- hold effects which he used when he occupied the same quarters. I had always given my very best efforts as undersheriff and with the experience that I had gained I felt certain that I could render better and more efficient service as the chief of- ficer when I was not handicapped in carrying out the duties of the office; and I did make a statement, at the time I was informed that the county commissioners had other plans than that which I was given to understand existed, that I would contest any ef- fort to remove me from the office un- til a proper ruling had been had upon the matter of my right to hold it. However, when I was informed of the opinion of the attorney general that a vacancy existed in the office of sheriff upon the resignation of Mr. Martin and that it was the duty of the county commissioners to appoint, and, when the man who had received the appointment presented to me the proper credentials showing that he had been regularly appointed to the position of sheriff, I not only grac- iously surrendered the office hej Re t informed him that I would, an rea render him all the assistance in| mously approved by the convention. my power in getting started in the|One woman was placed on the ticket— duties of hir office. I felt and still|'Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, for borough feel that I am a victim of those who] president of Manhattan. trict court here by Tony Tomiska of fendants in the suit: Fred L. Crabbe, Irby Lam, W. H. Davis, John Mars- den, H. P. Allen, H. R. Kimball, D. J. Smith, Joseph Slaughter, Charles W. Messenger, Floyd A. Walker, National Surety Co., Fidelity Deposit Co., Unit- ed States Fidelity Guaranty Co. —» Communists Will Enter Candidates NEW YORK,. Aug. 27.—Commun- ists in New York plan to enter their first political campaign this fall, with @ municipal ticket under the name of the Workers League of Greater New York. Candidates were selected at a con- vention attended by several hundred radicals last night. Benjamin Gitlow, former assembly- man recently convicted of criminal an- archy, was nominated for mayor by his mother, and his candidacy unani- \ Horlicks ; and Substitutes, and GrowingChildren Milk, Malted Grain Extract !n Powder TuLUaieT heed Dank Fer AllAges | No Cooking-NourlshingDigestible THE HERD INSTINCT. + “The vast majority of human beings—merchants, manufacturers, bankers and the consuming public— are under the spell of the herd instinct. They move in masses, by common impulse and in obedience to the general direction of the crowd,” observes the Philadelphia North American. “When commodity prices months ago had soared to artificial heights and a downward plunge was plainly imminent, consumers clamored to buy goods and small merchants besieged the producers with orders for mer- chandise at any prices. Today, with prices in many lines below the cost of replacement, or even of pro- duction, commodities go begging. Copper is now quoted around 12 cents a pound, cotton at 14, cof- fee at 7, crude rubber at 16, clothing wool at 65 to 70, with buyers scarce; a few months hence, after prices have risen sharply, purchasers will be storming the markets. “When industrial and other securities, like every- thing else, had been driven up to unwarranted aquota- tions, the brokers’ offices were crowded, and million- share days were the rule. Today the same securities, intrinsically as valuable as then, are selling down to half the former prices—and the brokers’ offices are de- serted. Yet as surely as the time comes that the gen- eral level has risen 20 points or so and daily gains are registered, the speculative public will plunge into buy- ing. The instinct of the herd! “We have a currency system which has stood the strain of the war and under which ample credit is available to every sound business enterprise; all fear of moncy stringency has been elimmated, and rates are seeking lower levels. Despite the vast cost of the war, the nation has more wealth, actually and rela- tively, than ever before, a stronger home market and wider foreign markets. More enlightened policies have made the government a constructive ally of legi- timate business. The supply of staple manufactured goods, because of curtailment of output, is below nor- mal requirements, and when the demand comes it will tax the resources of production. Some commodity prices are still high, but in many lines they are lower today than they are likely ever to be again. “In a word the present situation, which makes most folk hesitate, offers opportunities as inviting as ever existed, to the business man or the investor who has foresight, courage and a spirit of independence. These will profit—they are laying the foundations now. The others, the majority, will hold back with the herd, then stampede to buy after prices have shot upward. “The men who possess the foresight and originality to take advantage of such conditions as prevail today are exceptional, It would be well for the country if there were more of them. For while they reap rich rewards themselves, it is their ordered planning and forward-looking enterprise which does most to keep tthe production machinery going and to hasten the re- turn of prosperity, in which all of us share.” eg BOOT-STRAP OPTIMISM. “Optimism is a most desirable quality, just now,” says the Omaha Bee. “But those who claim that it is all that is necessary in order to put the industrial af- fairs into apple pie order are exaggerating. Any op- timism that disregards hard reality cannot be of per- manent advantage. “When things went wrong there was a cause, or rather, a number of causes. Before sound conditions can be assured and perpetuated, these causes must be recognized and dealt with or the same effects will re- turn. One who looks over the financial history of the United States, with its alternate periods of exhilara/ tion and depression, must be puzzled over whether the normal condition is one of prosperity or the opposite. “Surely mankind has grown intelligent enough to be able to introduce more stability into business af- THE LADY WITH NINETY DOLLARS “Could I start an account with ninety dollars? I want to put in some every two weeks and and pay my bills with checks, as I don’t-like to keep so much money in the house.” This is the way a lady started an account with us the other day. ‘What she said, and the reason she ex- pressed for having a bank account applies to thousands of women. So many women are afraid to go into a bank, and to ask a bank to han- dle their money because they fear it is too small. That does not apply here. We are glad to start checking accounts with $50 or more, or a sav- ings, account paying 4 per cent inter- est, with a dollar. You can save money by having a bank account; and paying your bills by check. Resources Over $4,000,000 Wyoming National Bank Casper’s Popular Bank A BARGAIN 1921 BUICK Roadster; used about three months; looks and runs like a brand new car; is hardly broken in. A REAL BUY AT $1,300 fairs. Advocates ofthe ‘keep smiling’ policy are right only if they take cognizance of the underlying factors and work to improve them as they smile.” ; Park Roads Sales and Service Co. 222 East Yellowstone Phone 1223 AMMEN ATT MMT SM ST AS Like All Other Great Discoveries First Ignored— CHIROPRACTIC ~ Gains International Prestige TINS Are You Informed of the Nature of This New Science? ON Originally scoffed upon, then ridiculed, later bitterly at- tacked by contending professions, yet gaining recognition through “miracle” recoveries—this is the history of Chiro- practic; the science of restoring health through spinal adjustments. Following in the wake of the recent recovery of a child who talked continuously for over two hundreds hours, additional press dispatches of still newer cures have gained publicity, thousands of people from the Atlantic to the Pacific have expressed an unusual interest in the science, several state legislatures have officially recog- nized the profession and more similar bodies are on the verge of encouraging it through legislative assistance. Men and women, uninformed of the manner by which ail- ments are first caused in the spinal column and reflected in corresponding points of the body, have wasted their lives when a few short visits to a local Chiropractor would have relieved them. True, Chiropractic will not cure every condition, nor will any honest Chiropractor claim his science to be a “cure- all,” yet a record of diseases it has cured covers practically every ailment known to the human race. Conclusively; be fair to yourself! ‘Consider the advance of this science in the true light of its actual accomplish- ments. No one can afford to ignore it if the price of that disregard be a continued wasted life. “UAT, No Drugs;, No Surgery, No Osteopathy; Non-Therapeu- tical. ACHIROPRACTIC Alone Makes Wrong Right! “WUT. ~ Drs. J. H. and A. G. Jeffre CHIROPRACTORS 5 Midwest Building, Suite 318 to 323 Office Phone 706, Res. 93 Drs. B. G. and E, Esko CHIROPRACTORS Townsend Bldg. Phones: Office 423, Res. 1235 TAMU TTT TTR rh ‘t AIMMIE